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David 4x4, Yeah, it was all determined by the garage door height. But I had to trim that front leg length. Took about 6" off the cargo cover legs, the corner steel stampings sit on the troop seat sockets. M1075, There's a 50 truck convoy scheduled for the 'Veterans Memorial Highway' parade on...

Thanks guys. Kenny, The cargo cover was a special order from GMA.

Took Lil Ruthie out for a shakedown ride with the new XL's before the big Veteran's Day weekend events. I wasn't kidding about the XL's making the truck too big to get out the garage door, had to get the sawzall out. Just couldn't air down enough to get thru. Seems to track pretty good, a little...

Recovery4x4, Ya know, Lil Ruthie's one of the newer deuces, an '88, so there wasn't all that much corrosion on the lugs. Once they cracked/broke loose it went pretty good. The A3 rims on the other hand had 'crimped lock nuts' on the outside rims(3 inch studs?). So with the thread corrosion...

case-basketcase, I was planning to use the rims off my truck as I accumulated XL's one by one. The standard M35 rims work with the Michelin 1100 XL's. But M1075's XL's were already mounted on M35 rims which saved me a lot of time and effort. Recovery4x4, citizensoldier, Like I told M1075 when I...

Yeah... there's just no going back.

Lil Ruthie traded in her traditional stylish NDT's for some REAL army boots. After more than two unsuccessful years of looking, I still had only accumulated 6 well worn 1100 XL's. But thanks to M1075 I was able to get the whole shebang done in one transaction. I always had planned to use...