Recent content by thompsoncustom

If I had a local shop that did that I would have them sip a set in a heartbeat and then i would stud them. If nothing else it would be cool to have a extra set on OEM rims and tires that would sipped and studded. Only downside I could think of is that pure winter tires are normally a softer...

I see most people run group 24 I personally run group 65 which probably wouldn't work unless u had custom hold downs or don't run them (mine never came with them). But the biggest reason I run 65 series is because that's what I have in every vehicle I own cars/trucks/ and a humvee.

I don't know if there are any tire shops that do sipping anymore but they did sell machines do it quickly back in the day which would be much faster than doing it yourself with a tire groover or oscillating tool but it can be done. Weights a good point to, having enough weight in the rear to...

I have a car I run studded winter tires on and have never found any all season tire to come close to winter performance but your probably not gonna find those in a 37in tire on a 16.5 inch rim. You could always buy a surplus set and tire regroover so you could cut and stud them yourself.

good to know thanks for the update

Well if your really good at soldiering you could probably find one of those on Digikey and put it on, probably only cost a couple of bucks.

I have two vw tdi's with the 1.9 alh turbo diesel 4 cylinder stock specs are 90hp and 155tq(tho easy to turn up). They are a good little cars both have over 400k on them I lost a timing belt about a month or two back on one of them and they are an interference engine so it bent the valves. I...

What about a 4BT cummins?

I'll be curious what you find out as I have never fixed my code 73 issue with my four speed and everything I checked out always seemed to come back fine.

Probably be pretty easy to weld up your own seems like they want a lot for those when it would only cost about 100 bucks to make.

depending on how bad it is I would sand blast the whole thing and coat it with POR-15 than painting over that with whatever looks closest to the stock paint like was mentioned above.

Renting a trailer seems like the easier, quicker, safer option.

True but you left out the part that the Hawker batteries alone aren't enough in Artic environments and the military has a addon artic diesel powder heater to warm the engine. It is good to know that the Hawker last a long time but 4 batteries would still provide more CCA. The instruction for...

Thanks for the correction on the CCA as I have no idea just assumed that stacked together. 4 group 65 batteries would never fit under the passenger seat up front but could be spilt between the front and rear passenger side easily. Ya i'm not really sure you need more than 700CCA as I started...

I'm currently running 65 series batteries with I believe is 850 CCA so 4 of those would be 3400CCA vs Hawker's at 2200CCA.