What makes a mall crawler a mall crawler, and other mall crawler info....
#62
Lol hell yea it spends more time in my driveway thean at the trail. You see the price of diesel lately lol. No I recently was in a car accident and broke my hip so its a pain in the butt to get in and out of the trrkc on crutches so its just been sitting there. Gears are 4.10 limited slip but it doesn't even matter in a diesel. Its never low on torque and could be geared with 2.08 and not make much difference in its accelration. It did run a 13.8 in the 1/4 mile with the 38's. Lol I was just seeing if I can say that I offically own a mall crawler yet. I do buy grocery's in it to; does that make me a soccer mom. Lol jsut kidding around a little bit. The truck is worth to much to do any serious wheeling with it.
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#64
lol yea its still factory gears. They never offered 3.55's though. Only 3.73 or 4.10 in the f250. F350 and f450 diesel could get the 4.30 or 4.88 gears stock. I dont feel the cost of new gears is justifiable because they are only slightly better than what I have now. I would probably put 4.88 in it which in my perspective is only margianlly better than the 4.10 I have now. Anyway I am not trying to argue with anyone but I am can now claim that I own a mall crawler lol.
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#72
Body lift + A/Ts + TTB = ?
The red thing is your gallery with the metalic blue paint all over the underside... that's something special rite thar.
#74
Would you guys consider my truck a mall crawler.
2006 f250 diesel. 8 inch lift with 38 inch Mickey Thompson MTZ on 20x10 Chrom rims. Has a 2 inch stock block in the rear and the rest is all lifted leaf springs. Its pretty fast as well. Well even if you guys consider it a mall crawler it doesn't really matter to me. It towes my other truck around effortlessly and still manages to drive on the beach so I can go surf fishing.
Your obviously like me, I too have an '06 with 8'' lift and 36-15.50-20 MTZ's on chrome wheels. My truck is capable of some off-roading, but do I take it? Nope! $44K truck and $6K in upgrades, I keep it squeeky clean. Only used for hauling cars. Call me a Mall Crawler or whatever you want, but it serves my purpose quite well. IMO a true mall crawler is like the pics posted in this thread. deathly steering setups, 12+'' of lift blocks, especially on the front. 200 shocks, 20 KC lights, no front driveshaft, TTB's with big tires, 44's on dana 44's and 9'', leaf springs with so much arch they cant flex an inch, and so on and so on. Ive had plenty of off road toys that had been used and abused, covered in battle scars, boggers and everyhting in between. My truck is great to load 6 buddies in and take off and look good doing it.
so on and so on.
#75
My deffinetion of a mall crawler is a rig that spends more time in mall parking lots than off road, or rolling around "looking good" If its for looks then its a mall crawler, if its for purpose it a purpose built rig. Yea i can understand a lifted truck being kept clean and looking good, but thats all everybody does anymore, its ALL about the looks and nothing to do with the functionality of it. Which is what is so frustrating about it. Big companies are catering to the crowds with the money, they all want "show" trucks, well what about us that want the truck to function and dont give a **** what it looks like? Hell my truck gets washed when it rains... Very few times in between, ill hose off the big mud and hose off the under carriage so i can re grease but other than that, its dirty.