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After action report. Little bit of a delay from getting back, work is making sure I make up for the time off. The good: The Moonlander fulfills the basic camping functionality I was looking for. We where able to rock up to camp fairly late, pull the camp chairs and the fire can out the back...

Continued from above… Friday morning we packed up headed north to Alamosa. A quick stop at Walmart to replace our 38 year old Colman stove that gave up the ghost and then East to La Veta pass. La Veta pass (9,380 ft) was the old narrow gauge railroad route, later when the line was converted...

Continued from above. So most of the Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument is on the Taos Plateau. Our plan was to crisscross the southern end of the Plateau and then drive the length of the National Monument. So we headed off to the town of Tres Piedras to see the remains of the Denver and...

Continued from above… We camped at the Hovenweep National Monument campground for 2 nights. My plan was to try and stay at a high enough altitude to escape the summer heat, Hovenweep was the lowest camp at 5,200 ft and the hottest. High 90*s during the day but at night it cooled off to the mid...

Continuing on… County Road Y11 is rough. It’s not difficult to drive, just it’s surface is the bare rock and you get what you get. I was considering going back to the highway but decided to push on for 9 more miles. The road follows the San Miguel River into the Paradox Valley. So named because...

I live about a mile off I-70 as it passes between Dayton and Springfield Ohio. So our trip started with two days of driving west on 70, jumping off at the last exit in Colorado. We had stayed in the Rabbit Valley area before; it is a convenient overnight stopping point along I-70. However, a...

So, anyone own a GMT800? Dose this look at all familiar? I went to back the truck out of the barn Sunday bright and early and the instrument panel was blank. No nothin’. I told the wife there might be a little delay and started in to looking for the issue. There are 4 fuses that are related...

So I got a little bit more done. I pulled apart the trailer 7 pin connector for the running lights on the MoonLander and added a jumper for a 45 Amp Anderson plug. I’ll use this temporarily to charge my power station while driving. I was pleasantly surprised to see Radica had added connectors to...

Quad motor sounds really impressive and there are a lot of things that can be done with the software. The problem is the software doesn’t know how to anticipate what comes next. The tire needs to slow enough for the computer to realize something is wrong before the computer can do any of its...

I can relate to the back and forth trying to figure out what shell to go with. I really thought I would be getting a DCU also but when I saw the Radica Moonlander late last year it ticked a few more boxes for what I wanted to do with it. Probably keep an eye out to see how you fit it out, always...

Preaching to the choir there bro. When I decided to hang on to the Duramax I read up on any build threads of GMT800 platforms i could find, including yours 'Yetti . Seams like most have graduated on to a new platform now but I appreciate the wealth of information made avalibe to me. I may be...

Made a little bit of progress getting ready for a trip. We trailered the SxS down to Tennessee to for a couple of days riding. I know, SxS and ATVs are the devil but the SxS cost less than the tires, wheels, bumper and winch on the truck and it will go places the truck never will for the kind of...

@Jacobm some follow up notes on the ARB bull bar. Overall I really like the ARB bull bar but there are a few points to consider (this is the stuff I could not find on-line). There are some significant gaps between the bumper and the body work. I suspect this is to accommodate the Chevy and the...

@Jacobm I never ment to get a full on ARB bull bar. I wanted a bumper with a hoop in front of the radiator. I've hit a deer before in my commute to work Civic, they materialize out of nowhere. So I figured I wanted just enough to have a radiator in case it happened again but I didn't want to go...

So, the little green ladder already travels with me. When I was younger I could stand on the tire, reach over and work on the engine. Now that I'm old I'm using the ladder to access the engine as well as get in the bed. I like hauling one ladder that I can move around as needed. (Maybe I should...

I'm transitioning away from camping in an enclosed trailer hauling a SxS. In the trailer I have a platform with slats and a 4" thick cotton stuffed futon to sleep on. In doing some research about futons I found recommendations for using: - 4" for occasional use on a solid base - 6" for use on a...

So on the trip home from Colorado we where following a snow storm through Indiana and Ohio. In true mid-west form the roads where covered in salt so I needed to wash the truck and shell as soon as the weather improved. It gave me a chance to take a few more pictures. Inside shows the exposed...

I keep debating if I should do this chronologically and jump back 20 years to my trucks first oil change or If I should start with picking up the MoonLander this week and just back fill in some of the larger mods on the truck. Road trip to pick up the MoonLander Bottom line is I'm pretty stoked...

Why am I building an older truck So this will be wordy and delve in to my experience with where the auto market has been in recent years and the future trends I think are coming. Feel free to skip this post if your looking for pretty pictures. Starting back around 2019 I was trying to convince...

In a nut shell When I start to read a build thread I always wonder if this is one that will hold my attention or not. I'm not saying some are bad, just some are not for me. (If it gets you out of the house and away from work it's all good) But it's just a little frustrating when I read 5 pages...