Solar worked great at OEX East even with partial cloud cover. The stands with the diver weights worked as planned and allowed positioning of the solar panels as needed.
With a clear sky the panels were generating about 115 watts
With partly cloudy skys there was still enough to maintain the fridge and top off the odyssey battery.
At about 3 pm solar was packed up. 4 p.m. engine was running and we were on our way out.
With a clear sky the panels were generating about 115 watts
With partly cloudy skys there was still enough to maintain the fridge and top off the odyssey battery.
At about 3 pm solar was packed up. 4 p.m. engine was running and we were on our way out.
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I went with something similar. They're pretty much what you've made. They're for side mounting on a bed rail system. Wish I could remember who makes them.
Every 50 miles I'm stopping to let the diffs cool. It's been a long 300 miles back home. Worth it through. That's numbers I haven't seen in a while. The best average after all the additional farkles was around 15.6. The engine and transmission behavior is also better. Staying in the lower RPMs without the occasional shift into 3500 - 4500 RPM range.
Got a short tour of ECGS. Parts wearhouse and shop are on the same site. New diffs are pre-built before the install. They had about 30 in the queue. I was in at 8 am and out by 1 pm.That’s pretty damn good considering your load out
Of course there is the man cave waiting room and the smell of gear oil throughout the building. Not a bad place to work remotely on the laptop.
What was stock?
3.91.
Set up complete cooking system that keeps the bed clear and is part of the Tacoma's EDC. It includes a MSR Whisperlite Stove and fuel, Snow Peak Personal Cooker cookset, Tembo Tusk Adventure Skottle, and Mountain Hatch tailgate insert. All of it hung on Grayman Tactical Molle panels.
Of course I went with the orange one.
Of course I went with the orange one.
That’s pretty damn good considering your load out
As a bonus. Since the speedometer gear housing is on the transfer case changing the gear ratio has restored it to be about 2 mph lower than what the GPS was reading. I don't have to do the 8% adjustment in my head anymore.
WashingtonTaco
Adventurist
Carl from Nitro Gear did a great video series about regearing Tacoma's
Desert Does It front seat jacks and panel today. Big difference in comfort with the body weight distribution across more of the seat.
ExploreBackcountry
Adventurist
Glad they worked for you