mandog's Hard Shell Camper & Stories from the Road

Thank you for the kind words! I was torn between those two and ARE’s mid-rise, as well. I ultimately went with the Leer 180 for its lines. I felt it matched the body of the truck better. However, I think the framing of the windows (ARE has frameless) would be worthy of investigation/feedback.

I remember I read once on here that when it comes to shells, you will forever be chasing down leaks, and I have never felt a more truer statement. Hah

Thanks again!

 

Page 2!! Woopty-woop!!

I just want to say it took a lot of work to get here. I look back at page one and what a journey it has been to have left an apartment, customized a vehicle for living and then hit the open road. Big thank you to my mom/dad, and my friends for enduring and supporting all of this and especially to the TW forums for so many brilliant ideas on how to make a truck special, or unique!



With that said, here’s my latest production. I don’t expect another video will make its way out any time soon as I am in a huge undertaking, that of exploring New Mexico!! I plan to dedicate most of February to that and will undoubtedly incur a huge load of media to go through.

Although, I can already say I’ve punched quite a few items off the NM list..
Bandelier NM., Valles de Caldera, Hot Springs, Petroglyphs, Horses, Coyotes, Mule deer...

Until the next bend.. /mandog

 

Woo-wee! Finally all the pieces to the puzzle have come together!

Five videos created and one lengthy blog post to house it all.

I proudly present... three months of hard work!

https://www.mandogsays.com/post/tales-from-the-road
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Found my first actual off-road trail...
Somewhere outside Santa Fe in the hills of La Cieneguilla, New Mex.





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Revisited those OHV trails mentioned above and took it way back to Tetilla peak (its access point is now unfortunately closed for unknown reasons). A lot of great footage there, but cannot process the bulk of the data until I get back to NC and can use a desktop computer.

The Southern half of the state did get explored though, spending 12 days on the road visiting sites like Gila NF., the VLA, Carlsbad, the Guads, Lincoln NF., White Sands and some remote ranch lands outside of Deming. It was really eye-opening to see that part of the state and met some truly amazing people. I’d like to revisit it again in the fall next year and will make a bee-line right for those areas around Hatch/Hillsboro as it boasts some of the finest folk around!

As mentioned, not a lot I can do as far as pictures/content at this moment, but I’ll get back into the studio soon and crank out a two-part series of my time in New Mex. plus accompanying story.

If you haven’t read it yet, check out the blog post >HERE< for the trip out to NM. Cheers!

A Quicksand in White Sands​

 

Well, the truck and I are back in North Carolina. We shaved three days off the return route, but still camped within Texas (Lake Meredith), Arkansas and attempted to camp in Illinois, but could not find a non-flooded campground until back across the Ohio River and into Kentucky. My heart goes out to you folks that dealt with the immense flooding!! Terrible stuff

I’m well underway with the video work and part one of the New Mex. series should be out in the next day or so. Also catching up with friends and family that I missed out on seeing for two months.

I did want to say, though.. that on one of my last nights in New Mexico, while attempting to get to a site that was snowed in, up in Angel Fire (near Taos) I got totally stuck in the snow. I thought it was the angle of the hillside, but it was actually snow pile reaching well over a foot deep. With no prior tracks, I couldn’t get any traction. I tried digging out a little bit, but no luck. Aired down the tires to around 20 psi and still couldn’t grab, but when I put into crawl control, and gave the wheel a few jerks it literally crawled its way out! HELL YEAH !! I can’t believe that thing actually served its purpose !!

Man, what a trip. So many great sites. I’m going to be really excited to release the videos and accompanying stories. Here’s us at Elk Mountain Peak, 9200ft

 

Yeehaw!! Fun times, both there in New Mex. and in the making of this latest episode.

If you're tuning in just for the truck stuffs.. BLM wheelin' happens @7:05


** STAY TUNED FOR PART 2 & ACCOMPANYING STORY!! **

 

The fun don't stop! Second episode for New Mexico has been released!

 

Springtime has been so endearing! Lately, I've felt a little like James Stewart in, "Rear View Window," with nothing to do but stare out a window, but I'm also really enjoying seeing spring come to life.

To hopefully take the mood from paranoia to panacean, I created a short story with an accompanying springtime bird list... Check it out here!

Annnnnd, E07 from the New Mexico series is now out! Less truckin' and more hikin'



woof

 

Lockdown has had me hunkered down, but it looks like I'll be able to resume operations in FL with an experimental restart. Pre-screening antibody testing will be in place with as much safety protocols as us boat people + scientists can muster. Wish me luck!

Also, I present the final installment of the NM journey:


/mandog

 

Not much by way of truck stuff, but I have arrived to Florida and ran at least one successful boat trip! Gearing up for our first research trip into the Bahamas. In the meantime, hope you enjoy a video highlighting our trip to the Florida Keys.



And for those that like to read, Click to view the accompanying story.

 

The summer season went as successful as it could have with three trips completed and two of those going into the Bahamas for our field research. On our last trip, the Bahamas decided it was in their best interest to shut down their borders and will remain so until the end of September.

It wasn’t all bad though, as we had a great time getting out and doing what we do! I proudly present the second video installment from the 2020 field season!



And, if that wasn’t exciting enough.. we suffered through yet another close call with Hurricane Isaias. Watch and see what it’s like spending all night wondering if you’ll be impacted or not.



Thanks for watching and stay tuned as there’s BIG news on the way!

 

So...The big news is I’ve left Florida and decided it was time to head off on another truck traveling adventure! This time I’ve set my sights on Wyoming and Yellowstone NP!

Before I do all that, I’ll need to make a stop over in NC to outfit the truck with some long thought about modifications and upgrades. After spending 9 weeks in New Mexico a few things came to mind that would better enhance my time on the road. I would also be switching the camp setup for early fall temperatures rather than dead of winter like I had experienced before.

INSTALLED
+ CaliRaised side projecting LED pods + OEM switch
+ ARB Zero 47 quart single zone fridge
+ Access panel within the sleeper platform
+ Endless breeze 12V fan
+ Solar shower mounted to roof rack + slotted shower stand
+ Additional 4 Gal Rotopax fuel can

STILL TO DO
+ Interior colored LED lights for inside camper shell
+ Extend solar showers hose by 1 meter
+ Reconfigure sleep setup for fall/warmer weather
+ Install second portable USB fan for camper shell


PICTURES

Roof mounted solar shower + shower stand
Finally got this concept up and running and to help serve as a roof rack platform, I constructed a slotted shower stand to go along with.





Access panel and platform reinforcement
The underneath storage from the sleeper setup seldom gets used because its too difficult to move all of the bedding out of the way to access it. To help simplify this, I added in a hinged access panel.

However, initially I’d perhaps chosen a slightly too thin thickness of plywood and some flex has been occurring in between the cross braces. While I had everything out, beefed up the rear platform pieces with a support board.





Also rigged up a fan to help pull air through the shell



ARB ZERO 47QT FRIDGE
Rigged up the 47QT fridge using the ARB synch kit and pre-existing bolts from the old seats



A few more installs and updates to go and then it’ll be time to hit the road!

 

FALL 2020 UPDATE

Man, what a ride! My journey into the greater Yellowstone area went above and beyond my wildest expectations for a fun and adventurous trip. What I didn’t expect, was for it to serve as an absolute testament to how rugged and dependable these trucks are.

Some of you may remember, but I launched the maiden voyage for this vehicle and its long-term camping buildout at the end of 2019 and headed off solo to New Mexico. This time around I had a travel partner with me, and this being her first road expedition of this nature (long-term camping within a vehicle) she did great, not missing a beat. We cooked every meal from the rear of the truck on a twin burner, liquid fuel stove and for this trip, I had incorporated a 47QT ARB fridge to help with food storage. We kept the fridge well-stocked with plenty of beer and healthy meal options and to my own credit, never had to repeat a meal short of making tomato and cheese sandwiches for our lunch pit-stops.

I had rigged up a solar shower that, more often than not, left us taking cold-ish showers, but it ran great with an extended hose and could plant it atop the luggage trunk on the roof rack for a full, gravity-fed shower effect. We did, in-turn, lose the privacy tent and one shower glove along the way (blew off the top), but with the right angle and leaving a rear door open, could have all the privacy one could need.

I also upgraded the GAIA app software to be a full premium membership, as its pointless to have if not going to do so, and with routine pit-stops to areas with wifi to back up our devices, check-in with friends and family, I could download the next series of maps I would be using. This served us really well when tackling those remote forested lands with zero cell reception and numerous junctures. The addition of its layers (USFS 2016 in particular) were extremely helpful in identifying other landmarks in the area such as alternate campsites and trailhead markers.

Beyond these changes, not much else was different except the duration. We traveled together for 7,000 miles across 13 states and camped within the buildout for a total of 40 days. // States visited: Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana

The trip at times felt fast-paced, considering how many miles we did, but we were always excited to travel on and see the next big thing. Our favorite places to slow down and enjoy the “Camp Days” were definitely the Black Hills in South Dakota and the southern parts of Montana outside of Yellowstone. Both Rapid City and Billings were splendid cities nearby to our camping areas for when we needed to venture back into civilization. Those two towns couldn’t have been cooler and more accommodating for folks like us trying to re-integrate into society after spending weeks outside in the wilderness.

Yellowstone, the principal landmark and goal of this trip, however, was NOT what we expected, with immense crowds and the feeling of being ushered around the single, looping drives that take you in and around the park. After a few repeated attempts to see the wildlife, however, we came away with a much better understanding of what makes this place so special. One morning, alongside Ric McIntyre (The “it” guy when it comes to the Yellowstone wolves) and other members of the Wolf Project, we watched 18 juvenile wolf pups from the Junction Butte group lounge around and play with each other while the adults were off in some remote location hunting for their food. Just a few days later we were camped out in in the Tom Miner Basin area which has been dubbed by locals as the “highest concentration of grizzlies in the lower 48,” and in one sitting watched nine grizzlies emerge from the woods and walk across an open meadow towards huge herds of Elk (60+). The elk themselves were a spectacle as this was their rut season and their screeching bugles could be heard all night long. Alongside of all this, were roaming packs of coyotes, yipping and howling in between the calls of the elk. Truly a wildlife mecca.

We took our time going back east weaving in and out of Northern WY / Southern MT, visiting sites like Bighorn Canyon and returning to both the Black Hills and Badlands for a second time. South Dakota would be the last major “fun area” before the expansive, days-on-end, corn-cob drive through the mid-west. In the Badlands, we entered in from the Buffalo Gap grasslands area and found ourselves deep within a four-wheelers paradise. There were great, wide-open hills that we launched the truck over and wound up camping out in the most remote, desolate-looking plateau. It’s hard to top these one-of-a-kind spots that just seem to pop out of nowhere and have no major signs leading you towards them.

Instead of taking the lower route east through Nebraska, we ventured a little higher and passed through Iowa and then into Indiana before we made the turn towards the south. This gave us a lot fewer cornfield days and Iowa actually had some pretty amazing campsites (Lake Anita). They’re the manicured, well-off kind of RV parks and with winter rates now in effect, we got a basic pull-in spot for only $5 and had access to all the campground amenities like hot showers + flush toilets. Even for an electric hookup, it was only $11, or $14 for the full hookup. Pretty unheard of in what I’d come across for prices and the allotment of amenities. But as usual, once we reached the stretch of land around Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, the cold rains that seem to always plague these states were upon me and my machine once again.

If some of you recall, this was the area I got caught off guard with the early 2020 flooding and could not find a single campsite that wasn’t underneath many feet of water. We got lucky with catching the last night of forest services within the Hoosier NF, which meant the showers would be on until 9 pm. Camp rates here were a little higher at $20 for the night, but this was the end of our trip and we’d spent enough days wiping ourselves down with just wipes to take in this lavish splurge. So we camped out, pitched a tarp on the back end and finished the trip with a marvelous asian stir fry noodle dinner.

The next day I dropped the gal off at the Nashville airport and like that, she was inside the terminal and I was on the way back to my favorite go-to start and end campsite about an hour away. By mid-day the next afternoon I was pulling in to NC, ready to give the ol’ girl a much-needed bath.

In the coming months I’ll do my best to work on getting the videos out in another series of multi-part installments, but there’s a solid eight SD cards worth of footage to assemble. The blog story should be coming out soon enough and in the coming week, I’ll be back in Florida going through the STCW course which includes a lot of open ocean survival skills and basic firefighter training.

All in all, 2020 proved to be quite exciting for me coming into it from the new year midway in on the maiden voyage for this build to New Mexico and then culminating the year with this hugely epic and somewhat impromptu visit to the greater Yellowstone area in the Fall.

It wouldn’t be appropriate to post here without some pictures… so here you go!

As always, thank you so very much for reading! All those views, likes and comments puts gas in my proverbial fuel tank and gives me the encouragement to keep going. So please, feel free to drop a comment, like a post/picture and do follow along. There’s much, much more to come! Thinking some suspension mods maybe??? *rubs chin*

Palisades Resevoir, ID


Uinta National Forest, UT


Badlands, SD


Grand Tetons, WY


Black Hills, SD


Uinta National Forest, UT


Badlands, SD


We out! /mandog ​

 

THEY’RE COMING !!!
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BLACK FRIDAY DEAL #2 !!!
(15% off superbumps front & rears)



I will have to postpone the installs as it looks like a weather window is opening up in South Florida and we just might pull off an end of the year trip to the Bahamas. ​

 

Still currently in Florida and awaiting a weather window to get underway, but I thought I would share this write-up I did for the Ironman 4x4 Foam Cell Pro thread.

When I return to NC in early December, I’ve a full list of installs to do before I make my way west towards New Mexico. On the docket are the following:

- Full ironman foam cell pro suspension install
- u-bolt flip kit plus superbumps install on front & rear
- ECGS bushing for needle bearing install
- Front + rear diff. oil change
- Minor tweaks to the platform sleeper setup + cold weather preparations

Until then, enjoy my senseless ramblings, sure to be lost to the many, many pages of this topic

 

Well, somehow we managed pull off a late November trip to The Bahamas amidst a slew of wacky and terrifying late season hurricanes. I remember back in March when forecasters were giving their predictions for the atlantic hurricane season and some went as high as 18-22 for named storms. While there was some variance to these prediction numbers, the bottom line was, everyone agreed 2020 would be a very active and possibly record-breaking season.

I’m a definite storm junkie. I can’t help but get excited when I see these storms taking shape, notating their intensification, jotting down barometric pressure drops, determining eye-wall distances and watching the GOES-EAST satellite to track their movement and symmetry while also observing the surrounding air quality maps for dryness and or humidity in the area.

I missed a lot of the action being held up in North Carolina during the March-May quarantine, but as we were discussing plans for a late November trip, the atlantic basin was already well into the greek alphabet for storm naming, and I would go on to watch (and ride out) two of the most puzzling and time-defying storms I’d ever come to witness.

The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season was a year centered around volume and incipient intensification of each of storm. Beginning with two named storms prior to the official start date, Arthur and Bertha got things rolling in mid-may. The first two hurricanes of the season were Hannah striking south Texas and Isaias, which came through the caribbean and hit much of the eastern US. I had rode out Isaias during its tropical storm stages, before it went spiraling up the coast. It’s video can be seen here:



Hurricane Laura, not being one to intensify rapidly, did become the first major hurricane of the year (Cat 4, 150 mph winds) and went on to deliver over 14 billion dollars of damage to the Louisiana and Gulf coast states, the most it has ever observed.

For a year centered on numbers, the season’s peak month, September, would deliver exactly as predicted, with no fewer than two storms occurring simultaneously and a grand total of 11 named storms for that month.

Pictured below is a snapshot taken on the day of September 14th, where five named storms and three tropical waves that would later become named storms are seen churning through the atlantic.



With the conclusion of September, we had exhausted the entire alphabet and were now well into the greek alphabet for naming system, seen only once before in the record setting year of 2005.

2005 is a year that not only comes up for its comparison purposes of most active year on record, but it also still haunts us with the names of Katrina, Wilma and Rita.

2005’s Katrina, for anyone living under a rock or under the age of 10, was up until the time of 2017’s Harvey, the most destructive storm ever encountered. Causing $110 billion dollars of damage and untold number of deaths (estimates put it at around 1800 persons).

2005’s Wilma, still the most intense topical cyclone to form in the atlantic, saw explosive intensification going from a tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours. A record setting central pressure of 882 milibar leaves its mark at the top of the history books.

Not far behind Wilma, though, were the #4 and #7 strongest storms on record, Rita and Katrina respectively. The major difference between the 2020 and 2005 seasons, despite both having record setting numbers, were the levels of intensities of these storms. Not much can compare to the strength and power of the 2005 season.

But 2020 was far from over. From October to November, eleven more storms would get named and four of these would become major hurricanes (CAT 3 or higher). It’s within these four major hurricanes that the story of rapid intensification really gets highlighted.



I had just completed a STCW able seaman’s course and returned to the research vessel in WPB to look after things while the captain was away. On October 31st, the day after my class had completed, tropical storm Eta had formed in the caribbean sea, just below Cuba. Eta was slowly tracking west towards Central America and far enough from Florida to not pose any threat. That’s when things took a turn, quite literally and ironically.

On Nov 2nd, Eta had exploded from tropical storm status into hurricane level winds. In just twelve short hours, Eta’s sustained winds had increased by 65 mph and its central pressure had dropped 64 mb. Eta went from CAT 1 to CAT 4 overnight. On Nov 3rd, Eta was churning towards the Nicaragua/Costa Rican border with wind speeds of 150 mph.

Things got totally wacky after it had made landfall, bouncing out from the middle of the country and back towards Cuba where it had come from. Our stomachs in Florida began to tighten. This is the unpredictable nature of storms and why nothing can prepare you for what’s to come. Eta would make a series of S-turns turning over the top of Cuba, sweep along the Keys, return back eastward towards the gulf side of Florida and make landfall a second time.



Despite being a hundred miles away and a mere tropical storm, Eta blasted our marina with steady 50 mph winds and caused four foot seas to roll through the intracoastal. Boats had became dislodged from their mooring balls and were drifting through the waters like targeted missiles. Our neighbor’s canopy had been ripped from its hold and flipped in front of my face to land on another boat. Four of the nine boats near us suffered damage to their vessels from not being properly secured and beat against the pilings. The marina’s dock had cleats pulled up from their planks and multiple portions of the dock had been broken apart. No one expected this from a mid-level tropical storm.

While I was riding out this storm, we were in discussion for a late season trip to the Bahamas. I laughed at the ridiculousness of this actually coming to fruition, but more on that later.






Meanwhile, in the wake of Eta, a second disturbance was being monitored by the NHC for any potential development. The tropical wave sat and sat, not moving, but doused the outer islands with heavy rainfall until finally, on November 13, it became tropical depression #31 meeting the record of 2005. Six hours later it was tropical storm Iota and we had ourselves a monster of a storm.

Between the hours of 06:00 UTC on the 15th to 06:00 UTC on the 16th, Iota had powered up from a tropical storm to a category three hurricane. Forty minutes later it was a CAT 4, and by the end of the day it was a CAT 5, poised to strike the Nica/CR coast approximately 15 miles from where Hurricane Eta had struck two weeks prior. This time Iota rapidly weakened over the mountains of this area becoming a tropical depression and dissipated over Honduras.

Now, back to the topic of us trying to get over to the Bahamas in November during not only the most active hurricane season on record, but also while the oceans would be at their worst. For Florida, we don’t have seasons, we only get hot months and less hot months. Where most states would enjoy a spring or fall, we simply get a period in between those months of hot and less hot signaled by an increase in winds. These months, typically March and October host tenacious winds and likely zero chance for you to be out on the ocean, let alone crossing it.

But somehow, as if the months of hoping had conjured a genie out from his bottle to grant us this wish, we found a weather window in late November extending across thanksgiving and into the first week of December. Pretty unheard of, but we weren’t going to miss this chance since we had lost 75% of the summer field season due to COVID.

Well, we got all our ducks in a row with undergoing the covid testing protocol and submitting to the Bahamas travel ministry within 5 days of our test dates. We fueled, provisioned and prepared the boat to get one last effort at completing an attempt at gaining some research data for the year. We had to push out our departure for one day as the customary 30 kt winds had not yet subsided and by Thanksgiving day we were cruising towards West End.

As most our study site has shifted to the Grand Bahama Bank, we would need to double cross, first to west end to check in and then again to Bimini where we would spend our remaining days. We had with us a film crew that was set to take up spots on four of our trips, and were now reduced to four days to hopefully gain some footage for creating a narrative of mother and calf interactions. We would also be needing to update our catalogues with ID shots.

While the weather proved helpful, the dolphins themselves did not. We attempted many jumps, but they were always on the move and never allowed us more than a few seconds of their presence. I did get in on one of the more playful encounters getting to dive a few times as they circled and zipped by before the moment was shortly over.

Since the seas were so utterly calm, we also attempted a night drift to see if we could bring in any of the dolphins during their fantastic display of technique and fishing mastery using primarily echo-location. This too, however, proved unsuccessful and no more than a few schools of tiny squid and one flying fish showed up in our four hour drift.



The weather window was closing rapidly as an advancing cool front was bringing heavy winds back down along the coast of Florida. On the day of our decided early departure, the seas had kicked up a solid three feet and we were cruising back, quick as could be to hopefully beat the front on the way in. In the hour we left, the front line was in the middle of Georgia, and by the time we had returned to cell service off the coast of Florida, it was near Ocala. In the time it took us to clear customs, we were facing down the front line which was lashing out sheets of whipping rains and gusting winds. We quick spun the boat into dock and snatched the lines on quick as we could. Before long, the rains were done and the sun was back out.

I hauled my effects up to the truck and was back headed to North Carolina to resume operations with a suspension install before heading out west to New Mexico. So far, the suspension is going in relatively easy and I’m of course learning a lot along the way. The goal is, to hopefully reinforce this critical component to handle the extra load I’m carrying and enable future weighted installs as well. Not to mention, I sure do like wheeling this truck up and over some pretty rugged off-road terrain.







Three additional leafs, plus an obviously more robust rear shock tube. For the front, an upgraded and beefier coil over shock tube plus new forged upper control arms and replacing the needle bearing with a East Coast Gear Supply oil impregnated bushing to tolerate the added lift on the truck. More on that to come!

 

I’m down to the final quarter of the suspension overhaul remaining!! Working away at the ECGS bushing swap on front side driver and then will get diff fluid changed and put everything back together with the new ironman strut and pro-forged UCA.

As I go, I’m wire brushing a lot of the frame parts that I see rusting and will be doing the 3-step, por-15 treatment out in the driveway. Honestly, since the frame recall by toyota (2nd gens?) it doesn’t seem that the frame is all that bad. Only in the suspension and skid plate areas that take the brunt of the ground strikes is it really showing any rust. Still, I’ll touch up those spots and give some treatment to the frame rails. Preparation and Prevention are two models I like to live by!

Oh, and in addition to the chrome delete kits by MESO and AJT Designs.. a few extra interior enhancements are on their way!! Kicker 6x9’s and the suburu tweeters from Kicker as well! Jah bless

 

IRONMAN INSTALL COMPLETE!
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Just completed the day-time test dive. No whirs, hums or vibes at speeds 0-70. Definitely needs to go in for the required alignment, but hey, I’m pretty stoked about this one!

For measurements, I got the following... I goofed and forgot to record the initial measurements for the rear, but feel safe in using what’s all over the forums as an approximate guess of 22” CENTER HUB to FENDER. Gas tank is full and tires are set to 31 psi in case it matters.

STAGE 2 FOAM CELL PRO, TACOMA 2005+
* PRE-ASSEMBLED FRONT FITTED TO 2.5” LIFT
* CONSTANT LOAD REAR MINUS THE 5th AND 3rd LEAF

FRONT lift: 4.5” driver, 4.25” passenger
Before — driver: 19.75 // passenger: 20
After — driver: 24.25 // passenger: 24.25

REAR lift: 2” driver, 2.25” passenger
Before — driver: 22 // passenger: 22
After — driver: 24 // passenger: 24.25

Roughly speaking, the after measurements are 24” all the way around, yet it most certainly looks higher in the front. If I do a ground to fender measurement (which I feel is a little more accurate), I see a 0.5” difference in front to rear. If stick a level on top, it shows higher forward.

So what do you guys think, leave it as is or go back in and add the 5th leaf?

I’m a madman when it comes to stuff like this (should see me setting dock lines!) and don’t mind the extra work since I’ll be taking off the u-bolts to get some paint onto the rear axle anyways.

I’m also curious how much the leafs will settle and might just run the trip to New Mexico as is and see how things look when I’m back to NC in March and can re-do the leaf bundles then.

Anyways, here’s the install photos and will be working on a time lapse/install video as well!

Cheers!
mandog


NEW PARTS


BEFORE/DURING


OLD VS NEW (front)


FENDER CUT (for UCA frame bolt)


OLD VS NEW (rear) + INSTALL NOTES


BOTTLE JACK INSTALL ASSIST


FOUR INCHES OF LIFT!!