The EXPO TRON Build

New Years Eve Shenanigans 2016

For new years eve, the wife and I drove up to Flagstaff, AZ to stay with our good friends and family. Wasn't really planning to wheel, but there was snow with a ton on the way, and I had not seen snow for the entire year of 2016! So with that said Mike, Andrew and I all headed out toward Schnebly Hill Road from Flagstaff for some muddy snow wheeling!





@snowtank and I .... RIP


Once the clouds began to clear, the views of a cold rainy Sedona were quite spectacular!










@mh.meier





We had to turn around from here so it was full speed ahead dashing through the SNOW!







She was DIRTY!

Then I had fun filling in the grill with snow!



and New Years Eve party haha....

 

New Years Day 2017

It dumped some serious snow New Years morning, it was glorious!





Then the wife and I headed down to Sedona for the day and enjoyed the rain.... seriously the coolest place to be when it rains!


Waterfalls everywhere

 

Bulldog Canyon Prerun 1/13/17

With the big AZ Toyota Meet coming up, @PLC721 my friend Jamie and I all did a prerun in Bulldog Canyon to make sure it was 2wd friendly for those guys coming out. It was a an awesome cloudy day and we took advantage of some pics








Strike a FLEX

 

ARIZONA TOYOTAS Meet/Greet & Poker Run - January 21st, 2017

Gotta give credit to Jamie for getting this meet going at first. Once it began to gain serious attention, I took over and it BLEW UP from there! Cliff from @sdhq_offroad and Mike from Pelfreybilt donated some prizes and Cliff came up with the Poker Run idea in Bulldog Canyon. What was supposed to be about 40 trucks on that trail for our morning Poker Run, turned into almost 60! It was indeed an EPIC turnout and I believe everyone had a damn good time! Definitely need some more Tundras next time tho...

Off to an early start after a long rainstorm passed through the day before. I always get super excited when airing down before the trails! See if you can spot my newest mod too


Cliff up front








Jamie and Jerry's Tacoma








Matt's Tundra and our lil Johnny Cash


@JerryTaco checkpoint




Matt's Checkpoint




I was the last checkpoint and gathered everyone before heading to Butcher Jones for the BBQ


My buddy Dan's Tacoma











From Bulldog Canyon we exited onto Bush Hwy and drove into Butcher Jones Recreation Area for the BBQ and official meet. Luckily we found a parking lot big enough to hold everybody because it filled up quick!




Pelfreybilt and ADS Love


Little cookout behind my truck


If you're blind well then I'll tell you now that my roof has a new satin black vinyl wrap








Then my buddy Chris showed up in his LT beast!


Riverview Toyota brought a brand new 17 Tundra and fully built SDHQ 4Runner for our viewing pleasure!




With the exception of mine, all these trucks were purchased through Riverview.....*cough but mine's the only "real" Pro...*cough


After the BBQ, some of us rolled out and headed for Cove 1 in Butcher Jones. Chris's Truck is so damn clean!! I tried to keep up in the washes but was too busy drooling over his suspension in the whoops....












@KevinK going full reverse up the damn hill!










And that's a WRAP! Hope you enjoyed the pics

 

Awesome pics as usual!

 

very cool ! love the pics

 

Looks like the major mods done... now go have some fun and live life a little..great stuff brother

 

@TRON newest mod = black roof

 

I envy that experience! Great shot Tron!

 

WOW Stephen......Amazing pics. Great job ! Now I have the itch to go off-roading. Still waiting on my wheels to come back from powder coat re-do, and get the 37's back on. Tired off driving around on these bald steelies. My wife and I are heading down to Plaster City, CA in a week or so, but more of just a camping trip with our trailer. Thanks again for all the pics and your truck looks awesome.

 

LOVED all the pictures.

Thanks for taking the time and putting in that effort.
Was amazing to look through.

 

Good times there. Great pics

 

Alright guys the ADS RACING SHOCKS GROUP BUY IS HERE!!!

https://www.tundras.com/threads/ads-group-buy.10705/#post-184638

 

You are NOT allowed to tell Allie if I buy 3.0's hahaha

 

DOONIES - February 10th-12th, 2017

My father-in-law introduced me to my new addiction when I first met him. We already shared the love for offroading, but once he introduced me to ATC life....well I was hooked! For his birthday weekend we planned a trip to Gordon's Well Imperial Dunes. This was my first time to the dunes since 2012! Little did I know how awesome it was to ride in the dunes on a 3-wheeler

Paddles on, fork seals replaced, and maintenance checks complete.. its GO TIME! Brother-in-law's Red 250X, Wife's White 200X, and my beastly black 350X




Brother-in-law also brought his dirtbike


Last pit stop in Yuma. TRON hauls really nice


Even though it was overcast, the full moon lit up the night sky just enough to get super excited about our camping spot!


Much like our Sedona Trip last year, we woke up to a spectacular overcast morning!! It was pretty damn impressive



RTT Life in the Dunes



That's me messing with my whip, and my father-in-law's badass rail



Perfection! I love this shit!




And my gorgeous Wife!


Blessed with perfect cool weather and an already awesome sunrise, the sunset was icing on the cake!




Yes the almighty SUPER SABER by @JeepAndrew


The next day was cut short because the wind was outrageous! Strong enough to blow over my camp chef, which isn't light and sandblast the hell out of us.. But no DUNE trip was gunna end without mobbing in TRON! The ADS 3.0s were lovely in the sand

 

Looked like a fun time Stefen. I am heading to Superstition Mtns, CA tomorrow AM. Not much off-roading this trip. More of a R&R trip. Hope to get a few pics and post when I return.

 

CM, should be a perfect day at superstition. Rain on Wednesday cooled everything down, shouldn't be to dusty.
Have fun, one of the few places left you don't need a pass for.

 

Superstition is fun! We had a big trip out there with a ton of TacomaWorld members in 2014. Have a good time man

 

PELFREYBILT Arizona Campout/Sheep's Bridge - February 17th-19th, 2017

We were lucky enough to be invited to the official Pelfreybilt Arizona Campout at Sheep's Bridge Even though the only thing I currently have from Pelfreybilt is a t-shirt, koozies, trasharoo, and some stickers haha, BUT I'm working on convincing Mr. @socalduckslayer himself to build some fancy new Tundra parts! As a previous customer and close friend, I can say they really take care of their customers and build not only high quality grade, but also very aesthetically pleasing bumpers and modifications for the Tacoma and 4runners! I can only imagine what they would do for our Tundras... Back to the awesome campout, it was prep time and I always get excited gathering all my camping gear to run equipment checks! This trip in particular I was prepping my full loadout of the "pew pew" toys


A common chore nowadays is loading the truck the night before and having to park it fully loaded in my garage since we live in Tucson, and you cant trust a single damn person to respect your property around here.... Already had a couple things stolen out of my driveway. Atleast Tron still fits in the garage for now....just barely..




The next morning we got up super early to meet Jamie @JTS2014TACO in Phoenix and try to lock down a good spot for the big campout. I think these gassing up pics are growing on me...atleast when I'm taking them its fun to look at how clean the trucks are before going off grid




Obligatory picture driving up Cave Creek Road. We're in AZ so whenever I see running water I must stop and take pics.... Thanks to Jamie for rubbing it in, yes I need lights....and he has ALL THE LIGHTS! Important to note here too, this was raging the day we left after all the rain that weekend!






Stopped again along the road for more pics


Definitely need to fix this bro lean with my camping loadout










First to camp and locked down the best spot! It was beautiful outside too, little overcast and about 70 in the sun....little did we know that was about to change pretty soon haha.






Just as the group starting rolling in, so were the clouds.


Didn't stop us from making margaritas tho! #coolestcooler


Now with the rain picking up and temps dropping it was time to cuddle up by the fire. We were in for a long rainy night!


Next morning it was drizzling and perfect out, for me anyway. The desert becomes a whole new oasis in the rain...so I took some pics!














#PELFREYBILT #MERICA

@socalduckslayer


Heading out for what would be a very long mudding trip!




You could say it rained non stop all weekend....


We then proceeded toward I-17 and the Bloody Basin Exit since we had planned for another trip to Sedona....but it turns out we had to back track about 40 miles since we could not get passed this......... Yes they made it through somehow and there is video of this floating around *pun intended*


#IHATEMUD while backtracking we had to run back through a mudbog I had just sworn id never return too...






and for the finale, thanks to Cliff and his awesome camera, we were able to document my attempt to wash all the mud off

 

@GTABurnout and I have the same alignment issues, our fronts are too low for aftermarket uca's

 

Valley Spring Service - Operation: Bring Back the RAKE!

So as some of you may have noticed my rear leafs have been screaming for help for quite some time! The stock leaf packs are just not suited for my expedition ready, "go fast" style of driving. Stock tundra springs have 4 leafs and mine were completely negative arch under no load. On top of hating the bro lean and wanting more weight capacity, I also needed the extra clearance coming out/off an obstacle. The rear bumper has seen better days and I was able to display some of my zip-tying skills learned from Rinzler, on Tron. Moving forward, my Tacoma buddy Josh @XPOTRPR highly recommended that I call Valley Spring Service and see what they could do since they did so well with his Tacoma. After calling them, Phil preferred that I load my bed with all my camping gear to get the most accurate height desired while loaded.

Face down, ASS UP!



Thanks to @PLC721 for picking me up and driving me around while Tron was in surgery. The best part about Valley Spring is that they're local, and finished within a day! Not to mention, I would have paid double the price to purchase any other custom set of leaf packs. Needless to say I was so damn happy when we picked up my truck! @PLC721 Travis @SuperiorDetail and I grabbed some lunch after but here a good comparison to their stock height, while I have ~600lbs loaded in the bed


It's almost perfectly level with weight in the bed but alittle more in the rear, which I love!



$564 out the door That's including install, labor, new ubolts, re-arching the stock leafs, adding 3 more leafs, and painting them in less than a day. I cant say enough about how happy I am with that deal!


Unloaded



Comparison to my original lift before the leafs took a shit (has +3 coachbuilder lift shackles in both)

 

Damn, Stefen. How does all your gear stay so clean!? Also, if Tyler needs more convincing, I can annoy him more, haha. He did, after all, make my bed rack as a prototype for the Tundras. I'm only 5 miles from his shop so it's easy for him to use my truck for measurements again; he took a few last time I rolled by his house directly to try and see if a hidden winch bumper as possible for us (years ago). I need a rear bumper!

 

Well that mudding trip in particular I went straight to the power sprayer and hit everything haha. I'm super OCD with my gear, which is also why I over pack... Trying to condense everything over the last couple trips

Oh damn well I'm jealous, I haven't been able to get out there and see the new shop yet. Get on that rear bumper! That's also what I'm holding out for

 

Box Canyon St. Patty's Weekend - March 18th, 2017

Huge thanks to @PLC721 for throwing this run together! The group started off alittle smaller but we had a couple more people jump in for this awesome run through Box Canyon in Florence. Although it may not seem like much, a whole year of expeditions and modifications have been logged in Tron since we started our offroad adventures in Box Canyon last year With big meets to come and my new rear leaf packs installed, you could say this was yet another shake down run much like last year. Since I have a pretty big mixture of pics from myself and the others, Picture cred goes to Travis @SuperiorDetail our buddy Ryan. Hopefully we'll see some videos from this trip too!






Your photographers and videographers




Stopped in the canyon to play around






@PLC721 and TRON - Superwhite Tundras FTW!












My tires look tiny...










Jerry @JerryTaco Had to strike a pose as well in his badass 3rd gen!




Jake @Kyouto42 the open diff 2wd guy decided he was gunna give the boulder a run too haha...and stuck! (to be fair his 4x4&lockers werent operational)


Jerry broke out with his winch




OB#1235






Out of the canyon and on our way to Red Hill to play around some more




This hill was no match for TRON in 4LO!


Beastly.


Jamie @JTS2014TACO on his way up showing off his new @sdhq_offroad reflective decal! Cant wait for all the drone footage




Skipped over the whole waterfall obstacle on our way North to the 60, but I have a video for that! Stay tuned. Otherwise this was an awesome trip with some great friends!


Burnout time!...

 

I had to push the bumper back on the mod list a bit.

I'm working out the details of how I'm going to get a 40-gallon refueling gas tank mounted under the bed:
https://www.transferflow.com/fuel-tanks/refueling-tanks

I'm opting for a manual refueling auxiliary because I don't really need the fanciness of an automatic one, I don't want to have to deal with or worry about engine codes (or leaks), and like the idea of being able to fuel up a friend's rig if they need gas on the trail. It doesn't really bother me having to spend a few minutes fueling up manually rather than fueling up while driving.

 

Damn that's cool! I totally understand the perks of having this over the giant 46gal most look to.

 

Box Canyon St. Patty's Weekend - Continued

Check out the waterfall obstacle video here
https://lwthgw-bn1305.files.1drv.co...ji6LuuX-pS0ULLSGYxDxoM6clwKOneLc/IMG_2569.MOV

Took some screenshots from the waterfall obstacle video. Easy peasy

 

Honestly imo this is one of the best thread and thank you for sharing it with all of us

 

awesome pics.. looks fun as hell

here in the burgh we can only 4 wheel thru woods that look like the blair witch in winter

 

I appreciate that man!

Thanks man, someday id like to wheel in stuff like that but there's so much to explore out here as it is