Recent content by irish44j

I have the halfgen, so basically half of the Genesis. Seems to work fine, though the igniter is a bit wonky and I had to bend it to get a good spark. I like how it stows up compact and is an easy setup, so I use it when I need to boil some water (fast) for coffee, mostly. I still carry a cheapo...

That's the Raider in the profile pic lol...just dirty :) You on GRM then? My Raider thread here is a carbon-copy of the one over there, I update both at the same time. I used to have a couple threads on ExPo but it runs so slow these days I kind of stopped updating those and moved here.

Not that much of my stuff applies, since yours is a 4-door with more room for stuff, but I have a build thread (right above yours at the moment) that documents my "from scratch" setup that's mostly DIY stuff / on a budgets. Some of it may be of use - and some of it is good ideas I stole from...

I have the 7-gallon Yakima Road Shower on the Sequoia, which has been very useful for camping, racing, and cleaning up messy kids. My plan had been to swap it onto the Raider for camping, but after some checking it's just too big to really fit on the rack easily - plus it's overkill in terms of...

Yeah, that's what I 'm thinking as well. Though after putting it on the Raider, it's probably too big for my weekend camping trips, so I switched the smaller Pelican boxes off the Sequoia onto the Raider today and will probably use it on the bigger truck for family trips only (and will build a...

Not specific to a particular vehicle, but I'll probably use it on both the Raider and the Sequoia depending on the trip. Anyhow, tonight I picked up a secondhand Hardigg Case off marketplace for a couple of Jacksons. Not bad, since it's probably military surplus and I'm sure DoD paid like $800...

This same place I put my shovel :) Also the trailer build is coming along nicely. I built a similar frame a few years back

With no trips planned for a few weeks, still goofing around with little convenience items and other minor projects, as there's no end to trying to "find places to make things fit" in a truck this small. As with most 80s vehicles, there's very little OEM storage in them. The center console box on...

Finally got around to doing the rear trailing arm bushings, something I didn't do when I originally updated all the suspension because at the time they "looked fine." Well, they don't look fine now: Luckily, this is actually a pretty easy job - literally just undo three big bolts and drop...

Links don't seem to work on this forum for some reason so here's a screen cap of the product

Got the actual shovel. Happy to see my measurements were correct, as it's pretty much a perfect fit for the place I put the mounts, and the bill tucks in nicely about 1" from the propane tank mount, and wraps around. So, mission accomplished there

Small projects this evening, some stuff I've been meaning to get around to. First off, with the new rear bumper caps I got rid of the janky mudflaps I had, but of course the result of that is that mud and crap will basically just come off the rear tires right into the underneath of the bumpers...

great, thanks to both you!

Just to follow up on this, I did build this thing, and here's how it turned out. I did use the 2x2 1/8 square for the whole thing, and it's very, very solid/strong - granted its not holding very much weight. Anyhow, just to add to the idea pile for those who dont' follow my build thread.

sorry, for some reason it didn't like me posting the link. Here's a screen cap from Amazon