Silverbacks trailer to haul his booshi shit.. not my word.. its TacoXpo's.
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He needs a supercharger....
.... just saying.
.... just saying.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
fify, your TOR grammar sucs
I think the 3rd gen Tacoma needs dual turbos.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
So how was pulling this beast of a trailer off road? Anything you plan on changing?
Kinda looks like you could use a new set of Dakar's from some of the pics posted.
It did fine for power and speed. I stayed about 67-68 MPH and was getting around 11 MPG with it. The tongue was heavy and it was sagging pretty bad on the start of the journey. Once I emptied some of the fuel and water cans it helped. But on the first day I did this pretty steep climb without any issues, not touching or spinning a tire really. I do need to work on a way to keep the 7 pin harness out of the max-coupler though. I was turning around in the middle of this creek bed (purple paint on tree indicated private property.. later found out it wasn't) and the Taco got in a bind with the trailer jockey wheel hitting the bottom of the fuel can holder on the bumper. Got that off and it was easy peasy. But I noticed later that the trailer harness had been pinched pretty bad. It still works but it has a good "dent" in it.
As for the HD Dakars... maybe.
Silverback
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Well my Odyssey died. Had it on the shore power after we got back. It seemed fine. Unplugged shore power and let it sit. About 2 months ago I came out to get working in the thing again (mainly organize shit) and the battery was dead. Charger brought it back to life. A week later it was dead again. I verified that I had not left anything on in the trailer. Charger would not bring it back again. Bought a charger that supposedly can repair damaged batteries and has an AGM setting. Still nothing. Took it back and got my $$ back because they don't carry it any longer. Bummer. Options are an X2 Power group 31, same damn battery just different color. But its also gonna cost about $75 more. Go cheaper with a non-AGM.. but I don't like the idea of a non-sealed battery bouncing around in the tongue box and if for some reason it gets flipped over.. nasty. Interstate has a dual purpose AGM marine battery I might go with.. but it also more $$.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Silverback
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Thanks!
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Even if you get 3yrs it's still almost half cost of the others, I think Blake is running one, but a starter battery
balakay
BabyMax
Nope, I'm running an Odyssey 34
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Ok, well someone posted about them in the past, drank/snore/whores since then.
balakay
BabyMax
It was me. I asked if anyone had used one before. My Odyssey has the terminals on the wrong sides and I have some sketchy (at best) cable extensions to make the stock cables reach. Was looking at options to get a battery with the right terminal layout. But I never did. It's still a welding experiment under my hood.
Silverback
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Yeah its half the price of the others I was looking at. Might have to redo my battery hold-down but that's easy enough.
Silverback
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I am redoing some of the battery wiring when I put it in, adding in another Blue Sea fuse block and a Blue Sea battery disconnect switch.
So do we start the project clock now? I want to start a betting pool on when it will be done; something to help fund TOR Christmas 2020.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
All I invision is a spider for some reason
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
My starter will be installed by 2020, fingers crossed.
Silverback
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LOL... trying to prevent all that.