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Anyone have a stock tank, sending unit, fuel pump, and intake I could unbolt off their truck to borrow for smog? It'd need to be for a 22re pickup. Its a real easy swap, I'm just running a fuel cell and intake without sticker. Found a buyer for my truck but he wants a smog cert to come with it. Will buy you a huge case of beer or whatever you want and only need the parts for a few hours.
Otherwise I have to go all the way to SD to get mine :/

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/so...tw-superstition-trip-jan-9th-11th-2015-a.html


It's that time again!!!! 5th annual SoCalTacomas Superstition Meet!!!

 

Damn, that actually looks like a lot of fun!

 

Oh man the fun had here is crazy! The place has everything! Rock trails, sand dunes, hard pack, whoops etc.... My favorite meet of the year.

 

Ya there is a bunch of trails up there. Terra del sol jeep club does a huge annual meet up there around the same time as ours. The stuff they were hitting was insane! But there is plenty of

Some off the sd guys could prolly tell ya better. I did a cpl fun lil basic 4x trails the first trip.

 

Anyone in 805 have a flat bed trailer I could use today? Long shot but figured it was worth a try. Taking my old pickup down to Burbank to sell.

 

We are back from Mojave! What a great trip! So much fun for the dogs, the motos and everyone else.

I'll post a write up after I gather photos from people that took them.

But for those interested:
My truck: carrier bearing failure (this was brand new and the first offroad trip), blew out the front right Icon shock, smelly interior haha.

Buddy's truck: finished off some already dead front shocks

Another buddy: blew off his Tonneau cover (bounce bounce bounce)

Buddy's moto: cracked radiator after accidentally dropping bike in lava bed. D'oh!

Lots of smiles all around though!

 

Pretty cool right here! Hammer Head spotted off Anacapa!

http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=143591

 

a lot of legit hate in the comments...you gotta be a dumb-ass with huge juevos to chum the water and jump in. Still pretty badass...

 

inwould rather meet a hammerhead like that any day over the men in grey suits!!!! Whites freak me out, and any of u that surf know the feeling. Cold winter, late evening sesh, cold water, last guy out as sun disappears....every fucking ripple is a fun lol

 

Yup! Me too! Gives me chills just thinking about that ^

 

Wanted to give you guys a chance at this first, free chrome bumper from a 2007. 1 big dent, cuts on plastic pieces. Some rust in support bracket. Located on Vandenberg, 93437, can meet at visitor's center if you don't have base access. Pm me if you're interested

 

Mojave Road trip report: (ps: this is written from the perspective of my dog)
If photos don't load, see: http://americanadventurist.com/Foru...he-Adventure-Dawg-s-Reports&p=30782#post30782

This last weekend I went on the Mojave Road for my second time. It's amazing out there! So many cow patties to eat and roll in! :dog

Human's friend decided last minute that he didn't want to ride all the way out to the start of the Road, so we packed it all in tight! Look at that 'bro lean'!:eek


We arrived at 12:30am (which apparently was right on the ETA) even after the first hiccup. Garrett thought they should stop for fuel. Alex said he could make it to the Avi Casino. We apparently ran out of fuel half a block from the gas station and as we rolled in, the humans all jumped out and began pushing the truck up to the pumps. Not to worry, they had extra fuel in the truckbed, but out of principle, they were only 100ft from the pumps. :lol. On the way out, I decided it was a good time to "express myself". This means I 'expressed my anal glands' which apparently smell AWFUL to the humans....like fish or a harbor. Delicious to us dogs, but gross to humans. I did it THREE times on the way out! (The truck doesn't smell of me any more...it STINKS of me! :cool)


So the Road began. They let me sniff around at the ghost town/movie prop area. Then we packed in and headed towards Fort Piute. We skipped the fort since we've seen it so many times and pressed on. We did the pass uneventfully and later stopped at the school bus for lunch. It was still upright. Right before we were going to leave, I rolled in poop. So Garrett and Kylynne got to use up the water in the shower in giving me a bath in the desert. It was like a spa....that I didn't like.

BEEP BEEP!
I'll still try!

We arrived at a camp near Hole in the Wall and there was a light show as we played music and bonfired. Garrett made a famous Santa Maria style chipotle tri-tip on the Magma grill (even though the regulator broke in transport so he McGuyver'd a fix) with baked beans and Hawaiian rolls...nothing was left. Not even a dirty plate :rolleyes
Light Show

Here's the fun part. Unbeknownst to Garrett, during the time that his brother drove his truck for 15 minutes to camp, there was another dog in the truck. Brinkley is his twin brother's dog and my friend. Well, while they were cruising and bouncing around, Brinkley accidentally popped the truck into reverse. :eek We'll get to the effects tomorrow since nobody informed Garrett until back on the Road the next day. Also, it was at camp that it was noticed that the truck had lost air in the front right tire. It had a pinhole leak in the sidewall from a cactus. Out came the repair kit and a quick plug got it good to go.


The next day was fun! We crossed the highway which would take you to Kelso Depot, but we skipped that in anticipation of finishing the Road that day. Kelso is cool, but also a 2-hr detour. Besides, I'm not allowed inside so I'm okay with it. At the first stop along the Road was just before Marl Springs, which is where everyone commemorates Garrett's worst stunt ever performed. We pulled to a stop and Kylynne went over to Garrett to tell him that the truck was making lots of noise. He wasn't concerned, saying it already makes lots of noises like squeaks and groans. She told him it's not that...it's worse. So he goes over to the truck, get underneath and in 5 seconds says, "That's it, this truck is done for now." The carrier bearing had a failure. This is weird because DTF had JUST replaced it with a new one and this was the first offroad trip - which wasn't even hardcore although the prior evening's accident could have caused it?

The debate continued on whether to continue slow speed on the road or find the nearest telephone road and head for highway. It was determined that it was safer to keep low speed and get to the highway just past the lava tubes than to get on the highway.


We made it to the mail box and the fun garden behind the box. I'm not sure why someone put beer in the box...that's gonna be nasty. We ate lunch at the mailbox and then continued on to the lava tubes. This time, I wasn't a pansy and went down the nearly vertical stairs all by myself. I'm a big boy now.


Well, after that, we loaded the bikes and said our goodbyes as it was time for the broken truck to attempt the drive home. You could hear the driveshaft bouncing around on the washboard road, but as soon as we hit pavement, all noise stopped. Garrett went back under the truck and pushed the rubber grommets back into place which held the shaft in the carrier support. With no large bumps on pavement, this should hold. We stopped every once in a while to see if the driveshaft touched the carrier support (god forbid it ground through the metal and dropped on the highway)! We made it home around 10:15pm and I was exhausted. That's why it's taken me until Wednesday to write this.

Next adventure: Moving from Santa Barbara to Vandenburg Village! Garrett bought ME an entire house to destroy!

 

will you be heading to santa maria or slo anytime soon?

edit: half mine ripped off.. hahaha

 

I'm in Santa Maria pretty often, SLO not as much (usually with the family hauler, not my truck). Weekends work well for me, I'm pretty much getting deployed come 15 Dec (and need this gone) so let's work something out !

 

I ready about that...



I also read about this: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/12/touchdown-confirmed-for-philae-at-1703-cet/#comment-179418

Now that's Amazing!

 

pretty sure it's fake...just like we landed on the moon

 

It is very cool indeed!! here is its trajectory over the past 10 years!



Doesn't look like that gif is working....
https://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif

 

It seems like TW is always slow around this time of the night. And since its always during the last hour of work, I tend to have a little too much fun with one of my microscopes. Here's a cool sample at 5um.

 

What are you looking at?