My Truck

I really need more posed pictures of my truck but here are a couple.  It's from winter obviously because you can see snow on the mountains behind.....

and here with the snow to make it look tough.  Just don't tell anyone that it was one little snowy patch and everything ese around was bare  :-)

and a profile (with my world class camp fires in an area that no longer exists thanks to stupid people! GRR!)

and my favorite from last fall. What ever did it deflated the tire in about 10 seconds. I never found the culprit except for a nasty hole in the tread

I have 137,000 miles, original owner, lock rite in the rear, oh yeah an Otto Matic tranny (be kind!), and a growing list of things that I keep adding.

 Azbillyboy,  Nice rig, I always liked the tacomas, if I didn't have a Jeep heart I would own an Taco.

Like your rig man,  what are your specs?

I have BFG 31" mudders, NWOR front coils, NWOR rear leafs reworked with an added spring (I have broken four leaf packs in ten years!), regular Bilsteins in the front (yellow) and 5100 series in the rear. The rear is lifted about 2" but the front is stock except for any lift from the new coils. I took the sway bar off and it's a coffee table conversation piece. Pioneer audio, Xenon flares, lock rite rear, ARB front bumper, just added a rear slider (tinted) window and tinted the side windows as well, two 135 Watt lights  on the faux roll bar and 2 100 watts on the ARB, nerf bars shortened and repaired after many rock hits on the CK trail, and a custom radiator skid plate after I fell off a rock ledge (NOT the one at Oro Belle!) on the CK trail and almost toasted a radiator.

So far the truck is almost all original components except for the rack & pinion, which finally died at around 120M miles (I put those Energy Suspension bushings on the new one), the aforementioned springs, and I had an episode with a series of power steering pumps. The CV boots, u joints, and practically everything else are untouched.

I have been lucky enough to not live very far from work for most of the truck's 10 year life so most of my mileage is for fun :-) which means I go out almost every week.  It is set up for a lot of high speed runs on dirt/gravel rather than hard core rock crawling. Doing the CK road (the main way in with the switchbacks) at night (of course at high speed) was my forte but don't know now about this year after the fire  :-(

As i mentioned in my post it has an auto tranny and was a pretty bone stock truck when I got it. I mean STRIPPED; I don't even have one of those resettable trip odometers so I navigate by the seat of my pants (with keen insight and intellect)  :-)

Thanks. I am instantly envious of anyone who lives in Tucson!

Very cool truck. Looks like a stomper I used to have as a kid. Looking forward to wheeling with you.

 Why would you be envious of anyone in Tucson?  Where are you located?  Do you get to Tucson very often?  We should hit the trail sometime soon.

Craig

Cause I think Tucson is really neat (for a city). More in touch with the desert; at least it hasn't all been plowed under. Unfortunately I don't get down south very often. I am usually busy up North.