There are several reasons you may want to run air bumps, and to us the biggest reason is that they can eliminate the bone jarring ride of a polyurethane or rubber stop when you’re blistering through the desert or dirt road on the way to your favorite trailhead. Rather than run a super stiff shock, [...]
There are several aftermarket manufacturers producing very good products for those of us with a passion for off-roading. And unless you’re building a one-off custom rig, you can buy just about anything you need to make your rig work for you. There are a few companies that are a cut above the rest. One of [...]
We’ve been running Project Recycle since last February, where it took its maiden run during KOH week. Since then we’ve been to EJS and our Reader’s Ride, to many events in between and finally, this last weekend, to my own Jeep club’s annual Meet & Greet. The Eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains is a [...]
Not too long ago I posted up some pics of the new CRAWL Mag “Southeast” Tow Rig, my new (to me) 2005 Ford F350 crew cab short bed pickup. After installing a Bully Dog driving coach setup to monitor fuel economy I told all of you to stay tuned to see the truck get the [...]
One of the common front end bearing choices used by the OEMs is the unit bearing hub. It’s less labor intensive for them to install and will work for years on a stock height rig with factory size tires. The downside is that the front axle shafts are turning 100% of the time, even if [...]
Stage 8 has been making very unique and unfailingly strong fastener solutions for quite a while, over 25 years. The simple design and robust materials belie the engineering that goes into making certain that whatever you tighten stays that way whether it’s an offroad rig, a locomotive, a space shuttle or a military armored vehicle. [...]
When was the last time you performed any maintenance on your trailer? We’re not procrastinators, so we decided that we should get it done because we don’t recall ever doing it before. We had noticed some odd tire wear, and thought we might have a couple of loose wheel bearings. It turned out we did, [...]
Trail Tough does it again! Throw away your front clip and get yourself one of these. Brand new design, and just released, we received this front clip kit at the fab shop for our Samurai build. We’ll show you the install in our build thread once we get it installed, but we couldn’t wait to [...]
Editors note: This article was written by Alex Riedo of Master-Pull in an effort to answer questions they often receive. Most of you may know this already, but it may help save someone some grief. We’ve seen many people wrap the line backwards, and we scratch our heads too. Now they have no excuse! In [...]
The CRAWL race trailer sees many miles over the course of a year, and we have been due for new tires for quite a while. We had six different manufacturers tires on our three axles, and wasn’t because of a tire test. We’d buy a new one whenever and wherever we happened to be when [...]
