Mike's Mountain Build

Thanks dude !!! Your truck is looking really good, I love black, almost wish that was the color of mine sometimes.

 

Mike, shit looks good bro!

 

Thanks Paul !!!

I'll see you next weekend. Hopefully have your tank with me.

 

Your truck looks good mike! Makes me miss my Jeep. I'm guessing you didn't go with the trd s/c for your spring purchase?

 

Mike, can't make it this weekend. Running the tough mudder and driving up with my bro in law to williamsburg on Saturday afternoon. Going to burry's in the morning. Catch you another time bro!

 

Well,
I guess I was on hiatus for a little while, mostly waiting on some fun monies to trickle in

Just ordered 4xInnovations DOM sliders, and about to take advantage of BudBuilt's free shipping and get their full underarmor .

Also contemplating Snorkel, or LED lighting on the roof, we'll see

 

He's alive!

 

Hahaha !!! I know, I know.... Not living in the 757, I don't have much to bullshit on here about if I'm not doing stuff to the truck had to take a break for a while until I went on travel and collected some play monies

 

REI was having a sale, so I picked this guy up for a new interior accessory, gotta load some topographical maps on it now

 

Shoe creek jane 17th 18th? Going?

 

If i'm in town, I'm down !!!

 

Starting to get a stockpile of parts.... Got the sliders and skids sitting here, and I just ordered my rear springs today. Decided to go with Dakars.... New ring and pinion gears will be order in the next week or two. It'll all be waiting on warmer weather to get installed.

 

Nice! !

 

Dakars came in, woohoo !!! Man, I've got a butt ton of work piling up for this thing

 

X2! this week ends gonna be warm! Lets see some progress!

 

I know, right ???

Work constantly gets in my way man... I have a 2 week Hawaii trip coming up on the 16th, so I'm taking my boy camping this weekend. I'm not expecting to get much of this stuff put on until April sometime or later.

I view camping with my kid equally important to working on the truck, or more.... gotta make sure he grows up with an appreciation and consideration for the outdoors

Also expecting to lineup some electrical work. I'll probably be ordering 2 gel cell batteries, battery isolator, battery monitoring system and a blue sea aux fuse panel.

 

Yeah i hear that! Have you thought about putting him in the boy scouts? thats what really made me love camping and the out doors. And learned a lot about the woods and how to survive and what not.

Is that all you need for a dual battery set up? been wondering about this for a little while, I don't have a need for it yet but just planning for down the road.

 

You can run dual battery technically without doing anything. You're electrical system will just pull near equal current draw from both batteries. You run an isolator, which is essentially a diode between the two, that prevents any accessories drawing on the secondary from drawing on the primary but allows it to charge. run you're aux fuse panel off the secondary, as well as your winch, anything you view as non critical operations run off the aux fuse panel, and there you have it.

 

4.56 Nitro Gears ordered from ECGS, should be at my doorstep in a day or two.

Looking at my schedule, I've got another trip in April, I'm going to try and get these installed before June. Might get the new leafs installed before then, but probably not the skid plates and sliders, those will have to wait probably until mid summer I'd guess, we'll see.