JohnboyTRD - 2003 Double Cab TRD

Good to know fellas, thanks for chiming in. We'll see how this one does, maybe next time I'll consider the optima. Price is much better for sure

 

Think my 34/70 or whatever are 750cca each...

 

Checked my rtt out after encounter with garage door yesterday... Everything aok.

Wanted to open anyways to make sure everything set for camping in two weeks.

 

Good call, next time I'll wait for sale! Was hot to get a battery with upcoming trip, so patience went out the window

Btw I think I'm gonna keep the softopper for winters after all. And I think my wife would be pissed if I sold it haha.

Other news, three shackles is better than one

 

You don't leave them on there all the time, do you? Never understood why people do that on a daily driver. Hey look, $30 of free stuff!

 

Probably will, yes. Hopefully they'll take the quick bait instead of the other stuff but I see what you mean. Honestly I drive my truck to work (residential, safe community) then back to my garage. Occasional runs to store during peak hours and up to church. That's about it. Not that worried about it tbh. Who knows maybe I'll just throw it all behind the seat...

 

That's true about it being quick bait. But still, that's like 6 Mexican hole-in-the-wall burritos, man!

 

Touché. I'll think on that a little more. For now I have three recovery points \m/

 

All you need to do is put a screwdriver through the hole and make it real tight. That'll prevent anyone from coming up and unscrewing it by hand. A small deturrant like that might just be enough for a thief to give up

FWIW, I have a shackle hand tightened on the front of my truck 24/7 and it has yet to be stolen. I park outside every night since my truck is too tall for the garage

 

but we live in cali, too many thieves

I have all my shackles on year round....I put little brinks locks on them My son could probably chew through those locks...haha, but hey, its a deterrent I guess

 

Good looking truck, nice build man !!!

 

Thanks a million, has been a lot of fun building her up. I follow your thread good looking rig.

 

Thanks... it's a very long, slow progression.... work plus family time leaves very little truck time, it's getting close to where I want it though. Keep up the nice work

 

What is the back spacing/offset on the rims as of August 2014 and what kind of rims are they?

 

Those are the pacer aluminum wheels I have now, 15x8, ~3.75 backspace. I also had 1.25" bora spacers. Those have since been removed.

 

So since the slick rock trip wasn't going to work for me right now, my wife and I went camping with some friends up in Santa Cruz (Mount Madonna). No wheeling, just good times camping. I played around with the camera, first time shooting long exposure, which was pretty fun. Got some shots of the truck too for kicks, as if I don't have enough already Anyways, here are a few..

RTT all set up:

Sitting around the campfire - one of the guys on this trip who is a videographer (is this a word?) decided to light paint a cock and balls... Funny stuff:

Truck pron:

 

Sweet camera shots!

 

Thanks! Yeah, always learning and tinkering with something new.

 

Been quiet in here... anyways, got some fun stuff on the horizon.

Should be fitting up my trans and tcase skids this week. Also have been cleaning up dinged and rusty armor.

My diff is leaking. No surprise since I didn't seal it when I closed it up last year. Can't believe it didn't leak sooner. So since I need to pull the diff anyways... decided to get new gears. Probably gonna order those through ecgs in a month. Still debating between 4.88 and 5.29, but leaning towards 5.29.

Pics to come soon of new skids! Terrified to drill into frame...

 

I've been hugely happy with my 4.88s. Re-geared a year and a half ago after I went with 285s. With the automatic transmission, I'm spinning just a hair over 2.5k rpms at 70mph.