What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

On 2 Nov, $69.76 for 18gal ($3.859/gal)
Friday on my way home to Gilbert, had to fill up while going through downtown(got carried away and was on fumes)... $70.10 for 18.95gal ($3.699)

Lift kit brought me down to about 17-17.5mpg, now to do the viper cut and CMC and mount the 315/75-16's sitting in my garage... that ought to make mpg fun...

 

Technically yesterday.....picked up my C4 sliders and SOS Concepts gas tank skid from the powder coaters. Hope to get an allocation on my truck soon

 

duct tape it like any real Canadian would

 

Shoot me a PM and we can figure out how to get you a set!

 

55,000 now. Trip was 8,2xx miles

 

Does anybody know what size the bolt is that goes through the 1 inch ball on the Dashtop Multi Mount? That info is nowhere to be found on their website.

 

Brave and handy! Lot of effort for leather on the steering wheel, good on ya!

 

That's a pretty serious (and envy-inspiring) list. This kind of rig could overland pretty far into the wilderness. There's a wide range. At the low end you could just camp in a ground tent and bring normal camping supples. Then move to an in-bed tent with some additional storage and electronics. Then a roof-top tent, etc. Best to start modest and build over time.

 

Yeah, I could prob get out and about with my stock rig and maybe spend 1k and be fine as I already have a ground tent and stove etc. All the extras are nice but EXPENSIVE. Roof top tent really surprised me

 

Added this, after about a month of backorder!

 

$7 is the cheapest and easiest mod around here. Not leaving my headlights off when reversing in a parking lot at night or on the street.

 

Last week installed a new set of KO2's, moving up from the stock 265 70 16 to 265 75 16. My previous KO2's had 50,000 miles on them, and at 40,000 they became unbearably noisy. Driving on pavement was like driving on a gravel road. I expect the gas mileage will take quite a hit, I notice have to step on the pedal a lot harder now to get it moving like it used to, especially up steep hills. Will find out after I measure the mileage on this tank of gas.

Two of the older KO2's were out of round, due to over 100 hard off-road trips in the last 3 years. Likely belt damage from driving thousands of off-road miles like in the pic below.

They still had 6/32 tread on them, but I had reached my limit on the noise and vibration. Pretty smooth now.

Also waxed the truck yesterday, good to get that in before winter.

Hah, then I am back in the bush this week and it has been snowing where I'm heading and it will be bad mud and snow. Wash that wax right off. The undercarriage and skid plates are not so pretty, the truck has taken a beating. The inside not so clean, I wash the the mud off the drivers side floor mat once in a while and that's about it.

 

90% of the stuff that most "overlanders" put on their truck isn't necessary and can be done with your average camping gear. Recovery gear is important if you are going to push your truck into some interesting places.

 

Before my days in Tacoma World, I thought overlanding was what Lewis & Clark did.

 

Not true, $4 USD/gallon converted to Cdn/litre @ today’s exchange rate of $1.24 is $1.31/L. I just paid that at 7/11 in Edmonton. So it is exactly the same at 7/11. Gas is cheaper at Costco though, currently at $1.22/L. So gas is cheaper or the same where I live in Canada.

https://usgas.ca/

 

Just paid $1.48/l in the interior BC, $5.60Cdn/US gal, $4.52US/USgal

 

I think your conversion to US$ is backwards.

 

fixed

 

Which is why I said gas is cheaper than $4 USD/us gallon where I live. Not sure why my station is $1.31, because a lot in Edmonton are $1.39. Costco is fixed at $1.22 at all Edmonton Costco locations though.

 

That's a deal for us in CA!