Offroad

If there’s one company that all outdoor enthusiasts should know, it’s RAM Mounts. Whether you are into off-roading, hiking, biking, motorcycling, boating, fishing, hunting, or racing, RAM has innovative products for nearly everyone. Not familiar with RAM Mounts? The company was founded in 1995 and is a leader in the world of rugged and versatile View the full article

If Rod Hall ever had the opportunity to race a new Ford Bronco, maybe it would have resembled this rendering. And odds are, he would have left the competition in the dust. Rod Hall dedicated his life to racing four-wheel drive vehicles, accomplishing one of the most impressive racing resumes ever seen in the professional View the full article

Homemade Off-Road Trailer My trailer began life as a ’70s Sears, Roebuck and Co. car camping trailer. It originally came with 8-inch wheels, hand-truck-sized tires, and it rode about 6 inches off the ground. We stripped the factory suspension, dropped it onto a spare 1965 Ford F-100 chassis that was already turned into a utility View the full article

Check Out These Other Stories! Dynomite Diesel Products LB7 Duramax Fuel Injectors The Truck Show Podcast, Episode 108: History of the Performance Diesel Fuel Injector Diesel Fuel Injection—How It Works Intake air and fueling are the primary components of the diesel performance formula. And, in theory, the more there is of each, the better a View the full article

Yamaha entered the electric assist bicycle market in the early 1990s with its Power Assist System. In the years since, the company has made many innovative strides and is now jumping headlong into the all-mountain field with its new eBike, the YDX-MORO and the YDX-MORO Pro. Yamaha new eBike Facts: This is Yamaha’s first-ever dual-suspension View the full article

U.S. sales figures of the Ford Ranger have climbed in recent months, with the Ranger moving more than 10,000 units combined in May and June–bouncing back from 4,501 total sales in April. The fact Ford doesn’t offer the Ford Ranger Raptor in America isn’t the most egregious situation in all of automobiledom, but if you’re really View the full article

It seems that truck beds these days are like ice cream: There’s a flavor for everyone. From short and narrow to long and wide, there are many different sizes of pickup bed. Even within classes there a varying bed sizes, from Ram’s 5-foot-4-inch short bed to Chevrolet’s 5-foot-10-inch short bed. Even the “standard” 8-foot bed View the full article

A few months back we rebuilt and re-covered the lower seats in our 1998 Dodge 2500 4×4. It was easy. This truck is a bit of a unicorn, built for half a year with the 12-valve Cummins diesel (the older engine) and the quad cab with half doors that open backwards allowing access to the View the full article

Steve Garrett loves the challenge of overland travel, and his overland Jeep build, a 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, is the perfect tool for the job. We met Steve on Four Wheeler’s 2019 Overland Adventure where we witnessed the Firecracker Red Wrangler conquer endless miles of backroads, hillclimbs, and water crossings while still allowing for View the full article

Check Out Part 1! Jeep CJ-7 Build Basics- Introduction When we introduced you to our latest Jeep project, we gave you a little backstory about how we got our hands on this CJ-7 and showed you some of the major areas that needed attention to get this one back on the road. In fact, we’re View the full article

On This Week’s Truck Show Podcast: Gasoline doesn’t re-gen in your diesel well Baja Forged gets launched Classic Truck Wishes Our friends Theresa Contreras and Sara Morosan from LGE-CTS are back to discuss their new company, Baja Forged–and a bunch of other hilarious stuff. The guys talk to a GM tech who has dealt with View the full article

We love old 4x4s, and generally the more modified, the better (as long as it still looks like an actual rig), and while we’d just as soon own one of everything. we still haven’t won the lottery … yet. Until then, when we bump into cool old 4x4s like an astoundingly stock and original 1981 View the full article

On This Week’s BONUS Truck Show Podcast: 2021 Ford Bronco 392 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Concept Ford‘s horse is finally out of the barn and Jeep drops a 392ci Hemi V-8 right in the thick of things. The guys get together with automotive host and journalist Jonny Lieberman to discuss the 2021 Ford Bronco and Hemi View the full article

More On this 1999 Ford Ranger Project! 1999 Ford Ranger XLT—Project 4x4Link 1999 Ford Ranger 4×4—Project 4x4Link 1999 Ford Ranger—Project 4x4Link: Part III 1999 Ford Ranger Roll Cage—Project 4x4Link Part 4 It seems that “barn finds” are still all the rage these days. Trouble is, not every part of the country has barns. That’s OK, View the full article

On This Week’s Truck Show Podcast: Warn Industries Diesel Power’s KJ Jones Holman’s Project Funds Strategy The guys have a conversation with Warn Industries’ Andy Lilienthal about synthetic vs. steel wire rope, Chinese vs. American winches, and Warn’s latest products—and Lighting discovers Warn hubs. Diesel Power’s KJ Jones returns to dive further into the subject View the full article

Another Jeep family heirloom story we received after I shared my recent 4xForward editorial columns in Four Wheeler magazine comes from Mark Tuttle, and he recounts tales of his family 1979 CJ-7. If you’ve got a similar Jeep tale to share, hit me at christian_hazel@motortrend.com. Your story meant a lot to me and brought up View the full article

Check Out These Other Truckin Stories! Installing a Custom Grille & Halo Headlights on a 2004 Ford F-250 Installing a Prerunner Bumper, side steps, and LED lighting on our 2004 Ford F250 How to Bulletproof a Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel Create Big Sound Without Big Dollars Preparing a Well-Worn Bed Area for a Decked View the full article

Check Out These Other Truckin Stories! Installing a Custom Grille & Halo Headlights on a 2004 Ford F-250 Installing a Prerunner Bumper, side steps, and LED lighting on our 2004 Ford F250 How to Bulletproof a Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel Create Big Sound Without Big Dollars Preparing a Well-Worn Bed Area for a Decked View the full article

Oftentimes, when a new project vehicle comes into the shop, we jump right in with the tech stories, eager to get the information and the progress of the vehicle out to the world. Sometimes we forget about the back story of how we got a hold of the vehicle in the first place, or why View the full article

More on Ford Trucks! All-New 2021 Ford F-150: First Look 2021 Ford F-150: How Ram and GM Did—and Didn’t—Influence the New Truck SPIED: 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor With Camouflaged Suspension Bits On Thursday June 25, 2021, Ford Motor Company introduced its redesigned F-150: a pickup truck that company officials say is “purpose-built to be the View the full article