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Very good point... I've gone through this somewhat for our other mode of "adventure travel": RVs. We've had a few big Class A "Diesel Pusher" RVs with slides down both sides. They were nicer inside than most homes, and way bigger than my studio apartment in college. But, I found with 4 TVs...

I have a buddy that beat the heck out of a Tracker for years and years in the Sierras. He loved it, and swore by the thing! I also know somebody that SAS'ed one which made it a pretty legit *hardcore* wheeler. The biggest drawback is going to be the lack of room for gear, and the need to keep...

What are you looking for here? Some affirmation that people are spending too much, and/or folks with the more expensive rigs are jerks? I'm not even sure what "Is it cost of or how pretty it looks to Overland?" means or is asking. But maybe I'm just a jerk because my rig is kind of expensive...

Adventure Trailgear Chainsaw bag on my RIg'd tire swing: The bag is lined to catch bar oil if you were to need to put it inside. ATG is great to work with, small one-man deal which I like to support and super responsive to email. If you go with them tell 'em TJ sent ya! -TJ

Aaaaaaaaaaaand just looked up under the truck, no way this setup I bought will work. The sway bar "arm" goes forward outside of the shock, and the end link goes straight up from there. The stock fuel tank leaves a little room there, but my 60gal tank uses up that space. Looks like we'll be...

I think the difference for me vs. your experience is having ~1200lbs at the bed-floor level or higher. I actually have *no* rear bar stock, so the Hellwig rear bar will be a great first step. WFO also said the adjustable rear shocks might show up in the next week or two. After those two...

I did about 800 miles of this route (starting up at the Canadian border) last year and I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend it to anybody that is on the fence. I just can't make these dates or I'd be 110% in. This is my route minus the first spur where I forgot to start the recording: I think...

I have torsion style on my WJ (AntiRocks) but haven't considered them yet for the Silverado because as compared to the WJ the flex isn't *that* crazy. Though, I suppose you're right I might find I bind the new bigger bars and break end-links. I guess time will tell. Oh, and yes, front axle is...

4-day trip around Joshua Tree, down to the East of the Salton Sea, then up to the Lake Isabella area: Overall things went well, and worked well. MPG is definitely down significantly, more like 14.5-15 MPG freeway at a ~75 MPH cruise (down from 17ish) and 12ish on 2wd sections of...

Oh good, we haven't talked about this yet in the last 13 seconds! I really enjoy XOverland's long-format content (somewhat less the series that focused too much on the ultra-light aircraft stuff), but this is just one more definition nobody asked for. Just get our there and do what makes you...

First of all, thank you for your service. Second, all you can really do is try to limit mods that will hurt MPG. Lift and larger tires are generally the biggest negative impacts on MPG, and you've already done that so I wouldn't worry too much about the rest. Try to avoid things that hurt...

More fun with numbers... finally got the truck onto perfectly flat/level concrete and re-did the measurements. Front: Rear: I'm going to call the front 49" even, and the rear 47-5/8". This is with the Deaver "mini pack" and a 1.5" block in the rear. You might recall I ordered a Deaver...

Right, what people seem to be missing is with the wider track comes a bigger sweep front to rear as you steer. It'll cause tire clearance issues at the front/rear of the wheel wells that might not happen with the same size tire on a stock offset rim. -TJ

As a guy that just SAS'ed a Chevy, I tend to agree with the above. In my particular case I was attached to my truck, I also have always wanted a SAS'ed D'max, and my truck has been paid off for IDK, 7-8 years so I was willing to throw some $ at it. Still, in theory, selling my truck + the...

Mine is a 2500, and already SAS'ed. ;) Going back to a Full Size for my Overlanding -TJ

Update to the update: despite showing "in stock" at the Duramaxstore when I ordered them, the springs are 6-8 weeks out. I'm cancelling the spring order, and just going to order a 3" block kit to replace my 1.5" kit as a temporary fix and lower the front .5" and see how it sits and works. Then...

Little update... So we did some measuring, here's a measurement at the rear fender *BEFORE* any changes: It's probably 45-5/16" but it wasn't that accurate of a measurement so let's just call it 45.25" to make it easy. Here's after: We'll call it 46.5". So the rear only went up 1.25"...

The short answer is backspacing. The OP *probably* has wheels with less back-spacing aka negative offset which push the wheels further "out" than stock. The result is the outside edge of the wheel/tire travel further reward/forward respectively when steering side to side. GM likes to put...

Just FYSA I ran into this again this morning. Here's what the workflow looked like: I had 7 new notifications. I clicked the notification bell, to display them, and saw they were replies/quotes or likes in 3 different threads. I right-clicked one notification per thread, and opened those 3...

Nice to see the RIG'd swing works well for you towing. I just put it on my rig recently and will be towing with it as well. -TJ