Capture Colorado 01 TRD Taco - GOAE build

Yes, and yesish. The tube is in line with the upper mount, the tabs extend to the rear of that, so the shocks are angled back a little more.

 

Thank you sir. I want to keep mine closer to vertical. My shocks are short bodies so I might be able to get away with it. Did you have to bend the brake line on the driver side?

 

Dunno if you've heard of this but pretty simple fix^

http://www.bajataco.com/Brakes2.html

 

I was referring to the hard lines. My e-brake cable doesn't touch my leafs.

 

The rearward angle the shocks are sitting at doesn't change how far into the shock's stroke it sits. I figured having them angled back a few degrees extra will just help them clear the cable more.

I did bend the hard line a little, not much though...Just enough to clear the welder.

 

Now I need to do a u-bolt flip

 

Is it the camera angle or are your shocks mounted slightly \ / ? If so, is there a benefit to having it sit like that?

 

It's just camera angle, they're totally parallel.

 

I see. They look great. Very clean. One day I hope to get to that point.

Are frame reinforcement plates required when doing a shock relocation? or can you just box in a crossmember?

 

You can just box in a crossmember. I used a 4x4" piece of 1/4" plate, a tad overkill but it'll never have an issue. Then I had a big chunk of 1.5" dom sitting around that did the trick perfectly.

I did the frame reinforcement plates because of the tire carrier, no real connection between the two projects.

 

I so need to do this.

Thank you.

 

Thanks for the info. No where near the point of doing this but just like to know the work involved incase I ever want to do this.

 

White Rim. Two nights, some biking, some 'splorin, lots of driving.

We ran it counter-clockwise. Starting on the Mineral Bottom side, we met up in Moab at 2, and rolled out. Our first campsite was Labyrinth, which made for a quick first day. I can say for certain - one of the greatest parts of driving this trail is reflecting back to when I was suffering for miles on end and struggling with climbs... as I opened up the throttle and rallied through the terrain.



My buddy, Scott, in his supercharged 4R. Super clean rig.









Made it into camp pretty quickly, considering Labyrinth is only about 20 miles in from the start, it's a short but sweet day.

I told my Nemo rep that if he let me borrow a bag and tent for the trip, I'd get him a bunch of pictures with the tent. I'm thoroughly impressed with their tents, both the tent and bag have some really sweet little details that my old go-to tent lack entirely. I'll admit though, I'll likely end up with a pop-up tent from Slee for about $100 and much quicker setup time.







Day Two.
Labyrinth CG is a stone's throw away from a really fun wash, we got no pictures until later down the road after the dust and fun powdery sand was behind us... On a side note, Mark and I explored where the wash dumped out into the river, and found the quicksand we had heard caused closures further south in Canyonlands around the Needles District. We then proceeded to play with it, and mess with it until we got a branch stuck in it about 4' down... turns out quicksand is real, and it's pretty damn fun to play with. Additional side note, we may not have used the best judgement in poking the bear there...

Texting and driving? Try operating a full-manual DSLR while wheeling.










It's really not until you get to the top of the Murphy Hogback that you understand why the trail is called the White Rim. All along the route, the exposed rock along the edge of the lower canyon is white. Further back, at the base of the secondary set of cliffs, you see another white layer of rock and dirt. As many times as I've gone into Canyonlands, I've still yet to figure out a good way to capture and reflect the many layers and fingers of canyons within canyons. From tiny slots, to massive miles-wide expanses. I love this place.


Mark gearing up to ride his bike in the desert.






I kind of selected the black-and-white shots in pairs... Also based off of which shots I wasn't satisfied with the color variant between highlights and shadows.










Plenty of things that wanted to make you hurt if you let your guard down. And/or weren't wearing shoes.


End of day two. It was a long one, on the trail for something like 5 or 6 hours. We pulled into camp and Scott and his wife wanted to sit back and relax, while Mark and I felt like exploring. We saw the Lathrop Canyon spur which took off from White Rim just past where we were camping. It's about a mile and a half down from the Rim and drops you right down to the river. We figured we'd explore that before heading back and setting up camp and getting dinner ready.

If you're ever planning on doing the WR, I definitely recommend taking the time to do this spur, it's a short, and rather steep descent into a small canyon, and the trail winds along the wash at the bottom of the canyon. There's times where you can stray off of the trail and climb some fun ledges as you return up the trail, and there's plenty of opportunity further down to get your braaap in some wide sweeping sandy turns. Sadly, we were having too much fun to get any pictures, but here's the traildamage link: http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=137

Not a bad place to sleep. Aside from the unrelenting wind and eventual rain.




Shameless promotion. This tent is badass.


Day Three.
It rained. A lot. From about 1am till 8am. Very steady rain. Glad I decided to set the tent up, and not just roll the bag out. We woke up to a low cloud ceiling behind us enveloping Island in the Sky and clear skies throughout most of the valley below till the other side.





That's all from the final day, we stopped to make up some bacon and sweet potato patties (and make every passerby drool) at Muscleman Arch, then before we knew it we were done with the trail.

All in all, an awesome trip. We got some time on the bikes in Thursday morning, and had it not continued to dump rain Saturday night, we would still be out there playing bikes.

 

Nice, truck did well? Did i see you have the extra fuel mounted right by the rear tire? Are not worried about road debris?

 

Truck did great, pretty much the only issue I had was with my box system on the flatbed. I have two Rotopax fuel and two water cans mounted forward of the rear wheels. No issues with debris or contaminants, they're well sealed and the plastic is heavy enough that it ought to withstand any spray/rock bits.

 

Right on, looks good in the photos!

 

Those are some sweet pics and a great looking truck!

 

Those pictures are fantastic. I'm very jealous

 

Awesome pictures as always. Looks like a fun trip!

 

Nice trip report, thanks for sharing.
Would you say White Rim is doable with just one night's stay, or will I be too rushed/miss too much?