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- Hey, what's going on guys.
Lawson Custom Offsets.
Today's video, we're going over some popular mods to avoid.
Now, today I brought Dustin with me.
It's been a hot minute since we've been in a video together.
- Yeah it's been a little while.
- I was looking forward to this one,
when I found out
that we're gonna be doing this one together.
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Let's hop into it.
- [Dustin] Let's do it
- [Narrator] Straight piping.
- Straight piping your muffler.
Listen,
just don't do it, okay.
Exhausts are cheap, right.
You can buy, for most half-ton pickup trucks,
you can buy a cat back exhaust system for like 350 bucks.
If that's too much for you,
you can go down to your local chopping shop
and they will bend you an exhaust for like $200.
- Yeah.
- Just don't do it.
It doesn't,
listen it's like Cody Banker buys a brand new truck
first thing he does,
slides underneath it with a saw.
Don't do it.
- Yeah. It's not that.
It doesn't sound good at all.
I've heard trucks that sound pretty decent
but most case scenario never comes out sounding decent
and it's just, it's super annoying, it's loud,
you can tell when those trucks are like
showing up to meets and stuff
you can hear them for like five minutes
that's how far away they are and how loud they are.
But yeah, it's one of those mods that like,
look at my truck for example,
I haven't cut off my exhaust.
I haven't done anything with my exhaust.
I got that ugly (beep) tailpipe hanging out
- [Dustin] The little guy?
- All beats (beep) cause it's a 2011 Silverado
because I refuse to cut my exhaust.
Banker wanted me to cut my exhaust so bad
and I just refuse to do that.
I will buy a whole exhaust system before I ever cut it off.
Don't do it.
- The only exception to that
on the straight pipe thing I would say is diesel.
- Yeah.
- Because you have a turbo, right.
Which essentially acts as a muffler anyway.
- Yeah but then you've just got to make sure
you're doing everything correctly,
so you're not blowing your truck up or anything like that.
So, but yeah, overall I won't do it.
- [Narrator] Body lifts
- Body lifts.
We love body lifts Lawson.
- No we don't love body lifts.
- Listen--
- They don't even. No, no.
- Body lifts in some applications are okay. Right.
We did a whole video on this actually that did really well.
And it kind of explained the differences
and where they work and where they don't work.
But
post 1990
body lifts are just not a good idea. Right.
There's enough sensors and cables and harnesses
that are not made to stretch that far
that you're stretching.
And then you have this weird gap between your body
and the frame and just,
it's just not good.
Just don't do it
- Back in the day you could get away with it.
And like you said,
it didn't look too bad back in the day.
But like I recently saw one on a newer truck
that we shot here
and the truck would have looked fantastic
if it didn't have that body lift
and he was already going on like a six inch lift.
So like, you don't need that body lift
like just buy the bigger kit.
Don't skimp out, don't do that.
Cause then you see that weird gap
and it's normally like all crusty and it just
- [Dustin] Especially up here in the salt belt, you know.
- It just looks so bad don't do it.
- Yeah just, yeah just don't.
- [Narrator] Haphazardly stacking lifts.
- Why you looking at me.
- I'm just--
- I didn't stack nothing.
- I know you didn't
but both of us know someone who did.
- Let's get some of our friends up here
because they like to stack some stuff around.
- Bring 'em out.
- Yeah. It's I don't know.
I'm not completely against it
but I'm also not completely for it.
- You have to be careful with it right,
in all seriousness.
We can talk a lot about why you should
or why you shouldn't or whatever,
but stacking lifts can be really dangerous
if you're not paying attention, you know.
There's a difference between stacking a small level spacer
on the top of your lift, right
to bring the front end up compared to like,
I've seen some guys do some pretty shoddy (beep)
bolting like three different kits together.
Don't do that.
It's so, so bad.
- Yeah. Luckily everyone around here
is just doing like stacking a you know,
a puck on top of there.
- [Dustin] Correct.
We've seen some guys do it
and have good luck with it, you know.
- But yeah, the whole like,
it always reminds me of like
if you follow BDS's Instagram and they post all those
it's not a BDS cause people are just stacking
and welding everything together
- Hockey pucks in between the kits.
- Just save up for that bigger kit, man.
That's just, it's not,
it's not worth it.
It's not worth the danger.
You know you see all these horror stories
of people crashing their trucks,
these huge lifted trucks you know
and to put all that time and effort
just to stack some lift kits and dumpster your truck,
not good.
- Not good
- [Narrator] Squatting or excessive rake.
- This, it's interesting that these are paired together,
squatting and excessive rake.
Cause you don't see a lot of raked trucks anymore.
And by raked you know,
the front end's lower than the rear tire, right.
You don't see a ton of that
unless it's like a drag setup
or something where you're looking to weight transfer.
- I saw one the other day.
- Did you?
- Well maybe not the other day,
but like a couple months ago
on 41 up here.
And it's funny because the truck in front of him
was squatted like pretty heavily.
I was like, okay.
And then the truck behind him was pretty raked heavily.
Like he looked like he belonged at the drag strip,
like custom paint job.
I think it was like a third gen Ram you know,
had like that, they had those,
I believe it was the third gen
and it had like the orange like crazy color scheme
that one year.
And then he was towing a boat.
So like he was crazy raked
and then his boat was crazy squatted.
And I was like, what is going on here?
- This man's bought one lift kit
and split it between both of them.
One got the front and one got the back.
I don't.
But I mean just in terms of the whole overall thing here
I mean,
listen if squat is your thing, it's cool. Right.
If that's what you're into,
like all you guys in the Carolinas,
that seems to be your thing
and I mean good for you guys,
but you got understand
that when you do that you can't see a lot. Right.
Ask Jr. When he drove the Bronco.
When you pick the nose of the truck up in the air
you lose a lot of visibility in the front
and again it can be pretty dangerous, you know.
- Yeah, absolutely.
And I've seen some like squatted trucks, you know,
look pretty good.
You know, even like a little bit of squat,
it looks pretty good.
So I'm like once you get into a little bit more
excessive squat,
I've seen some dudes pull it off,
but some of you, some of you boys are wild man.
- Yeah you are way more wild than we are.
- Some of you guys look like you should be
in like astronaut suits ready to take off to the moon man.
It's crazy.
- Crazy.
- [Narrator] Throwing in spacers
instead of planning for proper fitment.
- Planning for proper fitment instead of throwing it.
So spacers in general is what we're getting at here.
- Buying 16 wides
instead of buying your 14 wides with spacers.
- This one I could go either way on I think.
- Yeah I think obviously the first person that comes to mind
one of the only people who's done it so far here is Nick
and his F150 is hot.
And like obviously he wanted to run Arkons
and that's where things get a little tricky
because a lot of people have grown to love Arkons,
but our Arkons don't come in 16 wides
if you really want that stance.
And so Nick wanted that stance.
I mean his story's a little different you know,
he went to a eight lug because he didn't want to wait for--
- [Dustin] Cause that's all we had in stock right.
- And so he went with two inch adapters
and essentially has 16 wides.
But I think,
I always thought that you know,
a little bit of spacers for fitment specific is okay.
Two inch spacers to get you 16 wides
cause you don't want to ball out and buy the 16 wides,
you want to buy the 14 wides,
hey I mean to each their own.
I just want,
I'd make sure that you're triple checking your bolts,
you're making sure that you're doing everything very safely
because that's how you start snapping studs
and wheels fly off and you crash your truck so.
- Yeah and I think more importantly,
the underlying thing with this is
if you're gonna buy spacers,
if you're gonna buy adapters whatever
make sure they're quality, right.
Everyone knows somebody who's bought E-bay spacers
or Amazon spacers or whatever,
somewhere along the line
and had the horror story of 65 miles an hour,
losing a wheel and tire going down the road.
It's an expensive day for a lot of reasons.
You know your spacer's junk,
your wheel and tire are probably all banged up now.
Cause they went flying down the interstate at MACH 80.
And it just,
if you're going to do spacers
stick with high quality stuff,
that's why we only sell Boris spacers
and whatever their sister company is.
I forget what the steel one is,
but either way only high quality spacers or adopters,
the stuff that's going to take care of you.
And we have like you said,
we've got some guys running them
and they really like them so.
- Yeah.
- [Narrator] Cranking your keys.
- Cranking keys.
GM boys we're looking at you.
Don't do it.
Did you crank your keys?
- I did not.
- All right good.
I cranked my keys in my first truck.
- I think everyone cranks their keys in their first tuck.
- Don't do it.
It's bad.
You tear the whole front end up,
you adjust the suspension geometry
to angles it's not meant to be at
and it's gonna ride like a bag (beep)
- [Lawson] Like really, really bad.
- Like not good at all.
It's not fun.
We've been there.
Don't do it.
- And it's not worth it
for that like extra insurance to get.
It's just really, really not worth it.
Like I said, it's one of those things
that you hear about it.
Everyone did it in high school.
First truck back in the day,
everyone tried it out.
Now we're here to tell you that you know,
back in the day when we did it
we learned that you shouldn't do that.
So that's just one of those mods, don't do it.
- [Narrator] Excessive light bars.
- Light bars, on light bars, on light bars.
- No.
- Yo dawg I heard you like light bars.
So we gave you light bars on your light bars.
So you can light while you light.
- Don't be like Dustin.
- I actually don't even really like light bars that much.
- He just ordered six light bars for the Duramax.
- I did not, I did not.
We're not doing that.
We should put six light bars on Bigg's truck though.
- [Lawson] Biggs already has
like damn near six lights bars on his truck.
- [Dustin] All right that's fine, that's fair.
- And he has one sitting there
that's waiting to go on.
Don't be like Biggs.
Light bars are not dead.
I remember that we've done a video
where we thought the light bars were coming out.
I think if done right,
like stuck behind the grill,
like CO2,
stuck in bumpers to fill a gap
because a lot of bumpers are fabricated to have that.
- [Dustin] Yeah they have the knockouts.
- So you might as well fill it in there
whether you turn it on or not.
You know sometimes they can be very useful
depending where you are you know,
at night time, back road, in a field doing whatever
they can be nice but too many light bars not good.
- Yeah. I think the biggest thing is hearsay
that light bars are functional and they work really good
as long as they're in the right places.
Roof mounted light bars reflect really bad off the hood
and actually make visibility worse in some cases.
Like you know but again,
if you're talking to behind the grill and the bumper,
wherever, that makes sense.
- I dig Cube's bar.
- [Dustin] I like Cube's too.
I think Cubes are the way to be honest with you.
- [Lawson] A lot more clean so.
- [Dustin] Heck yeah.
- Alrighty guys that's what we got for you on today's video.
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