Bought a set of 15/35x15 Gateway Gumbo Monster Mudders yesterday and got them on today. Figured i'd show them off. Nothing pretty, but looks kick ***.

 

F-N eh!! I use to pass by one like this outside of Lima Ohio every day for months. A year later, I saw it for sale but wished I had the money or space for it. I've always liked this body style, it's just badass and has a lot of custom potential.

 

Nice!

 

Looking good! Do you plan on restoring it a bit at all?

 

Looks good. What year is that truck?

 

Build Ford Tough!!!

 

Thanks everyone! It's a 1975 F100. I'm not restoring this truck as it is just my mud truck. I will eventually finish painting it though and add an oldschool windshield visor I have waiting to go on.

 

Looks good but atleast hit the wheels with some black from a rattle can and maybe underneath too

 

the wheels are actually chrome but it's hard to tell because they have rust on them now. I'll eventually clean them up a bit and paint them white so they'd be the old white wagon wheels. I'd paint the underside black but it needs the mud cleaned off before that.

 

Reg cab, 8' bed, those were the good old day's! I drove many a mile in truck's like that.

 

I had a black 73 with the same size tires, what a tank. No power steering / 4 on the floor / no a/c / double single roll bar and home made front and rear bumpers. Kind of miss the ole girl.

 

Nice! I had a 79 F150 Ranger with a 351M. It sat outside for 5 years before I bought it. Put a newly rebuilt C6 in it and it started right up like it was just ran yesterday. It did have a bad rear main seal leak though. I ended up getting rid of it before I got it on the road and I kick my self for getting rid of it.

 

Yea this luckily does have power steering. It really is a tank driving it lol. Nothing like the sound of a big block and airplanes of tires rolling along! HOPEFULLY, I will never have to sell this truck. But it's not a necessity so I don't know.

QUESTION FOR EVERYONE, all four tires have not huge, but small dry rot cracks along the sidewalls. Should I be concerned? The truck sees 40+mph only once in a few weeks. Anything I can do to protect them and keep them from getting worse? Need as much feedback on this as possible because I don't want a blowout on the road. Drove it at 50mph today for about 10 minutes and no problems but that's it.....

 

Looks mean...Like it's ready to smash something.

 

Probably not much you can do now if the cracks are already there but at slow speeds and only on occasion I would think you should be okay. Unless you are doing some hard cornering or high speed driving they shouldn't build up much heat to blow them so then all you have to watch for is slow leaks, then its time to get something else.