Hi I'm Dave

Thanks for all the detail and information. I will be running stock other than rims, tires, the Fox lift and Total Chaos UCA's. Looks like I will need 2 different sized spanner wrenches to adjust the coils, right? Any recommended retailers that may have them at cheaper than $50 a pop?

 

No worries. And no, only one spanner wrench is needed. Fox went from the two collars to a split single collar, the collar is secured with an Allen bolt. The collar is adjusted by using this wrench. Don't cheap out on a Chinese wrench. This tool will take a beating when you adjust the coil overs. And you will need it to adjust and dial in your coils after they settle. I would go trough Wheelers or Toytec but thats just me. I value a great purchasing experience and follow on support over saving a buck or two any day.



This is what the single lock ring and collar lock bolt looks like.

 

Right on lol Do you have an Instagram page of your photography/ and or truck? What kind of mtn bike do you have?

 

I agree, beds are made to be slept in.

 

Yes and no.

Personaly I own... get ready for this...
1 Giant Road Bike TCR Carbon
1 Cannondale Road bike Carbon (for those rainy days)
1 Trek CX Bike Aluminum
1 Giant Anthem carbon
1 Santacruz Blur Carbon
1 Moots XC Titanium
1 Cannonade fat bike with a lefty (Got it a few weeks ago, haven't ridden it yet)
1 Kona FR bike (oldie but a goodie!)

Yes, I know, I have a problem LOL but if you ride, you understand.

 

A good friend of mine once said, "the correct number of bikes you should have is one more." If his wife asks he always has one less...

 

I am very interested in this as I have been playing around with my unit for the purpose of doing a trip into Europe with it. If you could I would really like to know what type of restrictions I am going to have before I make a mistake and my truck wont be able to travel with me.

 

Nice truck

 

Beautiful. I can only imagine all the awesome adventires that rig will see!

 

Finally decided to test out the trucks bike, rides amazing, the lefty has come a long long way!

 

Great build!

 

Soo, took the truck for its 84 mile test loop with fully loaded racks and cargo. It averaged 15.8-16.6 MPG @ 80MPH. When the rack is empty the truck averages 17.5-18.2 MPG @ 80MPH on the same loop. I also discovered that the shop that installed the Alarm, managed to disable the truck's ARB set up. The Factory window visors or whatever those things are called. Vibrate due to the snorkels wind buffeting effect. I adjusted one of the rungs on the rack due to vibrations at 40 MPH, but now I have a sort of wind blowing on a bottle sound going on. Will work on that tomorrow, I think have an idea of what might be causing the whistling.
The good news is the truck handles and rides beautifully. Here are some junky phone pics while I was fueling up.

 

Awesome truck! Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Two thumbs up from me.

 

Sup Dave. Love TN, been there once, I'd move there in a heartbeat! Sweet rig too!

 

Awesome I like it too!

 

So, I took the truck out on test loop #3, 120 miles of mixed country roads and 80MPH HW sprints. I wanted to eliminate the noises coming from the effects of the wind on the body after the installation of the snorkel and the roof rack. I was able to narrow down the visor clicking to the front corner of the passenger rear window visor. Some graphite solved that issue. The howling sound coming from the roof was a different story. I took crossbars off, moved them around, fiddled with the wind deflector both lowering and raising it. And the howling would not go away. I tried swearing at it, sweet talking to it, but still it would make the gut wrenching whine. So I went scientific. I started to systematically tape over groves, slits, holes and anything that seamed even remotely suspect. After 4 Hours of adjusting, pulling over to relook and readjust, I found it. The rack is now barely louder than the factory bar with the crossbars deployed.

And here is the source of all that noise!




The noise was the result of a prank by one of my friends, it made the bike's head tube behave like a bottle neck, but much, much lauder.

 

The truck looks great! Are you sure that's a Z-Series canopy though?

 

Thanks!


Yes, it has "upgraded" (trutfully overpriced poorly made) windoors. I had them redo the rear rails as well, they are shorter than normal, that and the windoors might trow it off a bit.

 

Hi, Dave...

It's been a while.

Can you now divulge some of your secrets?

It would be interesting to know the rules of the countries that you have to EXPO through.

Cheers!

 

Nooooooooo SHIT. Where did this guy go?