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Old 10-01-2015, 04:17 PM
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Found another smokin deal on CL today that was just to good to pass up!

It's got a few very small Knicks but no debts and everything works perfectly on it. These damn things retail for $740 from Snapon and I paid $150 for mine
 
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Old 10-01-2015, 04:27 PM
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There you go AGAIN! Everyone in IA is too tight to find deals like that...
 
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Old 10-01-2015, 06:01 PM
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Haha yeah they posted it for $250 and I negotiated it to $150. I'd have been happy to pay $250 for it lol!
 
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Old 10-02-2015, 07:00 AM
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In MA they'd have been asking $748 for it ...

Good score there.
 
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Old 10-02-2015, 07:00 AM
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That is a really good deal.
 
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Old 10-02-2015, 05:37 PM
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took me about 5-6 days of on and off reading to go through this thread.

awesome job on the mods and explaining everything! gonna do something to my '03 eventually...

gotta chase out a no fuel issue first though.

do anyone know if it is possible to rebuild a fuel pump? looking at it I see that it "could" come apart to have the components changed out and was wondering if anyone had the opportunity to do this.
 
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Old 10-03-2015, 09:12 AM
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I highly doubt you'd find the parts needed to do that. Anything is rebuildable, but finding parts is another story. I'm sure the companies building pumps set things up that way ...
 
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Old 10-05-2015, 08:19 PM
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So today this happened lol.

Yup I sold my tires today. A guy was out back on my trail last Wednesday and punctured a sidewall on his 35s with only a factory size spare that he couldn't even get out from under his truck! Lucky for him he broke down in about the luckiest place ever lol. First off when I walked up to him he was on the phone with road side assistance to have them come change his tire pretty sad you can go off roading but can't change your own tire if you ask me! So being a nice guy I changed his tire including putting one of my factory suburban wheels on it since his wasn't budging. As I'm doing that he's checking out my Blazer and asks if I want to sell my tires so I was like sure why not! Told him $600 and he said done let's do it. He came back by today and paid for the tires and is going to give me another $250 tomorrow to mount them and do the necessary surgery to fit on his tahoe so for $850 I'd have been stupid not to sell them to him!

So since last Wednesday I've been scoring CL looking for another good deal on some toes in the 37-40" range to fit my wheels and sadly there's not much at all out there right now. I was really hoping to find some 40s but the more I think about it the more I realize that's a dumb idea right now and that 40s should really wait till I have a 60 up front sop for now I'm thinking 37s is the way to go which brings me to here. For only $200 out of pocket I can grab these brand spanking new but I've never heard of them before lol 4 New 37x12 50R17 Kanati Mud Hog M T Mud Tires MT 37 12 50 17 R17 10 Ply | eBay. Almost everything I could find to read about them online has been more than positive so I'm really thinking I'm going to give them a shot. And hell $1049 to my door for brand new 37s can they really be that bad? They are modeled closely/after two proven tires and are made by a well know tire company just they are fairly new to the off road market of tire. Any thoughts or experience from anyone on them?
 
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Old 10-06-2015, 07:07 AM
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They are a good looking set of tires.
 
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Old 10-06-2015, 01:11 PM
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Looks like that bedliner is still holding up good. Any issues with it yet? How long has it been on?
 


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