About Us – The Truck Table
The Truck Table is where a 20-year shop owner in the Colorado Rockies tells you what the internet won’t.
I’m Walt Grady. I run a small independent off-road shop in Silverthorne, Colorado—two bays, a tire machine that predates Bluetooth, and a coffee roaster wedged between the Snap-on toolbox and the alignment rack. I’ve been at this since 2005. ASE Master Technician since 2001. No dealership experience, and I never wanted any. I don’t sell cars. I fix what the dealership couldn’t.
I write here because Reddit comment sections are full of people telling strangers to run 37-inch tires on stock axles, and someone needs to say “please don’t”—with the torque specs to back it up. No influencer tone. No brand deals. No “10 best shocks” listicles. Just one man’s 20-year paper trail of mistakes, fixes, and shop-floor judgment calls.
The Rule
The bolt doesn’t lie.
That’s it. Everything else follows from there.
What You’ll Find
Real shop cases: death wobble that wasn’t the track bar, driveshafts held together with zip ties, lifts that created more problems than they solved.
Parts that get cut open, measured, and compared to what I’d put on my own daughter’s truck. I buy every part myself. No free samples.
Opinion pieces that come from standing under trucks and standing in the Blue River at dawn.
The slow build of my daughter Emma’s 2004 WJ Grand Cherokee—safe, right, and nothing extreme.
I’m not here to build a brand. I’m here because the internet is full of bad truck advice, and someone who’s actually done the work should say so.
Outside the Shop
Married to Linda (4th-grade teacher at Silverthorne Elementary) for 26 years. Our daughter Emma is 14, plays ice hockey, and is old enough to notice the 2-inch lean on the shop truck. I fly-fish the Blue River most mornings before the phone rings, roast my own single-origin coffee on a Gene Café in the corner of the shop, and volunteer as equipment manager for the Summit County Youth Hockey League. Same principle whether it’s skates or suspension: if the edge is off, they go down.
Why This Exists
YouTube makes a 4-inch lift look bolt-on easy. Forums reward the loudest voice. I write the opposite: specific measurements, wrong guesses before the right fix, and the kind of advice you’d get from the uncle who actually checks your lug nuts before you leave the driveway.
Pull up a stool. The coffee’s on. The bolt doesn’t lie.
— Walt Grady
Grady Off-Road
Silverthorne, Colorado