Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

sure do look preety

 

EDDO is defiantly selling his truck and going to the dark side.

 

Nah. Just reducing the weight by getting rid of stuff I don’t use. Must be working because I wound up seriously oversprung in the front. Those coilovers are going on the truck Sunday.

 

3.5hrs in a chair. But my old jailhouse tats are covered..

 

Yup.

 

just got my hands on this the other day customer here at the shop brought it by for a part out and said the rest is mine. going to be turning the bed into our camp/adventure trailer. cutting the frame just under the firewall to build the tongue, swapping wheels/tires after i find a set. as far as axle, going to leave it with what it has and throw a dummy 3rd member in it to hold the axle shafts (at least until i get a trailer axle or something). has fuel tank, working lights and no holes in the panels, just minor rust spots. any of you ever done something along these lines? any suggestions on wheel/tire setup and size or suggestions on suspension and axle? also open to ideas on what to do to it

 

Ok>>> you are going to leave the cab on the trailer? Or do you mean rear wall?- way cool if so - I wanna see this

 

F250/ 350 shortbed? It’s on the list.

 

That’s pretty sweet.

Just be aware that Toyota pickups don’t make very good trailers. Something about where the axle is. My dad made one and he never uses it because of how bad it tows... and he’s made a handful of trailers.

Just make sure it’s got a long tongue and I’m sure it’ll be fine.

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Save it! Don’t hack it up. It’ll be a much more rewarding project.

 

I’d save if it were mine. I stick a small diesel in it and finally take advantage of my endless supply of used fryer oil.

 

Was up there like 2 weeks ago.... didn't catch a think. Wife and I brought our scuba stuff and did a dive, didn't even see a trout

 

Has anyone used a

$91 viair 88p portable compressor kit (12V, 120 psi, forup to 33" tires)

viair 88p to fill they're tires? This would just be for roadside repairs. Found one on Amazon cheap. This and a plug kit and I'm good to go.

 

I like my viair. It’s a little bigger than the 88p but well made.

I also have the red Chinese made one that everyone sells that has been super reliable for me. I though I ruined it when I cross threaded the hose connector so I bought the viair but my dad rethreaded it and it’s still pumping away.

 

I carry a 88P in my truck at all times. I also often carry a 12V 20AH AGM batttery that I normally use for powering astronomy gear, and will use it to power the viaair instead of trying to reach from the vehicle batteries back to the trailer axles.

my *only* minor complaint about the viair is its integral pressure gauge. when you hook it up to the tire, you get an accurate reading, but when you turn the compressor on, it reads 5-8 PSI higher than the actual tire pressure, and even when you shut it off, this higher pressure stays... so I pump the tires til it reads about 10 PSI higher than I want them, then bleed them down using my handheld tire gauge to the correct pressure...

 

I've used the hell out of my 88p with disregard for its duty cycle. Love it. Not the fastest, but gets the job done

 

the 88p's duty cycle allows 25 minutes continuous at 30 PSI, then a 35 minute cooldown.... it can inflate a LOT of tacoma tires in 25 minutes i find at maybe 5 mins per tire to take them from really soft sand crawling to highway pressure, the time to switch from wheel to wheel provides plenty of cooldown, it never gets close to too hot.

 

Random kid story...came upstairs to my 7 year old ratting out the 2 year old for unraveling an entire roll of toilet paper in the playroom.



So I start to clean up and tell the 2 year old it’s not ok to do that. I gather all the TP and go into the bathroom and find the spring loaded TP holder perfectly in place on the stand. The 2 year old is smart but no way she took it off and put it back on...ask the 7 year old how that might have happened and get a mischievous smile from her. Little punk set up her sister to get in trouble. Never a dull moment.