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I've never owned anything Cruiser other than an FJ40 but I have a lot of experience with mini trucks and the differences in theoretical size are most mostly paper and didn't translate to noticeably more breakage or shorter life. It's anecdotal, but it went 25 years and nearly 300k miles until I...

If aftermarket is critical go backwards. Identify the parts you want and see which model and years best match. Any year 4Runner will be the easiest to modify, Cruisers usually aren't too bad. The Lexus LX and GX are similar to the Cruiser and 4Runner but differ in body which makes bumpers...

Running Gaia isn't the issue, I was curious specifically which ESRI maps you use and think @Photobug may have been as well.

In the description he says Dana 80 front and Spicer 110 rear.

A grade-5 3/4" fastener should be a minimum of 25,290 lbf in shear and a 1.125" would be 51,143 lbf. I don't think tow hardware is rated any higher than grade-5. You might be on to something noticing that a tow point isn't always just a tow point. Interesting point regards to pintle-ball...

Exactly. You'll find that 10 AWG will be 0.1019" diameter minimum. Then when I said "Anderson suggest a maximum of 0.175" max diameter" and you do the tolerance stack up you'll find that quality wire (such as you use) will at meet or slightly exceed that min spec diameter and with your...

I now run 265/75R16, same width but taller than the original 265/70R16 it came with but 235/85R16 (31.8 x 9.25) is what I ran the last time. These are close to 7.50R16 (31.8" x 8.75"). I assume you compensated for the rim width change? For example my stock rims are 16x7 +32mm offset, which...

I went to 3rd gen 4Runner wheels on my Tacoma, which have about 0.75" less backspacing and found the opposite. Even a year on I still think about going back but have grown to like the look now. With the super skinny tires the stock rims look like one of those railroad trucks tucked under so...

It would take more research, but perhaps Jackery is doing the very same tests and Dometic is just better at writing manuals? Obviously nothing can get moved without certain certifications.

That's what I first thought but I don't have the actual UN 38.3 but Intertek (the company Dometic even lists as doing it in their manual) says about it. UN 38.3 It is important to note that lithium batteries have been identified as a Class 9 dangerous good during transport. To be safely...

Indeed I had a typo. I noticed that UN 38.3 in their manual and found it interesting. MIL-STD-810 (in the U.S.) would be beyond that in some ways but very similar in concept. It's actually what I had in mind some pages ago when I mentioned that going from no design or test standard for...

Rim offset definitely has an affect on geometry, specifically the scrub radius and inclination angle. Adding offset (e.g moving the tire out) will change the center of the tire contact patch out relative to the pivot point. Going out makes scrub less negative and potentially go positive, which...

A nice thing to see is that the Dometic tests to UN 38.3, which is a standard for transport of lithium batteries. It would nice to know for sure that means the unit itself and that it was all the tests. There are eight - shock, vibe, impact being important here - but also overcharge, thermal, etc.

Fitting the connector housing is to some extent the quality of the cable itself. Some manufacturers will use very thick insulation to give the cable a substantial feeling or, worse, not actually be 10AWG conductors and use extra thick insulation to make it seem like a heavier cable that it is...

Updating this thread since I've had a Connect Systems CS800D dual band VHF/UHF for a couple of years now. It works fine, no major issues. Small firmware glitches that get fixed pretty quick but like many things cheap (although I'd suggest moderately priced in this case) Chinese radio the major...

With old, rusty Toyotas that's usually correct, though. Maybe not so easy on the Jackery to blame rotten bolts in the frame and what not.

@Martinjmpr, you could substitute that story for just about anything. Just this week I helped my neighbor turn on her swamp cooler and deal with her overheated car. She's probably no different than most people who have no idea how things work and rely so very heavily on specialists...

It works both ways. In competitive markets if the consumer demands honesty they get it. You and I live in a place where price mainly drives the bus so we get a race to the bottom for the most part. But there still exists a small market segment for things described accurately and completely...

As far as I can tell it's not possible to use Gaia in real time on my Mac using a USB dongle. The limitation is with Gaia. It's running on a website, not an native application, and while the browser (for example Safari) could I suppose use Location Services the Gaia web app doesn't attempt to...

When you watch tear down videos of these Jackery devices they do look to me to be built reasonably well. They are not military grade and are obviously not ruggedized as such (e.g. not conformally coated, no real attempt to protect from shock, vibe or anything). But they don't look particularly...