Let's see those Alu-cab setups

Some Long Island goodness

 

Don’t think it came out too bad for a few hundred bucks

 

Great weekend in the Mountains

 

Nice! Looks great!

 

Weekend number 7 in a row out in the Tacoma. Simple night in the forest on our own.

7-30-22 Weekend by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

My custom sewn set of pouches has been pretty handy thus far. I should have made the pouches 'looser' to hold more stuff, but this was my first time ever sewing something like this. It holds a good amount of stuff, and it's nice and out of the way!

Ceiling Storage by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

To wrap up the suspension on the Tacoma, making all of this added weight 'disappear', the final component came off of my buddies Tacoma this past weekend.

These fit in the Archive Garage Relocate Towers. They are 12" travel, 2.5" body, 7/8" shaft monsters with 2.5" resi's with clickers.

Beefy, but they won't (shouldn't) ever get used to their maximum capacity.

That's a 37" tire they're leaning against btw.

Rear Radflos - 12” Travel, 2.5” body, 7/8” shaft, res with clickers by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

 

So I want to go with the canopy on my 3rd gen. No need for the whole camper setup.

I'd like the matching Shadow Awning as well, but someone mentioned roof rails. I don't mind adding more rails to the canopy. Does anyone have pics of a shadow awning on just the standard canopy? Or what awnings are others running on just the canopy shell?

 

I think the roof rails themselves are integrated into the canopies, then you just need load bars and bracket kit to make the shadow awning work.

https://www.alu-cab.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Load-Bar-Awning-Mount-Bracket-1.pdf

 

Thanks, somehow I missed that Alu Cab sold load bars for this purpose.

 

NP- I have spent a lot of time in those different fitment manuals looking at ways to do what I need to do to my camper. I probably know more than I should.ha ha

 

What's everyone getting with their canopy camper for mgp? I'm running nitro 5:29s and 285s and seems like I'm way off. Haven't got the tune yet. I know right after I got the gears I was getting around 20 mpg hwy. 2019 trd off road long bed.

After the camper I'm seeing 11 in town, and 14 hwy average. At 65mph

 

Built my own out of 8020 I found on Craigslist. Left over from my home build wedge. Super easy and simple

 

I’m getting 17 highway. Don’t really do any in town driving. Stock gears

 

I stay right around 15-16mpg.

 

I'm still stock gears for the next three months, and no tune, just ECT all the time.

Truck is very heavy.

Short trips around town is 12 or so. Longer trips through town, at ~45 mph, is 17.9 or so.

The average of up 8000 ft in elevation and then back down on the same freeway, at 63 mph, is 16.8 mpg.

Over 80 mph is 9.8 mpg.

I drive like a grandpa though.

 

Got my Maxtrax installed finally. I welded up a bracket with 1/2” stainless and wing nuts. I have to use a cable lock but it works well. Easy on and off.

 

Talked to Alucab and my close distributor regarding the 6' contours. Sounds like early 2023. I'm getting close to reserving one. A new video on Instagram on them.

 

Kitchen is coming along!

More Upgrades by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

 

Anyone have any insight on how much room there is between the interior roof panel and exterior? I wanna mount a sirocco fan up there and was hoping to run the wires with the factory light that’s up there to keep it clean but don’t see any obvious ways to measure to avoid drilling right through everything

 

Twice now i have taken my tent for a ride. Wasn't far, perhaps 50yards tops. LOL I need to leave something on the driver seat to remind me, "tops up dummy".

 

Unless you've already removed it, the rearview mirror is just sitting there doing nothing now- why not make a hangtag for it? That way you can store it discreetly in your console when not needed. Just make sure it's obnoxious enough to grab your attention when pulling out of camp!

I had a similar concern when my topper was installed, but specifically I was worried about driving into my garage even with the topper closed. I eventually moved into an apartment without a garage so it's no longer an issue(I still won't go into parking garages, however).