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I wound up getting too much lift from some OME shocks and 882 coils (after not getting enough from 881s :confused: ). The resulting CV angles were horrible. I was hoping the springs would sag some and the fact I have manual hubs would save me. Neither happened. Maybe 200 miles of 4-lo use and...

At some point I would like to upgrade to a wedge camper top like a Super Pacific or a GFC unit. Until then I really wanted to upgrade to a 12V fridge for longer term travel but also not really mess with a seperate house battery and battery isolation system. I also in the medium term would like...

I am not sure if this is new or I just missed it but I don't think it existed when I was last in Mexico. Kind of stupidly it is hiding under the 'United States' selection of maps so it would be hard to intuitively find. I stumbled across it looking for something else. Has lots more info than the...

I read somewhere dark mode has finally come to Android devices so I had to check it out. I turned it on and it's pretty sexy. I hate being blinded by white backgrounds and blank white data fields. It looks really good now and is so much easier on the eyes. The Gaia topo layer is optimized for...

I bought an explorer plus a few months ago but I was too cheap to activate it until closer to my travels. But about when I was going register and activate was the same time as the hack. So not so much for doing that then. Wondering if anyone has activated and used one recently? How did it go...

Any one use commercial Delvac 75w-90 gear oil for a transmission vs Mobil 1 75w-90? The FSM says I can use gl 4 or 5. Delvac is gl 5 and Mobile one is gl 4. I can get a gallon of Delvac for $30 vs $60 for 4 liters of Mobil 1. Be nice to not muck up the shifting but it would also be nice to...

I always liked these vehicles but never went down the rabbit hole of researching them. Currently in Mexico for work and think I want to buy a vehicle and leave it here for my somewhat frequent travels, I hate automatic transmissions as a personal preference but I have no idea how robust either...

I see that Factor 55 makes stuff that is radiused to not damage soft shackles. I think this is a great idea that adds to flexibility of gear. But their prices are RIDICULOUS. Anyone one else out there making something like that? I can't drop $200-250 for a chunk of machined aluminium that does...

I have some used KYB Monomaxes with about 12K miles on them. They came off of a 2002 reg cab 2.7. Still have plenty of life in them. I upgraded to a lift. Best, stiffest valving for Tacos in the cheap-ish shock category. Also two upper A Arms. Tired of lugging them around and want to pay it...

Hmmm... I put all the 4wd guts back in the front of the Taco. There is some slight CV binding at full droop so I think I'm going to have to drop the front diff, despite most of the internet saying it's not necessary for this amount of lift?. The real bummer is the passenger side CV won't seal up...

Hello. I am having trouble sourcing parts for the conversion. There are hardly ever Tacos in Detroit area yards and when they are they have not been manual hubs. Part searches always result in the yard either just blowing me off or telling me they don't have all the parts, which I have trouble...

Campsite outside of Guanjauato and the drive back into town. A really cool city in the mountains with weeks worth of off-roading and exploring you could do in the area. Only 6-7KM outside of town. The site is on ioverlander.

I have a theory of a way to go that I don't think I have seen much of. I'm thinking of going to a system with a 100ah lithium as the starter house battery in OEM location with a very small racing type AGM stuck somewhere else under the hood isolated as a backup battery. Benefits: I don't...

Doesn't really seem to be much out there. Decked could work but they don't make it for any older vehicles and it seems to waste a lot of space in front of the wheel wells. The metal commercial solutions weigh ludricous amounts and this is going in a regular cab 1st Gen Taco so weight is...

So a few times after long uphill climbs in 4lo I have heard a gurgle noise when I shut the engine off. I thought it was just the HVAC but recently I had the A/C off and I went poking around and realized it was coming from the upper rad hose exiting the head. So in this case I was climbing from...

I had a little spare time to make a quick run up to the Nevado De Toluca volcano recently. The Nevado is about 50 miles West of Mexico City. The walls are about 15,000' high and the vehicle access ends at about 13,500'. There is a toll road for passenger cars from the North. But there are free...

No pics for this just a little write up. Had the opportunity to be in Toluca for 6 months. But the challenge was I had to be down there in 3 days. I have flown here before and nearby is a giant dormant volcano and lots of cool off road trails 20 minutes from where I am staying (never...

Just some quickie video reviews while I was camping shot crappily with my phone.

Took a solo trip out to NW Wyoming. Goal was the Morrison Jeep Trail but the weather was terrible and had to go to plan B and hit the Sunlight Basin. Weather got good enough right at the end to do the Morrison trail. Happy trip. Was supposed to be a 2 week trip that got condensed to a week due...

So is there just ARB and Harrop E locker for this application? Wondering if I'm missing anything? I don't really want to permanently mount my air compressor as a move it around a bunch of vehicles and honestly I seriously have lost count the amount of times I have seen some sort of leak make an...