Toyotally Awesome 2012 4x4 DBL Cab

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Next section over the mountain and down through a few canyons was just epic.. photos don't really even do it justice .

this guy was less than impressed with us.

Ralph the motorcycle mouse whoop section sucks with full interior. Dash was vibrating all kinds haha.

last morning now.. was time for another pit stop

That aspen grove looks awesome.

yea dude that was incredible.

 

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But wait there's more...

So after the hot spring we headed back into the hills up to a cave with some Indian paintings.

On the road again.... Take note of those clouds..

We decided to pull into pit for lunch at Diana's Punch Bowl.

50 ft across....30 ft down...no bottom in sight... but don't send it! That water is apparently somewhere in the 140-180 range from my readings.

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Finished up lunch

strapped C in my buddies truck

loaded up and hit the pike again.

little rain helped cut the dust a bit.

 

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flexing out the dodge.

So we pulled up to this old ranch. Mikey hops out to open the fence and let everyone through, but it's so tight he can't manage to get it loose. As is starts to rain, I got out to take this photo. Climbed up on to the little ridge. To the right of the photo up in the the mountains I see a bolt of lighting hit the ground and think shit that was close! I think to myself one one thou.....and the thunder rolls. I ran back down to truck and get it. Listening to the banter on the radio. We all had to back up and turn around.

Now its raining pretty good.

Now its hailing and more lighting! Was pretty intense at the time.

Scotty the leader, decided quickly, we need to flip around and go down the other way away from the storm around the ranch.

So we did eventually the hail subsided and turned to rain.

Next stop was the town of Belmont. Old mining town. Super cool town of old building to scope out bunch of old cars and mining equipment complete with a saloon. Dirty Dick's I think it was.

We grabbed a sport soda at the Saloon and headed onward for Tonopah....

 

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More rain helped the dust a ton. It did get a little bit muddy in some spots

Wild horses any one? (off to left) so rad there was a pack of 8 or so running with scott and lutz up in the front for awhile. They sounded like little school girls on the radio haha.

We made it back to Tonopah Station for a shower dinner and more sport pops. giving that North Face bag a little bit of a work out..

And of course a donation to the casino. Bought a few $20 beers

 

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Needed more shit to attach to my vehicle.:bananadead:... traded a buddy some camera gear for this little guy.

Thinking about mounting it behind cab or up on the rack on longer trips.

Should be pretty money for hosing off the little man after he rolls around in the dirt all day.
I like the fact that I can refill it and hit it with the CO2 and I'm back in business.
Been a wild few weeks
Used the truck a bunch to haul away a bunch of burnt wood and melted toys at my little man's day care.
Woolsey Fire ripped through back yard luckily the house was okay other than little smoke damage. I think I've taken 8 truck loads away. #tinybed

Couple photos of the back yard before I sawzalled all the toys in half :sawzall:

Next door neighbor's house didn't fair as well

Dat Meter! :itllbuffout:

Couple houses down the street burnt to the ground..or were pretty banged up..

Super gnarly.



ON a lighter note....

Thanksgiving we had a great trip out at Cuddeback dry lake.
Towed out Destiny's child.

Brought some meat

at Husky Memorial

Had 3 racks under these little guys

 

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Peeling off strips

Yours truly haha

Good times...

 

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Cruised out with a couple buddies for a quick one nighter. Ran Last Chance Canyon

My buddies SAS Amigo is a beast

V notch

pick up had a little issue on this uphill had to get out the umbilical cord to get him up.

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Then the Classic was having some issues, kept back firing.... so we had to pull out all the straps haha.

We all made if off the trail. Stevey luckily towed his ranger out there, so we threw the rover on the trailer and hit the road home. Picked up a little battle scar on passenger rear. haha. :itllbuffout:

Slider and skids got a bit of a work out too. Can't wait to get back out on the trail again.

So have had a pretty nasty clunk in the front end on driver side, which was the lower control arm bushings being shot causing the lower to shift.

Stock piling parts for a few months.

New stock replacement lowers
Tie Rod ends
New Spindles from TC with Gussets.

yes there is also a jack under frame.

Still got to finish up a few loose ends tonight, set ride height and get it aligned.

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Ran Miller Jeep Trail with a group of buddies this past weekend.

Dusty and Dry... most of the climb up Miller is it talcum powder....

My buddy in his grand Cherokee exploded his front axle so we had to drag him up half of miller. with 2wd...

Used them sliders and skids a few times.

Good times!
No real issues other than had a little belt squeak going on from time to time under load... Not sure if it's just the belt or tensioner pulley
Also need still need to replace my steering rack cause it's pissing from the hard line fitting.

Was pretty impressed with truck having no lockers it walked most of the trail with out issue. on the 2 actually hard sections I had to adjust my line a few times to get it but never got stuck....
That said... next mod I think is going to be gears and lockers. :bikewhoops:

E

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Thanksgiving was a good time out at Cougar Buttes.

We thought were going to have rain all day on Thursday, ended up with something a little different! And lots of it!

So much fun cruising around in 2wd

Smoked the Bird on on the Weber smokey mtn

Was glad to have the big tent for shelter.

It's tradition to serve dinner on the tailgate

the next morning woke up to this..

snow whoops are fun

We cruised around camp and some of the guys headed out the Hammers. I hung back BBQ'd drank beer and worked on the 50 track with the kids

Bummed we didn't get to wheel much out there with the weather being so shitactular and the little ones. Wanted to run Bull frog and check it out a little more... Looks like we'll just have to go back again.

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Bump

you're just like those other raptor guyzzzz....

Plus 10 hp

OMW to fight overland office Boss.

new tail gate pad? does that count ?

 

[Endless Trails]

Funny how if we both hadn't stopped where we did on that Laurel Lakes trip a few years ago we might have never met.

 

[dwphoto]

Welp it's safe to say Xmas came early this year.

a few months ago. @Harry Johnson posted this thread... https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/threads/harry-needs-a-new-truck-bad-ideas-welcome.910/

Which initially was more of a joking post I made to trade for his tundra. We messaged back and forth about trucks. Tacoma was a year old 2012 vs 2013 Mileage was 138,900 to 158,900. It was seemingly a pretty solid trade at least to us two boneheads.

I had a few prep items I wanted to address before I would be comfortable passing it along.

front brakes were roached

Drive shaft was roached ( carrier bearing ) ended up getting the spare drive shaft I have retubed thanks @the_fablab_ for your help with that)

needed minor service
oil filter
air filter
Needed a Cabin filter as it was non-existent haha

had interior of truck detail by @YotaTyler418 ... he did a killer job! thank you buddy

I loaded up all the parts I had been stock piling over the last 5 years.

gave her a wash.

Finally, a weekend opened up after Clean up prerun/ clean up / Thanksgiving. It worked out he was down in So Cal visiting family this past weekend. So Friday night I drove out and met with him and his wife.

Straight across trade----> a gift in fact for tax purposes.

2013 Toyota Tundra Crewmax RockWarrior edition
@ADSRACINGSHOCKS 2.5s all the way around.
MMC upper arm
35'' Toyo Open Country tires
Thule Bed bars

already enjoying the full size life.

Always bittersweet to get rid of a vehicle. The Tacoma has been a great truck. I hope it serves @Harry Johnson 's family as it has served mine. Looks like he's already off to a solid start.

Super stoked on new (to me) Tundra. I'll have to start another thread... really not planning on changing much of anything at least at this point.

Over and Out!

E

 

[Harry Johnson]

Well now, I'll run with this football. We put this whole thing to work the very next day (mainly because we were down in Redondo Beach with no other vehicle). So I figured out how to stuff what we generally stuff in the cab of our tundra into this bad boy and headed off to a Christmas party. Once done, we took the long way back by the ocean, and the boys figured out they could take in the view from the roof without getting yelled at on this truck:


The next day we loaded all the spare parts, plus everyone's bags, plus a few Christmas presents up into this thing and headed for home. We hit up a Christmas tree farm in Atascadero, Ca. along the way because we had not yet found the limit of shoving 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag. (this picture is also in the other thread, but I'm adding it here for posterity).


It's now hanging out at home while I do boring stuff like put up Christmas lights and think about ways to spend all my money on Tacoma things.



My tacoma daydream list so far:

There's a few little things I want to clean up-
New tires, because damn.
Replace a torn CV boot
Slap a battery isolator (got one in the garage) on the second battery.
Connect some rock lights to the "rock lights switch" (Also have some in garage)
Hack and slash my way into fitting a full size spare under the bed if it doesn't already fit.
Swap in that steering rack that @dwphoto had been meaning to swap in...maybe. I mean, is it REALLY leaking that bad?
Relocate the trail plug into the rear bumper next to the license plate
Slap a decent dust light in the bed.

..and then there are a few uh.. bigger changes I want to make.
After some extensive testing of the whoops on I-405, I have determined that I really want a spring under and some extra travel on this truck. At the moment, I'm a fan of the JD Fab kit. I love they way the integrate their frame brackets and shock towers in one move.

There's also the small matter of getting some sort of tow point on the front of it so I can flat tow it all over creation with our RV. Some sort of bumper that I can hook up a tow bar will have to happen.

From there, we'll have to see how she does. Plan is not to have it over the top crazy, but something solid that can cruise around the desert without drama when it needs to.

 

[Harry Johnson]

Oh and one day you're gonna have to tell me about where that is. I didn't know it until the picture, but I have a strong need to go find that place.

 

[dwphoto]

Oh and one day you're gonna have to tell me about where that is. I didn't know it until the picture, but I have a strong need to go find that place.

39.47761379434232, -117.04275649846358

 

[Harry Johnson]

Been slacking in actual work I'd like to put into this thing. But I did get stuff and bunch of two wheeled things into the bed and take it to a New Year's even party...

 

[dwphoto]

bump

 

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39.47761379434232, -117.04275649846358

Looks like it was the trip we met going opposite ways on the trail.

 

[dwphoto]

Looks like it was the trip we met going opposite ways on the trail.

yep!