1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Really isn't.

Love driving a manual vehicle; modern dual clutch type autos though are fun AF too.

Drove a manual in every situation except for anything technical while off road. Guess a future crawler will give me the opportunity to do so?

 

I worked at an airport in college that had an international loadstar 1200 gallon aircraft fuel truck that was a stick. I used to have to train new hires how to drive stick on that thing with a granny un synchronized 1st gear and 15ft of gear shifter throw. It SUCKED to train on that thing. To add insult to injury we were usually too lazy to drive it to the unleaded tanks so we would just top it off with 100 octane leaded fuel so the plugs were usually fouled up.

 

dual cases and let it crawl itself

 

I love the DCT, calling it an auto is required but shit if it doesn't just feel like a manual that comes with abetter driver haha. I dig my 5 speed trucks for offroading and wouldn't want something different either. You get used to starting on ledges and rocks and holding position or slow maneuvering. On trucks like ours, clutches are a weekend job, it isn't bad. I worked my last clutch pretty damng hard and it survived to 230k where I swapped it for a new one cause I was already in there, tons of life left. If you're a good driver they last even with tougher off-road shit on top.

 

JET-A or AvGas?

 

Avgas. Our jet trucks were at least auto. They were 1960 something dodges with detroit 2 strokes in them. Screamed and smoked like a freight train.

This was the early 2000s and were still using these piles of crap.

 

Detroits kick ass, you know unless you have to be outside them haha. Fucking loud bastards

 

Don't forget to tune into the Mars rover landing, if you're into that sorta thing. Supposed to land on Mars around 1pm. Expected to be NASA's trickiest robotic landing yet

JPL where they are controlling the thing from is only a few miles from me

 

I can’t believe Elon Musk’s car is in Low Earth Orbit

 

Yup!!!! If you let them idle for a few hours then hit the gas they would spew out insane ammounts of white smoke... Think a kyle vapeing in his mom's corolla with his bros level of white smoke

 

Looks at me and my truck in seattle

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1uJgIyLrg

 

This should be good
https://jalopnik.com/uwe-gemballas-son-is-building-an-off-road-porsche-959-t-1846296093

 

A boosted DCT is just fire; that thing grabs the next gear and you never lose boost between shifts like a manual.

My poor brakes; used to brake boost like a mother fucker on my RX7, ST, Miata and other toys...

 

@slander

You can reply with a short, off the top of your head reply, or even post a link that helped you a lot in the past.

I will be picking up welding in the future; ETA in a year and will have the room to weld.

I consider getting a dedicated rig for trails (refuse to call it a crawler, won't be that extreme); I also consider keeping the current rig and going SAS with parts gathering being a sloooow possibility starting soon, and the actual job getting done in 3-4 years from now.

With that being said, Ford 1 tons are the go to it seems.

Any specific years to go with?

Aside from locker options and whatever else the case is...any other reasons to not go with a Dana axle from a Ram truck? I ask because we have cores that get tossed often.

Just asking if I wish to fuel one idea or the other.

 

No

 

Trailer or no?

If trailer and you want a straight up trail rig that I would look for an old 3/4ton chevy single cab truck, rip the fenders off, build a cage, slap some 40s on it and wheel where ever you want while saving a bunch of money.

If it needs to be street legal, get a pre built SAS toyota.

I wheeled at a toyota event with a guy that did exactly that while doing an SAS on his toyota and said he was going to sell the toyota and just wheel the gutted fullsize.

 

@Kwikvette

I don’t like how the skid just hangs off the winch plate, at least for the 02+ plates.

gonna have to drill some holes.

 

@Kwikvette another thing if you are going to SAS your current truck, don't mess around with toyota axles, just get some dana 1tons from something and use that. Toyotas shitty steering angles suck donkey dong.