Recent content by thegogglesdonothing

Let’s go! I’ve only started to sniff around the dirt roads, and the first realization was that I may need to carry a chainsaw.

Hey people! We've been here since mid-March, ended up in Jacksonville. It took me until mid-May to return to Montana to get my Cruiser, raft and trailer but the family is complete again and you all were right, this place is unbelievably cool. I keep seeing someone around in a white 80 series...

We found a back country byway out to the coast, got some dirt road travel time in along a 300-mile tour. Found a little spur trail down to the river which required some 4LO time to navigate and were rewarded by a totally empty gravel bar, which we had all to ourselves. Oregon’s treating us just...

Manual, NV4500. I get 16-17mpg normally, which seems low but could be a tune thing. My final drive ratio is ~3.70 (4.88 diff gears from the previous owner and a 9% underdrive in the t-case that I installed) and I’m running 315s. I hear about other people getting the mythical 23mpg and wonder how...

12V out of a '93, now 105k miles on the swap. And thanks, we're excited about new home but nothing compares to Montana... for me. Steelhead are pretty exciting, however. Only guide my friends and family, not professionally!

Big update to the truck over winter. After reading enough threads here, I pulled together a big work list and let the folks at Overland Cruisers in Belgrade, MT do their thing. The evolving idea over time has been to make this truck into "touring" spec - the idea being comfort and relative fuel...

Custom 3D print from @Ballsie - very slick. Thread here. Good eye, and yes, two different sizes. Regular size for the passenger seat, XL for the driver. Turns out the only difference is that the back is taller on the XL, but otherwise the dimensions are the same.

Did a bittersweet road trip to finish moving all our stuff from old home in SW Montana to new home in Southern Oregon. The good folks at Overland Cruisers in Belgrade, MT had my truck for a couple months sprucing it up, and with a new lift pump, diesel injectors, rearview camera and front seats...

Hey people, I'm Shane, and my truck is Bunny. We're moving from southwest Montana to the Rogue Valley sometime in March for my wife to take a job at Asante Healthcare. It's tough to leave Montana but it seems like y'all have a great neck of the woods down there, and we're excited to explore it...

Did a very simple but very satisfying update to my truck: installed a new set of ARK splash guards. Much better than what was left of the tattered OEM ones!

I made the mistake of taking the OEM mudguards off my truck a couple years ago, threw the parts all in a pile, and now am regretting my life choices. I'm trying to get a parts list together to compare what I have on hand vs. what I will need to get my flaps and inner fenders back together. I'm...

Did a big dirt road / two-track tour through the Gravellys and got some incredible long-distance views looking out towards Yellowstone and the Tetons. We drove ~120 miles on dirt, criss-crossed the whole range from north to south and west to east and got the truck good and dirty en route to...

Finished up my @Delta VS bulkhead and ceiling rack storage install today. It was a wrestling match to get some of the hardware threaded, due to my not being able to fully remove the rear trim panels (due to the drawers and electrical socket for my fridge installed into a trim piece), but it...

Got out with friends for a glorious float down the Big Hole and ended up doing the stacked boat shuttle dance. Think I may have set a personal record for highest coefficient of drag with my truck in maximum summer recreation configuration.

Celebrated my wife’s birthday with ~350 miles on dirt in southern Utah, from near Price through the San Rafael Swell, Goblin Valley (!), Little Wild Horse Canyon and Middle Wild Horse Mesa Wilderness (!!), through Muddy Creek, on down Caineville Reef and out to the most amazing slickrock nirvana...