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Freeze Fest 2026 - The last six years we have gone wheeling in middle or east TN on MLK weekend and the last six years it has been cold and we have gotten snow. It is awesome! This year we went to the North Cumberland WMA (wildlife management area) OHV trails on the north side of Windrock and...

I think the Lexus GX/Toyota Land Cruiser has a 7000+ lb tow, but I haven't looked it up. My neighbor just got a navigator and she likes it, but it may be something bigger than you are looking for. Going to be tough to find something in that midsize SUV range with over 5000 lbs.

I know you said that you already ordered the ARB, but in future Beeker has a lathe and a will to help if you would have wanted to lay down some weld and then turn it down. Beeker only takes payment in Cohibas.

Replacing the carrier and the bearings and reinstall with existing R&P sounds like a good plan.

I just did a little research on the 14 bolt (I never worked on one in person) and the adjuster screw in lieu of the shims is nice! Kind of like a Toyota or 9 inch third member.

Hitting is a bad word, it typically means bad. So maybe this is better - there has to be contact between bearing inner race and carrier for it to shim tight.

Back and forth as in left and right or fwd and aft? I don't see how it would move left and right if it was shimmed right so I am assuming it is fwd and aft, up and down, all around. So if my assumption is correct and your shaft is out 0.022 then it would wobble with the shaft rotation and make...

So the noise was coming from the carrier bearing surface spinning inside the bearing in lieu of the bearing spinning? Or from it not being perfectly concentric and the noise was coming from elsewhere? It sounds like a bearing going bad in the video, so i am surprised that you said the carrier...

Hopefully it is just a bearing and not a shaft issue which sometimes results in damage to the carrier itself. I pulled out a friends rear Dana 44 elocker yesterday to figure out why it wasn't working and while laying on his garage floor struggling to reinstall it, I said "at least this Dana 44...

Well I did a google search on PSC pump whine and low and behold most of the info I found was on this forum. I guess I should have searched it before hand because Blaine specifically mentions to not do what I did (which is mount the reservoir on the fender directly in line with the pump which...

The answer is always go wheeling. Snow wheeling is just a bonus. Lay em down and smack em yak em!

Took the jeep down to Hawk Pride for New Year's run to shake it down. Two major changes to shake down, rear stretch and the steering. Rear Stretch: Everything seemed to work as expected. I added a little more bump stop to be conservative and I may remove the springs and cycle it again and try...

Everybody has a different idea of Epic, so my Epic may not be the same, etc.... but it sounds like your definition includes driving your TJ over a distance with no top and also involves fishing. So plan around that. Now you have to figure out if you want to do your trip on pavement staying in...

I know that Jeff's tablet is mounted solid and it works great (I recently used it at Golden Mtn) and it is out of the way where he has it mounted. For the kind of wheeling that I do, I would not want a large tablet to be mounted anywhere between the seats (especially at dash level) because it...

I didn't read through all of this, so I may be repeating a lot. I apologize for duplicating info in advance. These are the ones that I am familiar with: GAIA - great for public land, forest roads, and laying out routes through public lands. There is an overlanding overlay that provides...