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COMPLETED: Silver Lake Sand Dunes, Mears, MI

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by 07SMLT » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:32 am

So I took my bone stock (only running boards removed) TB out on the Silver Lake dunes. Got stuck once because I forgot to turn the traction control off, but didn't have any other problems. I stayed off the big dunes but played around a lot between the beach and the one-way dunes. We had a blast! BTW, I'm running Goodyear Forteras with about 3.5/32nds one them......

Still planning my build by browsing this forum. Biggest issue is $$. The wife and I are working through Crown Financial/Dave Ramsey style get out of debt plan. Will have everything but the house paid off by October, then hopefully I can quickly save up to get my plan executed by next spring.

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by 07SMLT » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 am

This should be moved the the Eastern forum. My bad.
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by Cable810 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:43 pm

Looks like fun!! I wanna make it down there sometime yet.
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by ErikSS » Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:02 pm

I've wanted to see a bone stock TB on the dunes. I figured it would do well. A radiator skid and some stiffer front springs would probably help. One for confidence one for stability.
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