Welcome to the Official SoCal BS/ Shenanigans, Tundras and What’s Happening Thread

Lake Sabrina in the Eastern Sierras. Over 9000’ in elevation!

 

Did you fish for the opener?

 

That was the plan lol. It was just too dam cold and windy. I couldn’t do it

 

Booo LOL

 

lol right. It wouldn’t have been that bad if it wasn’t for the wind. Good thing we doing tent Camp

 

Just that pic of the frozen lake made the twins wanna retreat.

 

I think one of my twins was missing for a few hours

 

Do you find that you get rock chips easier with that offset?

 

Here is a photo of +25 so you guys can compare.

@greentrbo95gst I’m guessing your a Mitsubishi Eclipse fan.

 

Aah, after countless research I think I would like to be at +15 and because of the shortage of the wheels/inventories now I think I will do +25 on the Icon wheels with some Toyos if they ever become available. Can't find them anywhere.

Lol, that was 22 years ago and the screen name stuck with me. I had a 95 gst that I converted to AWD with Forced performance Green turbo that later became a stroker with GT35R. Huge money pit, but loved it. You don't see those cars anymore.

By the way, my buddy took me out to pop my off-roading cherry last Saturday to Cleghorn. I survived.

 

My 90 GST from my previous life.

 

Oh snap, I recognize Turbonetics exhaust manifold, Magnus sheet metal intake manifold and Tial BOV. My buddy with the gladiator in the pics had a 90 GSX. We've known each other that long. We used to go to Road Race Engineering for all the stuff.

 

Also had knifed crank, Eagle rods, JE pistons, ARP fastener, HKS 272s and the list goes on. Definitely a fun car. My plan was to find a GSX and swap everything over. I ended up selling it and moving on to a different money pit.

 

I can't believe I still remember be all that.
Nice setup.
Yea, we love our money pits.

 

Probably haha. I was only running stock wheels and tires for a couple weeks and didn’t hit the dirt during that time. Not a great frame of reference for that. But without a doubt: no mud flaps and lower offset wheels = more rock chips.
I just got my sliders and tossed them on over the weekend. With the fill plates it should reduce the amount of rock chips.

 

Perfect. I think I am set. Since I need to wrap the truck at some point because I didn't find the color I wanted I will probably go with +25 and a 10mm spacer to start with. So many wheels and tires are backordered.

 

I was just scolded by my buddy.....he said off-road vehicles do not use mm measurement for spacers.

 

Lol. Yeah, typically truck spacers are measured by inches not mm. Smallest I’ve seen is .25” which would be approximately 12.5mm.

I would encourage not to run spacers if you don’t need them. Plenty have and are using wheel spacers without issue, I have a set on my fiancees 4runner that’s been issue free. But wheel spacers do introduce an extra point of failure because you have an extra set of lugs and studs to keep an eye on.

Also with a thin spacer like that you might have two styles to pick:

One that has a new set of studs on the spacer. This style you might have to cut the factory studs because they’ll protrude through the spacers and may hit the back of the wheel making it unsafe to mount.

The other style might be the spacer with open holes to allow the stock studs to protrude through. They likely won’t stick through enough meaning you’ll need new studs that are .25” longer than factory to provide the correct amount of engagement from the lug nut to the stud.

Pics for example only:





Edit:
You probably already know a lot of this from cars but figured I’d reiterate it just in case, plus others may benefit from it.

 

Yeah, spacers are in inches and offsets in mm???? Who comes up with this stuff????

 

Aliens of course

 

Worse! Engineers...

 

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Don’t get him started on Aliens

 

The driver has reported himself safe via So Cal Tundra Outlaws Facebook page.

 

So are there any single day trip shenanigans I should know about? It's been awhile since I checked in.

 

Drove down a random, unnamed dirt road in Death Valley and found this camping spot! This trail was a bit out of our comfort zone for our current suspension, but we made it! Our poor friends in the ground tent were whipped by the wind all night, but our RTT is very sturdy!

The view was worth it!

 

Thanks for the update!

 

Yup. If you’ll commit to the miles to get to us, we’ll do a day run in Anza Borrego on Saturday 5/22 with camping Saturday night for any that want to stay over.

We may/ may not post a dedicated trip thread... a little hesitant because we’re at about 20 trucks so far without doing that... see post #9307 on page 311 for the gist of our plan.

Edit: if we don’t do a separate trip thread, we’ll update the title of this thread a day before the run, with info about which post to check for all details.

 

20 trucks? Wow

 

Good to hear

 

You make a good point with the spacers. There have been plenty of issues with cheaply made spacers> I have always ran spacers on all my bmw's and recently the ferrari, but considering my knowledge on the truck and much different suspension/wheel loads I should probably stay away from them for now. I do have stud conversion kits on all my cars. Makes things much easier. Still researching tundras to see what people say.