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Continued... 4th ammo can and camp chairs over wheelwells Sleeping bags inside plastic box that we use as a foot locker outside the truck Folding table goes across the top of the ammo cans. Then the 1st cooler (the refrigerator) 2nd cooler (the freezer): we start with 10 Kg of dry ice so...

Here's how I pack my gear for extended trips where I need extra fuel and water. The gas cans fit the shape of the wheel well. Then 45 liters of water Portable fire pit with propane & fire logs. Multi-purpose plywood (mostly used as a game board but was once used as a stretcher)...

Chop chop...

Pics of pinch weld "mod" and All-Pro Off-Road body mount relocation. The 315/75R16 BFG ALL-TERRAIN T/A® KO2 tires are mounted on American Racing Mojave Teflon™ coated wheels. I use these wheels/tires in the Winter. In the Summer I use 2006 Tacoma Alloy wheels with 255/85R16 BFG MT KM3...

Three more items checked off the list: 1: upgraded springs on the Fox 2.5" remote reservoir coil overs to handle the added weight of the bumper and winch. The Fox 880-02-418 Coilover shocks have 600 lbs springs which worked great until I added the bumper and winch. The front dropped about...

Continuing nest building... Hi-Lift jack needs a place to sleep on the truck. I looked at lots of options. Actually, I think I looked at every option. Every photo. Every product. Every DIY project... I already decided the rear bumper would not have a swing out, so that was one very...

We took advantage in the recent drop in the price of gasoline to do a road trip out to Bodie Ghost Town and the Eastern Sierras. So we finally got a chance to test out all of the new lights and bed improvements I still need to add lights in the rear but the side lights etc. were all a...

Today I added "The Weather Station": Which is just a digital fish tank thermometer. The wire runs down the space between the bed and the body. I also installed my 50W solar panel that I had on my last Tacoma. This uses a low profile panel that is on a 1/8" aluminum sheet I use self...

I also did a temporary job installing the on boar air (OBA) compressor. Originally I planned to use the Seat Jacker and compressor mount from Desert Does IT but I found that I didn't like the way the compressor mount blocked access to the under side of the seat from the side and didn't solve...

For the switch panels, I designed and printed a housing for it that fits in that cut out in the bed near the tailgate. The new switch panel is from FXC. $19 FXC Rocker Switch Aluminum Panel 4 Gang Toggle Switches Dash 5 Pin ON/Off 2 LED Backlit for Boat Car Marine Blue FXC Rocker Switch...

To power all of this stuff and provide switches, I ran a 10AWG wire from the front Aux fuse block to a new aux fuse block located behind the driver side taillight. In addition to the 10AWG wire, I ran multiple wires to power lower amperage switches and relays. Here I'm wrapping that wire...

Continuing the nest building... I installed LED strip lights above both side windows of the ARE Z-Series camper shell and I added a 12V Cigarette plug and USB power to both sides of the bed shelves I added exterior lights to both sides. I had these lights left over from a project I...

Rear shock fixed and just enough time to attend to an important part of nest building that is long overdue. Since we use the truck bed as our sleeping platform, we have a pair of Big Agnes Sleeping pads that we also use for backpacking. They fit almost perfectly between the wheel wells. This...

4: Wire harness for bed power and switches. We sleep in the truck bed so I wanted always on power for lights, an AC inverter, and USB charging ports. Since I already have the above power in the bed, I plan to put a relay in the bed for the rear lights when I get the new rear bumper. So I need...

Last week and the week before we got to do some world class paddling at Elkhorn Slough and on the Russian River in California. We also explored some moderate jeep trials in the Mendocino National Forest. Not all of the trails were easy and we managed to take out a rear shock. Fortunately...

https://youtube.com/shorts/xSQ0Ts6qWJQ?feature=share I finally got the finished mounts printed with 100% infill and they are solid. I also designed inserts to clean up the round light in square hole effect that I had achieved. Then I started working on the wire harness for the front rock...

Hey Grizzlypath. Thanks for adding your perspective. I do think Redthies has a point though, so I'm grateful for his constructive criticism. I've never done a build thread before & if I'm skipping over important stuff like the actual front suspension mods & placing too much focus on stuff I...

I'm just going to have to run them and find out. I can always augment the design to strengthen any failure points. One obvious design improvement would be to add fillets where plates meet a right angles. That's what I did with the front rock light mount:

For the wrap around shelf, I decided to use HDPE instead of plywood. I want everything I do on this new build to take the work I did on my 2006 Taco to a new level. The plywood was great but it did not have a lip on the shelves so stuff would just fall off. And this time, I wanted a more...

For the front rock light location, I noticed some holes in the body that looked promising. More time in FreeCAD & printing That picture is horrible, here is the CAD version. More important is the installed result I completed the wiring harness for the 6 lights behind the front wheels...