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This is jefe (mundo4x4casa) with the pix: I deleted all my cookies and could not get back on here, or any website. Cookies are back. I was told when I changed internet providers that I could not use two servers. Well, here are the two. The snow parking area in summer: our rig is on the right...

Poor Jeff Nelson. The OP asked a simple question about a hard side camper's viability and survivability off road, which I thought was a valid one, and it comes to this. These user forums are all about a lot of personal opinion and a few facts. Sometimes, as hard as we pound, the round peg just...

Bob, My rear high floatation 33x15.50-R16's on 12" wide rims can take letting more air out than my front 285-75R16's. That's why the difference in pressure. The fronts are E rated at 3450 lbs. The rears are E rated at 3750 lbs. They are pretty stiff, compared to wide sand tires I've had. I have...

I thought of a couple more things that I do to make the truck camper work off-road. Firstly, I remove the four corner hand crank screw jacks once the camper is on. I only use the jacks to install and remove the camper from the bed. It's only 130 lbs. of jacks, but I tried leaving them on once...

Doug is taking the pickup truck license position in CA. Me too. I checked into it and in CA and you can register your pickup/camper unit as an RV, regardless of how it's attached, and it is a lot cheaper registration, and I know folks who do just that....but don't let them catch you without the...

Hesco has a 4.6L I-6 buildup they do starting with a 4.2L block. From there the similarity ends. I built the poor man's stroker 4.4L engine. i've been running it since 1997 on my '82 CJ-8 rock crawler. It was built for torque and will pull like crazy at 500 rpm with peak torque at about 1400...

Cruiser guy, Yep, that's the one. I'm surprised it isn't a rust bucket, especially along the roof line. The Toys of that era had very little rust protection. I played bass trombone in the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 38 years and got to go on a lot of tours around the world with the orchestra...

Lord Green, Once the Federales pulled us over in the middle of the night and interrogated us endlessly, all night at gunpoint, I had had my fill. That was 1977, and the last time. Only memories now. We were billowing across Laguna Chapala in the FJ-55 and stopped at the dusty rancho there. I...

RMP&O wrote: "I am slightly jealous of you old timer Baja guys. I wish it was still as remote as it was 30+yrs ago." <SNIP> I'm afraid that era is long gone. I was in Baja 47 years ago in my Jeep Ute wagon. We had an engine fire, clogged air cleaner, bad gas, a manifold fried spark plug wire...

You seem to have made a double score with a T and C. Many happy camps to you. Lovely family too. regards, as always, jefe

Doug, It's good to see your stuff again. Somehow, we go on a lot of different trips together. My bro has a '99, 7.3 PSD truck similar to yours and he likes it a lot. It's a good vintage. He has only had to rebuild the 6 speed manual a couple times and virtually no other woes. We leave for our...

Bob, You are right; i don't know how much sway you get out of having an AC on top of a pop up. I thought your assessment was right on. My little Lance is about 15" taller than an Apex 8 in the down position. Most of that weight is air and lighter than the metal sissor hardware in the sides and...

Redline, You made my case with the pic of your F-truck. See the way the frame is twisting and taking the bed with it? I see a lot less of that with my Dodge as the twisting is transfered more to the suspension, but when it does flex, and it does, I take precautions to make sure the tie downs...

Jeff, This thread has been here a little while, but I thought I'd add my 2 pesetas. You already have the most important part in getting into a expo hardside: you're already an off-roader. I've learned over the years about things like: purchase the lightest, and smallest full feature camper you...

Dan, I notice you were working for the ACSC. Were you on the Baja mapping expeditions of the 60's and 70's? It looks like they were in 4WD Suburbans. I have a big map brief case with all the baja maps of the time, many were from the Auto Club. One of the great old maps I have is from a guy named...