Product Reviews

If you’ve ever found yourself at your local rental center renting a trailer, if you own a boat, if you own a motorcycle or quad or even if your just cleaning your yard and throwing the debris in a small trailer to take to the junk yard, you need a hitch of some form or fashion. We recently had the …

Some things in life lead to you to make decisions faster than you would like. When someone breaks into your Jeep’s center console and steals all of your belongings, you are forced to make a decision on security. If that thief would have left your Jeep alone, that old, cracked, plastic console would have lasted a few more months. Well, …

 LED’s aren’t new – in fact they’ve been around since 1907, and serious research started in 1936 by some really old German dude. In the last few years however, LED’s have grown well beyond your alarm clock display. They have developed so much lately, that they’re now being used as aircraft landing lights, super-bright tactical flashlights, and a myriad of …

  Sure, we could have stayed with the old, played-out gauges in project Buckshot but they were, well – old and played out. After all, Buckshot is about serious transformation, not restoration. The stock gauges (although functional) just wouldn’t do in our radically modified ’75 Ford Bronco. We needed a solution to monitor all of the engine’s vital functions and …

  If you’ve been following Project Buckshot, you know that we are transforming this once stock, tame ’75 Bronco into a Swiss Army knife of off-road capability. It’s receiving a big lift, big tires, a strong new engine, steering upgrades, disc brake conversion, transmission and transfer case upgrades and much, much more. As with any rig that’s getting bigger tires …

Tired of loose object shifting around the back of your SUV?  Wish you had something to protect the interior of your SUV when coming back from the hardware store with a load of mulch, sand, sod, plants, etc.? Problem solved.  Behold the Corvus Box.     The Corvus Box is a clever, new take on the old concept of a steamer …

An American author from the 20’s – John A. Shedd – once wrote, “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” So true these words of wisdom are, and it applies to our 4-wheel drives quite nicely, thank you. We can build or have built, the baddest, most capable off-road vehicle, and as …

  Last month we told you about something new… Something that just about any home-built or highly modified 4-wheel drive probably couldn’t do without. We received word of a new product from a company who’s made it their business keeping rigs cool, and is now making a great product to keep your rig warm. Flex-a-Lite Consolidated, the makers of the …

Is it a locker, is it a posi? Hum, I would have to say it falls somewhere in between. The manufacturer, Tractech calls it a limited slip differential. The TrueTrac is a gear driven traction adding device. According to Tractech, it provides a controlled amount of resistance to a one-wheel spinout, so that the other wheel (with traction) receives sufficient …

  When we bought project Buckshot, the last owner told us that it came with “MayGo” brakes. He cautioned us before the test drive stating that the Bronco “may go left, or may go right” – sometimes they didn’t stop much at all. Now, with the Skyjacker 5” lift kit installed and the 35” tall Goodyear Kevlar MT/R tires, we …