Zam15's Adventure Build

Now this was as stressful as when I did my ARB snorkel! But the connivance was worth it for me!

Fresh water fill port for my water tank!

Made sure I was far enough away from any structural fiberglass and made a great bracket on the back end to sandwich it in!

 

Testing out an area flood light placement on the camper. Think I prefer under the overhang.

Things light up quite the area and are not too harsh on the eyes.

 

First outing with the Flip-Pac!!! Nice riverside camping with friends and family!! Truck and camper did well! Still some fine tuning but can't wait to get more trips under it's belt!

 

Veterans day weekend outing to the desert, weather was great and was able to take some friends exploring.



Lots of great rigs out this weekend!


So much great geology!






Tight squeeze in a few spots, happy that I built out a min truck!


With the full moon we didn't even need our lights. Camping setup just keeps getting better.

 

Went ahead a traded in my folding shovel for a real mans shovel! Ready to dig to China now!

 

Made a quick stop at my favorite childhood roadside attraction! Love obscure places.

 

I feel like I’ve seen these Dinos before but I can’t for the life of me remember where.

 

This help?

 

In "The Wizard" with Fred Savage too I think.

 

Always trying to keep the truck utilitarian and capable so I finally picked up some new chains to fit the 35s, found the perfect way to store them on trips too! Also picked up a drop hitch, not that I tow or would tow much. But it leaves it an option of a small off-road camper, cargo, boat or toy trailer. Still a little high but when filled up gas, water and fully adjustable coilovers I could easily put her in lowrider tow mode! Now just need a V8...

 

Death Valley - Better than home quarantine...

 

Have nothing better to do so I finally installed my HELLA horns. Pretty decent upgrade over stock.

 

Did you have to make a new bracket for them? If so what did you build?

 

No, just bolt right up to the hood lock bracket. So easy! Just have to toss in a few washers on the driver side with slightly longer bolt to clear part of the bracket.

 

Death Valley carnage - Well this litter bugger caused me a great fright in the middle of nowhere, when my batteries shifted due to the battery mount giving way the positive terminal contacted the metal tray causing a short, luckily this ground wire was low gauge broke the short.. note everything is fused. This was directly at the terminal.

Shop fixed/beefed up the mount, should be good for now. May eventually relocate.

While staying at home, the truck is parked. So I bust out this little guy every so often to keep everything topped off!

 

Hmmmm

 

Picked up a set of new sliders for the back end! Hope they'll keep the coilovers in line.

 

New truck mask! Top filter was installed in 2015... Snorkel pre-filter does an amazing job at keeping larger debris out of the air box. Pretty much only deposits from smoke and smog Probably didn't even need to replace, but I got nothing better to do right now. Totally worth all the weird questions people ask

Also keeping occupied with cheap mini taco mods! I swapped out the worn out banged-up decals on my wheels and replaced them with navigation app arrows! ⛰️ I got hey small kick out of it. I'll never get lost again! Feel like you could play spin the wheel or wheel of Fortune now

Swapped out the double stacked and cut in half lugs nonsense on the back end. Luckily axle has 1/2" x 3" studs plenty of beef and thread. Swapped in one sold spacer with extended open ended lug nuts. Now using all available thread to hold the wheels on, about 10mm extra per lug, so an extra 60mm of contact per wheel! One less thing to worry about in the back of my head.

 

Rally flappy flaps... hope to help with some of the sand blasting on my powder coats and fiberglass. Debating if I want install a the front set.

 

After a few outings I realized the truck needed a slight bump in spring rate, so a quick trip to the Truck Shop and they got them swapped in quick along with my AGM sliders. I was back on the road shortly after!

This is not something I can do at home anymore with my bottle jack!!

Truck now sits level, even with a good amount of gear, so far so good!
Uppers:
16" 350lb
was
14" 300lb
Lower:
18" 400lb