Truck looks amazing! Glad to see you've been able to get out and enjoy the new canon as well.
Such a great Bday present. Well done Mrs. Andrew_S!
Thanks! Agreed, no complaints here on the new addition to the fleet.
Absolutely in love with this build! ?
It's everything it needs to be, and nothing it shouldn't. You've done an amazing job with it.
Really appreciate that, thanks man.
This truck is turning out very nice!! Hopefully all these changes improve its back country ability to your liking without negatively affecting its ability to actually get you there!
I will say that I LOVE the CV front axle shafts on my TJ, and dearly miss them when I wheel the Comanche around. They make things noticeably smoother when turning under power offroad. I went the low budget route and just used CV axle shafts from a ZJ, but the RCV axles are quite a bit stronger, so you are going to love them I bet.
Now get that driveshaft put together!!
Man, you're totally stealing my thunder on this next post haha.
Cliff notes, no compromises for ride comfort at all, huge improvement between the digressive 5100's & larger diameter tires. The only compromise is the additional height makes getting in/out of the truck a bit challenging for the wife at 5'3", planning on adding a step or something along those lines shortly.
We took the new setup on its first real trip over the weekend.
All of 2 mins and camp was established
Beach front site with one heck of a view
Cue the onslaught of canoe pics. We did a lot of paddling on this trip.
First we headed north up the lake and found this beautiful beach, spent a good 4 hours enjoying the water and lack of people.
Continuing further North we went up the headwaters as far as we reasonably could. Great place to enjoy a beer after about 8kms of paddling.
Heading back to camp for lunch. This photo sums up the weather for the entire weekend perfectly.
Happened upon this cluster of butterflies, pretty neat to find them grouped up like this.
Sunset on the first day,
The next day we checked out the east end and another inlet
The water was pretty friggin uncomfortable at this spot. The terrain reminded me of something out of a Jurassic park scene.
Waiting for the wife to harvest some birch bark for a project.
It's funny what you start to notice when you're bored and have nothing to do. This colony of ants was taking a big move, I found the start of the line but never did find the end.
Checked out a nearby waterfall just absolutely gushing
Paddling out on another lake, the last little bit of this avalanche chute was slowly melting
Touring the outfall of the lake. I bet there were 4-6' of logs stacked up on the bottom.
Paddling back upstream to the main lake, gorgeous scenery.
This thing is an absolute unit on bush roads now. I was running upwards of 80 km/hr on some pretty rough roads and it just ate it up. That was running 35psi too, as I drop the pressures its only going to get that much better.
Can't beat these views out here.
We did have a few mechanical issues though.
On the return trip I heard this light steel-sounding ping, followed shortly afterwards by a loud thump, clunk, bang and immediately the handling was compromised. Turns out I may have not fully tightened one of the front sway bar end link bolts and it left the chat at around 100km/hr. Miraculously we recovered the bushing and pin so I was able to rob a bolt from the rear bar and put the front bar back into action. Who needs a rear bar anyway?
Also, I think the "new-to-me" e-brake shoes are coming apart in the rear. On the last morning, they were making a rubbing/screeching news intermittently that went away when I would reverse but ultimately return again shortly. I need to pull it apart and diagnose this tomorrow.
Spare tire/mount needs a bit of massaging as the rim currently rubs on the tube for the tire iron and it makes an unpleasant noise occasionally.
Aside from those 3 things, no other significant issues to report.
