CrewMax Overlander

Yeah it’s pretty hot or miss on shipping right now.

 

circuit breaker still hasn’t shown up but, i needed the truck this morning to pick up some 4x8 OSB sheets. so, last night i reconnected everything except the inverter wiring. decided to run a little test while i cut down the wood.

system is currently charging odyssey batteries under the hood since the solar battery is full. 20 min ago i turned on the fridge. starting temp for both fridge and freezer were about 60. fridge is set to 37 and the freezer is set to 19.



battery monitor shows 170Ah and 100% with 14.2v.



tailgate is open but the truck is sitting in full sun in the driveway. going to let the fridge run all afternoon and see how things do.

 

only full osha approved footwear at this place...

 

you spent too much time in California..lol

 

moved there when i was 9. grew up a surf rat. left at 40.

you can take the boy from the surf but not the surf from the boy.

 

U glad u moved? I can’t wait to leave Cali

 

fridge is still running. sun just went down so starting to see a bit of power draw.



going to let it go all night and see where things are in the morning.

 

yep. we moved to denver 7 years ago. haven't looked back. one of the best decisions we've ever made.

 

Yah man I can’t wait I want to quit early sell and go

 

fridge ran all night long.



not bad for a dometic cfx95 that is empty. the solar battery needs to drop to 12.7v before the system will switch the charging from the odyssey batteries. so, the fridge continues to run.

 

Perfect!

 

I went down the rabbit hole with solar today. Learned a ton. Having read a bunch I fell confident that I could wire up my own solar set up. Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm going to build my own aux battery box so it's portable.

Looking forward to the progress of your build.

Edsel

 

finally got the replacement yodagan sticker on.



can i be part of the cool kids again?

 

well. that sucks.



was adding the wiring for the inverter and the lug snapped off the mppt controller. wasn’t using that much force so...

 

and my only remaining booked client for this summer just went... poof.

 

Damn. Sorry to hear. Guess that is going to slow down the build process.

 

Nice!

 

dropped truck off for some service this morning. just got this update.



guess it’s time for a diff skid...

 

ug. looks like i'm doing a brake job already too. hopefully it's just pads but i won't know until i get the truck home and take a look. not paying dealer pricing for that one.

 

I bet dealership see you coming from a mile away thinking they can push some $$ service..lol....last time I went to a dealership they were trying to sell me all kind of stuff because of my 295/70 tires...
now I just go to small independent Toyota shop. same mechanic every time and the guy is a Toyota fan.

 

i've been going to them because of toyotacare but this is the last interval that's covered. a few things popped up for the 40k interval as i skipped the 35. i'll be going elsewhere from here on out for things that i can't take care of myself.

everyone there totally geeks out over the truck though.

 

Funny I asked you this weekend about your brakes. Keep me in the loop on your thoughts/direction of brakes now.

 

get the RCI or victory skid diff. There is used victory skid diff for sale in the market section btw

 

I went to a shop in Littleton that I really liked and they came through in a pinch (literally pinched my brake line). Hartmans garage. The guy was supposedly a Toyota master tech.

 

i'll still stick with the ebc pads and rotors. no complaints. they've been used. lots of mountain driving, pavement and dirt. i just don't want to have to replace rotors right now.

 

i'll probably go with rci since they're local.

i'll check it out. getting over to littleton is a bit of a haul for me though. i've used jesse at atlr a few times when i had the fj. he's great but he's out in golden. would love to find someone closer to the house.

 

Just did mine, thank God they were able to turn the rotors. Just replacing stock pads was wayyyyy more expensive than I thought it should be...