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Here are a couple from this weekend:

I'm pretty happy with mine, branded "kawell", it's two 72w units. Good wide beam for trail use. I did have to add a deflector to keep the light out of the window and dash, it really was bad before adding them.

A relatively small change, but a big change for camp lighting, I re-purposed my LED strip light that was inside my RTT, and relocated it under my rear tailgate. The lighting is sweet now back there. Why didn't I do this earlier? Since I moved, my new garage door is a bit lower than my...

Here's the light that I ordered. I was considering just zip-tieing the light to the hoop, but once I put it in to see, I don't mind it hanging down on the velcro straps. It definitely is a dimmer light, but will be plenty of output when camping.

Did the "big brake upgrade", taking the brakes from the extended version of the Trailblazer. This should prove to be helpful especially if I get bigger tires (thinking maybe 34s). Also, here's an excessively dramatized video that I finally edited up from an outing with me and my buddies back...

BFG just announced their new TA2 that deserves a look. They become avaliable in november. I hope I can hold out that long. A few cool sizes being offered too.

What happened to the old low pro rack? Didn't like it anymore? How are the lights? What kind are they? I just got some led bars and they are bright as heck, but are a bit too much of a flood beam, and not enough distance.

The dimmer is a good idea, is that a PWM dimmer? Looks like a nice item. This is the light I was looking at getting: http://www.quadratec.com/products/14018_9001.htm I'm hoping its a bit dimmer than the full 2' bar. I'm considering relocating the 2' LED bar under the rear tailgate for night...

For those of you that are putting LED lighting inside your tent, don't go overboard. I only have a 2' strip of lights, and it seemed fine at the time, but I've since decided to remove it because its just TOO much light at night. You can see my install below (its slim but its attached to the...

Also, the biggest project I've been working on for a few months was regearing the diffs (from 3.42 ratio to 4.56), and getting a new rear locker. I went with a US Standard rear gear and a Powertrax N-Slip in the rear, and Yukon gears in the front. It was a long learning experience. Needed a...

I realized a few more things that I had forgotten to post up before. Ever since our trip out west, I've been on the look out for an even better navigation method. The laptop, while effective, takes up a lot of passenger space. It works well for just a driver, but when you add my wife, she's...

As an update, I recently made and installed a new frontal "half rack" that is lower profile than my old cut-down Baja Rack. Its low profile not only for gas purposes, but also so that I can fit into my garage and not have to take the rack off and on every time I want to carry my bikes or kayak...

I used a submersible pump made by Rule. Not sure if I'd do it again, but it worked well for 3 years. I'm toying with other ideas now, since it seems the pump died. I'm looking into pressurizing a tank with air pressure for the next version, but for short trips, I've been happy with water...

It was technically class B7, its a CrMo 4140 steel, I think the spec was around 125ksi min tensile strength. I think grade 8 is closer to 150ksi tensile and grade 5 is around 100ksi. So B7 is just about somewhere in the middle.

Do the 2" wide not vibrate? My 1" wide straps did until I started putting a twist in them when strapping the cover down - now they don't.

Thanks java! Here's another minor suspension update... For two months now I've been running Bilstein 5125 (P/N 33-185552) rear shocks with 255/70 valving. The valving in these are digressive, which I was hoping would match the front Radflo coilovers better than the old hydraulic BDS...

We get a decent discount at work from Fastenal. The only other place I've found it in long bars was on Mcmaster for a somewhat decent price. I purchased a 1m segment and just cut out 7.5" sections with my bandsaw and ground down the edges.

My outer tie rods were on their way out, and I couldn't just replace it with the stock TREs, I knew there would be a better option out there. Unfortunately there wast anything avaliable in the aftermarket that really fit what I was looking for. So I used the outer TRE from the 2007+ HD trucks...

Isn't this the same thing as those restaurant glass-drying shelf liners? http://m.kegworks.com/sani-dry-bar-glass-shelf-liner-black-266-p16561?source=base&s_kwcid=PTC!pla!!!18283950120!g!M!37322837401&gclid=CKurpqvLprwCFWUOOgodUhcA2A

As a follow up, this is the breakage I've seen in the past on other people's trailblazers (and their trail fix) that my new UCAs were attempting to fix. Image complements of user Gordinho80. Here's another: Image complements of user theroadie.