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Picked up this little Toyota Tacoma for parts, it will give up the driveshafts, seats and rollbar for the nissan

IDK if I’m making headway on the rigs yet, but here’s other pics!

The HP and torque are in the Same ballpark as the 5.9 12 Cummins trucks of the early/mid 90's for reference, the Cummins 5.9 having less torque. The 6.6 I have is 185hp, 450ft/lbs TQ and the 7.8 is 210hp with 510ft/lb tq. They both have similar Bosch inline injection pump as the Cummins and respond Similarly to mods as the Cummins. Getting pretty excited about this build, doing some yard rearranging in preps to start the assembly and mockup

It's a good run, I backed out of the entrance with my Nissan truck over the summer, it was beyond the little Nissan's comfort zone, but I did have the Xterra through both ways(winching involved on the return trip) in the dead of winter and led the group with the Ford.

New parts truck has the Ford 7.8 liter inline 6 .That's good news, going to pick it up Wednesday and bring it home

Picked up some more parts, another cutoff truck like the red one, with Inline 6 turbo diesel engine and transmission, deal was too good to pass up, and I have acquired the np205 divorced case as well. I will have to transfer my married transfercase guts into the divorced case. All major parts are accounted for, next will be preparing the frame to accept the engine and transmission. The 6 speed transmission in the red cab is a direct, meaning no over drive, plans on axle gearing will be 3.55:1. I have a rear axle ready. Need to pick up front diff ring and pinion to replace the 4.10:1 gear

Well ... it was legitimately down overnight. Ran out of memory and it brought down the database. I'm hoping to get some of the upgrades in the home done so I can get my server rack and our proper server back up and running. Right now we're running on a server in Toronto via DigitalOcean while I moved ... move done. Now I'm renovating lol

Finally a coffee night that I'm off , I'll be there, in a yellow truck

Have been busy as hell, hoping to make a coffee soon. Gone from single dude to full 4 person family in a year

Nope, not focused, but always ready to grab parts on the list especially when they come to me lol.

Removed the parts I wanted from the Toyota. Sold and delivered what was left.

Here is the cutoff just picked it up last night. Looks to be an old Avon valley transport truck, not much for pickings left, but engine, trans intact and look good.

It looks a lot like yours!

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID ANNOUNCEMENT Coffee this week is 7pm Thursday at Tim Hortons - 6034 Lady Hammond Rd, Halifax, NS B3K 2R6 Schedule; - 15 Akerley Blvd, Burnside, Dartmouth, NS B3B 1J6 - 5 Lakelands Blvd, Bayers Lake, Halifax, NS B3K 5L2 - 36 Verdi Dr, Bedford Common, NS B4A 0C2 - Woodside Ferry Terminal (summer) / 6034 Lady Hammond Rd, Halifax, NS B3K 2R6 - 1624 Sackville Dr, Middle Sackville, NS B4E 3A8

I had to jam 'em in lol

I did try cards. They wouldn’t stay put. I would have had to lower the air pressure to insert them further. The breeze wasn’t helping at the time! Lol

we like pics!! playing cards work good

Have you met @TomWood's old Liberty?

Have your cake and eat it too! Good stuff @SQRLPWR

we're expecting the worst It's my polite way of saying a stock rig on A/Ts isn't going to cut it

Hi Folks, I just completed an upgrade to the forum - lots of new features (many behind the scenes), security updates, etc. One thing I knew was coming was a theme upgrade. I thought I could keep the old theme ... but apparently it just changed it to partially the new default. So - I'll pick away over the next little while at getting the theme back to making more sense (mainly the header and links at the top). Possibly the biggest new change is a native iOS and Android (beta) app for the forum. I have to do a little bit of work to get it up and running, but I'll do that soo

Not unique. Every time this topic is viewed by anyone the count increments.

It is, and I'm really just tinkering IDK the history on the shocks, but they look new, so maybe they were ordered too long, or the integrated bump stops weren't accounted for in the overall length. Easy fix

This seemed like a well sorted rig when you picked it up - but you're doing a lot to improve / correct. Good stuff as usual.

RE: server going down. I put different monitoring on it so now it should ping me on my phone when it notices that the actual board is down. Formally it was only pinging to see if the server would respond - when it's showing an error on the page the server is technically still responding so I never got notified. Now it's looking for certain attributes of the forum and if it doesn't detect them it'll alert me. We will see if it's more accurate. @SQRLPWR that's a great question. We actually do get a lot of guest traffic (orders of magnitude higher than member traffic right now) - so it might

commencing operation shock extension.... the shocks have maybe 3/4" up travel before the bump stops, so I'm going to add 3" to the stock tower

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We had a good turnout, and a stock H3 on A/Ts from the valley turned up. There was some problems tho. The red Jeep tried to bounce up the rock face at the crossing, which resulted in a broken axle shaft. He was strapped up and limped back to the road for recovery. I heard 3rd hand that the H3 had some undercarriage damage...wires and things, that's all I know. I actually got the Zuk mud bog dirty, when the red jeep got stuck and I was playing around in the dirt Was a good day of wheeling tho, and I finally saw the trail again where Tom broke his Cherokee :-)

it's parked next to Eugene's Ranger on the video...it's a stock, just 32" BFG A/T's on it

Bummer re: H3! Any shots of it in the dirt? I miss mine.

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I believe they had other things they had to attend to

Coffee this week is 7pm Thursday at the Bayers Lake Tim Hortons - 5 Lakelands Blvd, Halifax, NS B3K 5L2 Schedule; .Burnside Tim Hortons - 15 Akerley Blvd, Dartmouth, NS B3B 1J6 .Bayers Lake Tim Hortons - 5 Lakelands Blvd, Halifax, NS B3K 5L2 .Bedford Common Tim Hortons - 36 Verdi Dr, Bedford, NS B4A 0C2 .Fall River (winter) / Woodside (summer) / Lady Hammond 6034 Lady Hammond Rd, Halifax, NS B3K 2R6 (spring & fall) .Middle Sackville Tim Hortons - 1624 Sackville Dr, Middle Sackville, NS B4E 3A8

sorry Eugene, it was another last minute gig club run on 14th

My bro’s 452k kms Cummins is in the garage for a minor repair. So the Scout is outside enjoying some warm sunshine! We closed the cottage for the winter yesterday, so work starts again shortly on the rigs! I sure missed the little jaunt the guys made through Renfrew yesterday!

Is that battery one that is tucked up under the cowl? Lights look good, it's the little things that make the difference

Did a little 'Reccie' this morning, drove from the Highway Garage / Metro Transit 'Park & Ride' through to the Airport / Aerotech Drive. Simple and easy, could/should be really good when there is a bit more snow though!

I took that route home from the big hill last week. They made it a lot less funner by filling in the big mud hole. But there's still a few little spots to play in

That is killa

Picked this rig up today with a handful of hours on it for (what I think is) a good deal.

I just pulled coffee nights from the calendar for the next two weeks. Will keep an eye on Government announcements and go from there.

Actually coffee is cancelled due to recent covid announcement @sar4x4