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I had a chance to go on another scouting trip in the foothills of the Nevado De Toluca. The rains have been really hard on the trails. I get sort of stuck twice. But the scenery is so amazing and probably not what most people expect when they think of Mexico. One of these weekends the rains will...

Dude, you are not really commenting on point with what anyone is saying. No one mentioned a guage. At a minimum the thinner does not carry waste heat off of the compressor as well. My compressor also runs longer to do the same work at altitude despite theories posited here that it should make...

They use essentially a rag joint for a propshaft? Yuck!

This is what I have. Never done 8 tires but I have done 4 a bunch at really high altitude which I think might be just as hard in the compressor For the others all I was implying is that the duty cycle rating at a 100psi is not a useful rating for what something will do at 30psi. The standard...

Right but a fridge, welder or whatever is usually working at a fixed cycle. The a/c compressor is either on or off and operating in its narrow range of function. But an air compressor operating at a lower psi I would imagine has an effective higher duty cycle. So if its 50% at 40 PSI for...

The engines are good generally. But not as consistent as other marks. There are more bad apples mixed in with the good. But the rest of the truck is not particularly good and one of the least optimized for off roading OEM. There is no way I would buy a 200K vehicle from any company unless the...

Yeah and the duty cycle is often at 100PSI too. So what is it at 35-40PSI? I am also an inquiring mind. If you are not using it with a tank the 100psi number is kind of useless.

IFS Expeditions? Seriously? No, Just no...my words are broken now lol.. 200K GMT 900's? I literally don't know anyone who owns a GMT 900 that isn't fixing it constantly. I mean the Midwest isn't kind to these things but the amount of modules and electrical crap that goes on those things. No...

Toyota trucks are kind of behind in this stuff kind of thankfully honestly. Active lane guidance, automatic cruise control, accident avoidence braking, go notifiers (things that actually beep to let you know traffic has taken off in front of you while you are not paying attention), auto stop...

Im aware of the struggle. I think I came off fancier than I am. All my stuff lives outside in the weather. Just under a cover when I am not driving it. Just focusing all the winter driving into a vehicle you care less about makes all the difference. My 2wd 02 is in a constant war with rust since...

Not for me. I bought a truck that spent it's whole life Garaged in Las Vegas. The plastic and hoses are still insanely good and no rust anywhere. Compared to my 2002 2wd which has lived in MI and New England it's whole life they are from different planets. My 2wd has been reframed by Toyota but...

How do you defeat how fugly as hell the new trucks are? ....runs and hides lol. I have a 2002 with 150K and I just drove to Mexico with no issues. I'm rebuilding this truck untill the end of time. You can't even buy a regular cab anymore if you want to. It would take a clean sheet redisign to...

I had a little spare time to make a quick run up to the Nevado De Toluca volcano recently. The Nevado is about 50 miles West of Mexico City. The walls are about 15,000' high and the vehicle access ends at about 13,500'. There is a toll road for passenger cars from the North. But there are free...

Even though I just went from 30.5" stock tires on a 1st gen 2.7 manual with 4:10's to 32" and 4:56 it totally transformed the truck. My overall final gearing is a bit more than stock with this combo. Before loaded to the gills headwinds and hills constantly had me downshifting to 4th. At slow...

I am brand agnostic in terms of what I will buy, I strictly go by quality and what is important to me. Having said that GM's of that era are always having little electrical gremlins and modules failing. Now they fail enough that there is a good knowledge base of how to fix these things but there...

My current vehicle fleet consists of 2 Tacos and a Sentra SER SpecV. But that comment is so immature and so fanboyish in the other direction I pretty much threw it into the pay no attention to anything you say ever again pile lol.

Sooooo many people miss this. Well said.

I too am in town for auto industry reasons myself. I have flown here twice before . It's nice when you have a location all figured out before you arrive. I lied I found one pic I took in Nuevo Laredo getting my truck temporarily imported.

No pics for this just a little write up. Had the opportunity to be in Toluca for 6 months. But the challenge was I had to be down there in 3 days. I have flown here before and nearby is a giant dormant volcano and lots of cool off road trails 20 minutes from where I am staying (never...

I'm not defending Toyota in these issues but actually saying you would take a decrease in reliability to have a pretty interior is pretty lame. Maybe you should find a consumer reports forum to post on lol. I'm joking about consumer reports thing... But not on the lameness of the post.