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Take your pick. :) Stuck in snow... Stuck in mud... Stuck in mud and spring fell out (friend's WJ) Not me Next challenge... a photo of a truck floating (at least two wheels off the ground) in a body of water.

The original battery was leaking so I replaced it with a Odyssey Extreme 34R-PC1500. I've had really good luck with the Diehard Platinum in the 4Runner which is still working after 10+ years and was supposedly made by Odyssey. Size comparison. Parts I used to wire up my non-factory power...

How about some pictures. The hose setup I used to inflate the tires. The valve shuts off airflow from the compressor and allows you to get a stable reading. I've tried multiple different types of tire chucks and could write another article on that. tl;dr None of them seal perfectly well. The...

Recently I purchased an ARB 12v dual compressor to replace the Viair compressor currently in my Tacoma. My primary goal is to reduce the time it takes to air up after running a trail, and my secondary goal is jealousy since a friend recently bought one of these. Over the years I have...

The advertised rating of the Flexopower is 40Ah @ 12v, which is actually 37Ah if you do the math (444Wh/12v). After drawing more than 35Ah out of the battery it is now down to 2 of the 5 LEDs and the output voltage is 10.7v. Supposedly the BMS will shut down at 10v, so I'm interested to see how...

The amount of time spent defining "overlanding" is inversely proportional to... (fill in the blank).

The LEDs on my Flexopower used to go down as the charge was used, but now they seem to be stuck at "full power" all the time. As a test I've drawn about 24aH out of the battery and all the LEDs are still on. Very weird.

If you put the fridge on top of the drawer you will likely want one of those "tilt down" style of mounts so you can get into the fridge, and I'm not personally a fan of those since everything slides around while the fridge is at an angle and it is a pain to put things back in. Our fridge...

Drat, sounds like I'm going to need to get me some muds and a winch on my Tacoma.

I bought the DieHard Platinum P-4 that is in my 4Runner in 2009, used. It was supposedly 1 year old at that time, which makes it about 11 years old now. This battery seemingly refuses to die (living up to its name) no matter how many times I drain it down past the point where it will start the...

Hi Sean, I'm potentially interested if your pending sale doesn't work out. Can you provide some pictures of the fridge? I'm in Mountain View most Wednesdays and could stop by to pick it up.

I think part of the issue is that the rain fly blocks most of the mesh area at the top of the tent, and even with the windows cracked there's not a lot of airflow. Some tents have vents at the bottom for just this reason, and I'm betting that opening the bottom of one or both doors will really...

Has anybody else had condensation issues with their Gazelle? This weekend my wife, daughter, and I camped in our Gazelle and on the first night we apparently didn't open enough windows and wound up with significant condensation on the walls. On the second night we opened all the windows a few...

I put a 300A fuse inline with my Warn M8000. This way if the positive wire ends up shorting to the frame the fuse will hopefully blow before the truck burns down. The fuse is installed in a way that allows me to quickly bypass it if needed. Picture is with the cover removed.

+1 to the Silky BigBoy. I used a Sven Saw for about 15 years, but I didn't like the angle of the grip and the way I tended to bash my knuckles on whatever I was cutting. Another downside of bow style saws is that they limit the diameter of log that you can process based on the height of the...

But how do you hash tag that on the gram to get potential sponsors to notice? #idontknowwhereigotitbutitworks?

TODO: Link to parts I used. The proper way to dim LEDs is using PWM (pulse width modulation). For fun I hooked up the dimmer to an oscilloscope and confirmed it was using PWM, this photo shows one 4' length of LEDs being driven at about 50% duty cycle. If anybody is really interested in...

Custom LED shell lights.

A while ago I bought a used shell for my Tacoma and quickly discovered that finding things at night in a dark shell is not a lot of fun so, I decided to add some LED lights. My requirements were reasonable price, a warm color temperature (I really dislike bright white lights in camp), dimmable...

I recently purchased a ClampTite tool (ClampTite) to add some low profile hose clamps to my air hose setup. This is a pretty cool little tool that could be very useful for various types of trail repairs, and in fact I'm thinking of adding it to the tool kit in my truck. I already carry bailing...