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I’ve been running OME suspensions for a very long time. 2850 J springs with 60070L shocks in my front and 2864 springs with 60071 shocks in the rear. My cruzer scales out at 7,000 lb loaded and our trailer weighs 1,000 lbs. loaded. Are the shocks a bit tight? Heck ya, and you’ll really...

Truth! I’ve been doing this about the same number of years. Thankfully when I was a young man I didn’t have the expendable income for anything except stock suspensions or I would have wasted a lot of money on the suspension learning curve. However, I do have an OME heavy kit beneath my 80...

Hey, not judging here but I’m hoping for strict limitations on the number of vehicles/people that are allowed to congregate/ caravan together. 20 vehicles? Way too many.!

Just transplant a diesel in my 80 and ship it, my wife and I to Australia for 6 months. We’d also be booking a cabin on the freighter carrying our 80, so add another 2 months.

Very true! I’ll often allow mine to perk for 15, 20, or more minutes. Never bitter, just good strong black coffee.. one of my friends thinks I am a coffee snob as I will not drink Dunkin Donuts coffee because it is so horrible.. then he figured out that I drink my coffee black. He adds lots...

I really enjoy a mug of hot black coffee in the morning. Not so much for the kick, but for the flavor of a really fine mug of strong coffee. We have tried old fashioned percolators, first a large one , then a small one. Percolated, in my humble opinion, makes the very best coffee. It's how I...

I’ve a dual battery set up with a 120 watt solar panel and a manual isolator switch. The 50 ah AGM starter battery handles all the stock electronics on the vehicle. The 75 ah battery handles everything I’ve added. I prefer a manual isolator switch because they do not fail. After 5 years it...

how high is the body lifted? I did my own body lift many years ago on a Jeep TJ and it took about 5 hours. A reputable shop charges 100 an hour and yours is much more difficult to work on than a Jeep. Plus the cost of parts. If it’s onlylifted an inch or two, I’d leave it alone.

I think mine are grey, or tan, I don’t remember. I’d have to go out and look as they are stored under the trailer. I’ve used them once, in the Pa mud, had no trouble at all finding it in the muck.

Jeeze, I’ve a pretty long list of favorite gear so it’s hard to pare it down. But I do like to talk about our old camp chairs. Anyone from the northeast remembers Ames department stores. We used to get a 40% discount so I picked up a pair of camp chairs for less than $10 each. 24 years ago...

When we come upon folks at a campsite, we wave politely and move on. I respect their privacy and we expect the same respect from others. 10 years ago we did the white rim trail. We saw the same fellow a couple of times, waved at one another politely and moved on. At the top of the switchbacks...

Nice, may I ask what sort of truck ?

Ok, here are three things I have always used when wiring up my winches. I use Heavy rubber hose anywhere there is even the slightest chance of rubbing the wire. I cut the hose to length, slice it, wrap it around the wire and fasten it with tie straps. I use the slotted plastic stuff on all...

Your teenage son is worried about his hair? I get it, my eldest grandson was worried too. He was 13 at the time, however, once he realized where we were, and that he was having a great time, it didn’t bother him at all not having a shower for 3 days. He understood rationing, and he didn’t give...

I’m just not sold on the necessity of a brake upgrade for my 80 series. I’m running stock rotors, stock calipers and high end ceramic pads from , of all places, Advance Auto. Our vehicle scales out at 7,000 lbs +/- and the trailer weighs 1,000 lbs+/- when fully loaded. The trailer has no...

We are staying put. However in our state it is still permissible to drive to a hiking trail. So each morning we take a nice hike in the woods. Then drive directly back home. It’s about a 10 minute drive. If these little known trails become crowded we’ll stop going, but so far we have seen no...

Owning a Landcruiser it was just another boring day doing a bit of PM . I lubed the driveshafts. Then I unloaded the trailer, cleaned everything up a bit, sorted some kitchen stuff out that we rarely, if ever, use and repacked the trailer.

What is that converted to in amp hours? Lithium ion is definitely the wave of the future, when my 75ah AGM house battery ever wears out I’ll make the switch to lithium and get the proper under the hood charger for it.

My wife was gifted one of these heated blankets. We have really good sleeping bags rated at -10 degrees and a Mr Buddy heater. So last winter she wraps it over her legs and plugs it into the 12v power outlet. My alternator has a pretty constant charge of 14.1 - 14.3 volts. Even with the...

No, not at all, being a registered independent I think and vote the same as I’m registered.. I’m simply asking questions that may or may not, someday be answered. Personal opinion? I think that the board of directors of Fox News came to the conclusion that the lawsuits resulting from them...