Tacos in St. Louis area

Hey wait a minute! Wasn't you on the smittybilt scout page talking?

 

Maybe. Some guys were talking about Smittybilt trailers and I let them know that the brand had been sold. They were strong in Connecticut but for reasons they never explained moved everything to Oregon. I think I shared the official press release somewhere here on TacomaWorld.

 

Ahhh ok. I've been looking at the scout but not a fan of how the main compartment is rear facing

 

Anyone passing through earth city tomorrow on the way to modday?
Its about an 1.5 hr detour for me..
That is if they're even open on the weekend?

Needing led relay kit from diode dynamics for my tails.

 

Give me the address and i can pick up what you need

 

Don’t register for ATR yet. Just tried and the form is wonky. Talking to Brett now to give him a heads up so he can get it sorted.

 

Just googled and called. Looks like their storefront is closed on the weekends. All good I can get them another week.

 

i can pick them up for you during the week and ill drop em off at gt's for you..

 

New toy for mod day

 

@G.T. is there a spanner wrench or 5/8 punch at the shop? Threw those Kings on last night and they’re set a little tall for my liking.

 

He’s got a Fox spanner by the spring compressor, it FOX so it’s cooler. But I’ve git the King punch type as well, I can bring it.

 

Lol, but yeah I’ve got you covered on 2” and 2.5”.

 

Hells right, thanks

 

We can compress up to 14” x 700lb springs too.

 

Just from reading I was worried about the 600# coils being too light of a spring rate. Now that they’re on there I think they’ll be perfect, there pretty firm now so I’m betting taking some preload off will solve it all (885’s I had are 590#/inch and .5” longer, I believe).

All the research I’ve done tells me I just need to take all the load off the coil, lube it up, loosen the set screw and turn the collar. Let me know if I’m missing something, this is my first foray into high end suspension setups.

 

I was on 600# as well. Added a bumper and then quickly realized I needed 700#

 

Got an arb bumper, no winch. I’m also rocking the 4 popper, which for being so close in weight to the 1gr sure does make a difference with lifting. Bought 886’s in anticipation for the arb bumper, immediately took em off because my cvs were Z’s lol.

 

So painting the sliders 2 weeks ago gave me back my confidence with a rattle can. Started looking around the house for other things to paint. Settled on my P90

 

Niceeeee

 

Whatever was pouring out of the back of grease truck that we had to deal with twice on the way back from Tennessee wasn’t petroleum based. Some kind of food grade crap I reckon. Pressure washed the Toyota’s and the trailer and it all came off easy enough and left no rainbow puddles.

Looks like the misso will be driving the LandCruiser to Tennessee for ATR again so I’ve got to start knocking out a few projects on it to get it ready. Front pinion bearing for starters and then just replacing a few other parts a little ahead of the prescribed maintenance schedule. Reckon I’ll have all of those parts by next month or so.