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Assuming that you don’t want them to go off automatically after a certain amount of time, what about a 3 way switch like in a conventional house? A switch on the dash, and a switch on the box, either one can turn them on and off. Only down side would be not knowing if they are turned on during...

As much as I dislike the principle of “charge as much as we can get away with”, as a business owner myself I have been taking that approach more lately. Demand has been insane, and skilled labor is a bottleneck. They can’t necessarily just build twice as many vehicles, even though they could...

They aren’t, but they run pretty decent sales regularly. I‘ve bought almost everything I have from them on sale. Sign up for their email list and they will let you know. I think you also get 20% off one item for your birthday IIRC.

Kuiu makes really, really good rain gear and isn’t tailored for “dad bods”. I have two of their older jackets, this one is supposed to be extremely durable. https://www.kuiu.com/products/kutana-storm-shell-jacket-gunmetal?variant=40340366131358

You need to weigh the down sides. If you generally travel with other vehicles that have compressors, air down to 25/30 psi to soften the ride, and could limp it to a gas station if your compressor fails, it might be worth trying to save a bit of $. I have to carry my spare deflated due to...

Bought some tickets on the 29, who won?

Following this. I tend to go one extreme or the other. When car camping it’s a full meal really no different than we would make at home. Steak on the fire, boil some broccoli on the stove, baked potato in foil on the coals, etc. When backpacking it’s nuts, jerky, bars, and a mountain house at...

How do these handle stuff like a couple hours on a washboard road? I know it’s common for many shocks to overheat and the fluid basically boils or foams, leaving you with no dampening, but still metal springs.

I’m still a little skittish about riding over logs larger than 10-12” in diameter, but it’s very easy to walk the bike over them. Just stand next to it, work the throttle and clutch, no big deal. Worst case you cant get the rear tire to bite and climb over and you have to drag it backwards. Not...

Correct answer, at least with BFG KO2’s and no wheel spacers.

Lots of not great info in here. #1 the OP never mentioned OSB, someone else brought it up, don’t consider it. #2 marine plywood isn’t actually “rot resistant”. It uses waterproof glue and has no voids for strength, but Okoume (and Meranti to a lesser extent) will rot if not properly sealed...

Yep. The hipsters have ruined another thing, car camping. It has become about how it “looks” rather than if it serves any purpose. I somewhat regularly see vehicles driving around town with Maxtrax and rotopax attached to them, day after day. Won’t be long people will be buying ”builds”...

Nice build. Like the idea about taking a camping trip during a Hurricane evac as well. Nothing you can do about it once you’ve left, so might as well enjoy it rather than sit in a hotel and stare at the weather channel.

The Land Rover saga continues. Install garbage engine with tons of problems. Get reputation for poor reliability. Refine or change engine for one that is nearly perfect. Just before reputation is restored, switch to a new garbage engine with tons of problems…

A pair of jack stands to level the rear door, I put some rear stabilizers under mine to keep it from rocking. 8’ ARB awning and wall kit also.

That’s a bummer for sure. Hopefully it was some high school kids thinking it would be fun to joyride and it will be found in decent shape in the woods shortly.

You may have considered it already, but I found several parts (hitch, 18” spare) for mine on eBay

Apparently the slats and brackets are rated for 220 lbs dynamic/660 lbs static load. They don’t actually state that on each vehicle application since it is derated to the OEM roof weight rating.

If you can handle it being 3” high from the center of the glass to the top of the bar, I’m extremely happy with my Front Runner load bars. They are for an H3 as they were the cheapest available, and only required adding fender washers to fit right in the factory short roof rails. I added the...

Any chance you could mount the spare horizontally off the back and set the bike frame on it like a moto stand? Would obviously require some fab work and sacrifice departure angle, but might make for the shortest package with a low COG.