What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

A little late to the conversation, but there is another air show that covers this era through the current aircraft. It is sponsored by the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in Michigan. They generally have a large draw of WW2 aircraft as there was a hanger there for the museum until it and some aircraft were destroyed by fire. It runs in August every year.

https://yankeeairmuseum.org/airshow/

 

And when they put the Merlin engine in the P51 Mustang that made two technological marvels of the day and helped to win the war in the air.

 

Not too impressed, Huh. You do realize that at that time, we went from 1938(when the first B-17 was introduced) model-A depression tech, to jet propulsion and atomic energy.... during a war. They were also built in factories that were not designed to build aircraft.

R&D was fast a furious and we didn't have a lot of time to develop things to their fullest before pressing them into service.
We are still riding on the shoulders of those who developed our tech in that era. Everything we have today, including computers and cell phones and space exploration can trace its development back to those "unimpressive" days.

I'd say that aircraft that flew in combat 80 years ago and is still around for us to appreciate today deserves a bit more respect.
Just my opinion.

 

They do limit it to like 1 every 6 months or something like that, but that's still fair. When I need new tires I might end up doing it through them with that, I'm not gentle off road so I could probably do with 1/year.

 

Nostalgia is not history. Sure I appreciate how we got here, but that doesn't change the fact these pieces belong in museums and not used to provide joy rides to unaware victims.

It's a bit like getting on a DUKW boat.

 

Added rooftop tent and awning

 

What tray did you buy for battery?

 

Toyota part number

$57 TOYOTA Genuine (74431-0C020) Battery Tray

74431-0C020 and it fits many Toyota vehicles. Just rests on same points as the stock tray.

 

Thanks myguy!

 

I've mentioned this before, but that tray doesn't really do anything. It's a super thin plastic. I put a 27f battery in and just removed the stock tray. The only thing I could see the tray doing is catching some battery acid if you had a wet battery type, but the sealed batteries don't leak so that tray is pointless.

 

That is a great looking grill. Where can one get that?

EDIT: "Tacovinyl" I thought they just sold inserts. Doh!

 

Just spent $40 on said tray. So i can just place the damn thing in there no tray and be A-O-K?

 

100%. I've had mine in there like that for over a year now, went on multiple wheeling trips (I live in the Rockies), and that battery hasn't moved at all.

Where you should spend your money is on a battery tie down like the one from sdhq or off-grid engineering.

You can also just set the battery on top of the factory tray. It works all the same.

 

Yeah I've been waiting for a Memorial Day sale or group buy on a Victory rack but prolly ordering rear leaf packs instead for now.

 

To each his own. If the battery does start to leak the tray will catch it. No tray then will get corrosion in the metal tray bracket. The tray is there for a reason. Same as carrying a spare tire. Doesn't touch the ground so do you really need it ?

 

A sealed agm battery is not going to leak.

Also, why does Off-Grid engineering sell these battery trays with holes in them? There's no tray to catch leaks on these. In their installed pictures they don't have any plastic tray underneath.

https://www.**************/collections/battery-trays

For the factory battery that definitely does leak (mine did), a plastic tray underneath is a good idea.

Edit: Dunno why the link didn't share correctly.

 

Yeah, I meant to say grille insert

 

Not knocking the no tray for AGM batteries. I don't use AGM batteries so I have a tray. I don't think average drivers use AGM batteries.

 

I’m sorry, I have a very hard time seeing people wanting to try something as being a “victim”. If you can’t understand that there are risks involved in riding an 80 year old airplane (especially after reading the waiver) I’m not overly concerned by an early departure from the gene pool. But I guess everyone is a victim these days. I feel really bad for those base jumpers that don’t deploy in time.

 

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