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The EXPO TRON Build

Discussion in '2.5 Gen Builds (2014-2021)' started by TRON, Feb 26, 2016.

  1. Mar 27, 2019 at 7:28 AM
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    OVERLAND EXPO WEST - May 18-20, 2018

    Every year I see the trucks and badass builds from Expo West, and wish I could get TRON into the show somehow. I know people want to see the latest and greatest, but I think I have enough of a following for people to want to see TRON in person. This year's Expo I got my chance :cool: I had zero plans on where I'd be camping for the night as I made my way to Flagstaff late Friday night after the first day of the Expo. All thanks to my buddy Mike, who used to work for a company that "shall not be named" :bananadead:…. he had a good relationship with the guys at American Adventurists! By some miracle, with a little liquid encouragement, the main entrance security let me through the Expo gates and I drove TRON straight into the American Adventurists booth!:oldglory:
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    ...and this is where I made camp :cool:
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    The next morning was surreal. Not only did I wake up in the Expo, but I was surrounded by all the amazing builds! The first of those badass builds were the almighty Earthroamers!:eek2:
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    Officially Official:thumbsup:
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    Here are some more builds I drooled over that first morning before I stopped taking pictures haha:drool:
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    Expedition Overland Jeff did an excellent job on this Dual Battery Install for the Tundra!
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    ...and before the drama that would later unfold, here's OB#0000 & TRON OB#1235
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    ...and almost more strange here's the employees of said company that "shall not be named" in the last booth they'd ever have..:goingcrazy:
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    The after party was a blast though! So many big vendors came over and the cookout was second to none! All in all an it was EXPO that I'll never forget. If you remember I was talking about my tailgate progress before. Well, just before the Expo we had a slight improvement made to it and it worked for alittle while. Here was probably the only time it truly worked, and with the addition on paint instead of a wrap.
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  2. Mar 27, 2019 at 10:50 PM
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    Following the Expo we met up at Mike's house and prepped for day trip to see a secret location. Flagstaff was still hosting plenty of awesome builds, and I got to take a closer look at the badass TAV Tacoma! The owner and founder Walt of TAV - Tactical Application Vehicles, from New Mexico was a cool guy with a wealth of knowledge. I had to get some pictures of course with the truck:cool:
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    Heading North from Flagstaff we had a few coordinates given to us by a local Tundra guy named Chad. It was an exciting last minute adventure, and all we were told was, "It's better than Horseshoe Bend". Now I've never been to Horseshoe Bend so I didn't have much to compare to, but when we drove right up to the edge of this secret location, I was in shock!
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    The views were breathtaking and all of us there tried to grasp how big the canyon was. This was the Eastern fork of the Grand Canyon with the Colorado River running below. Driving through the flat lands at almost 100mph in the dirt was fun, but I never expected they would lead to this. Unfortunately this whole trip turned sour, and is now what I refer to as "The Social Media Meltdown". If you know, well then you know and I wont get too much further into it.:goingcrazy::boom:
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    It was a fun run for sure and I gave a couple high speed rides! The aftermath was a bit ridiculous and ruined the coming weeks... and honestly the reason why I stopped updating this thread for so long. Hard lessons were learned to say the least.
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  3. Mar 27, 2019 at 10:58 PM
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    If you guys know who Swell Runner is on YouTube, he does some cool videos. I ran into him in front of Overland Bound and he asked if we could do a walkaround. Of course I didn't pass it up so it was a brief interview in his video if you wanna check it out. Here's a few screenshots then the link to the video below. :thumbsup:
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    I might get shot for wearing this shirt now....
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  4. Mar 28, 2019 at 8:45 AM
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    Here's the video link. The XO Tundra and TRON were the last few interviews, but mine starts at 18:15 if you wanna skip to it. Really brief and he put music over the other half of the walk-around questions... :rolleyes: oh well
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    Went out shooting with my dad for Father's day. It was a solid pew pew day :infantry:
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    I always pose for ADS and get some pics when I can at their shop. Good bunch of guys there and Tyler of ADS is now the head honcho in the back. I call him the mathmagician :cool: We had to do a revision on the passenger rear triple bypasses since one of the tubes was contacting the brake lines on the inner side of the caliper. It was an awesome day since Karl aka @mcmasterfabber gave me a quick run down and I built my whole new triple bypass with some supervision! You really learn a lot about how a shock works when you build/rebuild them yourself! :cheers:
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    ColoRADo Round 2 - June 21st-23rd, 2018

    My wife's family had planned a family reunion in South Fork, Colorado so it was round 2 heading back the same year! I had no complaints and it was awesome to see it during the Summer. The weather was perfect and the South Fork of the Rio Grande was a pretty cool place to check out. It was no where near the level of Ouray and Telluride to the West, but still awesome. We rented a huge house with her family and I got to river raft for the time in my life! I don't know why it took 28 years to finally do it :thumbsup:
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    Our cousin made my wife this hat with our last name and so began, Schmidty Adventures!
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    Colorado is one hell of a place! I love AZ, but damn CO is absolutely beautiful :cheers:
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    Don't go chasing waterfalls..... I'm a sucker for them:drool:
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  9. Mar 28, 2019 at 11:57 PM
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    ARIZONA TUNDRAS East Side Meet - July 13, 2018

    Finally I attended an actual meet after all the social media flaming... It was good to hang with this group and amazing to see how many Tundras there are just in the East Valley. We also had a raffle which made this a reoccurring meetup for the months to come
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    The Tomar truck is badass! And rocking all the Dirt King LT :drool:
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  10. Mar 29, 2019 at 12:02 AM
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    Did a night run into Gold Canyon the next night after the meet with @JTS2019TUNDRA who still had his Tacoma and @Rextinkleton93 White Crew Max
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    Since I loved river rafting in Colorado so much, we had to get on the water back at home! We rented some paddle boards and went to Butcher Jones for @PLC721 birthday trip! This would also be my second time ever on a paddle board so you could say I was still learning haha. TRON looked pretty funny with the paddle boards all stacked on top. Pretty much the first time I considered getting a roof rack :drevil:
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    and our good buddy Jake showing off his badass inflatable kayak
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  13. Mar 29, 2019 at 8:12 AM
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    I still can’t believe how small the Tacoma always looks compared to TRON, that truck was huge for a Tacoma.
     
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  14. Mar 29, 2019 at 9:27 PM
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    Yep no comparison! It was a cool taco but I'm glad you made the full size jump...again! Haha
     
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    Happy Jack, AZ Camping - July 26-28, 2018

    It was time to beat the heat again and I never miss an opportunity to take pics of TRON with the RTT back up on the rack before an adventure haha! We had never been to Happy Jack, AZ before and we had a buddy already camping near there for the weekend. While it was over 100 degrees in Chandler, we found an awesome campsite near Happy Jack in the cool high 50's! :cool:
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    My little Civic commuter hiding in the background haha, not sure if I ever posted about it yet...
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    Our buddy @white_sherpa and his wife were kind enough to let us raid their camp for breakfast and experience that TT life haha! They also gave us a ride in their badass RZR. It was an awesome day :cheers:
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    My gorgeous wife :drool:
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    After the first run of the day we headed back to camp for beer and cleaned up then headed back out to Blue Ridge Reservoir and to catch the monsoon storm on approach! As awesome as the RZR was and had me contemplating why I spent all this money on my truck... when the storm clouds rolled in, I immediately felt good about sitting comfortably in a dry cab :laughing:
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    They did make a fine pair!
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    I love rain but hate mud :crapstorm:
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    Our lil pup was cold and wet on this trip haha
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    Thanks again Christian @white_sherpa for the hospitality!:cheers:
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  16. Mar 29, 2019 at 11:25 PM
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    I’m glad I made the jump again too
     
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    Page 22 is long gents, be careful loading it o_O

    Still slowly but surely working to get everything up to date before the next Tundras to Sedona haha.
     
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    Doing it all for you man haha;)
    Thank you!
    Appreciate the compliments guys I swear this build gets better even though most pics are the same haha
     
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    Dammit I want to post them which is why I'm forcing myself to get everything else posted first.... I still have ColoRADo Round 3 to get through
     
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    You should hire someone to post all your pics for you lol
     
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    :rofl: wouldn't that be nice! But nah I'm a story teller...can't help myself. Perhaps a teaser to keep you all interested!....:cool:
     
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    He would have to pay for all the external terrabyte hard drives full of pictures
     
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    Also true :rofl: :rofl:
     
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    EXO BAJA teaser.....
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    lmao..that sounds a lot like my work.
     
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    @TRON- Good times as always with you guys! Now you just need to get a TT and you'll be set :) We will for sure get out this summer and do a bit more exploring!!
     
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  30. Apr 1, 2019 at 9:29 AM
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    Hell yea definitely looking forward to all these upcoming trips :cheers:
     

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