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JZ
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If you want guaranteed communications (SMS) and emergency SOS look at getting an Inreach Mini. You can connect your phone via Bluetooth and use it to
type the messages.
https://youtu.be/60A1NciNgps
Get two of them if you want to communicate with someone else in your group out in the middle of nowhere.
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DouglasP
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Good stuff! Thank you!
Edit....just read the linked thread. Now I'm somewhat radio literate. I also will use the search function more! I believe that's what ken was getting
at?! 
[Edited on 7-14-2018 by DouglasP]
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David K
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Ken is shopping for communication ideas as well. He had been trail boss on many 4x4 Baja tours, typically using CB, which is okay if everyone is
within sight... not always possible in the canyons.
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DouglasP
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Are bean lock wheels needed?
Bead......not bean, lol!
[Edited on 7-14-2018 by DouglasP]
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PaulW
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Your choices are good on you first post. With 33" tires I would not recommend bead lock rims. 33s are quite limiting for rock crawling where bead lock
wheels are needed.
For getting into and out of deep soft sand, IMO you can air down enough with regular wheels and not have to got bead locks.
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V6G3B7
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I posted a new thread here, somewhat, sorta related to the question ... http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=90781
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Ken Cooke
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | | Ken is shopping for communication ideas as well. He had been trail boss on many 4x4 Baja tours, typically using CB, which is okay if everyone is
within sight... not always possible in the canyons. |
Saturnino Valdez of Los Viejones 4x4 Club out of Mexicali gifted me a handheld HAM radio roughly 2 years ago. I plan on getting a HAM license in
order that I can use it (legally).
I gravitate towards CB since all of the 4x4 runs that I have attended fall back on Citizens Band as the standard mode of communication.
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DouglasP
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Update......You ready? You look ready! Coming together nicely! I so want to be Punta Chivato bound! Patience......patience.....
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AKgringo
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I check this forum every day to see who is the next Nomad to make me jealous. You are the top post so far today!
If you like to use your tailgate without disconnecting the trailer, you may want to check out this jack;
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/the-ultimate-trail... (sorry, I couldn't get it to post without the request for a zip code)
I have one, and love it! I bought mine from a local trailer manufacturer, but Tractor Supply and other retailers carry them.
There is also a video that after two boring minutes, spends thirty seconds showing how it works!; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ2Cx5hMVU
[Edited on 8-16-2018 by AKgringo]
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Meany
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Hola DouglasP. Those are some sweet rides. Go Get'em dirty. Have Fun in Chivato.
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Udo
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www.ruggedradios.com will have everything an off-roader needs.
Udo
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DouglasP
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo | I check this forum every day to see who is the next Nomad to make me jealous. You are the top post so far today!
[Edited on 8-16-2018 by AKgringo] |
 
Thank you! Now I just need to get them south!
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DouglasP
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Thanks!
It's been so stinkin' hot and smoky here in Boise, we should have gone down to El Lugar and put up with the heat there!
I like beer, better than most people.
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DouglasP
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Thank you! Good link.
I like beer, better than most people.
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bajatrailrider
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| Quote: Originally posted by DouglasP | Update......You ready? You look ready! Coming together nicely! I so want to be Punta Chivato bound! Patience......patience.....
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Your Toyota one of the
best looking I have seen thumbs up.
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DouglasP
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Thanks!
I like beer, better than most people.
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John Harper
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I agree, nicely done! And I'm a Ford Ranger guy.
John
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David K
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Hang around this group long enough and you too will say "Oh what a Feeling" or "Let's Go Places"!
I was shopping for a Ranger 4x4 and the forum members were so heavy on Tacomas that they gave me no rest! LOL
Neal Johns, Bajaboy, jeans, Brooks, Toyota de Baja, even this site's host Doug 'BajaNomad' all had Tacoma 4x4s, and many more on the old Amigos de
Baja forum (in 2000, before Nomad)! The Ford dealer wouldn't take my trade-in, so that made it easy to see what Toyota Carlsbad would do... and they
were awesome...
I drove out in my first 4WD truck... and two more Tacomas would follow, now a half million miles between them a many in Baja. The only amigo of mine
with a Ranger eventually sold it after breaking down in the San Pedro Martir mountains and got a Jeep, and he is happy as a clam with his Rubicon,
right Ken?
Edit: forgot to include my son-in-law, who had a Ford 4x4 Ranger... made to Shell Island once and not without issues. Another time he couldn't get the
4WD to engage and had to get pulled off the beach. Got rid of the Ranger and like Ken, got a Jeep (a Patriot)... which also has issues. I hear things
like, a Tacoma is too expensive... and then they are repairing or modifying their Jeeps to do what my Tacoma does off the showroom floor. How can
anyone afford to not by a quality product if the 'cheap' one is always needing repairs or leaves you stranded?
[Edited on 8-19-2018 by David K]
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PaulW
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When giving a good review of the Tacoma it is very misleading, because the latest version being sold has the worst reviews of all similar sized
trucks.
Just because they were good in the past means nothing for a new truck buyer.
The new version has good looks and and an impressive technical features, but the execution is the worst of all. Better to buy a Nissan or Chevy/GMC
for reliability and road performance.
Buyer beware.
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bajatrailrider
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On all models there is good and bad years. Old ranger 4X4 year 2000 had bad 4X4 hubs all old Toyota 4X4 the best. Hit and miss with late ones. Old
Ford trucks in Baja out sell any other make. Only because it is cheaper to buy. The Older Chevy and GMC China made fuel pumps transfercase motor on
top short life. Nissan Auto trans cooling lines in Rad another bad problema . They all have there problems sad to say the new Toyota has Joined.
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