When you are looking for a tow rig in the South it is a little different than other places in the country. Out West you want LONG tow rigs, crew cabs with long beds and dual rear wheels designed for comfort and large open spaces. But where I call home the crew cab short bed [...]
We needed to do some suspension tuning on our YJ, and that tuning needed to start with lighter springs mated with our Fox coil-overs. PAC Racing Springs sponsored truck #4418 of Mike Colville for the King of the Hammers race this year, so we turned to them to see what they had to offer. Peterson Spring has [...]
BFGoodrich recently invited CRAWL to their media launch of the new Rugged Terrain T/A tire. While this isn’t the hardcore offroad tire that most people would expect to see us cover, it does fully fit into the spectrum of tire choices you will need to make for your tow rig. About 58% of CRAWL readers [...]
Project Recycle, our ’98 Jeep TJ, made its debut at the Hammers Trails of Johnson Valley during the week of KOH. We finished the rig on Friday night, loaded it Saturday morning and the first time I ever drove was heading out to the trail on Sunday afternoon. One of the things we [...]
3/26/2011 – We’re making fast work of our Trail Tough Zuk build. We wrapped up the frame fabrication today, as well as both front and rear Toyota axle housings. We’re having so much fun with this build, we’ll likely work on it every day until it’s wrapped up. After taking some simple measurements, both ends [...]
Ian walks us through the process of adding a Action Packer storage container to your vehicle using the SWAG Off Road mounting system.