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max225 wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:35 pm Yea … after doing 20+ brake jobs with various non oem components from “cheap” to “brembo” I’m using nothing but oem.
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Apex wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:40 pm :amazing:

Love the updates!!
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[user not found] wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:52 pm God damn it’s good to have you back.

Also, someday you’re in NJ our schedules will align. Give me more notice next time. :lol:
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COVID stay at home orders in place, might as well make the best of it

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I sure do like knobby tires and quality suspensions

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April 17, 2020

Still in lockdown but its been a crazy week. We went from 70's to winter trying to make one last stand. We got a foot of snow Monday-Tuesday, it all melted on Wednesday, then Thursday we got another foot of snow.

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Gavin wanted to shovel.
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I could have done without him shoveling the fender though...
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The frost on the tire this morning looked kinda cool.
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Being a nice sunny morning and temps with temps that are supposed to be coming back up pretty quick we hit the big hill for some sledding.
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Still on lockdown so doing projects at home

Lumber run with the SSO rack.
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First of 4 platforms done
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Little man did awesome with keeping the beers flowing lol He looks pretty silly with his batman mask hoodie that cant pull down all the way with his safety glasses on.
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He was all about helping
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Final product = 81 sq/ft of wasted space turned into storage

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it took forever since they got shut down as non essential before my order shipped but I finally got my stove upgrade.

Space taken up - New setup vs old setup
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Hanging out in the backyard last night

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May 2020

Gavin and I decided to get out and explore in the 4Runner while social distancing yesterday. We cleaned up some remote off-road trails and dispersed campsites, we saw a pretty young moose, we parked up on a ridge and had popsicles from the fridge/freezer in the truck, we found a middle of nowhere treehouse shelter and signed the guest book, we got the 4Runner leaning very VERY sideways (it’s a good thing there’s a button to disable side curtain airbags while offroad because if it leans too far and it feels like a rollover is imminent it will deploy the side bags to try to cushion your landing), and we got it some new custom Colorado Pinstripes.

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The butt pucker is real!
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Colorado Pinstipes
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Those bench cut trails were our route. The far mountain left to right, made our way back and looped around the peak on the right, then came up the trail in the foreground on the left before winding back around to here.
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Our collection of trash for the day
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Pretty disappointed that the brand new Trasharoo has 2 holes worn in it after the first time being mounted. It was on my 4Runner being used for literally 5 hours. I guess there's a reason their so cheap. Trasharoo warrantied it.

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We made a video of the day (the moose is in here) and uploaded it on little man's youtube page

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I got a tool roll from Adventure Tool Company and I've been working on gathering stuff for it. I don't want to take stuff from my actual toolbox so everything for the trail tools is new. This is my baseline to start with.

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Somebody was pretty happy have the tent back on the truck. He took a nap out there today.

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With Utah canceled we decided to make the best of it disappeared up into the mountains for a few days. This was the first real multi-day trip using quite a few pieces of new gear: Jetboil Genesis Basecamp, the fridge for days on end without starting the vehicle to recharge the secondary battery, the Nemo sleeping pads, Eno hammock and tree straps, Adventure Tool Company camp kitchen, and using the Garmin InReach for sat comms. Overall it went really really way and we've been satisfied with our gear choices. I have a running list on my phone that I continuously modify with ideas or things we need to add or change up. This trip we added hot pads, a second collapsable bucket, dish drying towel, kids book for identifying animal scat and tracks, and reevaluating out silverware after snapping a spoon. Plus we learned a valuable lesson in double checking critical equipment. I have iOS apps for offline maps, navigation, trails, etc, but my phone is also set to offload unused apps. After not using most of them through ski season they needed to be downloaded again while I had reception/internet connection. I didn't think to do that so by the time I wanted to use them I couldn't access them. Lesson learned, and that feature is now turned off.

Anyways, we had a blast - we hiked, explored, made s’mores, played some soccer, collected firewood, practiced some bushcraft skills, and we got to sit watch a bald eagle fish for a while, we brought the camp toilet but I'm happy to say nobody actually used it, in fact I think the highlight of the trip for my son was digging a hole and pooping in it lol.

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This big deep sloppy uphill pit was awesome, it basically worked as a gatekeeper, you were in the middle of nowhere so you didn't want to get stuck but once we passed that point we don't see another soul. Pictures always make things look less intense they really are, this was deep enough that I smacked the rear bumper off the ground and caused some relatively minor but permanent damage.
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This is as installed as the rear bumper gets now lol
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InReach Mini worked great
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Batman eating s'mores
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I can not stress enough how big of a game changer it is having a fridge
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Spot the 4runner
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Bald eagle
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This one is definitely permanent
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I let my 4 year old decide where we were going to explore. I narrowed it down to areas without active fire bans but I let him drop a pin on google maps over the state of Colorado and then we went and spent the better part of this past week exploring the area he chose. It was fantastic! We had an amazing trip, the views, the roads, we didn't see a single person for days, we found some epic campsites that I made sure to mark in my GPS for future use.

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