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i drove to town earlier and was so fed up with the ride quality from the weight being so poorly distrubuted(sand bags,snow,ice) so i cleaned the bed out when i got home..after emptying the the snow out i found that half the sand bags had moved up the front left of the box and the other half slid to the left rear..thus my ride quality issue, so i removed all of them until i build a bracket for them to sit in between the wheel wells..after that i found about an inch thick sheet of ice under all that...needless to say after all was said and done my truck seems to sit about a foot higher even in the front.. needless to say i also did this to try and see if i can gain back my mileage, with everybody and their mother calling me to tell me i need to get a car because gasing is going to be 5 bucks by next year :D

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You should strap that shizz

 

 

beds empty now, any remnants of snow melted today and the sand came out a day or so ago...truck rides alot better now also

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