JoeTRD Overland/Trail build

[JoeTRD]

Road double cab short box, US built - Canadian model
Build will be for a mix of Overlanding/camping and wheeling

Tons of mods will be coming parts already/on order, plans are here

Suspension
FRONT
Fox 880-06-418 2.5 remote reservoir coilover extended travel (and ECGS bushing for diff vibe)
Total Chaos UCA
REAR
Fox 985-26-118 2.5 Shocks extended length remote resi
Dakar Leafs

Armour
Mobtown Offroad full skids
RCI Sliders w/ top plate
Pelfreybilt Gas tank skid
ARB Bumper (planned)

OTHER GOODIES/Recovery Gear
Viair 400-P Auto
ARB Recovery point
ARB Snorkel (on order from a group buy, delivery in November)
Off Grid Engineering dual battery system (summer 2018, possibly October 2017)
Rigid D2 Dually pods (from previous vehicle)
Factory tonneau cover
Cubby switch plate
Pop n lock tailgate lock
OEM Bed mat
OEM Blockheater
Front bed rail
KB VoodooFull height bed rack w/ TRED mounts
ScanGaugeII w/coding for Trans temp in Celsius
Total Chaos bed stiffeners
ARB Premium recovery kit (previous vehicle, great kit)
Smitty Built D shackle receiver hitch
ARB EZ Tire Deflator
ARB Tire Repair Kit
Hi Lift X-Treme 60inch
Hi Lift off road base
Hi Lift Winch kit
Two sets of Tred Pro
2 Bubba rope shackles

So build is going to be slow as of right now. Work is so up and down, can't afford to be spending too much on the truck when steady work is hard to find right now. Hopefully once work picks back up I'll be able to do more.


Tyres/Wheels
Winter
OEM Off road wheels with Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2 265 70 16

Summer/Trail
Konig Six Shooter 17" wheels
265/70/17 C rated Wrangler Duratrac for now

Thinking of trying the Goodyear MTR next year in a 285/70/17
Scroll down for pics

 

[JoeTRD]

I would but expo won't let me for some reason lol
can't even post links

 

[blueranger501]

Where is the group buy section? Hate to miss out on a good deal

 

[JoeTRD]

Where is the group buy section? Hate to miss out on a good deal

sorry I copied most of this from my other thread on a different forum. I'll edit that out. It was a groupbuy on tacomaworld.

 

[CDNTaco]

Hello Joe,
I sent you a PM, fellow Canadian here in the GTA, interested to here where you source your parts and who you get to install them.
Thanks,
Corey

 

[JoeTRD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=182&v=XWWuyTdfsc0

 

[JoeTRD]

I like the action shots!

more will be coming soon. Got a trip planned for Oct 13/14th maybe stretch to the 15th.

 

[JoeTRD]

lift is in. thinking will need to remove an overload in the back. more rake than I'd like to have and don't want to have too much preload on the front.

Plenty of wheel travel now

 

[JoeTRD]

 

[JoeTRD]

Looks good man. Yeah, I'd get rid of the overload and lower the preload a bit, too. Going to do more or less the same thing myself.

as it is there's very little preload in the front so thats why the front isn't too high.

just going to wait and see how the rear settles.

 

[JoeTRD]

Had a nice run this weekend. 32km trail that ended up turning into a night run. Didn't get much video of that though. uploadng the video now 20min long and will timestamp where the climbs are.

Had the luck of having one of the guys bring his girlfriend, who's in school for photography, be right behind me most of the trail so got some great shots.

 

[JoeTRD]

Video from the trip
https://youtu.be/IzR0w5SM2Rk