Colorado B.S. Thread

I got the Outland Living Premium fire pit off Amazon for $133 shipped. It's about $20 (+tax) less than picking up at Cabela's, which does have them in stock, but they don't specify WHICH version they have...
https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/outland-living-fire-bowl
https://outlandliving.com/products/premium-fire-pit

The rocks do create dust/silt when getting jostled around off road, so I recommend putting it in a contractor bag or buy the Outland Living one (the other ones on Amazon are all cheap, thin material that will wear through immediately).

 

The penalty, @305_TRDpro , is to trade me all of your Inferno body panels/mirrors/bumpers (if you're a DCSB).

 

The propane bottles SUCK ASS in the cold though leaving you wishing you had a real fire.

 

I had issues trying to use my stove in Ouray back in 2017... it was acting like liquid fuel was getting into the line an was sputtering fireballs out of the stove while trying to use it...

I know better now how to mitigate these issues. (Reflectix jacket, don't set directly on the ground, keep in the truck bed while driving so it's warmer to start with...) Worst case, I can boil some water and pour it over the tank to warm it back up if it chills too much and doesn't have enough pressure left inside to put out non-liquid gas.

 

I will have to try some of those ideas. Last weekend sucked ass not having a real fire because we assumed that 3 bottles of propane would be sufficient for a night.

 

I have them still if you wanting any of them, I dont have much but let me know what you are looking for.

thanks

 

I was hoping to find an Inferno truck, but I ended up with a MGM. It's not worth doing a full cab/bed sides/bumper/hood/fenders/bumper swap on a functional truck.

 

Plus MGM is a better color.

 

You may want one of these:
https://outlandliving.com/products/propane-tank-cozy

This one can be your camp side table to set a dozen Busch latte's on.
https://outlandliving.com/products/propane-tank-cover

 

Interesting.....

 

I've stuck with white gas stoves just because I hate getting propane stoves going in cold weather.

 

I went and different route and was trying to get a 2nd one a few weeks ago 22lb'r- but all sold out.

https://www.vikingcylinders.com/shop/

 

I may consider this down the road after seeing how much propane I go through next week in the low 20's at night for 3 nights at campsites. The 31 pound may be perfect to run the grill and the fire pit for longer trips and then I can just take the 5# for quick weekends.

 

There's designated prerunning days where everything is open. They basically let you run wherever you want as long as you stay off the course on race days and off the qualifying course on qualifying days. Between king of the motos, UTVs, EMC, and unlimited class, the week of the races is pretty much shot. We were able to go prerun cougar buttes and a couple of the rock trails, but being that I was running around with wrenches in my hand I didn't get too many opportunities to go drive the trails myself. Unfortunately I couldn't take more than a week off of work, so my time out there was limited to focusing on the race. I'd love to get my truck out there again to go run those trails

 

Did something happen to the truck?

 

Ive been hearing about this white gas stuff. I dont know anything about it.

 

They're the old school Coleman stoves. As I understand it, white gas is just gasoline without any additives. I have the green 2 burner and I bought one of the single burner stoves for making coffee in the morning.

https://www.coleman.com/camp-kitche...ries-powerhouse-414-stove/COL_3000003655.html

https://www.coleman.com/camp-kitche...s-compact-dual-fuel-stove/COL_3000003654.html

There is an adapter for the two burner so you can use propane too.

The nice thing is that they can run regular unleaded. I tested it out with the ethanol free from Murphys and it works just as good.

 

White gas is more wind resistant. The only experience I have with it is for my MSR pocket rocket (don't mind the name). It heated up coffee all hunting season with ~40mph sustained winds. Coffee didn't do shit to warm me up most days tho

Edit / Correction: I have the WhisperLite burner. The Pocket Rocket is similar to a Jetboil.

 

What’s the best dealer in the Denver area?

I just went to have my ToyotaCare service done. I am very religious about keeping up on my maintenance.

I have about 70k miles. I went in today for the standard service and the service guy comes out, greets me and says I’ll get the usual oil change, tire rotation, inspection, etc. no big deal, right? I showed him the wheel lock key was in the console and then asked a question that appeared to give the guy a hard reset.

I told him that I was very OCD and asked if he could ask the tech that should the center caps fall out during the rotation, if they could orient them in a certain way. I showed him how they already were and said all they have to do is make sure it’s rotated correctly.

He told me to hold on, left and then came back and advised me that tire rotations weren’t covered under my specific ToyotaCare package. I thought that was weird but turned over the keys and proceeded to wait the 1.5 hours it took them to do a 15 minute oil change.

During my wait, looked up ToyotaCare online and saw that tire rotations were covered. When my truck was done, I went to the dudes desk. As I waited for him to print up the invoice, I saw one of those tabletop standup cards advertising ToyotaCare. On both packages, they both included tire rotations. I asked him again if tire rotations were covered. He said no, I have the “classic” package which does not cover tire rotations.
I picked up the card and showed it to him saying, “that’s funny because according to your own card here it does.” He stumbled a bit and said bc I bought it from a different dealer, they sold me a different package. To which I pointed out why would their dealership accept another dealers in-house package if that were true. Plus I have never had a problem with it until now.

he continued to say it wasn’t covered.

I left and called the previous dealer who said he was on crack and it was the standard ToyotaCare package. I called ToyotaUSA customer service who apologized for him and said that tire rotations were indeed covered.

Not that tire rotations are a big thing, but these bastards want to skate out of something as simple as a tire rotation, what other shortcuts are they taking?

simply out I don’t ever wanna go back.

 

Sorry. This is why I do almost all of my own work. Last night I was laying on the 29 degree concrete on a sheet of cardboard draining my diffs and transfer case…