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Hello Adam: We have one that we picked up in May of 2014. I've posted a fair amount about it scattered around Expedition Portal. You're welcome to search my posts and read the various impressions. Short take is we love it and would buy one again. In your shoes I'd go up to Bend and spend a...

OK for flats, but slow to air up We carried an MV-50 for years & used it several times to fill up a repaired tire after a flat. It works fine for that as you're only filling one tire. We did use it a couple of times to air up all four tires - it's pretty slow for that and if the ambient...

Hello Frank: Makes perfect sense - I'm usually thinking of tires & gearing in terms of underpowered vehicles for the desired tire diameter! It would be a new problem to have power & gearing that kept me from a tire diameter by limiting top speed! Howard

Hello Frank: Do you run the 315/75r16 successfully with your gearing? If so you shouldn't have any trouble with the 255/85r16. The 255's are actually slightly shorter than the 315's http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/tirecalc.php?tires=315-75r16-255-85r16 Howard

Hello Mike: That would be great, especially if it was a universal policy across all dealers. I'm not sure that it is, or at least it might not have been with the dealer who provided our 2014 as we learned that some service bulletin "updates" hadn't been applied to ours even though the...

Hello John: I'm not sure, but I think that while the mechanical components may be similar the computer systems may vary. After we had purchased our 2014 I noticed that some Fuso documents distinguished between a 2014 and 2014.5. I contacted Fuso asking for the difference and I was told that...

Now that's a tire repair job!!! Howard

US EC Electrical Capacity/Charging EarthCruiser Colleagues: Michelle mentioned the energy-hog status of Prima Terra, one of the early left hand drive (LHD) EarthCruisers. The short answer is we do not need any charging source other than solar (we don't use the alternator to charge the house...

Hello Michelle: Good point. I should have mentioned that if we were in a hurry I'd let Heidi do the change while I napped..... Kidding aside, Heidi frequently takes our EC on multi-day trips of her own (or at least she abandons me) and she's confident she can handle most problems that might...

During a recent conversation about EarthCruisers, someone asked me about the spare tire mounts and the accessibility of the spares. Since I was going to rotate our two spares onto the rear axle today, I decided to time the various phases of a completely manual tire change - driver's seat to...

Does the 3,000 lb estimate include a full load of gear, water, batteries. propane & fuel? If so I suspect it is not as far off as we might initially expect. Advertised weights for many trailers (off road or not) don't seem to agree with highway scales very often and gear/water/fuel/etc. along...

Towing w/22re We drove an 87 4Runner with the 22re (4.88 gearing, 31" tires) for many years and we occasionally towed an M416 with it. I suspect the loaded trailer approached 1,000 lbs. We once towed a Santana 23 sailboat on a trailer with it which probably approached 3,000 pounds. The...

Aside from all the stuff mentioned above - Credit card and $500 in cash!

That apparent lack of experiential knowledge could be due to limited time for posting if one is out and about in their large professionally built expedition vehicle. We've put 11,000 miles with more than 60 nights aboard the EarthCruiser we picked up on 12 May 2014. Systems are great, truck is...

Compaction How long are your trips? That might influence how much space you need. I definitely wouldn't use the hitch cargo carrier if you can avoid it. Here's some strategy that might be helpful. 1. Spare on rear bumper carrier, two rows of seats for four folks, limited space in back for...

No problem, the original question I replied to was posted by Racingdad and specifically addressed the strength of the wheels. That's why I said "...we still have nearly 3,000 lbs of tire and wheel capacity to go..." Had Racingdad questioned GVW we could have discussed suspension alterations...

We run those aluminum wheels with Toyo Open Country 315/75/16 tires on our EarthCruiser. Rims rated (and DOT stamped) for 1800 kg (4032 lbs), tires rated for 1750 kg (3920 lbs), so total capacity would be limited by the tires at 7000 kg (15,680 lbs). Fuso FG chassis is about 6000 lbs so the...

Hello 65Baja: A couple of things I forgot to mention. The ARB fridges often have a low voltage cut off - designed to shut the ARB down when the incoming voltage gets low. This can protect the compressor from trying to run with insufficient voltage. The problem is that the voltage at the ARB...

Hello 65Baja: Short answer - you should be fine, and you only need a monitor if you want to know what's going on in detail (some of us obsess over that!). It sounds like you'll have 320 watts of solar with about 200 amp hours of storage. I'd recommend connecting the two batteries in parallel...

Real Experience with Duonic 4x4 Colleagues: I've seen a lot of speculation regarding why our 2014 4x4 FG with the 6 speed Duonic can't possibly be an expedition vehicle, why it will be gutless off-road, etc. All I can tell you is that after driving it nearly 3,000 miles and climbing several...