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Our week in the San Juan Mtns. has come and gone. We had a great time. Our week was filled with rain, hail, and some sunshine. We stayed completely dry in the camper and the truck ran and performed amazingly well on the trail. We started our week with a beer festival in Ouray on Saturday and...

I plan on buying a siping tool before winter and giving them the treatment, but I have driven some radial Swampers on a past truck and I don't forsee the KM2's being any worse than those. Winter driving is all about driving for the conditions and if you slow down a bit and don't get in a hurry...

Up to this point I have had the truck for about two years and due to family and work obligations she hasn't seen much play time. That was about to change. I was turning 40 soon and to celebrate I was planning to spend a week camping and wheeling in the San Juan Mtns of Colorado with my wife...

Now that the camper portion was sorted out, it was time to add something to the truck that serves a couple of purposes. The one problem I have had with the camper is getting all the canvas tucked back in when the tent is in the closed position. To remedy this I called a shop in Utah called Low...

Great build thread! For factory 4:88 geared diffs check out the web site: http://www.jimsgotparts.com/Yoda_Jims/Home.html These guys are a Toyota truck/4runner/landcruiser salvage yard in Denver, Colorado and are great to deal with. I bought a 4:88 geared stock front diff from them as well...

And a few more random camping and travel shots with the truck at this point in the build:

Now that I had the truck running great, and our camper was sorted out it was time for a few more modifications. When I cut off the roll pan and the bottom of the fenders in the back of my truck, it left the spare tire hanging down. This kind of defeated the purpose of gaining clearance by...

Now that we had our RV, we were ready to go. The trip to Oregon and back went well. I miss typed the mileage of the trip in an earlier post so I will clarify. I previously said that it was 5,000 miles, it was actually 3,000 miles round trip. I would love to tell you how the truck did off...

I bought my camper from a 20 some year old kid that bought a truck that came with the Wildernest on it. He said that he had only used it a couple of times but had owned the truck for a few years. He had had it on craigslist for about two months and he didn't really like to answer his emails...

As I said in my last post, I was looking for some extra comfort. This need (want?) was more intended for the long term than just this trip to Oregon. I looked at this trip as a kind of shakedown trip for the future and an excuse to buy a camper and turn my truck into a 4x4 RV!. So after...

DeskToGlory, reading your build this weekend was what motivated me to start this thread. I like what you have done as well. Hopefully I can find time after work tonight to add more to this thread.

As I stated before, we were heading from Colorado to Oregon to see my wife's family. We were planning on 2 nights sleeping in the truck on each end of the trip. We already had a shell to keep us and our stuff dry and semi comfortable. But Craigslist stepped in once again. I found one of those...

My wife's mom lives in Eugene, Oregon. We decided on a road trip. For this to happen, I had a bit of work to do to the truck and we had to get plane tickets for our son. With the help of Grandma, tickets were the easy part. On the other hand, Ruby was about 12,000 miles overdue for a...

I also never liked the 60/40 bench seat configuration that these Toyotas and the early Tacomas came with. They were very uncomfortable and killed easy access to the extra cab portion of the truck. I wanted to get rid of mine from day one. I finally found an excuse when I adopted a shelter dog...

In my purchase of a used Toyota I got super lucky. Kelly; the guy I bought it from, was super legit and super cool. The stack of records that he had on Ruby were about an inch thick. He had receipts for everything, from oil and wiper blade changes on up. Everything was documented! This was...

Where the truck is now. Vs. what it last looked like: [/URL][/IMG] Inside: -Bench seat replaced with SR5 bucket seats; and again with Corbeau Baja RS reclining suspension seats, with custom dog bench in extra cab. Basic stereo upgrade. Not much else. Outside: -Trail-Gear sliders -Budbuilt full...

Just got back from my week wheeling the San Juans. Hopefully I will post a report and pics sometime this week. Beer fest was fun. Only about a dozen brewers this year though. Apparently Durango has their beerfest the same weekend. Let me know if you want awheelin partner for a day or two next...

glad you guys had fun. I was in Telluride with my wife for our anniversary on our motorcycle during that same time, the mudslides were bad. We are getting ready to spend a week wheeling and camping in the san juans next week for my 40th birthday. Day one involves the Ouray beer fest on...

Patiently waiting pics of it on the truck, but running out of patience. I have been waiting for something like this. Just give me a teaser pic!

I have a 1989 Toyota extra cab with a Wildernest that I picked up last year. Congratulations on your purchase. I have used mine about a dozen times since the fall purchase and love it. As far as suspension, I started out with stock, flat springs and the Wildernest only made it worse. I was...