Wyoming B.S. Thread

The rest of the crew was in homer while I got my ass kicked by 12ft swells in the cook inlet catching chickens, fished out of deep creek (YouTube it, a wild launch and recovery of the boat). We spent a couple days in Seward, cool place. The fishing was excellent and luckily that day we had calm seas.

Did you fly into Anchorage and drive to homer?

 

Flew to Anchorage. But didn't go to homer this time. Stayed by anchorage as the service was there and went to palmer where my family lives.



Sounds like a good time!

 

I have a buyer for the green truck lined up at 12k. Once he sells is second gen he will pay for the green truck... But I backed out of the deal. I'm really torn on this as the truck's more sentiment than I realized. The problem is, I don't know what to do with it. Do I return it to stock and have a spunky supercharged Tacoma that's better to drive every day? Do I keep it on big tires and get in with a local club and wheel it on tougher trails and start really beating it? As is it just sits in the garage. So much so the battery goes flat between the times I drive it. Any advice from the crowd?

 

I'd keep it and beat it, they're an excellent platform as you know. Start now and change things as you did you need more

 

Might need to bob the bed then. I'm leaning that way but just don't have the social group. Although the thought of running all the trails in Moab of I trailer it there is highly appealing. Of course, it needs gears lol

 

I'm happy to join as my schedule allows. I'm putting my shit together to use it, as long as the tent can stay on it I'm good. I was pondering a way to get everyone to do the Rubicon next year

 

The reality is skids and gears and the green truck would do rubi no problem. Might need to revisit the ground tent option I guess.

 

Yeah, ground tent is okay, I mean I hate using one. But if it gets you out with us for fun stuff then I'm all for it.

 

That part hasn't changed. Honestly the vast majority of trails and places our group has gone is accessible with the van. The only two spots I know it can't do without losing paint is elephant Hill ( too wide for the pocket) and boulder basin Idaho (the waterfall wrecked my sliders). Besides that, I'm still in for wherever we go.

 

Yeah, as I've said it to you before...

You've painted yourself into a corner. Convinced that taking your living room couch into the wilderness is preferred. Don't compound the problem by removing your only option for an alternative.

 

Sure keeping in the current path isn't an option. The truck needs to be friendly on the street or mover up to the next level of wheeling. What I struggle with is I don't have the social group here to wheel hard right now. I think I'll start that way but don't be fooled into thinking I'm going to be camping out of green truck. Maybe for the rubi but beyond that....

 

Honestly. I'd take the tires off and sell them. Get some 32s or 31s and let her rip. Driving my stock single cab is so fun. And it's get good enough gas mileage to not hurt to DD it for the most part.

I think that is the best option if it is mostly a sentimental keep sake more so than a rig. I think you'd regret where it would end up if you beat on it and cut it down and trashed it over the next 4-5 years.

Case and point...



Look at Frankenstein




No seriously.



Frank is trashed. It's going to take a lot of work to get him back on his wheels literally. And it'll take great effort to keep it on its wheels to keep up the beatings. Since you've always been of the mind " I'd rather spend time in the woods than the shop". A beater rig is definitely the opposite of that. You'd get tried of working on it all the time and not driving it and then it would sit in your garage...in pieces haha


Don't get me wrong Im looking forward to shop time again in my life. But are you? Hours and hours every week?



I say fuck it. Make it fun to drive again and rip it up. You already are very familiar with that trucks capabilities on 32s anyways if you ever decided to camp with it again.

Plus can always go back to 35s and regear and bam. It'll do damn near everything you'd probably ever want.










Otherwise I guess cage it and send it to KOH but that's full fucking send. And there is no happy return from that haha

 

I'm always down for some technical terrain. I just don't know of any trails around that offer that.

 

Gotta be a few if those in Idaho. But gotta go south otherwise

 

There's 1 here in Valley County but I think a stock rig could make it. It's been a few years since I've hiked it though. There are some I think in the southern part of Idaho, people have done a pretty good job of keeping them off the web though. Thinking about it I did see some mention in CDL area.

 

There is some serious shit hidden up in the panhandle

 

Sup boys, here for my monthly-ish check in.

Glad to see I’m not the only one contemplating what to do with my sh*tbox as well. Have debated selling it lately, but the sentimental value is hard to put a price on.

 

Im in casper.

 

Crawlbox and bob the bed! Go with 4.88s, not 5.29s, and it will drive on the highway to Moab just fine.

Ground tent isn't the end of the world. Not like you'll be going on long trips with it.

 

ROCK CRAWLER, ROCK CRAWLER, ROCK CRAWLER!


But for real, the question must be asked what do you want to do? You're at the point in your life (we all are i think) where if you want to actually rock crawl, you can throw the money at it to build a sas rig, if you want more of a KOH like monte said, you can throw LT at it. You dont have to have a jack of all trades truck because going the extreme in any direction is a monetary wall you cant climb over. If the limit of what you want to wheel is 35s and IFS, get a crawl box and be totally fine...just IMO you're going to get a bit annoyed breaking axles and having limited articulation trying to keep up with other equally outfitted jeeps and more simple sas rigs (or be over built for the other half of the wheeling community). Obviously i cant speak to the LT side of it.

But lets call a spade a spade, its a 4wd truck. I just dont see how putting a super charger on it is going to make it fun enough to drive that that the SC alone will justify having it vs a much more fun road mannered car. SC and full LT? sure now we're talking. But just for road driving? Its just not as much fun as 20 other cars you could have to fulfill that purpose.

I think there are a handful of really fun (albeit short) trails around boise that are a good challenge for the taco on 35s with dual lockers, armor and an ok driver with few fucks to give. Eventually they will get easy and you will be seeking more of a challenge and you're back to traveling to CO and UT for that challenge. And of course if you go either route, committing to treating the truck worse and pushing it harder...you will grow very tired of driving it places to go wheel, so you will long for the tow rig, and with that a heap of additional expense.

If you're going to maximize the capabilities of a dual locked taco on 35s (with or without a crawl box) i dont think you're going to want to be driving it 8 hours to and from CO or UT.

Just like you said, sluggo sat long enough after i added all new parts to the front end the battery died and its charging tonight. But at this point, id rather let it sit in the driveway rarely used until i want to do something with it than sell it. Its beat up enough, and i dont need the money, its got way too much sentimental value to sell at this point.