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    FS: Custom Tacoma Hard-Sided Camper

    Here are a few interior pics. Sorry about the dark lighting—I designed the camper to fit inside a standard garage door, which is where it’s stored at the moment.
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    FS: Custom Tacoma Hard-Sided Camper

    The kids are growing like weeds, so it’s time to upgrade to an off-road trailer. This is my custom slide-in hard sided camper, that I built over three months in summer 2020. My goal was to build a strong, simple, and lightweight camper that can be carried by my 2018 Tacoma and sleep our family...
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    Question on TreadWright

    Thought I'd chime in. A few weeks ago I bought 4 31" Guard Dog tires from Treadwright. That's the old MTR tread design. For a starving grad student like me, I just couldn't drop $700 on brand new tires, but $400 is manageable. They're on BFG All Terrain carcasses, and got to my apartment...
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    Homemade Roofracks.

    A couple guys over on ih8mud have made roof racks using an aluminum ATV ramp as a base: http://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/88016-diy-roof-rack-h-moose.html I'll be fabing up something similar for my XJ here in a month or so.
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    Tropical Roofs (Double Roof)

    Walking down the street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington DC I happened across a lovely Series 3 Landy. I admired it for ten or fifteen minutes and was particularly impressed with its "Tropical Roof." I remember having seen these types of double roofs on GWagens in the Mideast a...
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    First Fix on my new cherokee

    I've got no first hand experience with the CSF, but I've been doing a fair bit of research into upgrading my stock radiator, which at 134k miles is getting a little long in the tooth. I've read about the CSF 3 cores having belt filler necks upon delivery, and it seems that there have been quite...
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    Electric Fans Mounted in Hood

    Yeah, I recently flushed my system about 6 times over the course of a week, using rad cleaner. I'm running water wetter now and I'm happy with the lowered temps--went from around 218 on average to 208. Depending on how the cooling system holds up over the summer (the previous owner must not have...
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    Electric Fans Mounted in Hood

    Fishpoet that's excellent. That's exactly what I was going to build. I'd also like to know your source...
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    Electric Fans Mounted in Hood

    Here's a fella from naxja that did it: http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92583&highlight=hood+heater+core Apparently it worked pretty good for him. I'll let you all know what I decide and how it works out.
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    Electric Fans Mounted in Hood

    @ Superu: I was thinking about some type of louvres that would be pushed open when i turned the fan on but would otherwise remain closed. Not sure where I could find something like this or if I'd have to rig one up myself. @bobdog: thanks for the site reference, I'll scout around and see if I...
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    Electric Fans Mounted in Hood

    Hey everybody, with summer here I imagine there are quite a few of us who are starting to think more and more about overheating. I've got a 98 XJ, which are known to run warm, and I'm always looking for ways to keep her cool. This got my thinking about something that I saw once in Qatar (where I...
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