In other news, I washed, polished, and waxed the old gal today. Looking pretty good for 170k.
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In other news, I washed, polished, and waxed the old gal today. Looking pretty good for 170k.
NMBruce
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As they say in Texas, "fixin' to get ready"
Comm's gute!
Let me know what your SWR reading is if you do that
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Ran wires and cables from the back, went up inside from the back, did a lot of silicon to seal the hole.
Ran a backup camera cable and power wire, but I can’t get the camera to work, headed to the stereo shop this week or next. Ran the CB cable, double checked the SWR, around 1.25 and also ran the HAM radio cable, don’t like the SWR on it. Both of these sit on the MetalTech rear bumper, CB right side and HAM left side. Just need this all hooked up before I go to Expo west and the Arctic.
It will another week or two for more work to get done, heading to Tucson to watch my niece play softball
Ran a backup camera cable and power wire, but I can’t get the camera to work, headed to the stereo shop this week or next. Ran the CB cable, double checked the SWR, around 1.25 and also ran the HAM radio cable, don’t like the SWR on it. Both of these sit on the MetalTech rear bumper, CB right side and HAM left side. Just need this all hooked up before I go to Expo west and the Arctic.
It will another week or two for more work to get done, heading to Tucson to watch my niece play softball
Did a test run today before I leave for Moab this month and went back to the trail in Jacumba that did all of this damage before as stock.
And man this is a tough trail! I didn’t hit underneath too much this time but I did scrape up both sliders and I think it took a bite out of all 4 wheels
Will get pics of the damage tomorrow.
Did a couple of trails on Saturday. Was hoping they would be pretty mild but that was not the case!
We started off at Corral Canyon OHV Area and figured I would check out one of the easier trails their known as Espinoza Trail. We made it about 1/3 of the way on this big looping trail before we had to turn around and head back out the way we came. Before turning back my buddy did the little rock garden down and back and you can see him going back up it needing to use lockers in this video.
After that my buddy's two co-workers bailed for the day but not after a sidewall flat and tire change. So my buddy and I continued on to Jacumba where we were going to check out Stage coach trail. Once we found the right forks we were headed down a shelf road down to the Highway which was supposed to lead out at the Hwy or you could continue the loop. If it had still let out to the highway I would have made it with very little trail damage and just some bumps and bruises underneath. But it is blocked off and we had to either go back out the way we came or continue the loop. We opted for the latter and that's when my truck took the two hits one to the steps and one to the rear fender. Just too narrow of a trail without a lift. My buddy's 80 made it through with our a scratch but his lift really helped out. This trail was a bit over the capabilities of a stock GX but thankfully we did not encounter something too big because there was no backing up or turning around once you descend the shelf road. I was very impressed with my Yokahama Geolanders as well as the 4x4 system on the GX. Really loved how it conquered the rock climbs and only got into a weird bucking bronco brake thing once. Found that just constant gas pedal and let the system do it's job worked very well.
Finally got shoots from Stage Coach Trail from my buddy's passenger. Unfortunately no good rock shots
A view of the I8 grade between Ocotillo and Jacumba just North of the Mexico border.
Passenger steps are done but should be able to save the tops of them for the new OPOR Sliders coming in from Metal Tech. Out of stock currently so I have to wait 3 weeks and drive around like this.
Almost squeezed by a protruding rock but no luck.
Trimmed the rear mudflaps otherwise they probably would have been ripped off.
Driver side steps just a scrape
This frame support took the biggest hit of the day but saved my Catalytic converter!
Stock skid plate held up pretty well considering.
And this settles it, no fancy TRD rims for me. Rock rash would have been painful had I dropped several hundred on wheels. Lug nut was off because I was rotating all 5 tires.
And man this is a tough trail! I didn’t hit underneath too much this time but I did scrape up both sliders and I think it took a bite out of all 4 wheels
Will get pics of the damage tomorrow.
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I've thought about finding/making one for there on the hitch's mounting plate... Have the hitch but a separate tow point secured to the frame. .
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I averaged the inner and outer diameters and came up with 34.5mm.
ALL DESIGNED... JUST NEED SOME INTEREST NOW!
Jason
LOL, that's nuthin' son!
Dig the exhaust reroute and psyched to see what you come up with for drawers/rack. I'm in thought process for a hatch rack, just to separate gear from kitchen and cooler (no mo unpacking for food time) for this summer's road trip... I'll post up what I come up with, ther'll likely be iterations.
I dig the rotopaks... Brilliant space savers
sticker mad-sauce too!! *eveil smile*
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Welcome, nice rig!! Buttery smooth FTW!!! OhHellYeah!!! She's not going back to anything else...ever.
Nice turn around!! What do you want for one shipped to 84532?
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Installed one of two rear Trail Tailor tow points, the other side will be installed once I shorten the exhaust.
This is rad and I'm interested, seeing how @reevesci turned that round (from your spec to a product) in like 32 hours.
Looks like you might want to lip yours around so you can feed a shackle pin or quick link in it and it not butted up against the tire (I'm sure it was probably just a quick fitment and pic).
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This is rad and I'm interested, seeing how @reevesci turned that round (from your spec to a product) in like 32 hours.
Looks like you might want to lip yours around so you can feed a shackle pin or quick link in it and it not butted up against the tire (I'm sure it was probably just a quick fitment and pic).
A set would be 85.00 red powdered (75.00 bare metal) with the new inner mill radiused shackle ID for a soft or steel shackle. My machinist is moving into a larger unit starting tomorrow and it'll be about 2-3 weeks before I could get a set made. But I have to run about 20 pair to make it cost effective.
I posted on the GXOR Facebook group and only a couple of guys showed any interest.
Jason
This is rad and I'm interested, seeing how @reevesci turned that round (from your spec to a product) in like 32 hours.
Looks like you might want to lip yours around so you can feed a shackle pin or quick link in it and it not butted up against the tire (I'm sure it was probably just a quick fitment and pic).
The angle of picture is deceptive, there is tons of room between a shackle and the tire.
That is some super quick turn around! I am loving the attention the GX is getting in the aftermarket, hopefully the demand increases.
On another note, I chopped the rear of the exhaust off and installed the other tow point. Contrary to what others have stated, there was a volume increase upon losing the rear resonator, but at speed it is hardly noticeable. The exhaust does sound mean in the garage now.
Really? I had mine cut off but added a 90 and piped it out behind the wheel and I can’t notice any difference in noise. Maybe at least add a tip that points down and that might help.
Must be resonator mod season - just picked ours up from the shop:
They did a great job. Haven't given it a good enough listen yet to determine if there's a difference.
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The angle of picture is deceptive, there is tons of room between a shackle and the tire.
Copy that, RE: angle of pic, I see there's a health of field at play there. .
Your departure angle.looms healthy, any idea what it is, w/lift and no hitch?
That is some super quick turn around! I am loving the attention the GX is getting in the aftermarket, hopefully the demand increases.
On another note, I chopped the rear of the exhaust off and installed the other tow point. Contrary to what others have stated, there was a volume increase upon losing the rear resonator, but at speed it is hardly noticeable. The exhaust does sound mean in the garage now.
I would probably be interested. These will work for the rear of the 470 right? All years?
But more importantly I don't see your post anywhere on the FB group. FB has been doing so many things to alter what people see in feeds, it is quickly becoming unusable.
Did a test run today before I leave for Moab this month and went back to the trail in Jacumba that did all of this damage before as stock. And man this is a tough trail! I didn’t hit underneath too much this time but I did scrape up both sliders and I think it took a bite out of all 4 wheels
@Bluetribal Those rims didn't stay clean that long! Where exactly is that trail? And what's going on in Moab?
It is a trail in Jacumba that loops around by the I8 grade that goes down to Ocotillo. I don’t recall the name of it and the first time I had to map it out from Google Earth printouts because there weren’t any good directions online. But it is a BLM Trail 019 and 024
And the rims weren’t perfect they were used $200 rims with some small imperfections. So no biggie, but glad I didn’t waste any time painting them!
1st ever Moab trip this month with some really good buddies. We got a house in Spanish Valley for 5 days.
And the rims weren’t perfect they were used $200 rims with some small imperfections. So no biggie, but glad I didn’t waste any time painting them!
1st ever Moab trip this month with some really good buddies. We got a house in Spanish Valley for 5 days.
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Someone erected monuments for a flag and a cross on a hill overlooking Apple Valley and Hesperia, California. The flag is torn from flapping in the wind and whomever goes up there next should take a new flag and retire the old one. Anyways, several steep hills that tested my DAC, 4Lo, and suspension. The trail loops around Bowen Ranch and goes past a trail-head to the Hot Spring.
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