Long Travel BS Thread

Using those terminal lugs is a good idea though. I had to jump someone yesterday. If someone asked me today I’d tell them I can because my battery is covered in the bed. I guess same for me, it’s a pain to charge my battery as well. Oops.

My battery looks like this. Next week I’ll have a little aluminum cap thing for the rain. Right now I am using a tarp since it’s raining.

 

I like that battery placement more than mine. I’m gonna have to move mine again as it will interfere once I get LT on in the back

 

Oh yeah l from the pic it looks like it right above the diff. Good spot kind of. Leaves more room in the bed. I lucked out with the bed cage since that spot wasn’t really usable anyway.

 

Developing the kit is still on the schedule for early 2023. Still working out packaging options and everyone is swapped with KOH stuff.

 

I'm not in a rush. I'm trying to get the truck back on the ground from my most recent work and just want to enjoy it for the next year or so. Especially now that I have a new project truck to work on.

We'll see what ends up happening. Have some cosmetic parts on order already and going to build a new front bumper. Then we'll see...

 

Little more bumper work on the street mobber

Trying to keep this truck as period correct as possible (late 90’s / early 2000’s) with a little modern twist

 

2 project trucks. You a wild man.

 

One is not supposed to be a project truck. It just turns out to be on Jack stands 1/3rd of the year.

 

did you promise yourself that you would never have both trucks on jack stands at the same time ?

 

Yes...

 

Best way to hold that promise is to make sure you don't have enough jack stands for that to be possible

 

That thing sure is beautiful! Nice work!

 

After buying the frame boxing kit in January of 19....I finally put it on. Surprisingly very little trimming had to be done to make it fit considering the amount of abuse that frame has seen. Props to DMZ off road for making such a well fitting kit.

 

yeah mine fit pretty much perfect, just had to cut it to fit around my crossmembers since I cut the stock ones all out and use 2x4 rec tube.

 

We don’t need your kind of negativity here…

 

Simple yet effective... I like it.

Anyone have any jack stands I can barrow?

 

Any DMZ stuff I’ve used has always had very good figment. Their motor and trans mounts are a must as well if you don’t have them. Plus Tim is a good guy and informative to talk to

 

Swapped to some hub centric slip-on spacers. New ones are hub centric to the trail gear hub and the Tacoma spec wheel. Will see if they eliminate some of the rear end vibes that the cheaper spacers were probably contributing to. I rotated the tires right after I got the truck due to some weird front tire wear on the MT/R’s, which eliminated a lot of vibrations already.


Anyone running the Milestar Patagonia XT’s? I’m sticking with 37s and the current MT/Rs are over 7 years old, so it’s time.

 

Yup...he's about a 20 minute drive from me and he loves to talk. I have the solid offroad engine and tranny mounts currently...no issues so far.