Recent content by Spud

Still no camping, but we drove from Bend to Christmas Valley off road. Beautiful day! Thought I'd share some pictures. One of these days I'd like to lead a trip from Bend to the Alvord but that's looking like no time soon.

Well it works, both for meals and warming up a bottle on the trail, lol

Started working on organizing stuff, making my own diy Trekpak dividers out of corrugated plastic and Trekpak pins (haven't found a cheap alternative that is as strong and spaced correctly). It's getting there!

Got the stove mounted, took it apart and installed rivnuts, didn't need to take it apart to do this but it was easier to drill the holes from the inside since the "feet" are dome shapes.

I pieced everything together over time, I can't remember exactly how much it was in total. It could be done pretty cheaply buy I went for all new suspension parts, some aftermarket, etc. Biggest thing is more travel.

Thanks, yeah it's boosted. In that picture it had a stockish truck 5.3 and was running 9.4 in the 1/4 at 148mph. It now has a whole new build, sporting a pretty wild 408 LS, haven't worked the bugs out in the tune yet.

Haha, thanks. It's a fun truck. Got all kinds of stuff on it now, a lot of it I built. Like the drawer setup, sliders, rack over the Softopper. It's got a shower room on one side, 2 5x8 awnings on the other, big solar panel, plenty of radios (ham, cb, gmrs). I like building stuff, this is...

We haven't been on a significant off grid trip in several years, trying to get out for a week this year. My original plan was to go from the Alvord to Bend off road. But I'm leaning away from that idea because we want to bring our son with us. He's 2 and has cerebral palsey, epilepsy, and is...

I'm cool with thread jacking, lol. My Frontier has been a great truck. Love the Titan swap stance too.

Almost done! Got a few more things to make, like a door to cover up the drawers, stewing on a fold up table idea, and still plenty of wiring. I did a lot better mounting the little drawer for the stove, it's actually straight whereas the big one is crooked and not the right size. Definitely will...

Been swamped with other projects, but did a little to the drawer finally. Made the sides and installed them (the vent is for the refrigerator's condenser). Then started work on the top. I wanted to use L-Track in my build as well, to fasten them down I used rivet nuts in the square tube and will...

I think I saved it. The issue I was running into is I made the drawer out of cheap pine boards, nice and light but incredibly soft, terrible wood screw retention. Figured out what to do though, switched to 1/4-20 screws and got inserts that go in the back side. It works! Now I need to figure out...

I'm not sure, I'm assuming no, as far as I'm aware there's still occupancy restrictions in place and such, but I'm not up to speed on all that stuff.

So, I'm not a carpenter and have never aspired to be one, I prefer metal. This drawer has been a challenge, it was ever so slightly too wide to fit between the slides. Which resulted in me needing to take a planer to the outsides and get it to fit. I'm not happy with the fitment, but it's good...

I wish I could, but with our kiddo's very high medical needs we neither have the time nor is it wise for us to be involved with unfamiliar groups unfortunately.