Recent content by joe.schigel

Hey All, I never really made any follow up posts but there's now a video of the end of the trip! It has some great shots and was the best of the 3 parts for sure! It also has the best pics of the deep water I did that I've seen to date! give it a watch if you have some time!

Long time no update but this is a good one! A little background and refresher with some of this info being in the thread. I've always struggled with vibration issues on this truck since I "finished" it back in 2020. There's been one major issue after another that we've found and resolved but...

I'll give that a shot when I get a chance. I talked to a co-worker and he suggested that maybe something was frozen due to temperature (it was well below freezing). I think that could possibly have been it as well. that winch has been briefly underwater a couple times

Hey All, I have a Warn M15000 winch on my full size that I don't use very often (like most winches). Well, this weekend I was at an off-road event and I was helping someone get out of a tough spot and my winch would not free spool! It worked in the past but for some reason it won't. The...

Day 2: Sleeping Bear Dunes On Day 2 we got to take the family to the Dunes and show them around Glen Arbor. We did a short hike at Pyramid point followed by the family trying the smaller, less consequential dune climb. (If you try to go down and up the big dune but don't make it, expect a...

Day 1: SE MI to Traverse City On Day 1 we made the long drive up to Traverse City MI. Not too much of note but we did get to stop at the world famous "Cops & Donuts"! The cruisers were doing great wit hone of them being significantly thirstier than the other. The 80 will pass anything but a...

Hey All, I wanted to share the trip that my family and I just finished with our Land Cruisers through Michigan and the UP! It was mostly a road trip with a splash of dirt thrown in. But this was the first major family road trip in a long time and with our 2 Cruisers! I'll start with the...

hey all, Is anyone interested in going to Detroit 4fest this weekend? I'll be there Saturday afternoon since I'm hosting my final Cars & Coffee of the season that morning. If anyone wants to stop by for coffee and donust before heading up, swing by! I'll be in the 715 Cars & Coffee Detroit...

Sunday - 257mi Sunday morning we woke up and grabbed breakfast at Java Joe's (my favorite breakfast joint in St. Ignace). We were also meeting up with McNally who had been driving the Maximus 3 JT up from his house all morning. After breakfast, we stopped at the local grocery store to...

The weekend before Saturday - 270mi The trip started for me the weekend before. I drive the M715 and it really likes to camp around 55mph in its current state. On top of that, we had a cameraman (Mike) coming with us that needed a way to get there. So he rode shotgun. Saturday morning...

Hey all, Some friends and I put together a trip that we called the Back Yard Overland Tour (BYOT) that we just finished running. We went through the upper peninsula of Michigan and ended at Detroit 4Fest. It took me 7 days and probably close to 1000mi to complete the trip. I'm creating this...

Sweet! I’ll see you there

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Could do that. Or deliberately roll in a bit later to avoid the traffic. High Octane isn’t open in the morning but could meet there and drive in on Golf dr. Much faster than using woodward

Anyone going to M1 tomorrow morning? I’m being the 80 series that I just finished.