Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Lake Monona went up 5 .5" yesterday.

 

Wow! Some pretty significant rainfall this weekend, all over the southern part of the state.

I remember when my friends and I got nailed with very serious storms camping years ago, and the Mondeaux flowage came up about a foot and a half in a few hours. That was the trip when my buddies boat got swamped, and everybody thought I got struck by lightning.

 

A great gift idea for your best friend with a Toyota (or a bottle that needs opening). Or maybe your credit card is getting dusty and needs some use. I have nothing but good things to say about my Wera tools.

https://www.kctool.com/wera-136605-advent-calendar-2022/?rfsn=5802283.d413ea5

 

So... I bought a battery. Unfortunately, not the battery I ordered. I ordered an Odyssey Extreme. They billed me for an Odyssey Extreme. I got an Odyssey Performance... Huh. Not what I ordered. Certainly not the same price. I agreed to keep this one (as they cannot send them back at NAPA for some reason.) They made it right; like really right on the price, and I am fine with this one-tired of jumping the truck every time I take it, so win win.

 

Dang that stinks but glad they made it right. Specs on those two series/models isn't too far off, basically 7Ah and a couple cold crank amps. Performance series far, far exceeds anything stock anyways. Glad you don't have to jump it all the time now!

 

That is what I was thinking...

 

How long are you going between trips with the truck that your battery drains out? Or do you have parasitic loss because of accessories and whatnot?

 

Original factory battery. Eight years old. I have been checking it periodically with an Ohm meter, and it has never been strong... I do have a parasite in the system but lately the battery has just given up. Happens. Most draw is very low-sleeping camera etc. Also don't drive it much; once a week or so.

 

Eight years on a factory batt is long in this climate.

 

Updated tonight.
Caledonia for the win!

 

It's long for any battery, but hot climates wear batteries out twice as fast as cold climates.

 

https://www.marlincrawler.com/transfer-case/built-units/tacobox
Tacobox is in stock!!
Unfortunately I will not be getting one at this point

 

@Larry Dangerfield you better hop on this

 

At Menards this morning. They are setting out Christmas stuff.
Just another reason to spend money I don't have.

 

I'm not ready for that shit. Hell, I'm not ready for Halloween for that matter.

 

Unfortunately I don't think they have an adapter available for the 2nd and 3rd gen MT's anyways. If you don't need the 4.70 ratio look at Northwest Fab Works Eco Crawler. I put mine in for under $2600 total and that includes drive shaft length modifications. So worth it for the MT's.

 

But....But.... I didn't even get a pumpkin spice latte yet.

 

Enjoy