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Thanks for the great report and photos. Brought back good memories of riding down the Forestry Trunk Rd in 1987 on my Honda XL600, returning from Alaska and NWT, rain all the way. And 10-20 years later, a road trip to Colorado with wife and kids in our own 80 Series. And finally, camping in...

We got there pretty early and got a palapa site. They were turning people away by the end of the day, at least for palapas on the beach ... they did have a few cabanas available which have private indoor kitchen, toilet and shower. Antonio, who runs the camp now with his mother Betty, told me...

Question for @Hondo Garage ... will you offer lower frames and skins for both longbed and shortbed Tacomas (5' and 6')? And, will the upper pop-up portion be the same? I currently have. DCSB but have considered eventually going to a longbed, just curious about upgradabulity. Thanks.

Although I've done a fair amount of off-pavement travel in the US and Canada, on two and four wheels, I can't say I'm any kind of overlander. And last week's trip certainly wasn't anything daring or rugged, so I hesitated before starting a new thread about what was really just another road trip...

I know this is now past history, but I looked at the CL ad and it set off alarms for me ... for example, he mentions 3" lift and 33" tires, but no mention of brands; and the sticker he shows has no mention of the rear locker (front locker never available on 4Runner). On the other hand, a new or...

^^^ Thanks!

I've got some questions I had posted on another DECKED thread: Questions: - For a 5' bed Tacoma, does the deck fit nose to tail or are then any gaps? - Is drilling required, or do the J hooks use the factory tie downs (specifically for the 5' Taco)? - Are there tie down points on top of the...

Questions: - For a 5' bed Tacoma, does the deck fit nose to tail or are then any gaps? - Is drilling required, or do the J hooks use the factory tie downs? - Are there tie down points on top of the deck, or would one have to use bed rail tie downs to secure gear on the deck? Thanks.

We went through this about 20 years ago, our kids were maybe a few years younger. We had a Vanagon Westfalia poptop, and the kids never wanted to leave the camper. It was fine for sleeping, but, for example, trying to cook with 2 kids underfoot in a 25 sq foot kitchen wasn't fun. So we switched...

One more comment, I have over 37K miles on my 2016 OR and no hood shake and no rear end noise.

I own an OffRoad, I bought because I wanted the locker after having an 80 Series Land Cruiser with front and rear lockers which got used a lot. I haven't done to much real 4- wheeling in the Tacoma yet and haven't used the locker at all, MTS seems to work well, but hardly a necessity. As for...

It's looking like I got rid of my FlipPac a year too soon! It's great to see all this activity on the hard parts, I'm sure tents are next.

We used ground tents for 20-30 years with just 3/8" neoprene pads in our youth, then thermarest, then I got an Xped air matttress for solo trips (excellent IMO). Last year we got an RTT but found it didn't work for our style of camping, so went back to ground tent this year. The big change is...

Thanks, this is starting to sound like it could be useful ... meat and dairy chilled on one side (plus beer) and veggies and fruit insulated from summer heat on the other side. All in one meta-container.

FWIW although I've never had a full bed rack (just a front bar that made it handy to carry longer lumber or pipe at an angle with one end in the bed, one end on the rack crossbar) nor a SoftTopper (but a couple of hard shells, one with crossbars), I think the bed rack plus SoftTopper seems like...

Interesting timing on this thread, as I've been thinking about making a low, and possibly wide, cooler to fit under a pickup bed platform. Since the surface area may be fairly large relative to the volume, does it make sense to put it in an insulated divider? In other words instead of a 10" x...

No offense, but almost every posting here talking about deformation, strength etc is completely ignorant of the basics of an engineering discipline known as "strength of materials". As I wrote in an earlier posting, there are two completely separate structural properties of a frame, stiffness...

There are so many variables that affect stiffness, i.e. resistance to bending or twisting; and strength, i.e. resistance to permanent deformation or failure, that one can't really generalize about c-channel vs boxed without knowing all the frame dimensions ... and material properties. One...

My Ranger 30 years ago came with 195/75-15's ... I dunno, 27" tires, on 5" or 5.5" wide rims. I wheeled it quite a bit then bought 235/75-15 AT TA's 29 or 30". They seemed massive and very capable, but I did notice a performance drop. When I put 285/75-16's on the FJ80 that replaced the Ranger...

I considered buying a used Taco with a Tradesman top; the owner loved it and it looked pretty rugged to me. Enough that I stopped by the factory when I was in the area, to look at options for the truck I did buy. I had a good talk with the owner of Access Mfg who was very welcoming and gave me a...