Betsy the Long Travel Expedition Tacoma Build

nice Jason. Your gunna be too worried about scratching those haha

 

Nice truck Jason, that is a long way from the PreRunner, when we had to pull you out in Hollister last year . You have that new truck set up pretty nice and it looks like you have been using the way it should be used.

Tell your mom and dad I said Hi.

Troy

 

Troy,

Thanks! I love the new truck. How is yours coming along? We are heading to Hollister august 14th. You should come along!

and BUMP, new pictures from a nice coast drive/dinner on the beach with the lady last night

 

Jason

I haven't done much to the truck over the last year, but I have been looking for wheels and tires recently. Also we went to Hollister this past Sunday and spent a good part of the day driving around. Then later that day a lady rear ended me, mostly bumper damage, so I will get a nice bumper soon. I was looking at the ARB rear bumber.

I saw the post for the 14th at Hollister, I might do that. What trails/obstacles are you doing.

 

Not sure yet. Probably just mess around at both obstacle courses. Run McCrea to the top for lunch and hit up a bunch more of the blues an even a few blacks if you have time you should definitely cruise over to meet up with us.

 

Nice job on the new truck!

 

truck is looking really nice man, how are the 885 with the 5100?

 

I like them a lot actually. I was a little reluctant at first since the OME shocks are valved better for the coils but so far its been awesome. Ride was a bit stiff before i added the bumper, now with the winch going in before the end of the years im curious to see how it rides. Although i really dont care how stiff or soft it is, it performs great offroad so far!

 

bump.

Installed Grillcraft & Alpine Stereo on saturday

So happy to have my ipod back in action. Radio was driving me crazy!

 

looks good with the grillcraft in. How did you mount your spare in the bed? did you use an existing system, or did you build something yourself?

 

^ Its actually just placed on the back rail so that i can fit my recover gear and tool boxes closer to the tailgate (silly 5'' bed ). I just tied some rope around it to my front D rings in the bed to hold it in place.

Soon ill be creating a bed bar and building a more solid mounting point off of that which will act a spare tire carrier.

 

makes sense.

If you build a mounting point that is in the front of the bed, I would be interested cause right now the only options it seems are to drill through the bed, or get a tire gate. Neither of these options work for me, so if your coming up with something unique I would be interested!

 

Sounds good, Ill keep you in the loop whether its on here or ct4wd

 

Jason, where's the pics and specs of your latest mods?
You still wanna come pull the chunk of Allpoo steel off the back of my truck the 18-19 and do the pics thing?
Maybe we can whip up the tire holder/bedbar over the weekend too?

 

Sounds good. Got an appointment that morning (18th) but i can cruise up after that around 12 so i should get in around 5ish? Ill PM you for more info.

 

Alright that works. And it'll probably be around a 6hr drive for ya so keep that in mind.

 

Rear bumper added, pics on first page.

 

All Pro'd out

 

x2.
Looks like he's all-pro sponsored now.

 

Haha. That's true. Eric when are you bringing your truck down here next? I wanted to see your fenders in person and some other things to get more clearance.