Lifted and more! - Hello, I've been a long time follower on the forums but don't post much. Anyways... I originally had a 1999 GMC Sierra Z71 for almost 10 ...

Hello, I've been a long time follower on the forums but don't post much. Anyways... I originally had a 1999 GMC Sierra Z71 for almost 10 years. I ended up selling because I wanted to put some money into a build, but didn't feel like it was worth it for my high mileage Sierra, even though it never let me down! I purchased my current 2012 Silverado 1500 LT Z71 4x4 around September of 2015, and I've been slowly building it since. I got it in Diamond White and have been in love with the color and the truck ever since!



Additions so far:
-Line-X Premium in the bed
-Northern Tool - Low Profile Matte Black Toolbox
-BDS 6inch Lift w/ Fox 2.0s in rear
-20x9 0mm offset Fuel Mavericks
-35in Toyo MT's
-Hypertech 2.0 Programmer
-Husky rear wheel well liners
-AMP Research Power Steps

The first thing I did to the truck was got the bed liner sprayed with Line-X Premium, my uncles friend owns a Line-X shop and I got a great deal! Next was a Matte Black lowpro toolbox that I got for Northern Tool for a great deal as well!
Heres the liner/box and my puppy (Duncan) the day I got him almost 2 years ago


In March 2016 I pulled the trigger on a 6in BDS Lift kit and some new wheels and tires:



Next was Husky Rear Wheel Well Liners:


I also painted my front tow hooks with some red "wrinkle paint" to give it a very flat color look.


I'll be happy to answer any questions anyone may have as well. I'll post some more pics later

Ahem....what about Duncan? Let's see a pic of him at 2 years old!

Oh, truck looks great btw!

Love the red tow hooks...them wheel liners will save your bacon!!....and the paint.

Here is Duncan the other day!


Another of the tow hooks installed after painting them red.


Here are a few of me going to rescue my friends in their 4runners last year. This was right after a hurricane and a weeks worth of rain so the mud pits were DEEP. The first friend in the white 4Runner I pulled out with ease on a saturday after work, and we made it back out of the trail. My other friend has an older 4runner and went back to the same trail and got stuck 2 days later. I got stuck 50 yards from him and luckily a local guy came from their 4runner facebook group and pulled us both out. The guy that pulled us out has an older gen that was SAS'd on 40s! I would never take my truck through that again, but I did have a blast lol. Unfortunately the only pic I have from the second day is the one at night at the gas station.







And the aftermath:

Nicely build up Kev. Pics are great but they are coming in very small unless you click on them. Perhaps you meant for that...but personally I like to see them full size so I don't have to click on every one. Looks like that was quite a deep mud hole for sure!

Thanks! I've been copying the wrong image code, didn't mean for them to be small. I can't edit the posts now but ill make them big from now on.

No prob. You can only edit for about an hour. You can request a mod to change things for you if it is a big deal...but right now we are sorta running lean regarding mods.

Also, I ordered some new tires last week. My Toyo MT's have roughly 35k miles on them and could probably go for another 5k til they are bald... but I did drive them out of alignment for a while and they wore uneven... my bad lol. It annoys me that they are worn uneven, so I figured I'd buy some new ones.

Anyways, I ordered some Cooper STT Pros 35x12.50r20. The original plan was to go with Toyo RT's, but I couldn't pass up the deal I got on the Coopers. I got them on Amazon for about $260 a tire! The toyos were roughly $100 more per tire.

Dropped the truck off at the shop today for mount/balance, alignment check and oil change. Should pick it up sometime tomorrow!

Here are the Cooper STT Pro's installed! Don't mind the dirty truck and wheels, they will be cleaned up tomorrow

They drive just as smooth as my Toyo MT's did. They do have a little more road noise, but that part doesn't bother me.

Nice!!!




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