Jons dcsb mid travel build and b.s

I need to stop procrastinating and install my bed lights. Looking good

 

Got the new bedding in the tent next time it's opened up it will be on the way to Moab!

 

Damn I'm jelly. RTT is on my list.. someday.
Btw.. not creepin but I'm pretty sure I can throw a rock from my house to yours. neighborhood is very familiar.

 

Lol you do I see you fairly often in butte house but I'm normally in my work truck

 

Hah what's up? I'm the guy with that peer meme caged race truck thing, saw you on butte house today

 

Wondered if you were on here. Good looking truck man thing looks fun as hell

 

Threw the new bike rack on today. Needed a way to get my bike to Moab and anywhere else now that I have the rack and rtt. Love how high it sits in the high clearance rear. Will make it nice getting into some sweet mtn bike spots this summer.

 

Hey man if your ever lookin to do some custom mods and fabrication, get ahold of me and I can help ya out

 

Great looking build!

 

Thanks

 

For sure man I'll keep ya in mind.

 

First night in the tent was a success. Should be pulling into Moab a little after noon today. I'll be posting a lot of pics on my instagram which is goobersbro

 

Ugg lucky. I'm sitting here at work all day wishing about a trip like that

 

Moab was amazing! Truck performed better than I was expecting. We ran hells revenge, flat iron mesa, and elephant hill just to name a few. Over 2,000 miles on the truck round trip and no issues or accidents just some more scratches from desert brush. I won't have time to sort through the photos and videos until next week but here are just a couple shots.

The roof top tent was amazing anyone on the fence about buying one just do it. The wife and I absolutely loved it we had temperatures from low 20s all the way to mid 90s and had everything from high wind to snow and slept comfortable and dry the entire trip.

 

Also my Baja designs s2 pros showed up yesterday. I got those installed this evening, would have been nice to have them for the trip but oh well such is life

 

Awesome man, looks like a fun trip. My wife and I did a 3 night trip on the white rim trail about 10 years ago in our grand cherokee. I want to plan another trip in our tacoma- your rig is sweet and gets me stoked about the idea so thanks for sharing!

 

So I did some front end maintenance over the weekend and am trying to track down a weird popping sound.

Since it looks like I have more play than I should out of the lca bushings I decided to try a rebuild/beef up of the lcas.

I ordered whiteline bushings, total chaos cam tab gussets, and total chaos spindle gussets. Figured if I was gonna have it apart might as well put it back together better and stronger. I'm also going to weld some plate onto the lcas to beef them up. Probably tackle most of this the weekend after the 4th.

Also from Moab one of my favorite shots

 

Got the driver side stripped down this evening. I'll tackle the passenger side tomorrow night. Gussets will be in Thursday so I will start welding Friday night.

The whiteline bushings aren't even installed yet and I'm already liking them more than the stock rubber bushings that have been removed.

 

Progress! Old bushings were easy to get out new ones were a pita to press in. However both lower control arms now have whiteline bushings installed! I also got the driver side cam tab gussets installed and the driver side spindle gusset welded up and installed. Hoping to finish up the passenger side tomorrow.

New bushings pressed in old one for comparison

Spindle gusset driver on the left passenger on the right

Cam tab gusset getting welded up

Driver side installed


Clearance of the gusset and tires.

 

Truck is back on the road just need an alignment. No more noises and a noticeable increase in steering response. So far happy with everything. I also changed out the front diff fluid since I had the skids off and i had planned on doing so at 30k miles anyways