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They seem to do a lot of "protesting" while I'm riding my bike... https://youtube.com/shorts/v8LcrgiSNsY?si=xm99WnA2iy2G1ufK

Also, regarding building... I rounded and filled all the edges and hand-laid them with epoxy and FG, like the panels. And I did not use HD foam... could have used polyester resin, but that stuff seems very toxic. Plus, I found very nice epoxy that was only $30/gal, so there was no point.

^It's Thanksgiving. Give all your friends freshly killed wild turkey as a present.

Must be standard for EC... Aren't other super-single conversions like this?

That's why I bought a throttle mapping doohickey (lets me set my preferred pedal to throttle relationship) , and use tow/haul mode (more aggressive shifts and hangs onto gears longer). The stock settings, which are designed for EPA driving cycle, sucked. More popular trucks have more...

What is the offset? The only 17" wheel for stock 2nd gen was with the Rock Warrior package. Nice and light forged AL BBS wheels. That was only for a few years at most... T speed rating, so I bet it's good for MPG...

Tire/wheel weight does effect ride, but the effect on acceleration and mpg is minuscule. Simple physics of momentum. Rather, when we get tires that happen to be heavier, they are usually a larger diameter (gearing is higher) and they have a lot more rolling resistance (hysteresis) due to...

I think my big pickup and big slide in camper suggestion is still viable then. Buy good-used and see how you like it. If you want to explore more technical areas, you can park the camper easily.

So... what size are the KO2s and what psi do you use for those?

Well... that's confusing since you are the 2nd person to say that. In the video I posted above, he found that the skinny tires flexed much better than the wide ones... it wasn't close. And most of us are using E rated tires anyway, since in the big sizes that is most common. Just sayin', a...

Just stay home and watch football then... :unsure:🤪 As I recall your earlier speculations involved a huge camper that was designed to house a bunch of people. That wouldn't be very good for exploring. A motorcycle would be good though, and an electric one would be quiet and low emission...

No experiences with those tires, but I can't think of a reason to expect the RTs to fair better than what you have. The tread compounds are likely very similar if not identical.

He was looking for a 18, but... That's definitely a pizza cutter!... but the only tire in 255/85r17 I see is a MT Baja Boss at $350, which is pretty pricey for a 34.

It's a Tundra with a 164" wheelbase... but a lot of people do build on Tacomas and smaller trucks. Good points! Even when I lived in my rig, I drove ~12k miles/yr and a lot of that was gratuitous. That was ~600 gal/yr and I spent $3k/yr total to live in the 90s, with ~$600 being gas. It's a...

No, it's in my sig.

Of all the compromises that must be made in optimizing a camping rig, MPG is pretty trivial. There is very little cost savings to be had, and you will compromise a lot for that very little. Things like space, payload, offroad ability, power, convenience, etc. Note that Victorian's van is a 3.7l...

I don't know... but my rig is a similar size and I've driven it in strong winds a few times (in TX and NM) and it's been fine. I removed the swaybars (so... it will lean with prolonged side forces) and installed Ironman shocks with a lot of digressive damping. I also adjusted the alignment for...

Looks nice, but the rear overhang seems like too much.

Not necessarily... not if you adjust to the proper pressure. This is the video that found the skinny to be much more compliant. Same load rating for both. But ya, if it's a choice between tires of the same dimensions, then the one with thinner and more compliant sidewalls should ride better...

That's a shame that it's discontinued; skinny 35.3" tire. Since Tinker did his test on skinny vs wide, I've been wondering about going narrow. Anyway, the 285/75r18s are a good size and common.