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After all that time and phone calls and emails, the spring guy at Deaver tells me he can't really build a 10 leaf deaver pack to carry the weight. How frustrating. I guess I'll check with alcan. Otherwise maybe drive it to a spring shop and see what they can come up with. This is what...

Hah, with the camper on you won't get a good feel for the icons anyway in my opinion. The best the truck felt was without the camper (duh) and with the OME springs without the extra leaf. Really it was amazingly smooth on rough washboard roads and stuff with the icons, no harsh bottom out or...

The van would fit without the roof rack! Actually accord to some others, a quigley conversion on 285s with sportsmobile penthouse would probably barely squeak in the garage. I have an 8' door, and one side of the garage is a tandem so length isn't an issue. I'm just not sure I'd be happy with...

Oregon auto spring builds packs for them, you're right. Deaver comes up with the specs. Again if deaver doesn't come through, I'm going to talk to them directly. This might be better anyway. They can measure and weigh and tweak if needed. My timbrens have compressed a little bit from the...

No clue. Their website/Facebook says nothing about holiday hours. They have no voicemail setup. You call and it rings and rings and rings. Sometimes I did this 3 times in one day and someone finally answered. It is very frustrating though and makes me want to take my money elsewhere. BUT...

Thanks. Honestly I've thought about it, as our second kid is right around the corner. I would like to build a van, but I'm not sure I could get away with parking it outside with our HOA. A big ford van with 6" lift and pop-up wouldn't fit in the garage. I've been trying to order springs...

It is a group 34 agm, MT7 or something as interstate is calling it. I believe it is actually smaller than the stock battery. If you're only going to run one battery I would probably look around for a group 31.

Nope, can't buy a new TDI still! We kept our 2010 VW Golf TDI. It has been a great car. Resale dropped after the "dieselgate" scandal, so either way we wanted to hold on to it. The new car is a 2016 Jetta GLI SEL (2.0l gas turbo). The idea is that the new car is the kid hauler. When I'm...

Quick update. I haven't done much with the truck and camper lately. FWC had it for two months for some repairs. Today I installed an AFE cold air intake with dry/washable filter. I only drove a couple miles so it's too early to say a whole lot. The TRD re flash for the supercharger runs...

Actually I weighed my Tacoma bone stock and it was 4200 and change. The suspension, tires, sliders etc all added up to a surprising amount. You don't want to know what it weighs loaded with the camper full of water and gear!

Well that's the thing, it's a 3/4 ton in the heaviest configuration. Crew cab long bed 4x4 diesel. The payload numbers suck. But the rear springs probably ride smoother and some people get out of higher registration fees. I wouldn't sweat the numbers too much though as long as you're reasonable.

8' garage door. It was a requirement when we were house shopping. I discovered that if I park just right I can even open the camper inside!

Any reason you aren't disclosing the mileage? That is always a red flag for me.

Isn't the sway bar bolted to the axle? That is the worst setup for disconnecting. If both ends are disconnected, the sway bar ends are flopping around with the axle. IF there is enough free space you can just disconnect one side. My guess is that you'll get so annoyed by the noise those...

Congrats on the marriage!

I want to bring importance to what herbie said about "burping" the dometic porta potty. Especially if you climb from 1000' up to 8700'. Don't ask how I know. :( I've had (do have) two different dometic potties. Unfortunately with my fleet I had to buy the smaller one and the tank is very...

A few posts back you loved your truck lites, now they suck? Make up your mind. Personally I think anyone who likes the output of the truck lites needs their heads checked. They have a really thin Vertical beam, and very blocky output. In addition to some very distracting "hot spots". The...

Meh air bags are expensive! I'm sure it doesn't take much to set them off in a Tacoma. If you look at the front end with the plastic bumper removed it is pathetic. Just a thin aluminum little crash bar. A 1/4" aluminum bumper will provide much more protection. Maybe not from larger animals...

I have 2 group 34 agm batteries. Probably somewhere around 140-150 amp hours? No issues getting through cold nights as long as we are reasonable about power consumption. Granted if I had my cold weather sleeping bag in the camper I would have just turned the heat down to 45. Which is tough...

Most pop ups aren't well insulated. Four wheel campers in particular. The aluminum frame transfers heat/cold, the cabover area isn't insulated and you're laying on top of a piece of plywood. The entire base is just plywood. That doesn't mean you can't stay warm, but condensation happens...