Four Wheeler February 2018

Occasionally I watch television shows about home buying. You know, those shows where prospective buyers are introduced; we learn what they do for a living and what their budget is; then they tour three homes for sale. They look over each home, editorializing along the way, and then they select one to purchase. Oh, and then there’s usually a follow-up segment showing the “before” and “after” views of the house. The home-buying shows filmed in the mountains or Alaska hold my limited TV attention span the most, and I especially dig the show that features log homes. My DVR is littered with these shows, and there seem to be so many episodes being cranked out that I can’t keep up. As I watch these shows, I amuse myself by speculating on…

KEN.BRUBAKER@FOURWHEELER.COM STUDDIN’ If you think pulling the cab is easier, you’ve never lived in the Rust Belt. MIKE MINICUCCI VIA FACEBOOK Wish I would’ve known about this about two months ago. I pulled the cab and it was no fun. STEWART DOBBINS VIA EMAIL As the story (“Studdin’,” Oct. ’17) noted, many techs choose to remove the cab of an ’03-’07 Super Duty to perform head gasket replacement on the 6.0L Power Stroke turbodiesel. Performing the task without removing the cab offers several benefits, including not having to evacuate and then recharge the A/C system and avoiding a fight with corroded cab mounts and cab mount bolts. MEMORY LANE I just finished reading your latest edition (Oct. ’17) and I love the old ads in the “From The Back Country” feature. It brought back a ton of old remembers of…

EDITOR@FOURWHEELER.COM »»»THAT’S INTERESTING -> This was the headline: “Land Rover Discovery Tows 121-ton Road Train in the Australian Outback.” The deets are, an HSE Td6 (aka diesel) towed a 328-foot-long, seven-trailer semitruck, starting from a dead stop for 10 miles (the SUV is rated for 7,716 pounds). Why? Why not? -> Ford and Domino’s are collaborating on pizza research. Specifically, how positively freaked out would you be if a driverless vehicle pulled up with your pie? Also, how positively annoyed will you be if you have to walk all the way to the curb to collect it yourself? -> Did you have money on where the next-gen Nissan Frontier would be built? We sure hope it was riding on the Canton Vehicle Assembly Plant in Mississippi. -> We guess something automotive had to one day…

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EDITOR@FOURWHEELER.COM >BACK LIGHT Lazer Star Lights introduces the new PreRunner LED ChaseTail lightbar designed exclusively for recreational users. It provides rear-facing illumination for added safety in dusty and other low-visibility conditions. The 20-inch lightbar includes six 3-watt LED lamps per color. The outer ends of the ChaseTail feature amber LED lights, which can be wired into the vehicle as turn signals, as one strobe, one solid dust light, or wired together as dual solid amber dust lights. The red LED segments offer dual wires for running light and brake light functions. The center six LED lights are white and can be wired in conjunction with the vehicle Reverse lights or to a switch for a general rear lighting solution. INFO: Lazer Star Lights, 800/624-6234, lazerstarlights.com OEMTools introduces the Professional 41-inch 6 Wheel Creeper.…

jered.korfhage@fourwheeler.com PLASTIC PARTS ARE MADE FOR TOYS, BUT WHEN your playground is the rock garden, those parts just don’t last. The factory bumper on our ’17 Jeep JK Wrangler suffered from a mediocre approach angle, and subsequently took a few too many love taps from the local geology. We needed something that not only allowed the Jeep’s tires to touch the rock before the bumper, but also was lightweight enough to avoid overloading the stock springs on the front end. GenRight Off Road had the solution. The company builds, abuses, and reengineers hard-core Jeep parts right here in the U.S. The owner, Tony Pellegrino, uses the King of the Hammers race as a proving ground, making sure everything built by GenRight can stand up to the toughest single-day off-road race in America.…