Yes sir I got a little worried but it still had travel. I went in and got pb blaster lubricant and hosed the shackles good and made sure the shocks had travel. Everything was good. It rode great home too! Im being sarcastic about the engineering the truck has far surpassed my needs honestly it has done everything ive asked of it.
I blew my cherokee springs out last season bring home half ton at a time. I replaced all the springs with a 3in lift set. Pb blaster be dammed I snapped every single bolt this summer on It. Took me 3 months to finish everything. What a nightmare
I blew out my rear shackles on my 86 k15 that way too. Put new everything under it after that one. Took a couple of days to do but it was worth it. I also went through 2 rear ends, three transfer cases and an engine. I use trucks hard... I pull logs out of the woods, haul log loads, plow, tow cars, scrap metal and even pulled a tow truck out of the ditch last winter. They get badly abused at my place. My s10 pulled a 3500# trailer filled to the top for years with a 2.2l 4 banger and was the least problematic vehicle I've owned... This 01 silverado has taken that mantle up now with ease! The vortec engine 1998 to 2003 era trucks ive owned have made me a believer they can really take a beating and keep going. Heres the current pellet / wood hauler after I fixed it up. The old jeep Cherokee my buddy has is that way too knocks really loud but just keeps going.
I used to haul 25-30 bags a time in my old 85 S-10 that had a 4 banger. Stopping wasn't bad. Steering and accelerating sucked. Nice stash Pete. I was on the south side of GR today and stopped at Menards and grabbed 10 bags of Magic Spark. Didn't really need them, but 4.29/bag is the cheapest I've seen yet this season.
This was the first time I've seen anything other than Michigan wood pellets at Menards this season. If I had the truck I'd have gotten more. 10 bags is about all I want to cram in the Cruze.
10 bags is the most I've ever carried in the Cruze. Back when I had my Alero I'd put 10 in the trunk and another 5 or 6 in the back seat. After 150,000 miles it didn't much matter to me if the interior got dirty.
I broke the blazer in with 18 bags last year. It didn't like me much... That had almost 300,000 on it though and the wife didn't care for once...
You broke a Blazer with only 18 bags? Ah - my mistake, I misread that I put 1/2 ton in a Patriot one time (rated to carry 900 pounds total). Good thing I only had 2 miles to go on good roads since there was about 1" between the tires and the wheel wells. I only tdid the 25 bags one time, but regularly carried 15 bags for 30 miles (and since I got them during lunch, they would sit in the car for 4 hours before the trip home), and did 20 bags several times while bringing home a couple of tons from a local place. Pathetic that the tranny went on that Patriot before the leaf springs!
Yes sir I would have done more except I bought them out of bags lol Id a done 25 if I could have. I had the passenger seat, back seats and back hatch filled up. It did it but man did it stop hard lol. The patriot is a tad bigger then my 2 door blazer was but still thats a load! I had the same tranny and rear diff somehow for 300,000 miles I did replace the leafs 2 times on the blazer and one coil spring. I also knocked the bump stops off one day in the dunes Thats a really long story of beer and 4 guys in a 2wd blazer with 15 lbs in the tires.. It took months to find all the sand at the car wash...
What year Blazer? The Patriot is a fairly small vehicle, more of a mid-sized station wagon - thought the Blazer would have more cargo area than the 54.2 cu/ft of my 2010.
It was a 2001 s10 2 door blazer with broken back seats. They don't lay down. The latches broke long ago... Mine was actually classified as a starion wagon too come to think of it.
I put 25 bags in my Mercury Sable. Wasn't a good idea. Dragged the tail and hit the bump stops all the way home. About 10 miles. Won't try that again!!
