I've been running the T-Rex Suspension for over 50,000 miles, which nearly half have been in the dirt. I run in the dirt for miles on end and mostly in Baja and the SouthWest.
But check out this revelation from this past week and you'll know why the T-Rex Suspension is the ultimate suspension package at WHATEVER it costs.
The company I own takes/guides off-roaders on motos & quads to Baja very regularly. Only three days ago we completed a 966-mile off road trip that started in LA Bay and looped from the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific Ocean and back. My Dodge Cummins loaded weighed approximately 11,300 lbs.
90 gallons of diesel, 80 gallons of gasoline, 10 cases of water, a fully loaded across the bed toolbox with every tool, part imaginable for my Dodge and the 15 motos, quads and two off-road cars. Two Costco 160 qt coolers loaded with 5 blocks of ice each and each loaded with meat and perishables etc. Also a FridgeFreeze portable fridge with frozen goods, 10 chairs, 5 emergency gear bags, and all the electronical equipment to talk to the world for 10 days while down south. A full Satellite dish is permanently mounted on a custom rack on top of my roof, complete with fire extinguishers, air tanks, jacks, and you get my picture. My truck runs BFGoodrich Baja T/A Projects (Trophy Truck race tire) which are 88lbs each w/o the wheel. Loaded with my big ass and all my crapola inside along with Jeff Cummings from the BFGoodrich Motorsports program we departed on the trip.
At mile 387. 5 I was out in front navigating and setting the course some 20 kilometers in front of everyone else. We were south of San Cristobal heading towards Bahia Asunscion. The dirt road turns inland from the coast and it APPEARED to be pretty wide-open.
After a few small rolling vados that were easily sucked up by the T-Rex Suspension I opened up the Dodge Ram ATS Stage IV bombed rig. The power level on the box set at #9. I was pulling a fully packed off-road custom built aluminum trailer that is 12 x 8 with a 3/4 ton square tubed axle and running BFG 35 inch Muds on Robby Gordon 17 x 8 wheels. The trailer contained all of our dry goods additional cases of water etc...
I put the hammer down and we were cruising at 78 mph in clear air... until the next vado. By the time we had impact we slowed to 60 ish mph...
We charged over the slight vado which looked like all the rest and should have been a roller vado, which I can take at speed with the T-Rex Suspension.
I was wrong.
This vade had a 16" deep gully at the bottom from the last rain storm and I jammed on the brakes but my EGR race performance stuff was no match for 78mph loaded and at speed.
I stuffed my Dodge Ram "Desert Tank" into this hole like I've never done before! The navigational laptop running OZI Explorer crashed to the floor... it was secured to the center console custom cooler and has never come off previously. The two passengers coffees went flying, cameras were slammed to the floor and everything in the cab ended up flying through the air like we were in space. My Dodge is fitted with MasterCraft Racing Seats with 5-Point Harnesses.
Trust me when I say, it was just a bad deal all the way around.
Knowing that we couldn't stop before we hit this vado, I was on the throttle hard as we blasted through it. Sincerely this was the worst I've ever put the Desert Tank through.
Searching for damage:
We stopped only 1/2 kilometer away and immediately got on the radio to warn the other support trucks of this vado. I crawled beneath my truck's front end prepared to see some bad news. What I saw was amazing. NO FRIGGIN' DAMAGE!!!
The King Shocks had been compressed all the way possible as we could see the clean 7/8" shaft. We put a laser level on the axle to measure for any noticable axle damage such as a bent axle etc... NADA-nothing in spanish.
I examined the shock towers, the bolts, the coil springs and yet again... NO DAMAGE.
Our location at San Cristobal was between Bahia Tortugas and Punta Abreojos basically in the middle of nowhere.
Without the T-Rex Suspension... my Dodge would have had a totalled front end rendering me stuck in Baja.
BFG Motorsports Guru Jeff Cummings said, " I cannot believe your truck survived that impact. " I said, "It's all about T-Rex Suspensions. "
In my humble opinion, if my Dodge Ram did not have the T-Rex Suspension installed and working to perfection, my truck would still be stuffed into that vado in Baja. Whatever the cost of this race-proven/baja-proven suspension is... . IT'S WAY WORTH IT!!!
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