NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Glad it turned out to your liking and I enjoyed getting out and getting to help out! Good looking truck!

 

Thanks, Cary. You and @wrmathis really helped me out and I can’t thank you guys enough.

 

ahh memories back when I did IT support almost a decade ago...I would run out of flash games to play and reached the end of the internet many times doing night shift...

 

You’re welcome! Now we just need to all get out and actually use our trucks for what we built them for lol

 

So I had my oil changed at my local Toyota Dealer yesterday, and they always do their little however many point inspection and give you the report card. All was good for my truck and when going over it with me the advisor (not tech) asked if I had an aftermarket battery because I had "really, really high cold cranking amps." I understand CCA when tested is some sort of estimate, but an OEM brand new Toyota battery is rated as 830 per their docs. My battery was showing 1157. Yes, I have an aftermarket battery. Optima Yellow Top, group 27. Anyone else seen numbers like that?

 

CCA of batteries are different, you can even get various CCA within a specified battery group . Look at the top of your optima and itll show you what its rated at

 

it's rated at 830CCA as well. same as the OEM battery.

 

Curious to hear who everyone recommends/ trusts to align their truck. Don’t want to use someone who just follows the computer screen and can’t properly torque the cam tabs. Is it just waiting the few weeks to get into Mule? Preferred local-ish to Puyallup But also willing to drive a bit for good service.

 

we need to get another tahuya trip going before we lose this perfect weather! I still haven’t got my 35’s in the dirt yet

 

Ask for Tom at Best Tire in Parkland. He was willing to work with me and my SPC uppers and has since learned how to actually set the lca’s and upper ball joints to where most of us need them for larger tires and clearance. When I was last in, he thanked me for teaching him and said he has been doing a lot of Toyota work since.

 

That’s what I wanted to hear!

 

Any good trails or FS roads that get you out into the woods near Ashford? Wife and I will be staying at a friends cabin for a few days. I’m finding a little info about Elbe Hills, but hard to tell how difficult those trails are.

 

I would do another run with the big tire crowd in my little 285’s

 

well Andrew is on 37’s now so we’re all still in the little tire crew compared to him

 

Elbe has a gate keeper, if you can’t make past it don’t play there. If I remember correctly there’s a back way in where you can bypass the gate.

 

Goodyear in bothell always does good work for me, guy who usually does the alignments also owns a 3rd gen

 

Thanks for the heads up, good to know!

 

So does walker valley you can get in with a stock truck but its a hour long debacle involving maxtrax

 

Our great thread creator @Benson X and also the Craigslist Sharing Queen @Bertw192 have birthdays today. HBD fellas.

 

Full disclaimer - I didn't create this thread originally, I just assumed responsibility after the OP (@YFZ450MOE) said he was no longer active on TW. But - I'll raise my beer to y'all for still being alive 36 years on this rock!