Nothing new to the truck as we speak just been driving it quite a bit

New rotors, calipers and pads showed up this weekend and now I'm just waiting on new upper balljoints, wheel bearings and seals to arrive then get an alignment

Also been doing a lot of planning with a friend to build a swingout rear bumper so we're aiming for a weekend in July to build it then the following month build rock sliders and new cross bars for the roof basket to get it much lower to the cap roof

For the bumper the plan as of now is to the do the main part of the bumper identical to this

But with a single swingout tire, hi lift and water/gas can holder similar to this. Btw that's a 33x10.50 on there so it gives a good idea what it'll look like for me when I upgrade tires




Only different we want to do is have the gas/water can holder lower to the main face of the bumper and the license plate in front of the cans, the hitch will be built into the bumper face and might possible add some flush mount leds pods into the bumper

 

Had some fun with my friends forklift yesterday, went a lot higher then I was expecting, of course I forget to bring out a tape measure to actually see how high it went
Any bigger of a tire defiantly is going to rub so the plan is to pull the box sides a bit(I know it'll only do so much but oh well) and up front I'm not sure, putting the sway bar back on would probably be enough but I don't want to unless I really have to



And for ***** and giggles my friends impreza! It's actually getting a lift and bigger tires etc this summer

 

Tested fitted my friends 285/75r16s. They fit absolutely perfect and fill up a lot of my wheel gap which is nice, zero rubbing and with the alloy rims I couldn't feel any power difference stopping and going
I also replaced my upper ball joints, wheel bearings, rotors, calipers and brake pads and while it stops nice and smooth now I still have the dreaded shake that I've had for 2 years now -_- at this point the only thing in the front end that I haven't replaced since I got the shake is rims..I've done tires twice(balanced each more then once), spindles, bearings twice, rotor so that's my only guess now

Also built a very simple bed platform, costed me $50 and about an hour of time. Just two 2x6 support boards from the box lips and full width sheet of 3/4" plywood cut down to about 70" long, in the future we'll fill in the sides so its more complete looking but for now its something and i can store shallow bins underneath so I'm happy! and best part is i can take it out in about a minute for full box access
Excuse the terrible pictures


And because 33s

 

Went camping this weekend and tested the bed platform, overall I'm very happy with it and it worked as intended, I was able to set the bed before leaving and store a bunch of stuff under the bed and the bbq, cooler etc beside the bed and still have room with the women. The only downsides to this so far is the headroom, getting in and out and changing is quite difficult now but its a sacrifice for having under bed storage. The other is now that the bed is higher we're basically right at the window level so privacy is quite a bit less so curtains will be happening sooner then later

And a few pictures, none of how i had the bed setup but next time

 

Got a new phone(Galaxy S8) and took a little trip to Kenora this weekend, gotta say I'm very impressed with the camera!