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I was thinking about this more @spressomon, since the fancy overland'ing one you linked does have an interesting feature being silicone. Obviously the titanium disk and canvas envelope are IMO silly (perhaps use aluminum and shove it in a fake leather pouch for 1/4th the price?). Still not...

Did you have to do anything unique? Seems like the lift window might need to be held so as not to raise too far or does it sit comfortably under the RTT? I'm just curious how it all works because it does seem to make sense to configure like a two story outfit that would be nice in the rain.

Do what can be done quite acceptably for about $10 in plastic and boom, it's now a $70 expocool device using titanium, artisan Japanese filters and waxed canvas! They out Snow Peak'd Snow Peak's $30 one.

I tried a percolator years ago on a Coleman stove. It works great but just too much space. Although for clean-up it's not bad. City Market/King Soopers (and I'm sure most supermarkets) still sell the flat percolator filters. I probably have several hundred of them. I can't seem to find...

I'd just measure what the compressor draws while running and get your own observed data for duty cycle in your installation and use. My 11 year old Engel MT45 draws 2.2 A running and in midday I see as much as 50% duty cycle. But I turn my fridge off at night if possible (which is typical) and...

Yeti - the Cadillac of buckets.

Specific to bike packing? Not really unless you're shooting to race and even then my feeling it's genetic. People who are successful racers are just born stallions while some are born donkeys. So I can train really hard but the best I can ever be is a fast donkey. Anyway, you're just trying...

I have an old phone I've been tinkering with for navigation and the only thing I've found that forced me to work around was the current version of Avenza Maps (which is super handy for GeoPDF NPS maps, MVUMs, that sort of thing) requires Android 6+. I am only able to run 4.4 on my phone and had...

I wouldn't sweat it. It's always useful to keep a low and high gain antenna. Run the low profile, low gain, wider pattern antenna daily and if you're at the fringe of a path then you can always stick the high gain on to get the extra signal strength. There's a bit more to selecting an antenna...

Of all the things about my old truck it's the Hella E-code headlights that are amongst the most missed. A good headlight harness to feed them clean power and decent Osram bulbs (I used the severe duty 55/60) blew away the molded unfocused blobs of light my Tacoma has.

Above all the theory is that any antenna you mount has to be secure and not annoying to live with everyday. Right ********** dab in the middle of a roof is the best location but if it requires removing and installing every day to access a garage it'll grow old real quick. If a fender or trunk lip...

^ The man is right you know. ^ The only place where I've been unable to really solve it is running a stand alone APRS radio. It's basically impossible to build a physically small enough filter with steep enough edges to filter an APRS radio at 144.390 against generally use on the rest of the...

The antennas whips themselves aren't really a concern but you do need to be aware of the field strength impact on radios. You can cause anywhere from no effect all the way to damaging front ends depending on configuration of bands and antennas. You need same band radios connected to antennas...

Nicely done. I dig the chains for parking it, overhead safety.

Chucking (so to speak) the weird fittings from my MV-50 was one of the best thing I ever did. Along with rewiring it.

I hear both the global Ranger and Colorado/D-Max compete well against the Hilux, so therefore reason would dictate that they would look especially good against the Tacoma. Yet both seem to have neutered versions when bringing them to North America. Perhaps Isuzu could just sell their global...

Perhaps it's just too new and hasn't been eligible under the various 15 to 25 years import exemptions. The oldest ones are 2002 according to Wikipedia. BTW, I agree, Graham Cahill flogs the crap out of his and it just seems to take it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu_D-Max

If it looked like this: perhaps you could use a whip hose with a standard chuck. If it does not look like the gun, then you have a Viair specific something or other and then, no, you probably can't repair it without cutting and clamping in a fitting. That's what I'd try first, just cutting...

I know it's not quite the same but on my cheap MV-50 the included hose and chuck were, well, exceptionally cheap. So I ran a tap into the compressor head for plain old pneumatic fittings so I could use clamp-on air chucks on standard hose and quick disconnects like a shop compressor instead.

Looks like some sort of non-standard chuck.