What your not coming? You said your only 1.5-2 days away. You know we take tons of pictures and I'm hoping to have a go pro soon

 

Yea dude you should come just throw in a rear locker at least. I will call of work for friday night to be able to make this a nice 3 day trip.

 

After my move I'll be that. Right now I'm 4 to 5 days drive away. I'm quite far North.

It's the land of the midnight sun far North. Messing with my sleep cycle, accidentally drank till 7am last weekend. I'm in my 30's that doesn't happen anymore.

 

From this weekend. Just a little tease. More to come later

 

Hey is that Big Bear? I could have gone on sunday and I didn't go.... Hey btw what tire size do you run?
Nice pix though. Hurry and post the rest.

 

DAYUM that dog can wheel! Hehehe

 

Not big bear.
Yea my dog does all the wheeling ad I take the pictures

 

new wheels have less backspacing so i get a little fender rubbing. gonna have to extend my bumps





















once my buddy upload the video ill post those too
we had a wheeling/camping/hiking trip at Bald Mt and Brewer Lake

 

Place looks great man. Looks like it was a fun trip. I like the pic of all your luggage and supplies. That thing's is mad packed. btw is that a rack on the ceiling of your truck? how did you mount that? Gosh im glad i have my roof rack lol. All i gotta worry about is making the bed in the back and keep all my junk on top of the hard top.

I like that last picture you uploaded of that IFS flex. It's nice. have you ever thought about going higher? Ive seen Blazeland pix on Google but they sit much taller then your rig. I dont know what exactly they do to get it that high but it looks pretty sweet.

 

Loving that Blazeland kit.

 

I park in a garage so a roof rack is not ideal plus more space for stiff means more weight. I keep my runner on a strict diet since I have I go up 3-4000 feet in elevation before I'm at the trail head. The roll bar interior rack I made. I posted it somewhere in my build page when I made it. I also able to keep all my gear for two plus my 3 dogs all in the rear leaving backseats open for my dogs. The blaze land google pix you see are with a 4inch bracket lift. Something I have been toying with in my head abut doing or not. Again I'm already at my max height for my garage. I have good flex. I just need to armor my fuel tank and redo my exhaust and I can go just bout anywhere. I'm not afraid to scratch up my pretty painted bumpers of sliders. I got a few rock rash on my armor this weekend. Shows I actually use my truck even tho I keep it clean in city mode.

Blazeland kit has done me well. I may not be able to take all the hard lines but it does keep the challenge up when I encounter areas where I have to pick good lines. So many built rigs just point and shoot makes it boring over time and you will constantly look for something harder to do which isnt a bad thing but it leads to body damage and roll overs.

I think according to my rti score I score in the range of a stock SA would do. But I get to do 20-30 mph on bump roads and feel fine haha

 

I finally got Chefs mega ball joints. Main reason I got them was because mine are the original ones but still in good shape. since its only for wheeling i figure it was time to freshen up the front end. might as well go with the rare mega joints hehe. I have lower ball joints on order (OME) and still need to order tie rod ends and when i get some extra $$ order a TC idler arm.



original one


Mega one









and the Video

 

Looking sweet man! Is your spare tire underneath your truck, or in the back cargo area?
Also, I'm curious if your truck would be able to make the rubicon trail up north? Have you been to it?

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Woot! Haha. ... WOW! Impressive! Loved that video. .... All it needed was some storm troopers music going on in the background for old Blanca ! Lol. Or maybe just heavy breathing Darth Vader style. Hehe.

 

Looks great man!

 

Very nice! Are you sure you don't work for Blazeland? lol

I'd like to hear more about Chef's Mega Upper Ball Joints! Are these the ones Downey used to sell? I tried my hand at clearancing a set on my own with a Dremmel. They turned out getting a tiny bit more range but I was worried the ball might pop out of the socket. I read in the Downey catalog the Mega Travel BJs were only designed for additional up travel. Perhaps if one were to clearance for down travel it would pop out?

 

Toyo, did you do Rock lights? I've been telling everybody I could swear I saw it on your thread... I'm gonna look back a bit and see. Just curious if it was you.

 

i use to have a full size 32 spare under the truck but removed it in plans of adding tanks under there. the dual swing out is already started. im having a local shop do it. parts are on order, just waiting to see when he has time since i dont wanna rush him. he runs Brute Force. makes bumpers for 2nd gen tacos.

i havent been up north yet and i would have to look up some photos of rubicon trail to know if i can do it.. lol

haha the star wars music would be sweet lol

thanks

yeah, they are downeys mega bj i think. from what i was able to see by messing with the mega, is they would offer more up and down travel. i know for sure the factory bj wasnt restricting any up or down travel because i still have factory droop bump stop even tho the shocks still has an inch left of travel. now the up travel is limited by the shocks since they just wont compress anymore. i have been looking at redoing the stock location to give me another .5 inch more up travel on the shock and than i will try a low profile droop stop to see if the axle can handle even more droop haha. i figure with the new set up, i should look into some better bj, lucky mark had some that has 10k on them and was priced right

i do have rock lights..

 

I know you do I found the link but it doesn't seem to work it is only taking me to the company that sells juice and smoothie products... What the hell? Hahahahaha

 

I found these and I'm thinking about them...

http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?n...d=400482325509