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Jtv107
Tremor Buff
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2020
- Messages
- 66
- Reaction Points
- 257
- Location
- Charlotte NC
- Current Ride
- ‘20 F250 Tremor
- Current Ride #2
- ‘20 Tacoma TRD
Last year, my family traveled across the country, including Canada, in a 2016 Toyota LandCruiser outfitted with an iKamper roof top tent and loved it so much that we've taken the leap to a Ford F250 and slide in camper set up. The new set up will provide additional security for camping in the winter months, during bear season and in more remote locations. As a family that loves to snowboard, the opportunty to camp in colder climates is super exciting to us.
This is our first 3/4 ton pick up truck as well as our first domestic car or truck; its been a steep learning curve. But, help from this forum, @NEO Garage and others has made it easier.
Here's a photo of our LandCruiser set up, which we were sad to sell earlier this year.
This is our new (purchased June of this year) magnetic grey, XLT, 7.3L F250 Tremor. We did not pre-order it; it was available on the lot and the dealership sold the truck at a better than x-plan price. Only options were upfitter switches and sunroof.
We almost immediately upgraded the wheels and tires to MR703s 17x8.5 with 25x12.5 R17 BFG All Terrain T/A K02s, including the spare. When the Carli Back Country 2 1/2" Fox suspension system becomes available early next year for the gas trucks, we plan to upgrade the suspension and move up to 37s.
We removed the Tremor running boards in favor of the longer N-Fab steps to provide easier access to the bed side. We also replaced the chrome factory tow hooks with red powdercoated tow hooks on the way to deleting all the XLT factory chrome. (Its also shocking to see how much bigger the F250 is compared to our '20 Tacoma with a King medium travel lift kit.)
The balance of the factory chrome has been replaced with paint to match pieces from BFN and a Lariat grill purchased from eBay. Waiting on Morimoto LED headlights coming out early next year, too.
We Plasti Dip'd the rear chrome bumper which will be a satisfactory solution until we can find a take off magentic grey rear bumper with back up sensors. We also added the Baja Designs S2 back up lights.
During November's group buy, we purchased the Baja Designs XL80 lights and SDHQ A-frame mounts. On the LandCruiser we had Baja Designs lights. We tried Rigid on the Tacoma but they don't compare to Baja Designs (IMO). We also replaced the chrome mirror caps with black plastic ones.
All the new lights are tied to upfitter switches and we found cool upfitter switch stickers on Amazon. Not all the switches are in use at this time but this is the plan for the future (after the Expedition One front bumper is fabricated and installed in February and we can add a winch and more Baja Designs lights).
An air bag kit is in the box in our kitchen but have not decided whether its needed as the camper's wet weight is only 1900 pounds, so its install is pending. - It is the Firestone kit with Daystar cradles. If we add air bags, most likely we will also add an ARB air compressor in the engine bay.
We tinted the front windshield to reduce some of the heat gain and here's the truck currently.
The "final" build will look something like this when the Scout Kenai slide in camper is picked up in February.
This is our first 3/4 ton pick up truck as well as our first domestic car or truck; its been a steep learning curve. But, help from this forum, @NEO Garage and others has made it easier.
Here's a photo of our LandCruiser set up, which we were sad to sell earlier this year.
This is our new (purchased June of this year) magnetic grey, XLT, 7.3L F250 Tremor. We did not pre-order it; it was available on the lot and the dealership sold the truck at a better than x-plan price. Only options were upfitter switches and sunroof.
We almost immediately upgraded the wheels and tires to MR703s 17x8.5 with 25x12.5 R17 BFG All Terrain T/A K02s, including the spare. When the Carli Back Country 2 1/2" Fox suspension system becomes available early next year for the gas trucks, we plan to upgrade the suspension and move up to 37s.
We removed the Tremor running boards in favor of the longer N-Fab steps to provide easier access to the bed side. We also replaced the chrome factory tow hooks with red powdercoated tow hooks on the way to deleting all the XLT factory chrome. (Its also shocking to see how much bigger the F250 is compared to our '20 Tacoma with a King medium travel lift kit.)
The balance of the factory chrome has been replaced with paint to match pieces from BFN and a Lariat grill purchased from eBay. Waiting on Morimoto LED headlights coming out early next year, too.
We Plasti Dip'd the rear chrome bumper which will be a satisfactory solution until we can find a take off magentic grey rear bumper with back up sensors. We also added the Baja Designs S2 back up lights.
During November's group buy, we purchased the Baja Designs XL80 lights and SDHQ A-frame mounts. On the LandCruiser we had Baja Designs lights. We tried Rigid on the Tacoma but they don't compare to Baja Designs (IMO). We also replaced the chrome mirror caps with black plastic ones.
All the new lights are tied to upfitter switches and we found cool upfitter switch stickers on Amazon. Not all the switches are in use at this time but this is the plan for the future (after the Expedition One front bumper is fabricated and installed in February and we can add a winch and more Baja Designs lights).
An air bag kit is in the box in our kitchen but have not decided whether its needed as the camper's wet weight is only 1900 pounds, so its install is pending. - It is the Firestone kit with Daystar cradles. If we add air bags, most likely we will also add an ARB air compressor in the engine bay.
We tinted the front windshield to reduce some of the heat gain and here's the truck currently.
The "final" build will look something like this when the Scout Kenai slide in camper is picked up in February.