NY: first trail ride with 03 TB, success, failure & fun!

by **NYTrailman** » Mon May 26, 2014 10:33 pm

First off road venture with a stock TB, bad shocks, noisy sway bar links and semi bald rear tires. Terrain, semi challenging, very rocky, Stephentown, NY power lines. TB performed better than expected. Definitely bumped and scraped a lot and re shaped my side pipe exhaust, but for the most part it handled the trails well. Made a mistake and took a less traveled trail to go around a water hole. Smacked a rock pretty hard hidden in a grassy ditch. Took out the oil pan! Repairs this week and now have a performance base line for the build. Kudos to my 17 year old daughter and her 98 Frontier. Dragged me and my TB 1.5 miles out of the trails and then 6 miles home on the road. Tough truck and good driver!

by **NYTrailman** » Mon May 26, 2014 10:47 pm

Another pic

by **NYTrailman** » Mon May 26, 2014 10:49 pm

Pre-pan hole!

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Tue May 27, 2014 12:01 am

Good deal, glad you had some fun and are safe. Guess we all know what will be high on mod list!

Might want think about re-gearing now since you will have the oil pan down, if you plan on going larger then 32" tires and you got 3.42 gears.

by **v7guy** » Tue May 27, 2014 5:14 am

I got a spare oil pan laying around I need to get rid of if you're interested.

by **Gordinho80** » Tue May 27, 2014 10:20 am

I've got an oil pan skid, front and rear bumpers for you if you're interested...

by **DirtyBacon04** » Tue May 27, 2014 3:01 pm

TBYODA wrote: Might want think about re-gearing now since you will have the oil pan down, if you plan on going larger then 32" tires and you got 3.42 gears.

Senor Yoda makes a good point. Out of sheer convineince, might as well regear while you have the oil pan off. Take it from me, it's a pain of ass to try and get the front diff out with the oilpan still on.

by **Gordinho80** » Tue May 27, 2014 3:19 pm

DirtyBacon04 wrote:Take it from me, it's a pain of ass to try and get the front diff out with the oilpan still on.

I concur.

by **NYTrailman** » Wed May 28, 2014 11:11 am

Gordin,

More info on the Skid and bumpers.

Thanks!

C

by **Regulator1175** » Wed May 28, 2014 11:57 am

DirtyBacon04 wrote:
TBYODA wrote: Might want think about re-gearing now since you will have the oil pan down, if you plan on going larger then 32" tires and you got 3.42 gears.

Senor Yoda makes a good point. Out of sheer convineince, might as well regear while you have the oil pan off. Take it from me, it's a pain of ass to try and get the front diff out with the oilpan still on.

I have done it three times now without dropping the pan, it really isn't that difficult.

Sent from the road.

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Wed May 28, 2014 12:08 pm

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by **Moots1288** » Wed May 28, 2014 7:25 pm

Just rip it right out of the oil pan.. screw it

by **DirtyBacon04** » Wed May 28, 2014 10:20 pm

My apologies to everyone... I hit "edit" instead of "quote" on tbyoda's post... still trying to get a hold of this new mod controls...

by **The Roadie** » Thu May 29, 2014 12:13 am

DirtyBacon04 wrote:...still trying to get a hold of this new mod controls...

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