micahfelker

Last one for today. This weekend I took a trip up to glacier, and just thought I'd share some pictures. I am SO happy with how well the duratracs do in the snow. Their performance and traction seriously blew me away. Here was my sleeping setup for the weekend. A foam camping pad on bottom, with some blankets in the middle for insulation (it got to like 15° at night), and finally the mummy bag on top that I slept in. The picture is crap because I took it with my phone and not my camera, but you get the idea. We had Friday off from school, so right after class ended Thursday I hit the road. I just listened to country music the entire drive, so it was enjoyable for the most part. Around the Missoula area it started pouring so hard that I could barely see 15 feet in front of me on the highway, so I made a pit stop at Taco Bell to get some food while the rain calmed down. Besides that it was good. I got to West Glacier around 9, and I moved my spare tire to the roof rack and some other things from my trunk to the front seats and set up for the night, watched a movie I had downloaded on my phone, and went to sleep. In the morning I got a little fire going and made some oatmeal for breakfast, and then packed up and drove to lake McDonald. I was planning on trying to hike up to Sperry Glacier, but the trail was closed because of the fire, so I continued onwards and decided to hike to Avalanche Lake instead. Nowhere near as far, but it was beautiful. I got back to my car around 4, and then drove 2 more hours all the way along the outside of the park to East Glacier since the Going to the Sun Road was closed for the winter. When I got to St. Mary's campground, I set up my bed again and got another fire going and boiled some water to make some ramen noodles, and then went to bed early. Pretty much everything except the campground was closed on the east side, so no hikes for that day. I just drove around a bit, and ended up seeing 2 bald eagles in a tree. Murcia. That's pretty much it, besides driving back. It was an absolutely gorgeous and much needed break from little Dillon where there's nothing to do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Onto my second topic. I've posted a couple pictures of my buddy's dark purple FJ Cruiser, hopefully you remember it. Anyway, we got into an unfortunate situation (which I won't go into detail about). Basically what ended up happening is some drunk girl took the keys to his car and literally drove it into a lake and got it stuck beyond reason. We tried to pull it out with my pathy, but his axles were buried so deep in mud that the d ring broke off of my tow hitch instead of him coming unstuck ): We took the 'L' for the night, and eventually decided to call an off road recovery vehicle to come get him out. By the time we got back up there the lake had frozen over, so his car was wedged in there pretty badly, and his interior was fully of ice as well. They literally brought a mini tank to get him out, and we got his car running and driving again with a little bit of fixing. Here's some pictures. The rig that pulled him out is sitting on the flatbed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey guys! I have a couple things to update and ask, but I'll do them in separate posts. I'll start with this. As some of you may remember, I ordered personalized license plates back when I lived in California. They took FOUR MONTHS to finish them, and didn't have them ready until like a week before I was supposed to leave for Montana. When I went to pick them up, they wouldn't give me the plates without registering them to the car, but they wouldn't let me assign them to my car because my registration was going to expire within 30 days, and they wouldn't let me have them unless I paid another couple hundred dollars to renew the registration, which I obviously wasn't going to do since I was moving. $100 completely down the drain. Here's a crappy picture of what they look like. I did see them in person when I went to try to pick them up, and they are absolutely beautiful. I chose 4X4NP because it kinda has a dual meaning as either 4X4 no problem or 4x4 Nissan Pathfinder. Anyway, onto the reason for me sharing this. I don't want these gorgeous plates to go to waste, so if anyone in California (the plates are located in San Jose) wants them I will sign them over to you for free. They are already paid for. The deadline to pick them up by is December 1st. Somebody please take me up on this! If you're interested, pm me and I will give you more info and we can figure out how to sign them over and stuff. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you man! (:

Try re-aiming the headlights to shine farther down the road (higher up) before you spend any money on new ones. There should be little screws to turn on the back of the lights that should be pretty easy to adjust, and a few minutes trying it may save you a lot of money.

I replied this already to your comment in my thread before I saw this, so I'll say the same thing here. Running those Jeep wheels would absolutely not be worth the headache of doing a 5 lug conversion, and I wouldn't trust lug pattern changing spacers. You'd be better off getting a cheap set of wheels like these paired with a set of 265/70r16 tires https://www.amazon.c...B00DJ654BW?th=1 Treadwright makes good tires for a really good price, if you're looking to stay under that $900 price range. https://www.treadwri...s/warden-w2617e With the wheels and tires I've linked you'll literally have 4 brand new tires and wheels for around $800, which is less money than those old Jeep wheels that won't even work with your rig, with the added benefit of bolting on and clearing with no problems without a lift.

100% not worth the headache of doing a 5 lug conversion, and I wouldn't trust lug pattern changing spacers that big without them being hubcentric, plus even with a 2" lift your tires would rub like crazy with wheel spacers that large. It would have no chance of working without a lift without a ton of trimming. You'd be better off getting a cheap set of wheels like these paired with a set of 265/70r16 tires https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Comp-Steel-Wheels-Finish/dp/B00DJ654BW?th=1 Treadwright makes good tires for a really good price, if you're looking to stay under that $900 price range. https://www.treadwright.com/products/warden-w2617e With the wheels and tires I've linked you'll literally have 4 brand new tires and wheels for around $800, which is less money than those old Jeep wheels that won't even work with your rig, with the added benefit of bolting on and clearing with no problems without a lift.

I use Lightroom for pretty much all the pictures that I edit (I don't edit all of them). It definitely gives the most freedom to bring out the lighting and colors of your pictures in the easiest way. There's an iPhone app for Lightroom as well, and unlike most photo editing apps it lets you do a lot.

I have a Canon Rebel t5i, that's what all of my pictures on here are taken with

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I had a friend of mine drive for a minute while I snapped some pictures. I just say they turned out pretty good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've been slacking on posting lately, but I have a lot of pictures for you guys! Looks like I'm at the limit, so I'll continue in another post. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly it may not be related directly to the alarm then, it could just be an electrical issue. I'm pretty sure that little beeping noise is just what it makes if either 1. The door is open and the key is still in, or 2. You don't have your seatbelt in. Since the problem is related to the door locks and security light, it may not be registering that the door is closed because of some sensor not working. Your problem seems really weird.

If you put the key in the door and turn it, it should make the alarm go off. The actuator in my driver door went out awhile ago, so whenever I unlock the driver door the alarm goes off, but I can either turn the alarm off or prevent it from happening if I just unlock one of the other locks first (either the passenger door or the trunk). Have him try the key in all the locks and see if it makes the alarm turn off.

That's not a bad idea. Do you have a quote for how much it would cost? If it's not visible and not affecting anything structurally, it may be something you could save for later.

Yeah, I've seen it done a couple times (both stock and aftermarket toyota wheels). We share the same bolt pattern as 4runners (6x5.5), so their wheels will fit, but I'm not 100% sure about their stock backspacing. I run american racing wheels that came off of a friend's 4runner and they are amazing, and I tested some fj cruiser wheels as well, which had too much backspacing to work well without spacers, but they had bigger tires on, so this may have been part of the issue. I've seen factory wheels from an older 4runner used, and they actually look pretty nice. Much better than our stock wheels in my opinion.

Make sure to link the video on here!

It makes me happy to see that it looks as if you'll be coming out on top of this one. A very similar thing happened to me on my first day of college last year. I slowed down for traffic and a bmw (funny it's always a bmw) flew past me and sideswiped me as I was changing lanes. Since I was young and the driver of the bmw was older than me the cop never gave me a chance to tell my side of the story, or even get out of my car to take photos or look at the damage to my vehicle, and the incident report came out that we were moving the same speed and I turned right into the side of his car, which was not the case. ): After many hours and many phone calls with both insurance companies, they ended up sticking with the police report despite my efforts, and I was help responsible for $6300 worth of damage to the guys fancy bimmer.

If you have no lift it honestly barely makes a difference on the road. I've had mine off for a long time now and my rig (which is lifted) handles just fine on road as my daily driver and flexes way better off road

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I got here last Thursday. Registration was so easy, and I didn't even need an inspection. I just brought in my title and money and they handed me the plates and everything. A permanent sticker here is only $40 more than a year in California!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm actually in Dillon! County 18 (first section of the license plate) is Beaverhead County. I can't remember what number Bozeman is off the top of my head. I'll be going there a lot though since I have family there. Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll definitely have to check some of them out, I want to do a lot of exploring. There's not a whole lot in my immediate area. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So far I've found once cool trail in Montana. There's a guy here who is also from California that has a sweet fj who's been my wheeling buddy here so far. Besides school I've been doing a lot of biking and a lot of dealing with awful parkers. Now to the good part! Registration and everything is SO much simpler here than in California. It took about 15 minutes and boom they handed me my new plates and registration. Another awesome thing is that the plates happened to have the year of the car on them, which I thought was pretty neat. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions of what to do or and requests of things I can take pictures of! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I love them! They do 100000x better in mud and even somehow seem to have more grip on the road than my last tires. All of the wobbling that was happening stopped, and I've gotten a lot of compliments on them. However, being a little bigger and with the absence of a sway bar I flexed so hard that I ripped off my fender flare and bent my fender. I took everything apart and banged the fender back into place and bought new pins and got everything back on. They seem to be wearing out faster than I'd like in the front though, but I don't have enough money for an alignment haha

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