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Yep... ain't happening if you are putting lots of miles on a big rig. It probably isn't happening at home either, in a typical USA house, with a typical USA lifestyle... no matter how much "feel good" recycling you do. If you want to explore though and think camping is "boring", you can go on...

"14.5-foot Aluminum habitat with a king bed in cab-over and subframe built and mounted by Trivan. The box is 1/8” aluminum with 2” spray foam insulation. 4 insulated perimeter storage boxes and garage hatch by Trivan." Trivan gets good reviews. I'd check on their subframe though...

^You don't need to spend anywhere near $39k... but you can, and some do. And they have a higher GVWR which requires the military tires if you want to use it all. If you are cool with 8k lbs per axle, then you can use LT tires. Don't you need to pay for a 4x4 conversion on a NPR? That isn't cheap...

A fad that will surely die... along with slack head angles... 🤪

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

A term that no one has ever heard before, would definitely get a bot's attention...

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.