Leveling kit, 265/70R-17 General Grabber A/TX SL tires on stock wheels with spacers, and a couple of cosmetic mods. Plenty of time off-road and the truck is every bit as capable as my 2014 Tacoma with similar mods.
I have a bed tent I used with my 2014 Tacoma but I haven’t tried it in the Ranger yet. I prefer a normal tent, and a cot if I want to be up off the ground, since a bed or truck-mounted setup is a pain if I want to use the truck. I’ll definitely try mine in the Ranger if I plan to stay put though.
As others have pointed out, getting a trailer rolling and stopping a trailer are two very different things. Personally I would tow anything over about 3000 pounds with a mid-size truck, even if the trailer had brakes. Just too many things that could go terribly wrong.
Nothing stays the same; maintain awareness, adapt to changes, and live. The biggest take-away I see from this is the Chinese government is not our friend. We need to stop being so reliant on them for goods and we need to take note (yet again) of how dishonest / self-serving they are...
I started it for the first time in 10 days and used it to take the garbage out. Planning to change the oil today and then it will probably sit for another 10 days. Laying low these days.
Stocked up on supplies 2 weeks ago and hanging tight in the middle of about 2,000+ wooded acres to see how this all plays out. The plan is to spend time with family and hope things don't get too bad in populated areas. Hopefully a lot of the predictions I've seen are wrong.
I think mesh came up because of the thread title. At my place I have a couple of wired APs about 100 yards from the house and they connect the outlying mesh network to my switch.
If you're just shooting for mesh coverage in and around a house a couple of Ubiquiti access points spread around and tied to a POE switch should do the trick. The secure gateway can automatically handle selecting wifi channels, balancing network traffic, etc so everything runs as smoothly as...
I recently bought a house with a mesh network covering 5+ wooded acres. This basically consists of a Power Over Ethernet (POE) switch, a few Ubiquiti access points wired to that switch near the house, and a few wireless Ubiquiti access points (powered by POE injectors) connected via wifi. If you...
Almost 20k miles, more than a few limbs ran down the side of the truck on trails, and no reasonable issues here. Now the Tacoma I had prior to this truck, that thing would scratch if I looked at it wrong.