New Four wheel camper Eagle owner

[bimmeryota]

Well, almost! I just placed my order following the AZ event yesterday. I've been researching and looking for about 4 years. I've seen them in person 3 different times and had to convince my soon to be wife that this was an investment for our family. The thing that sold her was the outdoor shower!
In the process of taking off my overkill suspension bracket lift in favor of a milder lift total of about 2.5". I hope I can get all that done in time or I'm taking a drive from SD!

I may be doing a factory visit during its build if my work travels bring me there so I'll be sure to share those pictures.
For now here's some of the work that I'm doing to lower my COG of my 91 Toyota.

 

[RickNV]

nice job- look forward to seeing your work in progress

 

[bimmeryota]

Got an update that my camper is now on the production line and should be done by the end of the month! Crunch time to get my truck done... Got the suspension ripped out

And now the kit looks like this

I'll be cleaning it up and selling it soon. Someone is going to have a nice lift kit soon...
Now that all that's out I got the control arm bushings replaced top and bottom. With 300k on the OE toyota I wet with the same. I also changed all the ball joints with OE parts along with inner and outer tie rods while I was at it.
Had a rough road fabrication in Vista do the cutting since he had the arms and actually had him plate the arms in key spots while he was there to eliminate any potential weak points from taking material for the ball joint spacer installation.

Keeping my Downey rear 2" springs but want to have more articulation so he's doing some custom shock mounts to take full advantage of the travel. While he had it up he inspected the wheel bearings and saw that they were leaking and had a little play so that's getting refreshed too with new toyota bearings (again the OE lasted that long, may as well stick with it!) getting new rear brakes while we're at it! (Also original!) glad I noticed that before I put my new eagle on the back if the truck!

Heres a shot of the squatted front with te 33s still on before it went to rough road

Got the 32s mounted also but don't have a shot of that.
For camper load I chose Firestone bags with a lift spacer and airbag cradle. Going to give that a shot before I go all spring...

 

[bimmeryota]

From desk2glory's build page I bought these steering stop covers. Hope to throw them on today.

 

[bimmeryota]

From this

I sold my shell I used for camping one week before the eagle landed

My new eagle was delivered erly yesterday morning after an almost 3 month wait.

 

[bimmeryota]

My first peek in to the inside. I went with the silver spur interior only. I like the white on the outside though.

Bought the jacks but removed them as soon as I got home since I don't plan on removing for a while. Plus it saves some weight for my little truck.

 

[Foster Huntington]

silver spur looks nice.

 

[Kya]

Nice, I bet your stoked! The interior looks smooth and modern, I like it. I have two questions: 1) is that a sliding window that opens in the front of the camper? 2) do you want to buy this bumper I bet it would fit real nice with your set up? http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...001-2004-Toyota-Tacoma-Designed-for-FWC-Eagle

 

[TommyArgh]

Can we see some pics of the Silver Spur interior?!

 

[RickNV]

nice set-up- looks like your ready for an expedition.... congratulations

 

[bimmeryota]

Sorry I don't have any more pics if the interior yet. I've just been driving it to get used to the weight and play with the airbag pressures. I found I really had to put about 10psi more On the drivers side. I assume its because since I haven't loaded it yet and most of the equipment in the camper is on that side.
I was hoping to test it this weekend but have to fly to Denver for work so I have it parked in its new spot since it won't fit in the garge.
I'm getting married in about 2 weeks and our first real trip will be right after that. We're staying relatively close and going only up the central coast and hitting Jalama beach, pismo beach and a bit of wine country around solvang. I want to find a couple of mild trails to drive on so I'm open to suggestions for a noob like me!
I'm super excited about this thing and I'm trying to also drive it to make sure it's trip worthy. I found out today I need to replace at least one of the bearings around the timing belt...grrr. I usually do this stuff myself but I'm going to have to pay since our wedding and such takes priority.

 

[Overland Hadley]

Solid rig!

 

[bimmeryota]

Got it to fit in my garage with airing down the bags and almost flattening the tires. Don't think this is a long term solution though. Just wanted to see what I needed to do to get it inside.
How bad is it to store a vehicle on deflated tires? I only plan on leaving it this time for a couple of days.

 

[ETAV8R]

Welcome to the FWC family.
More pics please.
:26_7_2:

 

[bimmeryota]

pic if it popped up

Put a nice coat of wax in the one piece roof. As you can see I opted for the Yakima tracks. There's a fantastic fan under that vent.

Here are some silver spur interior shots.



I'm liking the new latches


went with the ice box, I was too on the fence about which fridge to get. I think I'm going to get an engel and put mounts in the floor and in the truck cab.
the feature that sold my wife on it, the outside shower!