I missed something somewhere...

WHAT THE HELL COLOR IS THAT POOR TRUCK?

btw, cool story

 

I believe every last little bit of that story is in the archives... LOL I think a search from all posts on this forum that includes the word "Barbie" will probably drag it up...

Yeah good story. Glad to hear the Barbie Z is still fully functional. Isn't it funny how some people are total pansies about actually *using* their trucks for what they're designed/made/built for?

 

and then when someone offers the assistance of a real bed with a full 2' more of immaculate chip hauling ruggedness.....barbie says no way in hell because he doesnt want me stealing his thunder

i hope your truck is carrying the load but you making the guys you manage load/unload it for you. thats why your the manager

 

Hey sparty...........I saw some pink spray paint the other day................it could really be the Barbie Z.

My bed carries my tools, my tow strap, and my spare very nicely. Haven't had to use it yet. The Rhino Liner's still nice and shiney.

I know a guy who put 3000lbs of cement bags in the bed of a 2wd Ranger.

Amazingly it seemed to be okay after they took the bags out.

 

hehe woohoo - hey baby, nice truck

 

Ouch. I had 2600lbs of gravel in the back of my truck last summer and it was 1" off the bump stops. The old Grabber APs were squished a little more than normal. And let me tell you, it didn't stop for beans. And 2600lbs is about 1 yard worth of gravel... and the bed is capable of holding more than twice that volume. It sure didn't look like much gravel but the truck said it was.

If you painted your truck it would not only be a Barbie Z71 it would also look like a certain spot of the fema... nevermind. haha.

 

FOUND IT!

 

yeah its all archived.
and sparty i wasn't saying you couldnt help...its would have finished the job if you'd have gone too. i didnt even think about call9ng you. it ewas kinda early when i went and i didnt want to get ericka pissed at me for stealing you.

i didnt paint the truck BBZ-71 did

panzies and their trucks....yeah we all know about that.

hey AJM, they still doing those liners over at classic? i havea few spots I'd like to get shot this summer.

 

Last I knew, they still were. I got mine done in early November. Doubt they would stop, they pretty much had the market cornered.

I'm debating doing the rockers...............

 

do the rockers. my pops hashis done and he loves it. no stone chips by the tires, no scratches...etc. good stuff man

 

I'm debating it. Wouldn't do very high up, just so it covers the bottom lip of the doors. Also thinking about having the bottom of the doors done as well. Dodge kinda screwed the pooch on the seems, and they like to rust there. My 4 year old truck has some. That's what POR15 is for though.

Just like to stop it from coming back.

 

Nice to know my artwork is still appreciated...

 

well on pops' chevy he has it done up to the trim. looks nice. as for yoyrs being kinda screwed up at the seems...every manufacturer has some flaws like that. just the way they go.

BBZ...didnt know you were still lurking around on here man. you ought to drop a post here and there and elt people know you're alive.

 

chevies suck magor ass compared to the other two,

difrent strokes for difrent folks

that dodge would pack tripple what your chevy did and not touch the over loads. the rangers blah, not even comparable.

ford 1 tons comparable to dodge 3/4s.

chevy 3/4 & 1 tons, to much like cadalc, but very good still. I rate it 3rd

 

BOO BOO ** the crowd seems to have turn on him folks **

i dont like this guy "the kid" that guy miller was much nicer

 

Yep, I am still alive. I check the board every now and then just to see what is going on. I've just been really busy with everything...school, girlfriend, life in general. Came down with mono a few weeks ago, thats what major stress and little sleep will do to a person. So I've been taking it easy for 3-4 weeks and I am feeling better. Lately i've been watching the news a lot, my brother was in Kuwait, disappeared for a while and has since popped up somewhere in Iraq, I received an email from him last Friday. So yeah thats pretty much what is going on in my life, still with the same girl, almost a year now. So she takes a little priority in my life, if she isn't happy then nobody is

Truck is running pretty strong, 154,000mi and still going. Need to do a tuneup, just have to find the time to do it. Anyway i'll stop rambling, sorry to hijack your post. I am still alive, dont expect me to post much. Seems as though the posts on here are now mainly non offroad related anyway so i'm just gonna sit back and read posts every now and then. Oh, update on my new tires...(mastercraft courser mt's) I love them. 3,000miles now and no visable wear other than the titties being gone. I had to pull out my friends 2wd chevy the other day that was buried down to the frame, tires worked fairly well for what i had to work with. Should have shot some video, it was quite a show...haha, still need to wash the truck from that but i'll wait till after the weekend b/c i'm taking 50 1st-6th graders camping from church, should be interesting

Anyway, I will shut up now.

 

I'll have to see. Last time I talked to the guy at Classic, he said something about not doing the UV resistant Rhino Liner anymore. Don't want to put it on the Ram, then have it turn a nice shade of dull grey. I'm not looks first, but that would look pretty bad..........

Bet yer IFS Chevy can't do this:

 

looks like my ifs chevy has lless front flex and little more rear,

it puts the tops of my 35s into the fenders aways.

I love your front end coilsssssssss drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooool felx.

Evan

 

just a few more

its sitn on the frame rails, had to call friend to pull me off the little hill, that was the frist time out with the 35s, l

 

That's bone stock other than a disconnected sway bar. Soon should be some 2" coil spacers and 285 muds. I'll get better pictures this summer when I can really play with it. Smallish P-metric radial all seasons and open diffs mean I have to be selective.

Tires hitting the top of the fender? Mine did that with the 285's on the 16x8's with the 2-3" Rancho. Only if I really whomped on it though. Not a good noise. I actually pulled both lips of the fender down at the center. Had to beat them back into place.........sorta. Yours has 1" more lift than mine had, but 2" taller tires and wider tires on rims with less backspacing.........so I'm betting your tread hits the fender lip square on.

 

you bet my truck cant park in the front lawn?

I'm pretty sure it can do that...i mean sh!t, an S-10 can dothat...or a sunfire for that matter
that is some goo flex up front though....much better than mine.
as for the liner, "ll give the guy a call closer to summer and see what he can do for me. i might have to head down ther some day when pat isnt working and have him shuttle my ass around

 

heck yeah kris, let me know. i will get mine done too......whole bed and the bottom of the doors, rocker up to trim the length of the truck

and shuttle you around

 

nah no fender rubbing the rear, Im running 8" wheels with 3.5" backspaceing same as what you used to have, in this pick the upper part of the tires in the feder well aways. but there isnt a 1" of clearance between the fender lip and side of the tire. if the hole rear end was to somehow compress that much the tire would then use the fender lip as bottoming point.

yeah that truck will be cool with some 33s and alittle lift.

why cant you fit 285s without lifting. or level the front and toss 35s on it? maybe 4"front lift 6" back. it would still be road worthy and trail manners would be improved.

Evan

 

I ment the tires rubbing your front fenders, that's where mine rubbed. I think I coulda put 315's on the Blazer stock with no lift and the rear would have never rubbed. My 285's rubbed the inner lip of the front fender up top, where it tucked in, but only when I jumped it or really hit a speed bump hard. My 16x8's had 4.5" or 4.75" of backspacing, I can't remember now.

I can fit 285's on the Ram stock, but flexing would be an issue. The lighting in that picture doesn't help much, but I didn't have a whole lotta clearance between my P265's and the plastic fender liner thingies. I'm going to throw the Tuff Country 2" coil spacers that I have in there to level it out (it does sit noticeably nose down) and keep the 285's from rubbing. You could fit 315's with the 2" lift, but any sort of flexing and they'd be rubbing something, and probably rub the control arms on about every corner/turn you go around.

Not to mention with 3.55's and needing to keep the decent gas mileage I get, 285's are it until I can afford the 4.56's, 35's, and 3 or 4" lift.

u4ia4, just have him drive you around on a work day, you can ride around in the back of the squad car.

 

my trucks front cant even flex enough to get close to rubbing the upper fender lip. but the left side does rub the black iner fender at full turn and stuffed as much as an ifs will stuff. the other side never rubs