Recent content by nickw

I'm ever trying to streamline my setup, did the Ridaho Grit 3 in Aug and have transitioned to a lightweight backpacking setup, 5 days, camped 2 of them, down into the low 20's one night. Ended up 5 days @ 750 miles of some of the more difficult singletrack in central/southern ID, got up to 10k...

100% agree on the last part and makes complete sense, I do the same.

Why are they calling it a "G class rival", it's nothing of the sort, what am I missing? If it is based on the LC then it's going to be the size of the BB with the drivetrain of a much heavier duty platform....

You keeping backing down from you original comment: "Speaking of suspension. No, my dear friend, a stock 2500 or 3500 can not take 37" tires. Even the vehicle you show in that video is lifted, has a body kit and wheel flares. I can only imagine it has a big brake kit as well. So after adding...

Wrong - $3k + labor for AEV...

If you wanna use a food analogy, he asked for healthy food and ordered a dozen donuts, is it wrong to recommend a chicken salad if it better meets his requirements? These people travel all over the world in a full size Ford but I guess they should of talked to you first...

I didn't make the diesel mechanic comment amigo. Fuel consumption is largely a factor of power requirements - hook 10,000 lbs to a LC70 it's going to use about the same amount of fuel as a domestic diesel pickup. Driving around unloaded, LC70 wins, it's lighter duty and weighs a lot...

I spent some time in Aus - they loved Raptors when I was there, if you had money, it seemed like that was what you bought and not a LC70....

I'm not going to address all the random stuff you are saying - the original post, page one, post #1 "Longing for what we can’t have. At least here in the USA...." I followed that up by saying how is a domestic rig lacking "having that"? Nothing you've said in your multiple diatribes has...

I know it's absolutely wild the prices, the first gen Dodges seem to be driving a lot of that. With that said did you see the FZJ75 on the top of the page for sale? It's local to me, 353,000 km, almost $100k! https://expeditionportal.com/classifieds-toyota-land-cruiser-troopy-2/ I don't get...

LOL - ok, so the mines should go buy old beat up cruisers from the 2000's? We are talking new rigs - it's been beaten to death on here and IH8Mud, you can't get new cruisers street legal outside of a few workarounds if newer than 25 yrs. Again - I was talking domestically, FJ40/FJ60/FJ80 parts...

JC you write a lot and are going in a bunch of different directions....but it's easy to upgrade a Ram / Ford for big tires and not expensive, you can almost fit them stock. The point was to modify a 2500/3500 rig to fit big tires + haul a big load it's a piece of cake the platform can handle...

I've heard good things about the Baja Boss, embarrassingly I actually have them on my Ram 2500 starting last summer, the tall skinny ones (255/85R17), but took them off to go with with dedicate snow tires for winter.....how do they work in glaze ice and hard compact snow? I imagine they work...

Here in Central Oregon we get snow and ice on the reg and dedicated snow tires are a must for the glaze ice we get along with traffic jams up to the mountain where you are forced to stop/start on inclines. I've had several AT tires over the years, snowflake rated, not remotely close to...

Lots of reasons - none of the LC's are street legal in the states so they couldn't drive outside on any surface streets. Regardless - go look at big ranches, zero LC's, they use what they can get worked on and what is easy to get parts for which is not a LC that was never sold here in the...