Had a great weekend at the 2021 Lone Star Land Cruiser Round Up at Katemcy Rocks. Great trails, lots of cool rigs, met Marlin & had long necks in Luckenbach Tx on the way home 
Where did you go with your Mini Truck or 4Runner this week? (5 Viewers)
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PM me for local intel when the time comes. So much to see.
Let me know what you are interested in. B.C has thousands of ks of back and off roads. Yukon and NWT not as much, due to less forest industry.
Ran Tie Rod Bender last Saturday. First time taking this truck out and it’s pretty solid although I am pretty sure the front locker has a broken pin in it based on having broken a couple of lunch box lockers in my 40 many years ago. The trail was kinda gnarly with ice and mud on it.
Southern New Mexico over the weekend with High Desert Cruisers. City of Rocks State Park, and Gila National Forest.
City of Rocks State Park.
NM Route 163 at the north end of the Gila.
Camp Sunday night in the northern Gila. It was 19 degrees when I got up Monday morning, there was snow on the ground, and the truck was iced over.
Snow the next morning.
City of Rocks State Park.
NM Route 163 at the north end of the Gila.
Camp Sunday night in the northern Gila. It was 19 degrees when I got up Monday morning, there was snow on the ground, and the truck was iced over.
Snow the next morning.
ntsqd
technerd
Makes me want to drive to NM......
Mine just takes me to work and back these days.
Mine just takes me to work and back these days.
Guadalupe Mountains, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico ... with a misguided detour into Texas.
quick overnight trip up into the Owyhees. Got a little cold at night but we had some great stargazing/beer drinking. Saw the SpaceX satellites for the first time, bizarre. Put a few fresh scratches on the old girl, need to think about paint this year.
We just purchased some kayaks and I'm getting back into fishing after more than 20yrs. My son and I went kayaking fishing yesterday and he caught his first fish. Next up is to build a sleeping platform in the back for some up coming camping trips.
ntsqd
technerd
Cool! Pond Oreille? Looks like it could be anyway.
ntsqd good guess! We are about 5hrs away from there...we went to Curlew Lake by Republic Wa
Went out the Columbia Gorge and chased some stage rally cars at the inaugural Mike Nagel Regional Rally.
I haven't seen any of me on stage pop up yet, but here's one from last month at the Olympus Rally recovering a Subie which wedged itself between 2 trees after the tie rod broke while at speed
I haven't seen any of me on stage pop up yet, but here's one from last month at the Olympus Rally recovering a Subie which wedged itself between 2 trees after the tie rod broke while at speed
Canyonlands National Park.
SUMMIT CRUISERS Jr
SILVER Star
I was just out there on white rim and in Moab a couple weeks back. Pretty awesome!
The truck did great for 2600 out of the 3000 miles in a week. About 75 miles out from okc, and after 650 miles of driving that day, number 2 injector became weak and I had intermittent power loss. I didn’t know this at the time and chalked it up to some Oklahoma headwinds. The next morning I fired it up for the final leg of driving from okc to KC and it was down a cylinder. Luckily I was at my parents so my dad and I tore into it, pulled the injectors, and had them tested and cleaned. #2 was weak and that caused excess heat in the cylinder burning up a valve in the process.
One of my favorite 1st gen builds
you have the blazeland kit right? How has it performed?
SUMMIT CRUISERS Jr
SILVER Star
One of my favorite 1st gen builds
Thanks! Yeah I have a Blazeland kit. It’s great for a quick and cheap LT set up if all you want is more travel. I didn’t upgrade to 8” travel shocks and hoops up front so I’m not getting all of the travel that I could be, and the damping is pretty pathetic from the bilstiens so it bottoms out hard on jumps and large bumps.
It’s definitely a well thought out set up, but the quality of the kit from TNA was an absolute joke. Blazeland Nate used to sell them as laser cut pieces that I had heard great things about, but since the people in Utah took over it somehow, their Quality is laughable. The fitment on the plasma cut parts is trash, and I spent tons of time finessing everything to fit as it should have. I also had to build my own cut guides, buy about $70 worth of the hardware that wasn’t shipped with my order, and never could get them to send me the install guides. One of the excuses I got after waiting another two weeks was that they were cleaning up the parts, but everything I got looked like it was straight off the plasma table, with the exception of some random hits with a grinder, without an ounce of thought put towards of quality/quality control. Thankfully, Blazeland Nate helped me out with parts lists and all that as he was as shocked by the quality as I was.
TLDR: don’t buy Blazeland from TNA in Utah
Rant off
Dang that's unfortunate. You planning on running it for awhile or do you have plans to switch it up?
SUMMIT CRUISERS Jr
SILVER Star
Planning to build my own arms and do a coilover conversion but that’ll be awhile and likely after the swap
ntsqd
technerd
Likely they're just too cheap to have someone cut out the parts with a lazer or waterjet machine. They're all of 75 miles from this company: Online Metal Laser Cutting | OSH Cut - https://www.oshcut.com/ who could easily bring back the parts quality.
Going to fix the 3.0 or going 3.4?
Going to fix the 3.0 or going 3.4?
