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Just a trip to the garage to shed tears at my broke as fuck tacoma .

Next trip planned will be around mid to late august.

 

Im sorry to hear that

I'll be near your parts(sorta) by that time

 

Really? Where at?

 

i'll be in AZ, but a quick check at maps says you're about 900+ miles so maybe not haha. Unless we meet in UT or CO

 

I was planning on the trip being either in CO or possibly AZ. Although I would probably want to avoid AZ because of the heat.

 

Worrrd, thats much more realistic. Not sure what the weather is like in WY, but if AZ is like SC but less humidity, you're not gonna have a good time. I will welcome the humid-free environment on the other hand.

 

Where I live its pretty nice in the summer. At 7200 ft most days stay around the 80's. Go into the mountains and you can enjoy a nice 65-70. Anything above 80 and I hate my life .

 

I have about 10 projects to do before the 24th of this month cause like a dumb ass I said sure I'll allow my truck to be part of a display for a car show the day before I leave on a 4 day trip...

 

You would hate it here. Weve already gotten into the 90's

 

Panamint Valley by The Adventure Continues, on Flickr

@allpro @TepuiTents

 

All those trucks look great. A little extra love for the Bronco, I had one in high school.

 

Tepui Crew!

 

Thought the folks in this thread might like to see what I received in the mail today.

 

I'd say that's pretty reasonable considering what you get.

 

Turd Lately? Are you a septic man?

 

I was employed by the Department of Defense for awhile, does that count?

In other news. Flippac for sale.

 

Try ... "Tread Lightly"
Look it up , Practice it , live by it , or .... Stay At The Mall

 

STA@MAL

 

Finally ditched my OEM tonneau cover about three weeks ago on a trip down to Portland, ordered my canopy on the way back home. Truck looks good naked, but no security:



Canopy showed up a week and a half ago, but I was unable to pick it up until yesterday. It's a Leer 100XR with windoor on the left, standard slider on the right w/ petscreen, fixed front slider, carpet liner (free upgrade) and thule tracks. Color match is better than I expected. Leaks a little bit up front where it meets the bed, but I'm pretty certain I'll have no trouble chasing that down.



Built a bed drawer system on the super cheap. Built the box from some 5/8" prefinished maple I had laying around the shop. Put two 2" wide VHMW (much cheaper than UHMW and still slippery) strips above each drawer the full length of the box so that when the drawer pivots down it will still glide easily. Cut a bunch of holes in the box to both lose weight and to give air a place to move through as drawers are opened and closed. Note, box is sitting upside down in this picture:



Drawers are made from 12mm (~1/2") baltic birch. Had to buy this material but since BB comes in 5'x5' sheets and the bed of the truck is 5' there's very little waste. The bottom of each drawer got the same 2" strips of VHMW to glide on and they work surprisingly well.



Box goes into truck and the top lines up perfectly with the top of the wheel wells and the small ledge that runs the length of the truck. Another piece of BB makes a solid platform all the way across the bed. That piece is cut into two in a zig zag joint (very difficult to see in the photo) so that the two halves can both be drilled to the box right down the center support. In spite of the short bed length there is enough room for an adult to sleep diagonally back there, great for solo runs.



Still need to carpet or felt the platform but I'm pretty much done as it sits. Maybe one or two more things to get done. We'll see.

 

Siiiiick!!