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Thanks! Wish I could get out even more, but such is life. Need to find a new gig where I'm not on call! I've got the 3.55 rear end with the anti-spin. Camper shell has been pretty solid. I've only had it on the truck for about 2 years now, but I haven't had any issues with it. I think I've...

Something that I don't think people are taking into account very much are long term fuel costs. First the point was made about fuel costs at this moment, and while not wrong, anything can happen moving forward. It also doesn't toss out the previous advantage in the past X years a truck was...

Yeah, none of these engines are new if you look into their history. The VM Motori have had a ton of marine service and also land service in Europe. Then the GM 2.8L is also the VM Motori design from their times of ownership...

I spent a few days in the Monongahela National Forest a couple of weekends ago. I'm ending out the year with a little more vacation time than I anticipated and heard a co-worker talking about their trip to the New River Gorge. I decided I'd take a couple of days off and camp down in that area...

Upper Peninsula Trip Report from earlier this month.

I've been pretty happy with my '15 with the EcoDiesel and the 8 speed. Before a lift and tires I was looking at about 25 MPG average and have dropped that by maybe 2 since. On an all highway trip I could easily hit 27MPG before the lift and tires. So I would say those numbers are pretty in line...

Bought myself a Marathon TSAR for an every day and outdoor watch. On my recent Upper Peninsula Trip: DSC06038 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr Trying to get the Tritium Glow. DSC06479 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr

Yeah our trip was Wednesday the 3rd through Sunday the 7th and we had a lot of the same struggles with the weather. It was a bit of a bummer, but it didn't ruin the trip. But sounds like you had a great trip as well, definitely put up some photos. I had wanted to get more West but with the time...

Yeah I use Gaia for GPS and ran into a bit of the same thing. The rain and deadfall also didn't help on some of those roads up around Whitefish and we ended up with a bit of backtracking off the original route. 100% percent agreed on the Picture Rocks Cruise; that and the remoteness of the...

We also took advantage of the view on the last morning of the trip. DSC06501 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr From Brevoort Lake we set our sights on home and headed across the Mackinac Bridge to mainland Michigian. We took a quick stop off to get a view of the bridge. DSC06534 by ebeiersdorfer...

Day 4 had us heading to Kitch-iti-Kipi and then camping around Indian Lake or making a little progress towards home and camping closer to the Mackinac Bridge. From Munising to Indian Lake we took mostly forest service roads and stopped for a bit of hiking to Ned's Lake in the Big Island Lake...

As forecasted we woke up to some rain on Day 3. Luckily we did catch a break for a bit to break down camp and start heading West to Munising. Though it was raining we at least had pretty decent timing since we had a bit of time to spend in the car. The rain definitely did not help the mud...

Yeah the bin I had before wasn't necessarily bad, but I knew I could do better. When I was using things in the bin before, nothing had its own space and everything was kin of exploded everywhere. I was just in the UP and used the new box, it was much easier to just put certain pieces out. It is...

As an FYI, Falken makes those tires in a 285/75 R17. It's a bit of an uncommon size, but you get an extra inch of diameter without increasing tire width. I put them on my Ram 1500 about 7,000 miles ago and have been pretty happy with them. I'm not sure if they are doable on your suspension, but...

We started off Day 2 with going to the Upper and Lower falls along the Tahquamenon River. Lower Falls: DSC04660 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr DSC04685 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr Upper Falls: DSC04884 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr DSC04915 by ebeiersdorfer, on Flickr There is a trail that...

Day 1 of the trip was relatively boring, setting out from Cleveland I was looking at about 7 hours of pavement pounding to get to the Mackinac Bridge and cross into the UP. The weather on the way up wasn't the best and there was a wind advisory for the bridge, I'm happy we were able to get...

A couple of weeks ago I posted here seeking some advice on a trip I had planned to the UP. I ended up with some good suggestions and requests for a quick trip report. Going into the trip, the below was the rough plan: Day 1 Drive to UP and cross Mackinac Bridge Head N through the Hiawatha...

My dad drives a 2014 WK2 Overland and it's been pretty good to him. He's got about 100K miles on it, but it's really more of a road warrior and doesn't see too much dirt. He did have the water pump go out in it, but it was replaced under warranty. Other than that it's just been oil changes and...

I haven't been to happy with my camp kitchen setup on the past few trips so I started at looking at options to improve it. I'd been using a cheap plastic tub from Lowe's with an Aquatainer for water. The tub was stout enough to hold the water container and made it difficult to tie everything...

The Quadra Trac systems are fairly well known for having the Viscous Coupler in them going out. Try to drive tight figure 8s and if you have binding or skipping it's in indication of this being the case. That VC controlls power distribution and when they fail, essentially fail into 4HI. A lot of...