Toyotally Awesome 94 pickup

[badlinesgoodtimes]

No Steering column lock anymore, no parking brake

Already ahead of the curve

quick little recap on this weekend extravaganza.... got called out of the bullpen to bring meats and my camp chef to the desert.

got after it with the sous vide

When she says she only hangs out with the guys....

Rolled out with a buddy to Johnson valley Saturday afternoon. Stopped off at stater bros to Explode a pair of shorts getting into the truck.

happens to the best of us.... Quick costume change and we were back down the pike. Pulled in around 5 or so. Unloaded the truck and when out on a rescue mission with another dude from camp we just met. Apparently, they blew the radiator on their built raptor, so they were going to tow it back with a 4 runner. Always up for a sketchy mission... They told us the rough area of said Raptor. We hopped in the truck and began following them....... only issue was they were in basically a stock 4 runner. Naturally, Tiger got out of the cage... we went in for the pass and proceeding to chuck norris the fuck out of every whoop in sight and then stopping and waiting.... Aired down.... took pee. They would catch up.. then we jammed ahead again stopped in the dune section...took some photos...

put the light bar up...waited waited.... nada... GUYS ???

I know what you are thinking... Worst recovery Sapport team ever... what about a radio?... no radio comms ? Nopeeee... I called Steve and got the dude's cell and hit him up on that went to voicemail..

We searched around for them ..NADA.

We end up making the executive decision to roll back to camp at this point since it was almost dark. Taking the route around the mtn where they told us truck was.... Never found them. had a great time searching. forgot how much fun it is blasting through the whoops with the light bar up. As we are rolling into camp we see the Raptor and 4 runner pulling it... Sweet well at least they made it. They ended up driving truck back under its own power so we were basically looking for a moving target.

Anyways.. Fired up the camp chef.. and cracked a few sport sodas.

Chicken for tacos.

Tritip on the treager was boom

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

rolled outta the tent at about 6:30

Fired up the grill at 6:51...

6 lbs of bacon, 54 eggs 3 bags of hashbrowns some torts...

Do Work Son!

Everyone was fed and watered.

We rolled out 18 vehicles 8 UTVs 10 trucks.. 70 mile loop up rattle snake canyon around through pioneertown over to giant rock and back...

we did 2 groups UTVs and Trucks

I led the trucks.

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Sous viding meat for camping trips is such a hack. Makes packing, meal prep, and cooking soooo much easier especially when cooking for a large group

agreed. I prefer smoking over sous vide but smoking 10 racks on my little R2D2 smoker would take forever...

Sous vide once I had silverskin off and all seasoned/ sealed up was super easy

I did smoke 3 racks for about an hr before sous vided those were the best out of the batch...

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Run was going pretty smooth..

Until the cab started filling up with Smoke! Killed the battery switch and shut the truck off Su As we tried to figure out wtf was happening.
After a few moments realized the Iphone charger that was plugged in was sitting on the metal shift boot ring. Causing USB port to short... Fuckkk that.... took me awhile to stop feeling all the battery cables and make sure it was actually just the cell charge and that shitty USB port.

Think I'm going to pull those ports and put in a USB style plug instead.

hit up Pioneertown then over to Giant rock

Stevepop and I bailed early and headed back to camp

Blasting through the whoops having a grand old time. ( they are pretty big for my little truck )

we run across this guy! Anthony was going toward Giant rock in his yota. We met him a few years ago in Ocotillo with the Local Yotas dudes.

Got back fired up the Grill and heated up all them ribs.

Loaded the truck up and hit the pike only to pull into Lucerne Valley 1/4 from the gas station and run outta gas... haaaaaaa..

Does it still count as running out if you have gas with you ?

Dumped 5 gallons in via super siphon.. Then hit the gas station.... then proceeded to party....

The drive home was great with the lightbar up and all them golf cart tires....

Good times!

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

last week rolled over to Fab Lab and had @only1mikey help me out with some mounts

ended up modifying things a bit on the tow bar itself

And we are ready for battle....

but first, We need to install visors that I pulled out of a S80 volvo at the junkyard 5 years ago...

....

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Nov 5 2020
Left Thursday afternoon for our DMC Halloween extravaganza
Motorhome pulled the Truck just fine. I did 50-55 mph up the 14 grade

Giving the kids rides in the truck was my highlight of the weekend.

We did a run into afton ... to check out spooky canyon... kids loved it

Can't wait to get back out there....

Good times!

E

 

[michael_gonzalez]

You have uniballs for your front pivots on your LCA's? Badass!

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

Well....rear pivots but yea.. that way could account for the tweaked frame...

Pro tip don't launch Razorbacks and land on the front bumper

 

[dwphoto]

Ive got like 9 trips to update this thread since my last update 2020 - present.

Keep your eyes peeled for this bad boy at the expo this weekend

 

[the bodj]

E has given up on the prerunner life. He's a rock donkey now

 

[dwphoto]

E has given up on the prerunner life. He's a rock donkey now

cash me outside

 

[the bodj]

I have no room to talk. My pile doesn't even drive right now

 

[Cleandezert]

E has given up on the prerunner life. He's a rock donkey now

looks like he is a parking lot princess now.

 

[dwphoto]

looks like he is a parking lot princess now.

Was this sent from your uncomfortable seats? The fuck outta here haha

 

[Mullen]

I have no room to talk. My pile doesn't even drive right now

Well, you did add Ford parts to your truck…

 

[the bodj]

Well, you did add Ford parts to your truck…

It’s the Chevy parts that are masking it not move

 

[Mullen]

It’s the Chevy parts that are masking it not move

Chevy parts *replacing Ford parts* are making it not move.

 

[dwphoto]

Such a rad weekend! Super stoked to have had the opportunity to have the truck in the Expo. I think back to 2007 just had joined DR and met all the GFO guys...when first got into offroading and I met @Giant Geoff at my first expo... didn't even know what any of this was all about...

Fast forward 16 years.... in the mix with the Terra crew dudes.

Had to pull a little line for the Izzy fab dudes after their winch died on them...

got truck parked then @DialedShockPrep needs a little tug... so fired her back up and pulled a little more line

And then the @Cleandezert boys letting us hang out in their booth was just rad...

Black male ( ) for later....

5:30 Sunday loaded up and hit the pike home... no trailer needed Yea, drove it there and back haha

Good Times !

 

[Snowsk8air2]

Have you ever considered a motor swap, links, center mount? Important questions.

 

[dwphoto]

Have you ever considered a motor swap, links, center mount? Important questions.

No. I've seen that movie before the never-ending snowball... New motor, then it needs links then it needs a new front end...

I was going put @sdecurti 3rz in the mouse but not going to install that in the 4runner.

I've got so much catching up to do on this thread....

Clean up prerun with my guy

New headlights got installed before we rolled out... so much better on the road... they really suck in the dust though... low beams are basically brights in comparison.