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Researching texts for my Visual Communication curriculum I'm evaluating the book, Visual Culture, by Richard Howells and Joaquim Negreiros, and in the chapter on Semiotics, to my astonishment, is the example of Mitsubishi's SUV name. "In the 1980s, the Japanese motor manufacturer Mitsubishi...

SOLD - The Oasis II RTT by Trek is a compact lightweight RTT alternative. Check out specs and features here. It can be mounted for access on the side or from the rear of the vehicle. It includes the aluminum ladder pictured, a waterproof travel cover and a sunshade/rainfly. The frame is scuffed...

Tuweep is a place that delivers you proportionately. Big earth, puny human. Like her not-so-distant relative, the North Rim, this more obscure Grand Canyon overlook shuts your mouth and opens your senses and your mind. We were there only eleven months ago, the end of April last, to try out our...

As mentioned in the Gen III Roof Rack Mod post, I repaired the sunroof mechanism that stopped working on our coastal tour to Oregon. As I removed grab handles and other interior hardware to remove the headliner, I noticed how loose everything was (not a single lock or friction washer to be...

As promised in the Gen III Hour Tour Thread, I tore into the Monty's interior, removing the headliner to access the mounting points for the roof rack and see what I could do to repair the sunroof mechanism. I've considered alternate roof racks but for the time being want to put the serious...

There's a space we occupy as adventurers nestled between won't-it-be-great-when and this-is-it. It's an active tense of real versus ideal, a place we spent some time in over last weekend on what started out as a three-hour tour to The Barracks that turned into an overnighter in the steep canyon...

Try as I might, I can't find dimension specs for a Smittybilt 2801 winch plate. Length? Thanks.

It's a long shot, I know, but I'm looking for this or similar item. Jaos no longer imports this item.

While this trip defies the true definition of backcountry or overland adventure, it's an adventure nonetheless using the same kit and vehicle we use off-road. that curvy undulating ribbon of black

Since I'm getting knee deep into this, thought I'd start a build thread chronicling the progress or the procrastination. This is what we started with, an '03 Montero Limited we bought to replace our previous land barge, an '07 GMC Yukon, used to haul around four teenagers and one pre-teen. Four...

The latest addition to our kit adheres to our philosophy of grilling meat; gas is no substitute for charcoal and mesquite chips. The Volcano is made in Springville, Utah. We bought the non-propane model for less than a hundred bucks at Sportsmans'. It' 15.5 inches in diameter and collapses down...

Report posted to our blog, Cornering Consciousness.

I've read in a couple places here about removing the RASB on Gen IIIs, but can't find the reference. Can someone please explain the advantage to this? Great thanks.

On a recent trip down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to Cambria, we put the Full Monty through its paces loaded with all our camping gear for a five-day ride down the coast for three people and a sixteen-foot ocean kayak. An annoyance was packing and unpacking the RTT gear -...

We've been moto-camping for years, living in a mixed marriage of motorcycles; she on her Sportster 1200L and he on his CBR 1100 XX. We've manage to tote along enough to keep us warm, dry and fed, logging 20k miles throughout the West. Sleeping rarely came easy, though, and while eating out of a...

Having a steady diet of medium format cameras from Hasselblad to Mamiya, shooting anything less felt like I wasn't taking the craft seriously. Acquiring in 35mm I felt compensated a bit with the heft of a pair of Nikon F3s and an array of fixed focal length lenses. Neither format suited well the...

I'm not really into recycling, I'm just cheap. In researching jerry can mounts and places to mount them on the Gen III Monty (there really aren't any, though Inyo_man engineered this fine mount), I came across RotoPax, made by Great Outdoors LLC in Utah. They've created a clever pack (can) and...

In making the conversion from sports cars to expedition vehicles I took some solace in having independent suspension all around on the Gen III. But as I research and read I'm finding this isn't a preference for off-road excursions, but I'm not finding why. Can anyone shed some light here...

Elbow deep in this job and I can't get the accessory support plate that covers the timing belt clear of the power steering pump bracket. Any insight?

At the beginning of last winter I noticed that characteristic sewing-machine ticking sound from under the hood of my Gen III, 3.8l. The sound would go away after it warmed up. I'd sniff around under the hood trying to determine an exhaust leak but couldn't definitively detect one. Now the...