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I'm sorry you had to move to Odessa. :smile: I haven't been there yet but the Guadalupe Mountains National Park is supposed to be pretty nice and it's only 3 hours west of you. There are many spots in New Mexico too. There's always my favorite spot, Big Bend about three and a half hours from...

Ha. I'm also full time worker, graduate student and single dad to two kids. That's pretty weird. I have to put my 3" lift on my land cruiser before I start the drawers. I already bought it but haven't had the time to install it. Hopefully over the next two days I can get the lift on. I'll...

That looks great. I've been thinking about doing these for my land cruiser. Thanks for the ideas and inspiration.

This is something I'm interested in as well. It's hard for me to spend that much on a switch panel. I know they are nice and clean but still. Occasionally I'll look into the diy ones but haven't built one yet.

I wanted to share a bit of information that might be helpful for this weekend. I live and work at Possum Kingdom Lake which is a few miles from the venue. I'm not coordinating the event but just want to help if I can. Eating out: The Cafe in Graford is the only local restaurant. You will...

I hadn't either until a couple weeks ago when I was trying to figure out a lock for the rotopax. I happened to have an extra sitting around and was like "hmmm I've got an idea". You can use them for probably anything you want to lock onto a roof rack or bed rack like I've got.

This is from our March 2018 trip to Big Bend National Park in Texas. The campground itself is Rancho Tapango private campground in between Terlingua and Lajitas.

Absolutely. For security I'm going to drill a hole in the rack and put a trailer hitch lock through it and then put it through the handle on the maxtrax and put the lock on it. I did the same for my rotopax. I'll attach the picture to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. I haven't...

Thanks. Yes I believe thats right. Our electrician at work used it which is where I got the idea. The label said b-channel so that is all I knew to call it.

I needed a solution to mount my new MaxTrax onto my AllPro Offroad Apex modular rack on my 2017 Tacoma. The holes on the rack do not match up with the ones on the MaxTrax so like with the Rotopax I previously installed, I was going to have to come up with a creative solution. After a trip to...

Welcome to overland bound. It's short notice but there's a meetup fairly close by this coming weekend. https://www.overlandbound.com/event/texas-spring-roundup/

So what I'm hearing is that the RTT's will survive in the wind... but they flap a lot... so it gets noisy. From my experience yes. I'm a very light sleeper though so I wake up even when the raccoons fart after stealing my food. In my experience anything that flaps will eventually start...

My first trip in my rtt was over two years ago at the Texas coast. We got hammered pretty good with 40+ mph winds. I hardly slept at all due to all the flapping and betting worried about the tent but everything was fine. Hardly any sand blew in since I was several feet off the ground. We...

I agree with Eric. I've been thinking about making something like this to try it and see how it works. This could be done really cheap as an experiment and if it works you could make a better looking system. I'm thinking frozen milk jugs could provide several hours of cooling. There are 12...

Jku ben, Those little step deals are sweet. I've never seen those before. Great idea.

I forgot to mention sliders. The first thing I purchased for my new Tacoma was the Allpro Off-road Apex sliders. I'm very happy with them and they look great. I chose to drill the frame to add the extra bolts so that they would support the weight of the vehicle.

I run an arb 50 in my 2017 Tacoma on one battery all the time. I have the battery-saver deal on the fridge set to medium so if for some reason it runs my battery down (which has never happened in either of my Tacoma's) it will shut off vs drain the battery to where it won't start. I have the...

I purchased new Goodyear duratracs for my trip to Big Bend. We traveled a lot of backcountry roads and I was glad I bought them before going. Other off road tires would have done well too I'm just glad I didn't use the factory tires.

I just got back from a week long trip to Big Bend. I also went last year but it was a "long weekend" trip and not near long enough. I live a little bit west of Ft Worth so what we do it stop and spend the night at Monahans Sand Hill State Park and finish out the drive the next day through...

I got new tires for the Tacoma and trailer. Installed my new Slee Shortbus bumper on the Landcruiser.