GX460 & GXOR B.S. thread (27 Viewers)

[r2m]

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Played some fuel gauge chicken this morning and gave up once I hit single digits on range. Spotted a lifted LX450 and diesel Hilux Surf at the same gas station. Cool start to the day.

I hit that every once in a while too. I don't worry about it since the size of my tires gives me a lot more mileage than shown on the dash. I still don't push it when it does read 0 (zero).

Have some ice cream for me. I have to be good since a med i am no longer taking threw my A1C out of whack. I am almost back down to my "fighting weight" though, so it's paid off. I finally am at my pre-covid weight and only 20 lbs more than my avg construction worker weight when I used to average walking 6 miles a day at work.

Now I sit in comfort and it's amazing.

Congrats Hiluxforever!!
I too put on about 60 lbs over COVID and before my knee replacement a year ago. I'm down about 25 lbs and was able to ski this last season for the first time in a couple years and it felt GREAT! Now I need to lose more so I can get back on my surfboard. My wife keeps nagging me that she wants her "surf buddy" back in the water with her.
Part of my regime is walking the beach trail from my home, out and back, just shy of 4 miles and portion control. But being half Italian, it's hard when there's pasta on the plate! (or good Mexican food) I'll mix that up on different days with stairs. San Clemente is almost all bluffs, so there's lots of beach access via stairs, each of the access's usually over 100 steps.

 

[Roody]

Probably 25 mm or less. Looks like the threads are right behind it.

My local farm and ranch store sells metric bolts by the pound. I have baggies full of different lengths and styles of M6x1.00 and M8x1.25 bolts, washers, nuts, etc. for use on my rig. I also keep some in the rig for emergency use. So, it's often worthwhile just to have a bit stock of them on hand if you wrench on the rig with any regularity. The M6x1.00 is also super common....anything with a 10 mm head on these rigs will typically be that thread.

They are pretty short - I just replaced these to install the Budbuilt diff skid so I may have them lying around the garage. I can check after work and see if I can get somewhat accurate measurements.

On the other hand, if you buy a Budbuilt diff skid he will send you the appropriate new hardware that replaces those. That's the most expensive solution by far.

Picked up some M8x1.25 bolts this morning. It's... not the right thread? Even the shortest one I grabbed (20mm long) still has about 10mm left when the bolts are threaded in as far as I can possibly get them in.

 

[Rednexus]

Picked up some M8x1.25 bolts this morning. It's... not the right thread? Even the shortest one I grabbed (20mm long) still has about 10mm left when the bolts are threaded in as far as I can possibly get them in.

M8x1.25 is standard Toyota thread size. It may be bottoming out against the axle, in which case you need a shorter bolt. You can often find 10 mm bolts or shorter at some places.....one of my local big box hardware stores carry that. Or just cut one down.

 

[Roody]

M8x1.25 is standard Toyota thread size. It may be bottoming out against the axle, in which case you need a shorter bolt. You can often find 10 mm bolts or shorter at some places.....one of my local big box hardware stores carry that. Or just cut one down.

Just threw a 1/4" spacer on there for now to keep the ABS bracket in place. Will tackle really addressing it when I have some free time.

 

[Rednexus]

Just threw a 1/4" spacer on there for now to keep the ABS bracket in place. Will tackle really addressing it when I have some free time.

I'm sure that will work just fine as it's a low-load application. I'd just pick up a big "bolt baggie" next time you go somewhere that has multiple sizes, then you'll be set for future things. Or you can get an assortment of bolts on Amazon relatively cheaply. Hardware standardization on Toyotas is really nice. It's just the bigger bolts - the M10s and M12s - that are a finer thread than you'll typically find in bulk farm store bins (but, my local hardware stores or auto parts stores still typically stock them, albeit at a much hire price).

 

[Roody]

I'm sure that will work just fine as it's a low-load application. I'd just pick up a big "bolt baggie" next time you go somewhere that has multiple sizes, then you'll be set for future things. Or you can get an assortment of bolts on Amazon relatively cheaply. Hardware standardization on Toyotas is really nice. It's just the bigger bolts - the M10s and M12s - that are a finer thread than you'll typically find in bulk farm store bins (but, my local hardware stores or auto parts stores still typically stock them, albeit at a much hire price).

That's the plan. I went through my entire personal hardware organizer but found nothing that fit. Should be able to find a shorter bolt sometime this week.

 

[Hiluxforever]

Lease is official and found a last minute place to kennel the huskies while the movers pack up. Only 17 more days of Iowa.

 

[Arailt]

I have manages a 22.2 gallon fill.up going about 45 miles past 0. I like to live dangerously. In all seriousness I regularly do this so if I every run the vehicle out of fuel I am less like to suck up a bunch of and clog something. It's probably not even a thing anymore, but I digest.

45 is impressive!

We were in the middle of New Mexico on Rt. 40 last year. Two kids sleeping in the back seat. My wife was driving and I was half asleep from taking the first leg from Dallas to Amarillo overnight. She wakes me up saying "your low fuel light is on." I said how long? She says "only about 25 mins." I flip to the miles left gauge and we have 9 miles left. Found a gas station on Google maps about the same distance away. We pull in and it's a ghost town 1960's gas station. Nothing for miles. Gas was like 80 cents/gal on the old dial counter. Probably hadn't been used in 30 years. Felt like Clark Griswold with the family truckster in the middle of the desert. At that point, we had 0 miles to E on according to the gauge. Google said the next gas station was 36 miles up the highway. We made it to the next gas station on fumes and the pumps were offline due to a power outage. Waited like 45 mins and the pumps came back on. Fun times.

 

[Cold Iron]

Big ass X7 solar flare 4 hours ago. 2nd biggest flare of solar max so far. Depending on its speed probably 3-4 days we might get a geomagentic storm.

Thanks for this! NOAA and the Space Weather Prediction Service use the rock method for weather prediction. If it is wet it is raining, white it is snowing. The Northern Lights aurora viewing forecast and website is about the same which is why I said it is not reliable. Actually it is a tough job and they have an experimental website for predictions it only goes out 36 hours which gets into the ball park. Kp of 6 is pretty high where I am

Nearest town of any size is 40 miles to the South of me and very small. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is between here and there, the Northern boundary of the BWCA section is across the lake from me. To the South... 100 miles to Duluth to the West and same to Thunder Bay Canada to the East. Between the North Pole and here nothing but trees, tundra and then ice cap. All good for light pollution or lack thereof and might actually be clear tomorrow night.

Can't see anything from the cabin due to trees and canopy so might have to take a road trip tomorrow night up the Gunflint or down it.

Lease is official and found a last minute place to kennel the huskies while the movers pack up. Only 17 more days of Iowa.

Does this mean that I can start telling Iowa jokes now?!

 

[r2m]

Lease is official and found a last minute place to kennel the huskies while the movers pack up. Only 17 more days of Iowa.

Why in the world aren't you coming out to California???
Misery needs company.....

 

[Hiluxforever]

You can always tell Iowa jokes. Have you seen how f-ing awful the people.drive here. I can't even...

Here is Spaceweather.com prediction. There has been multiple x class flares now. I just don't know if they are slow or fast.

 

[Hiluxforever]

Hey in the world aren't you coming out to California???
Misery needs company.....

Been there, done that. Got stationed at the northern armpit of California from 01-03. Beale AFB. Colorado is like 30 years in the making.

 

[K Dub]

Been there, done that. Got stationed at the northern armpit of California from 01-03. Beale AFB. Colorado is like 30 years in the making.

I'll need a bunch of pics from Colorado once you're out there. I miss it dearly, and doubt I'll be back any time soon. So I'll just have to live vicariously through you.

California has a lot of nice places, but Beale isn't one of them.

 

[Hiluxforever]

I'll need a bunch of pics from Colorado once you're out there. I miss it dearly, and doubt I'll be back any time soon. So I'll just have to live vicariously through you.

California has a lot of nice places, but Beale isn't one of them.

Beware of what you wish for... I'll be doing trails videos and lots of photography, I have a handful of Pro Canon EF bodies film and digital. A 1, 1N, 1DX II and a 5D III. The 1N is the most ASMR camera to shoot with. Cinestills ISO 50 film is amazing to use. It's Kodak cinema film converted to color photo process.

 

[K Dub]

Beware of what you wish for... I'll be doing trails videos and lots of photography, I have a handful of Pro Canon EF bodies film and digital. A 1, 1N, 1DX II and a 5D III. The 1N is the most ASMR camera to shoot with. Cinestills ISO 50 film is amazing to use. It's Kodak cinema film converted to color photo process.

I ain't being careful, because that's exactly what I wished for.

I know that film stock well. I used to shoot Seattle Film Works, as well as a local lab called RGB Colorlab for Kodak 7203 cut into 3ft lengths for still cameras. Both are long gone though. Cinestill removes the jet backing before you even shoot, so you can use normal chemicals for processing, but it does change the characteristics a bit. Lovely stock though, and one that I learned my trade on back in the day.

Not my car, obviously, but it is my picture on the aforementioned film stock.

 

[Hiluxforever]

Nice! I am just starting to get ti the point where I am getting what I want more times than not. I did get a picture published on Earth Science Picture of the Day.

I also snagged a shot of Griffith Observatory in LA with no smog and you can see Big Bear in the background. It doesn't even look like California. It's the only photo I have shot i have blown up and have on the wall.

 

[Hiluxforever]

here is a link to every B road trail video I made. They are OK quality. The first ones were pretty shaky. They are all either 4k or 8k.

My goal has been making trails videos with no talking and to get enough to have an hour or two of background. I imagine I will have to start doing hyperlapses since the trails wont be just 5-10 minutes long.

 

[K Dub]

Nice! I am just starting to get ti the point where I am getting what I want more times than not. I did get a picture published on Earth Science Picture of the Day.

I also snagged a shot of Griffith Observatory in LA with no smog and you can see Big Bear in the background. It doesn't even look like California. It's the only photo I have shot i have blown up and have on the wall.

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Very nice photos. I'm hampered by a crappy scanner and a backlog of thousands of images to scan, so most of my early film work has never been seen anywhere but a light table. I did scan a handful about a decade ago, and that's where the 917 photos came from, as well as a handful of my old cars from that era.

Getting what you'd planned for isn't always the best. I believe it was Walter Murch who said, "there are no mistakes in film, only Buddhist miracles." I messed up this exposure terribly, but the result is one of my all time favorite photos.

 

[Hiluxforever]

You absolutely nailed the snow and sky exposure.

 

[K Dub]

You absolutely nailed the snow and sky exposure.

The beauty of film is that all the detail is still in that dark green mush, you just have to fish it out. But I'd need a better scanner to start. That one looks like it came off a print.