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That’s awesome info, thanks. We are going to stay in Mexican motels when available and sleep in the field when not. Our plan is to string a light weight tarp between the bikes as our shelter. Small stove for coffee in the morning but otherwise cold food between towns. So we will each carry a...

I’m getting ready to do a trip from Tecate to Cabo next spring. Currently I’m looking for luggage. Giant Loop Coyote seems to come up a lot. Any other good, reasonably priced options? I’m not going around the world on this bike and I’m not going to be doing dirt bike camping as a regular thing...

In response to the zero people asking for it, here’s the video that pic was grabbed from. Just to be clear, I’m not trying to take it ‘wheeling. I have a piece of property in the local mountains and the access road hasn’t been maintained. I was getting the camper down to a nice meadow where we...

I brought my camper out to a piece of property I have, and the road was a bit rougher than I expected. I try not to wheel the camper, but as long as I did, here’s a pic from it.

I upgraded my tire inflator. I had a spare section of 36” hose with crimped 1/4” NPT connections on each side. That made the installation of the LockNFlate locking air chuck easy. Unfortunately the only fitting on the inflator was smaller. It seemed to be 1/8” but it wasn’t completely clear. But...

Thanks. That’s a lot of good info. It already has 16s on there, so that’s not an issue. It seems that I’m on the right track.

The limitation I’m seeing is the tire being on its sidewall even at relatively high pressures. That resulted in a sidewall puncture the very first time I took the camper to Baja. It was a hassle with my brother, but would be a bigger deal with my wife and kids. So I’m pretty risk averse in this...

It’s really not so bad. With the lift and tires it hasn’t been a problem for me at all. But that’s probably because I have very modest expectations of off road capability. I expect it to be a good traction vehicle, and not a vehicle for ‘wheeling at all. It needs to handle sandy beach sections...

Unfortunately the inflator has a crimped connection to the chuck and the other end is smaller than 1/4 NPT so my spare hose won’t work. A shame because I’ve got the parts and also I have a 36” hose which would mean I don’t need to bend down to inflate either.

Hmm. Mine is a crimped on connection. I’ll have to see if I can manage that.

Interesting. What fitting attaches it to the inflator?

I’ve got an ARB dual compressor onboard air compressor and a Viair locking air chuck. It’s got the trigger style valve with the gauge on top. 10” of hose and a lever-locking chuck at the end. I like it because I have six bigish tires to inflate (plus others who are traveling with me) so I don’t...

And since things don’t exist without pics….

So you’re a little lighter than me but still heavy. I’m 14,500 loaded up for a trip. Down at 60 psi I was really on the sidewalls more than expected. I used to run down at 25 and 30 on my loaded F-350 and 40 when it had a Lance but the ‘Bunga is a whole lotta weight. But that’s why I’m hoping...

I am coming out of the past, but missed this before. Yes, it’s a BW 1356 with about a 2.7 low ratio. The chassis is an E450 so that’s a bit small. Thanks for laying it out for me, though.

How big was your motorhome and how much did it weigh?

Thanks guys. I totally forgot I posted this and just posted it again. Lol.

I just got back from Baja in my 24’ Class C 4x4 that I upgraded with U-Joint 6” suspension. It already went better on washboard roads than the original Salem-Kroger setup, but I went with 6” to fit 255/85 tires (more about that decision another time). I didn’t have time to swap out my 235/85-16s...

Several years ago, there was an Expedition journal issue with the dilution for adding bleach to water to make it potable, but not so much bleach that it wasn’t. My friend filled his 25 gal tank with questionable water and we want to make sure it’s drinkable. If you look online, you mostly...

What’s that black box you mention? My camper is no Earth Roamer, but I really feel what you mean about low gears. I’ve got a Dana 80 rear and ARB but only a 2.3:1 (I think) low range in my transfer case. With 4.63 gears, its just not low enough to be in the meat of my torque curve and still be...