I gave up on all of those deflator things. I just pull the valve stems out, its fast and easy.

** make sure you carry extra valve stems.

@hammerheadfistpunch yesterday never would have worked anyway. I had my kid's birthday and still worked the night before and after. Looks nice though, I'll have to head up there soon.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly said in Some sweeeeet overland builds:

@hammerheadfistpunch
Down here, that species was always the Dyna/Delta. HiAce was similar but smaller/narrower.

Can confirm.

@pip-bip said in After three weeks and just over 10,000 kilometres...the roadtrip is over.:

@silentbutnotreallydeadly did fuel economy suffer much?

Not at all. If nothing else, at 98 km/h and 2500 rpm (absolutely flat out in fifth), it is a bit better than usual.

The last time this happened, the positive pressure pipe that supplies the wastegate actuator popped off. The impact on the engine performance was... different. So I'm buggered if I know what exactly has gone amiss.

@carsoffortlangley Great pictures! I think I recognize a couple of places - I've only seen most of the area from the air though. Ross Lake is as far south as I've ever flown out of Hope. From 10,000 feet it looked like it would be a great place to visit in person. When I had the Element I took a few drives on the mild forest service roads as far as I could that led more or less west from the Silver lake road that eventually gets to Ross Lake. The only real off road trip I ever took was with a friend on a non-flying day. We went up the American Creek (I think) road on the east face of Dog Mountain as far as we could go. Basically until it turned into a trail that would be cramped for deer let alone an old Pathfinder. It was an eye opener as the friend who was driving is one of the most cautious, careful and conservative pilots I have ever flown with but she turned out to be utterly fearless off road! (and quite highly skilled too) Me, I was full of fear as I had never done anything like that before.

@hammerheadfistpunch I didn't bring a thermometer, but my guess is we didn't see temps over 80. Much nicer than the current condition of the valley.

@carsoffortlangley
My waterfalling has been shamed....

@pip-bip nah, it said there would be a checkpoint at the NSW/SA border, but they must have had an early minute.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly no worries, enjoy 🍻

@gmctavish thanks!

@hammerheadfistpunch Yeah we use almost these exact radios on our road trips (UV82L, so the 5W version) but I agree that they came with a garbage config. I bought the cable and programmed them to use FRS and GMRS channels only. One of us has a GMRS license and I'll admit the others probably should get one as well. One problem with getting a license is IIRC it makes the fees and fines if you do get caught doing something wrong astronomically more expensive [citation needed] basically the idea being if you're supposed to know better, you need to be punished more, but that is a dumb excuse not to do it.

With the USB cable and CHIRP, the radios are an amazing tool. As a dumb example, I had a co-worker going to some track event in which he was required to have a radio that could listen in on a channel, but be unable to transmit on it. It took me less than five minutes to set up one of these to do that (including the transmit lockout) and saved him a ton of cash buying/renting the "proper" radio. As another example we were out doing... stuff... and I was able to download all of the frequencies local law enforcement and emergency responders were using and dump that table into the radio.

As a (former) HAM license holder... yeah. Admittedly I didn't really try to get into it, but I don't recall anything about it being friendly. So many rules and so many angry old men waiting to tell you all about how you broke them. Also sort of a non-starter for our group as it would require all of us to have a HAM license which isn't going to happen. I (sort of) agree the free radio bands need to be protected, but in a way the HAM people have been too good of stewards of this, getting to the point where no one wants to (or can) use the frequencies, so of course the hungry corporations are looking to buy them. I'm really getting to the limit of my knowledge here, so I apologize if I'm talking out of my ass, but I seem to recall a lot of people in the hobbyist community complaining they wanted to do more RF stuff using HAM frequencies, but the angry old men blocked any uses that weren't voice? Or something? Basically my takeaway was a group of Makers was trying to revive HAM and the HAM people said "no".

Anyway... yeah all of this is boned and I expect large swaths of the frequencies will be sold off and/or privatized in the next 10 or 20 years.

@vondon302 the electronic exhaust adjustments are becoming more mainstream from manufacturers. Updated Kia Stinger even has 'em!

I bet 5 years ago no one would have ever guessed there'd be a 368 hp twin-turbo v6 4-door sedan liftback from Kia with electronic exhaust cut outs lol

@ita97 I honestly don't know, but I wouldn't doubt it, its perfect conditions.

@fintail There are still quite a few people I've work with that are from the Seattle area who have never heard of the Blue or Selkirk Mountains. They think that Washington east of the Cascades is all like Moses Lake, Yakima or Pullman.

@carsoffortlangley Glad you and your friends are having a blast mate! 🙂

@jmkarstetter I can't find my kinja backups, but the trip was based on this post about the "Oklahoma Adventure Trail".

@nth256 said in Quick trip summary - MOAAAAAB:

@dipodomysdeserti - Gotta justify the purchase somehow, since he likely won't ever take it offroad.

He was in Moab, so he probably went offroading but wasn’t clever enough to find a camping spot outside of Arches, which is very easy to do. A lot of four wheelers nowadays are more into glamping, which is perfectly fine, but not really what I’m into.

@bloody-the-resident-shitposting-saffer $500 for Chinesesium camping gear? Nah.

@carsoffortlangley This looks like an excellent use of time and jeep. I love it and am super-jealous!

@silentbutnotreallydeadly I would be okay with the same hours and pto I get but with the expectation that using my PTO is encouraged in practice and not just word

@dejock said in For those of you with lifted Toyotas...:

@jminer said in For those of you with lifted Toyotas...:

Although I only had to change a flat off the road once, and I actually left the jack at home that time. Luckily I had a chainsaw in the truck, but that's a story for another time...

Elaborate...

Short answer, cut down a tree and wedged it under the axle then dug out the tire. It's not a bad story to write up here in longer form now that I think of it.

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Picture of the traction boards for reference. Didn’t get one out in the field as I was in the moment a bit.