What've You Done With Your GX470 Lately?

Thanks fellas!!

 

Making some headway! Fortunately Coastal Off-road ships the center section as one piece now.

 

That's nice. That edge was a pain for me since it's so long. It is right in your face and needs to be almost perfect.

 

Speaking of coastal bumpers, I finally mounted mine and performed the surgery on the stock cover. Filler pieces are now cut and mounted...

 

Looks really good!

 

The body line on the cover is a pretty good guide. Took me a little while with a contour guage and measuring tape to figure that out.

 

Yeah I was looking at that, thanks for the info!

 

Getting ready for some camping this weekend so I finally reinstalled the RTT...

 

Do you already have a full size spare?

 

When are you going to cut off that exhaust?

 

No. Have a set of first gen tundra wheels that I need to powdercoat. Then comes new tires to fully stuff the wheel wells. Still also need to finish the swingouts. All of those combined will still take a little time. This weekend is just camping, no real "wheeling" involved.

I have the dreaded exhaust manifold tick/leak. The rest of the exhaust system has a couple of squeaks that annoy the fuck out of me. Plan is to get Thorley headers and a whole new exhaust (minus resonator) in the near future. Guess there isn't much stopping me from cutting it off now though...

 

Ah I see. It looked like you had the falkens in 255/80R17 and I have a full unused at3w in that size that I will be selling in the near future.

 

I wish. Still rocking 265/70/17's for now. I keep finding myself torn between the wide/skinny tire debate, but of all the tire options, 255/80/17's seem like a decent choice. The only thing swaying my mind is the fact that we do quite a bit of snow wheeling here. Skinny tires and snow don't do the greatest.

 

Okay. You win...

 

Went to the motocross national race this weekend in Washougal, WA. First trip of the year with the RTT in full effect. GX did great and we had a ton of fun (read: drank a metric fuck ton)...

 

It was some great racing! Tomac was absolutely flying, too bad he sucks at starts.

 

Haha, agreed. Got to watch him work his magic and cut his way through the field. Always impressive to watch those guys in person. The way they make that track look easy is always impressive.

Washougal is always one of my favorite events. Here are a couple shots of the parking lot from when we showed up on Friday vs when we woke up on Saturday.

Friday night...


Saturday morning...

 

Also hit a weird milestone on my trip...

 

I will be switching up my tires to something better suited for the snow we get in Eastern WA. I've been thinking about going up to 35's (285/75R18) from my 33's (275/70R18). Moab threw everything at me earlier this year and the 33's ate everything up with no issues, but this opportunity has got me thinking about 35's.