No worries, but just FYI as you can see from my avatar, I do not own a Taco, but an Xterra. I remember seeing this video linked from my video on youtube about my ARB CKMTA12 compressor. So I do not know what it takes to install in this location but looking at google, several have done it. The CKMA is alot easier to install than the dual motor compressor I have and it is still great. I have installed a few on friends trucks and trailers since installing mine. We had a guy at work who had a flat in the parking lot last week. Security was there with one of those air tanks and they were not having success. So I backed in my X, opened her up and started filling. But it was slow going after a minute I was like, something is wrong, I can see a difference in my 33s in this amount of time, I released the trigger and it reported 25 PSI and was falling a few PSI every second, Searched around the tire and found a large split in the tread area, so these compressors can put air in faster than it can come out, believe me. We ended up tossing on his spare and he ended up having to buy a new tire since it could not be repaired due to the size of the split.
Mine is installed in the rear of my X off of a bracket I built bolted to my interior Garvin rack. This put it out of the way, fully exposed if needed, and easy to access. I was hesitant buying it due to the cost and was seriously thinking of the smaller CKMA12 but I'm glad in the end how this turned out. Plus I bought it for the cheapest I had ever seen it for. Back in the fall of 2014, I seen them on amazon market place for mid 430ish, and was like, wow, thats 100 less than Amazon, still free shipping just not 2 day prime. Then on Dec 5th it dropped to 423. I bought, then next time I looked a few days later it was 429, the next day 435 or so. Cant beat it at that price. The same company had the CKMA12 at like 220/230. Which is a deal for what they go for now.
My clip, completely unrehearsed but it get the point across.
Thanks! How do you like yours?
-CP TACO
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I have only used it once, and like everyone says, you will find you will always use it on others rather than a self recovery. But it works. It was my first time winching so I was a little nervous But they had nothing and had been stuck on the side of the hill for the last few hours, the kid with dad looked at me like I was god when their truck was on the road again. I think dad was prep talking the kid for a camp out in the cab of the Tacoma before I came around the bend, and the kid was not sure about that idea either. Their camp was just 3 miles down the road just next to where I was already camping, and I was scoping out a camp I found the year earlier when up there when I seen several tents in this stand of large trees in a recessed little depression, my daughter calls this are pixie hollow since it reminds her of tinker bells movie.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cascade+Springs/@40.5285559,-111.5855455,290m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x6d4aa192cd21b772!8m2!3d40.4584091!4d-111.5489239
The campground is where "google" has the watermark in the opening at the middle bottom of the page. This little trail (follow the dirt path not the highlight from google, it runs right to the curve not the straight they are showing) runs from the dirt road to this depression which is about 60 ft lower elevation than the road. When you first come off there is a little ditch you run thru then down a decent trail. Don't know what happened but on his way up he hit the ditch swerved left and this front dropped down the hill. I could not get around him to pull him out, and off the front my 30ft straps were not able to extend before I was out of road on the curve, so I backed up the hill and hooked up and got him out. If anyone is out near Tibble fork reservoir, this is a fun little drive and this area is fun and a great place to camp, as not many make down here, seen a lot of people on the main trail following the river, but once I turned onto this road, they were the only other people I see till I got near the little deer creek campground (which has running water, is never full, off of a easy to drive dirt road, and is cheap), its one place I know my girlfriend does not mind going.
