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[Camp4lo]

I bought this truck in 2020 sight unseen. It was bone stock with 215,000 miles. Got it for 1500 bucks. Put a tough country lift on it and drove the piss out of it for 2500 miles and blew the engine. I put a jasper rebuilt engine in it and drove that about 20 k and it blew a head gasket . Jasper gladly replace the long block. No questions asked, which was a good thing. I suffer from a little bit of analysis paralysis, so I haven’t really done anything with this truck so far I finally decided to keep it the way it is because it does everything I needed to do. I’ll make it super reliable and tough. I just came up from Baja two weeks ago and put this truck on a lift at my buddies place and pulled the front end apart to put all new components and bushings in the rear new shocks in the back. I’ve never pulled apart a truck like this. I’m a buggy dork from way back, so this was a very big learning experience for me very frustrating, but I figured it out with a little help from some of my friends. Every nut and bolt fought me to the last thread. I went through several cans of PB Blaster.
I’m stoked on this truck even more now. Headed back to Baja to pre run a 9 day trip to Loreto. Here are a ton of photos of my “journey”
Next upgrades will be a rear locker, body bushings, rock sliders, and old school pre runner bumpers with skid plates. I took a ton of photos but I guess I can only add 5

 

[Face2]

I'd love to see pics from Baja!
And one of those heating nut busters is on my list of tools to get. What kind do you have?

 

[pappy]

I'd love to see pics from Baja!

Baja? Did somebody say Baja?

Baja Adventure - Revenge

Didn't get very far. Broke transfer case 40 miles south of San Felipe. Dragged back to San Felipe by a BajaNomad this afternoon. Holed up at a commercial camp north of town. There is a shop near the camp. They open on Tuesday. I will see them and hope they can help. The issue will be the part...

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Baja Adventure: Take 2, Pappy's Revenge

Mike and I are in Bahia de Los Angeles for the night. As expected hurricane Odile had her way with the peninsula. The back roads are a mess. The bugs are even worse. Still it has been an adventure. Sorry about no pics. WiFi is very slow and my attempts have timed out. I will try again when we...

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Baja Adventure, October 2015

After a false start, Mike and I made it down to the peninsula for 9 nights. We had mostly great weather with days in the 80's, and nights in the high 60's or low 70's. Three of the days were windy, two of them crazy windy. One evening was cloudy and we had a brief sprinkle. Last April I went to...

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Baja Adventure 2016

Another adventure done. Not as epic as some I've done. Played tour guide to a Baja newbie so I just went to familiar places. Temperatures were in the 80's during the day, and 50's at night for most of the trip. We had three days of crazy, stupid wind in the 20+ range. Two nights we had 46*...

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Pappy's Baja Adventure, March 2017

Another Baja Adventure in the books. This year, I turned 60 on a remote Baja beach. Nobody around. Nobody, for three days. Bliss. I crossed on March 10th, and made a bee line for the Bahia de los Angeles area. I camped at a bay north of BOLA for three nights. I had the whole place to myself...

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Baja October 2017

I went down with Evan this time. Nine days, roughly. Gulf side. Pacific side, briefly. Back to the Gulf side. Then two nights in the mountains at a palm oasis. Here goes a few pics. Gulf camp #2. Coco's Corner. Evan found his big-boy pants in Baja. With Sr. Coco.

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