OUO Traction Bar and ALA Install

jdgleason

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Everybody knows I have been super excited about my OUO goodies showing up, so I figured I'd put up a thread showcasing these bad boys!

The quality of this stuff is outrageous. The packaging, all of the hardware packaged individually, the QC is all top shelf.

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After driving this thing for a couple days, I am super impressed. The first and biggest thing I noticed with the ALA's is that the steering feels quite a bit tighter. The truck feels a little more responsive in turning as well. Definitely feels more stable in the turns as well - less body roll. It seems to absorb bumps better in the front end, and any feedback I may have had in the steering wheel before is gone.

As for the traction bars, everyone always says the same thing - shifts are much smoother. Mine is no different. It truly smoother out every shift the truck makes. The truck used to spin pretty bad and kick sideways between 30 and 40, and now it stays much more planted. The tires seem to spin way less, but the biggest difference is that the truck stays straight now, and doesn't seem as unstable sideways. The traction bars added stability to the truck as well. Fortunately I drove it in between adding the ALA's and bars, so I can say that the traction bars really add to the positives that the ALA's give.

I'm excited to get the truck to the track now and see how much harder I can leave with the truck :D
 

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When I stayed with Dave last year for a few days I was amazed how much time Collin/Randy/Marshall put into wrapping everything up. Its amazing how meticulous everyone in that company is about what they do.

Yeah people don't know how much extra that kind of stuff cost the shop to do, but its looks way more professional and gets it there with no worry of damages.
 

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Wow someone did their homework on the packing, everything looks really killer though.

It seriously took me about an hour and a half of unpackageing it. Took me about the same amount of time to install them.

I have ordered a ton of aftermarket products and I can tell you that there is nobody out there that packages their product like they do. It is very impressive. The UPS guy could wreck his truck and scatter boxes all over the freeway and all those parts are still going to survive and get delivered...LOL

You should see the crate you get when you buy a full on 500 Series lift kit.
 

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It seriously took me about an hour and a half of unpackageing it. Took me about the same amount of time to install them.

I have ordered a ton of aftermarket products and I can tell you that there is nobody out there that packages their product like they do. It is very impressive. The UPS guy could wreck his truck and scatter boxes all over the freeway and all those parts are still going to survive and get delivered...LOL

You should see the crate you get when you buy a full on 500 Series lift kit.

Yeah thats not cheap to do either when you factor the materials and the man hours of packaging it into it.
 

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It seriously took me about an hour and a half of unpackageing it. Took me about the same amount of time to install them.

I have ordered a ton of aftermarket products and I can tell you that there is nobody out there that packages their product like they do. It is very impressive. The UPS guy could wreck his truck and scatter boxes all over the freeway and all those parts are still going to survive and get delivered...LOL

You should see the crate you get when you buy a full on 500 Series lift kit.

I hope I get to see one of those crates some day
 

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Looks killer! Aren't the instruction's you get awesome! Takes the guess work out of it so much, been dealing with another company this weekend and trying to install their traction bars and apparently they don't believe in instructions. :eek:

So glad I went with OUO bars on both of my trucks :jammin:
 

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Looks killer! Aren't the instruction's you get awesome! Takes the guess work out of it so much, been dealing with another company this weekend and trying to install their traction bars and apparently they don't believe in instructions. :eek:

So glad I went with OUO bars on both of my trucks :jammin:

I cant believe you'd even install anything less than perfection! :morons:
 

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