What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I'm pretty sure I still have my stock I'm long travel so they wont do me any good shipping will probably be expensive tho

 

They are actually garage door bottom seal, the one piece style doors. They work well enough too.

Wasn't that big a deal really. I just wanted to check it out.

Fry bread stand was closed. It was raining and 3:45pm when I got there. They close at 4:45. Only a few vendors too. Just too cold and dreary this time of year I guess. Spent the night in Bloomfield, NM. I took 64 east to Chama, crossed the pass on 17 into Colorado and to 160, then over to I-25 into Denver.

 

Yeah the monument is not all that great, the fry bread is what made it worth it for me haha. I was hoping you'd head up the gun barrel through Durango and over Wolf Creek, would've loved to check out your truck

 

Cool. That’s exactly what I want. I just don’t want the shocks outside the frame rails. I didn’t like how far out the tires were with 1.25” spacers.

 

Found snow again. Don't recall the name of the pass I went over but the highest elevation I hit was 10,265 feet.





Later in the day, I came into a town called Manassa, CO. Turns out that's where Jack Dempsey was born. He was also known as the Manassa Mauler.





Took a quick excursion offroad a little ways outside of Manassa, just because.





No pics after that. It was an otherwise boring drive into Denver.

 

Thought about it when I was planning but wasn't too sure of the weather so tried to pick a route with less elevation. Kinda difficult to do in Colorado tho. Might head back that way when I head home tho. Again, depending on the weather.

 

Nice! My tires just barely poke past the flares. I really dig the look but it’s not for everyone.

 

What brand is that rack? Was it hard to install?

 

Yea, I should probably try and find some local I guess

 

Are those 2.0? What length?

 

Not sure the brand I think it was custom made. As for install I drilled three holes on each bed rail and made custom bed rail bolt clamps to cinch it down super tight it was pretty easy

 

I’ve got some if you wanna pick up in salt lake. I’d need you to bring me back yours though, as I plan to do the swap soon as well

 

I dunno when I’ll be able to swap em, just planning for the future, but when you do swap yours lemme know and I’ll take your old ones.

 

... it wasn't long before we arrived at our destination, technically known as: some spot along the road. We pulled off as far as we could - careful to stay within the grading berms - and prepped ourselves for the journey ahead. Lunches were made, water bottles filled. And then, we set off across the desert. Truth be told, it didn't look that far to the other side.

Check out the full story and photos in part 3 of Hiking Death Valley. It covers two days for your viewing pleasure:

We Trek Miles Across the Desert and
A Deer Destroy's the Hellas - and We Destroy a Deer - on the Long Drive Home​

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death valley in 2 weeks if I sack the fuck up. I really need new tires before this trip. but Im excited

 

I still haven't gone out there, really wanted to this year but we'll see...gotta do it before ~mid April or it's going to start to get hot out there. By May it will be brutal until probably late Oct./early Nov.

 

Relentless front and rear arrived

 

They're a 2.125'' 10'' travel shock.

 

Seriously?!?!?
I'm headed there last week of April until first week of May and today it's 38 degrees; I am not overheating today, meaning internal body temp.

Possibly headed here -> Vore

Check list is:
Champion Radiator installed = check
Retrofit resource projectors installed = check
Fox 2.5 resi with DSC = delivered yesterday, to be installed in 2 days
Replace all fluids = not checked...

 

I'm just going off of my experience being in the Mojave desert in early April...it's mostly a 'high' desert and it was starting to get pretty hot around that time. Death Valley being much lower (and the hottest place on Earth) I imagine starts to get hot around the same time. But...we've had an unusually cold and wet winter here in SoCal this year so it might not get hot that early, hard to tell.

There's a Death Valley thread on TW that's pretty active, I would post in there and ask those guys as they have a lot of experience being out there at different times of the year.