The High Country Build

[High_Country]

Nice, would you say it rides better than with the spacer is it just as soft.

It rides BASICALLY the same. Of course, KNOWING I made the change I was really trying to be hyper-sensitive to changes in ride quality. If it did change, it's minimal.
My experience with replacing factory coilovers with quality aftermarket ones is that the right feels "tight" and more stable, better-controlled, but more compliant when you hit the big bumps. I have that bias going in, but I would describe it the same way.
My wife hasn't said one thing about ride quality - good or bad (an unbiased third party ). Unsolicited, my mother-in-law who drives a 2020 GMC AT4 1/2 ton (stock) said that my truck rode better and more comfortable than hers.

 

[Rabidtastic]

Would love to see more of the trailer…currently building similar on the looks of it

 

[High_Country]

Would love to see more of the trailer…currently building similar on the looks of it

I saw your thread. Looks like you’re making good progress. When I saw your thread I thought I ought to send you a few pics - just for ideas and consideration. I’ll have to dig some up from past trips and post them.

 

[NXPRSS]

No changes in ride or handling at all. I am still at about 2-1/2" of lift over stock.

I also need to update this thread so here goes:

Installed my Airlift Ultimate air bags with cradles this weekend. (The ultimates have the internal jounce bumper.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098BK8WP7?tag=f150tremor-20

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087CHYG3S?tag=f150tremor-20

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KGG415G?tag=f150tremor-20

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HRPNJLB?tag=f150tremor-20

Went in okay after some fiddling and figuring out how the cradles work. I plumbed both bags together, added a gauge, and put the gauge and the schrader valve next to the license plate. Did a 30psi leak down test overnight that passed fine.

Also, experimented with a homemade vent light setup. Used some simple, cheap amber LED’s.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G4Y5B2D?tag=f150tremor-20

I think I like em - not sure if they’re bright enough…but ya don’t want them TOO bright either. We’ll see. I wired them to the parking lamps just like the F150LED kit's instructions say to do. There's a video on YouTube as well.

How are your vent lights holding up?? I like them alot!
Also, I'm not sure if it's me, but your latest pics from today are not showing...

 

[Rabidtastic]

I saw your thread. Looks like you’re making good progress. When I saw your thread I thought I ought to send you a few pics - just for ideas and consideration. I’ll have to dig some up from past trips and post them.

Other than getting the steel I need for the racks and tongue Shoot em over somewhere whenever you find em...I've been stealing ideas from all sorts of places.

I don't see recent pics either so @NXPRSS isn't completely crazy...I think

 

[High_Country]

How are your vent lights holding up?? I like them alot!
Also, I'm not sure if it's me, but your latest pics from today are not showing...

Vent lights are holding up fine. No issues.
Not sure what's going on with the photos - they show up when looking on my desktop but not on my phone. I have reposted from the source files we'll see if that fixes it!

 

[High_Country]

Okay, here's a trailer photo dump post. None of these were taken with the intent to explain the trailer, but you get the idea. It's essentially a 4x8 box with a clamshell lid, hinged on the sides (lots of good secure, dry(ish) storage in the box). The roof top tent sits atop RV scissors jacks that allow it to be lowered onto to the lid of the trailer for decreased wind resistance and then lifted up when deployed. Once lifted, the 4 table legs (one at each corner of the tent) are put up to rigidly support the tent.
I installed an 18 gallon fresh water tank with an RV pump. It TOTALLY improved the experience having fresh water for washing hands, dishes, drinking, cooking, and general cleanup around camp. I strongly recommend some form of fresh water. There's also propane tanks mounted on the outside, mainly for cooking.

Night shot showing lighting inside and outside the tent:

Dirt bike trip, pardon the butt shot.

Here's the tent collapsed and lowered:

Filling up the inboard water tank at a Ranger station. Additional 12 gallons of water storage in the mounted jugs.

12 gallons of fuel storage in the red jugs.

 

[NXPRSS]

Vent lights are holding up fine. No issues.
Not sure what's going on with the photos - they show up when looking on my desktop but not on my phone. I have reposted from the source files we'll see if that fixes it!

Got the leds that you used for your vent lights , I ordered 2 packs but Amazon on sent me 1 pack and refunded me the other (must have sold out) anyways it comes with 5 in a pack, only need 2 per side.... now all I need is the start date of my truck!!

 

[BillfLang]

I FINALLY get to start my own build! At exactly 7 months after I placed my order, my truck arrived at the dealership on 7/2. I took delivery the evening of 7/5/2022 exactly 36 hours before we were to leave on a week long family camping trip to Colorado. Of course I HAD to take the new truck on the trip! Plans included overlanding / back country primitive camping and wheeling in the Buena Vista and Crested Butte area and it would be a great shake down trip for the new truck.
The new ride next to the old ride (yeah, I like white trucks):
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Due to the bad influencers on this forum I had in the garage waiting:

• Husky X-act Contour Series front and rear floor liners https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T16VZPV?tag=f150tremor-20
• Husky wheel well liners https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097BK3YJ9?tag=f150tremor-20
• Bed rug https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R6LZUW4?tag=f150tremor-20
• Tonneau Cover (as a cheap interim solution til I find a cap - RSI Smartcap or otherwise) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZA8UUN?tag=f150tremor-20

With the clock ticking I got the above four things installed in one evening. No pics of the floor liners or wheel well liners - everyone's seen those!
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With one evening left before pulling out I set out wiring a constant 12V power source to rear of the truck for the ICECO VL45 fridge/freezer (a recent thread by @Yeti just posted about these). I ran an 8 gauge wire from the battery through the frame and up and out the rear passenger stake pocket and through the bedrug. The 8 gauge wire has a 50amp auto-resetting breaker at the battery. For now, the fridge is the only thing it's powering and has a 15 amp inline fuse in the power wire in the bed. The fridge is mounted to a slide. Here's a pic from the camp site in Colorado - didn't event have time to grab one at home before we left.
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With exactly 203 miles on the odometer, I hooked up to our little camping trailer (super lightweight) and headed off. Here's a couple pics from the 'wild':
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We're still on the vacation - finally broke 1,000 miles today on Cottonwood Pass from Buena Vista to Crested Butte. The truck has been great and I'll comment on driving impressions when we return and I have more time.

Near future mods include:
Autospring 2" spacer lift (interim until something more sorted for our Tremors come out...if ever) (already ordered)
Window Tint
OCD Plug Screen Protector
Rear Shocks (oh the decisions here)
Cap of some kind - RSI Smart Cap or ????

~Sent from somewhere in Crested Butte

Sorry don't like the cover on the back !! Looks Janky !! Sorry , Do like white on someone's else's Truck !! LOL

 

[Montana Johnny]

Yes I was! Had a great time hiking Rustler’s Gulch and then Washington Gulch the next day. The wildflowers were all over - wife and kids got a kick out of trying to identify them all.
Caught a full moon coming up on the way home after fly fishing the East River.
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What a fantastic photo...well done!