North West BS Thread

Noice! I wish my wife would take a weekend with her friends. She needs it more than she realizes.

I just got kicked out of the TV room so they could watch some show I don’t like. Fine by me. Off to the bedroom and my shows.

Doing a road trip tomorrow morning to run a few errands. Going to look at a Yoder while I’m 100 miles from her gaze. Then dinner with the wife’s family Saturday night (always a great time) and up at 6:30 am Sunday morning for a customer meeting!

No sleeping in for me…Napcar Sunday will be in full effect.

 

Take a look at Pitts & Spits grills if you’re looking at the Yoder.

Wish I could be enjoying a frosty beverage or looking forward to a road trip. On the end of day 2 fighting some crud and all I want to do is sleep without a stuffy or runny nose

 

Well scrolling the gram and I just saw a piece from this video. If you haven’t seen Blake’s rad bug’s before here is one of his videos.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ847fUSgHE

 

You replacing your other smoker? Or adding to tge collection?

 

Maybe it’s the enginerd in me but I love watching suspension work. So soothing! I can watch high speed whoops videos for hours.

 

Have a good weekend gang! I’ll be workin on the rig in the morning while the old ladies at work.

 

Neither actually. Just kicking tires. They are hard to find in stock around me but I know a dealer in the direction I’m headed tomorrow. Basically want to be ready to pull the trigger when my GMG breaks.

Ironically, I cannot even remember that last time I smoked something. Must have been the Thanksgiving Turkey.

 

Choices, choices, choices

 

Damn! Serious hardware.

How many Tundra mods does that run?

I’ll be the market for a new smoker once I get relocated to Texas as I just sold my starter electric one. I think it is a state law or something that I have to own a smoker to get my TX driver’s license.

 

Good news is you can find used ones in TX a lot easier too. The ones they build down there don’t wear out.

 

Will the Tundra payload capacity handle that or do you need a trailer?

 

Whelp that was easy lol dash apart in about 20 min with no broken clips. Just need to wire the usb port on the rago mount. Next black out the steering wheel.

Items installed
Rago Dash Mount with Ics reinforcement plate
OEM black radio surround
AJT Black vent rings

 

Smokers are just like truck mods. You run out of money long before you run out of mods. The left Yoder with the orange base is the 640C and is about $2,700+s/h. The one on the right is the 1500C. The MRSP is $4,500+s/h, but the one I hugged/groped today was $6k. Think it had stainless steal grates, so that's about right. Both are made in the US (Kansas I think) and are works of art. I ran my hands over all the welds and corners and they were beautiful.

Smoking in TX is a religion. Thankfully you have a huge selection to chose from and many are made a short drive away. I was looking at a pit trailers a few years ago and most are built in the TX region. Be sure to tell the Home CFO you're not having to pay $1,500 to ship and that's "saving money".

LOL...the 1500 is 667lbs. You'll be driving within the limits, but with the tailgate down. The bigger problem is unloading, so that probably warrants a trailer.

Looks good. I cannot wait to install mine, but just looking at the dash work you did is making me twitch a bit.

 

I’ve officially reached winch research overload. Why does it have to be so difficult?

 

Because there is no obvious answer.

 

So true.
Leaning toward the Smitty x2o gen 3 12-s.
But the warn evo 12-s is only a little more (realizing it’s Chinese made warn) but with a much simpler remote. Then the Ironman 4x4 12-s is cheaper and 5-yr warranty.

US-made warn are just more than I can justify spending

 

I was just looking at the Ironman bumper and winch. The bumper is on sale right now and may be the way I'll go.

 

My next door neighbor is a buyer for Warn. Want me to ask him for the obvious answer?

 

Sure, if it comes with a steep discount for a local northwesterner…

 

Busy day, just need to final wire the usb on the new mount. And the silver button on the wheels isn’t as prominent when in the truck. But we’ll see how long I go until it gets changed lol. Time for a damn drink

 

I have no real reason for the Rago dash plate, but I still want one.
My Switch Pros came in today, along with the aluminum oil filter housing, fumoto valve, oil filter, and cabin air filter for me to do the first “after Toyota Care” service. I still need to pick up an engine air filter and the oil.
And my BD S8 light bar came in earlier this week.

 

Nice! Switch pros is on the list. Where you going to mount it?

 

Think I’m gonna modify the file that @Explorer did for his Trigger 6 Shooter and try to get it mounted up behind the overhead console.

 

Group buy!

 

Looking forward to seeing it

 

That thing is so smooth!!!
His first bug that is now in the UAE got me hooked on those things.

One of our local BBQ stores is a huge dealer for Yoder. I almost got the YS640. I wanted the orange comp cart too.

Maybe one day..but my Traeger Timberline would have to go tits up first. I don’t see that happening though.

I really like that Rago mount…but can’t think of a practical use for it..plus if I ever change my head unit I want to get one of those big Alpine or Pioneer ones..those would block half that mount anyway.

I doubt it would be beneficial for you..but if your down by Sherwood I’ll give you a factory air filter and cabin filter. Still in the boxes.

As for mounting a switch pros, that SDHQ mount is super clean looking.


Hopefully I got that multi-quote right. I am pretty far behind in here after the last couple days.

 

In the engine bay, I plan on using their mount. In the cabin, I’ve already got my own switch mount behind the shifter with the rear window and ABC camera switches in it.

 

Those prices are epic. I’d love to support my local guy, but if I ever got one I’d be driving down to OR to get it.

 

Can you or @Explorer share more about the mounting of the six shooter? Curious to see what was done.

 

Yeah they are pretty high. Sams NW Bbq is our dealer in town. I’m pretty sure you have to pre order a grill though. I don’t think they have caught back up to having stock on hand..but I could be wrong.