New Mexico Owners BS Thread

they came through town heading to texas, they stopped to eat at el pinto on 4th just north of alameda, i wish i could have seen that thing driving on the street lol its so cool to see that thing getting built online and pics of it out doing stuff then a week later you get to see it in person. badass

 

Santa Fe here. Right now my Taco is my DD so you may see more of me on the roads.

 

Never mind

 

Roof rack is back on. Now onto the wiring for everything.

 

anyone in town know of anywhere i can get a stock 2002 steering coupler?

 

Nice, I use mine as a DD too...

 

Took a trip to Southern Utah, Natural Bridges area this past weekend. Hit the road Friday morning, pitched camp in the cold rain Friday late afternoon. All the roads we went on were 2WD, so I had no wheeling to tell tales of. But we saw some great ruins. This little Taco was getting me 23-25 mpg on that trip, and that was loaded; at least an extra 600 pounds of gear and people. Had the wife, the boy and the dog in the truck (tight fit for the boy and dog in the extended cab, but it worked). I was amazed at the economy.

A pic of the odo after returning home. I topped off in Bloomfield, and this is after running around all day today. I was shocked when my calcs were giving me a tad over 25. Whoa.



UPDATE: Topped it off this morning with the odo at 235.8. Put in 10.0 gallons. That's some good mileage!

This panorama is 8 feet in length, so it won't do justice in this shrunk size I cropped to make it friendly here. A few of these pans will be printed up and go on my walls at home This is Monarch Canyon (Monarch Cave ruins)



The boy and I way up on the slick rock in Monarch.



Ruins



Ancient graffiti



More ruins



The dog took a header off a 20+ foot cliff. We think he thought it was just slick rock and stared to go down it, lost footing, then just leap off. Thankfully there was a pool of water below it. I was about to traverse a tiny outcropping to get to the main ruins in Monarch, which is above a 50+ foot drop into a deep pool at the bottom of that, when I heard the wife yelling at me to find the dog. Went back and he was at the bottom of the canyon running around, unhurt. If it wasn't for that pool of water...yikes! This is him right after.

 

has anyone been up the La Bajada hill in SF? just saw it on an episode of the fast lane car on youtube. and I wanna see it for myself as it looks like a fun trail!

 

I don't normally do this but we need some help with trails where I'm from. We have applied for a grant from Bell for a DH style trail and made it to the regional finals. The trail is the Cedar Creek trail in Ruidoso NM. Follow the link and vote please! Thanks for checking it out.

http://www.bellhelmets.com/bell-built

 

Hey guys do any of y'all have the l brackets for the hitch setup? I mite have my hitch sold to a guy but he needs these. th anks!!

 

Cloudy, when are you planning on leaving for RT '15?

 

Planning on the morning of the 26th. That way the kids and I can stop a few times so they are not super grumpy. How about you?

 

Thinking about heading out the same day. But not sure when my buddy is flying down. If he can get a flight that'll be there that morning would be great, but I'd need some place to drop my trailer/truck off to get him from the airport.

 

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welcome to the our thread @hunt4steve! where abouts of our beautiful NM are you from?

 

Santa Fe..... the city different...... way different.... at least that's where I'm living now. I'm actually from AZ.

 

Found myself in the middle of a 3-way trade with SGT Taco and Mojavemadman and wound up with some Duratracs. Silas helped out with the labor. NM Toyota owners are awesome people.

 

correct me if I am wrong, but tom did you lower your truck? may be the angle or something of the picture but it just seems lower to me...

 

It is partly the angle and partly the front springs have settled in a little bit. The parking spot slopes upward towards the bed. Plus the duratracs are almost new and fill up the wheel wells more than the BFG ATs did.

 

Ah gotcha, yeah the picture gave me an illusion that you removed your lift or something.