Callisto TRD... This may take a while

Bear in Astronomy, Dead Moon (silver), or 3rd Largest Moon (size of Mercury)... take your pick!

 

Wonderful Weekend @ NoName. Great testing ground for the new rear suspension and puts a lot of emphasis on the need to update that front, once I am off TAD to school King 2.5's are on order! As for now, the Fox 2.0 and Deavers in the rear did wonders on this trail that I had previously done under stock suspension.

 

order is in with @FilthyMotorsports... now 2-3 weeks out on the Kings 2.5 Bypass

 

Front End is finally caught up, waiting on an Alignment and then new rubber... what do you think Falken Wildpeaks AT3 or BFG KO2?!

 

Added 1.3" of lift, as the goal was 1.5" I am happy. I want relatively mild lift, just for overlanding and I am not hucking this truck, just some high speed back roads fun. Upper CA's will stay for a bit...as there are only 7k miles on old CallistoTRD

 

So ride review.... One Word... Unbelievable! I have a very "Speed Bump Friendly" area near me and we took her out for some passes. There was noticeable nose dive and bumpstop engagement previously at roughly 15-20mph... we went up to 35... and just floated. So we upped the game and found some rough deep rutted areas and I can not explain the difference these FOX and King Set-up has made... the truck is a high-performance Caddy now... so stoked on these bad boys. Thanks @filthymotorsports for the outstanding customer service and tuning for the front-end; she came out perfect. Thanks to @headstrongoffroad for the service, help, and dialing in the back end of this beauty to exactly what I needed. A very happy customer here recommending you vendors to everyone!

 

Put the finishing touches on my other project this weekend:

 

TRX-4 Sport Kit
-Amain Hobbies- Quickrun1080 ESC
-EcoPower 120T Servo
-Sanwa MX-6 Transmitter

...next interior!

 

I warned that this may take a while and boy was I right.

HUGE UPDATE
After 14.5yrs of service in the Navy, I was offered an early retirement due to injuries sustained during a 2014 Deployment to Bagram AFB, AFG. I had ongoing circulation and nerve damage due to a severed femoral artery. It was a shitty situation and in order to keep my leg from random muscle seizures (always during the least opportune time lol) they had me on some fun medication that had some gnarly side effects. This was fine for another 4 deployments, and 2 overseas assignments, but right before what would be the 2020 deployment I received a phone call from my CO and Gunner letting me know that due to a recent NAVADMIN medical called and informed them I was no longer deployable. To keep this longer story shorter it ended up with about a year and a half of MED Board, review, VA medical, and a congressional decision to add me to the retired list.
A lot was changing, and rather quickly, luckily it all went well and I was able to retire, relocate, and get set up with the VA here... and here just happens to be the beautiful North Salt Lake Utah area!


Things have finally quieted down here, everything is moved, wife is transferred and in her graduate program at UofU, and I can now start getting back to building up CallistoTRD!!! Parts are now on order after checking out the offroad scene here and seeing what I needed. Stoked for the shares to come!

 

ARB goodies arrived, installed the single Compressor in the bay, and snorkel for the Utah Desert fun runs!

 

Got to take her for a shakedown in Little Moab for an overnighter!