Now that we've had some nice weather, I haven't been traveling for work, and I haven't been sick - I finally started getting some of the goodies on the truck for camping season this year.
- I mounted my Badlands Jack to the truck using the 911 Motorsports Mounts - They're kinda cheap, but for the price not bad. Later on I'll probably upgrade to one of the nicer mounts. I LOVE having a real jack onboard now.
- On my rear Diamondback panel I mounted a Fiskars Hatchet, Folding Saw, an E-Tool, and a Cheap Kukri I won't feel bad about beating up on.
- On my Diamondback Headache Rack I mounted my Bunker Traction Boards. I simply used some flange nuts, washers, all thread, and big plastic wing nuts. They're sitting with their weight on the cover and the threaded connection is there only to keep them tight to the headache rack.
- On my interior @NHOverland Panel I mounted a decent trauma kit I put together. Even mix between car accident, camping/hiking cut/scrape/burn, and hunting accident coverage. I haven't decided what else I want to mount up there, but I'm sure as we go adventuring this year I'll buy stuff after I'd wished I had it up there.
- On the drivers panel I have a Gerber Truss, a bag with a nice rechargeable flashlight and misc charging cables, a cheap IFAK that I repurposed into a more general "bobo kit", and a cheap camping/fishing knife I won't cry about beating up.
- On the passengers panel I mounted the same flashlight/cables bag and another cheap IFAK turned bobo kit. I haven't decided what else to mount on this side. I might pick up a decent skinning knife for those random weekends where I somehow end up involved in field dressing an animal in my shorts and flip flops.
I also discovered that ,at-least for fuel in my area, I need to change my rear fuel filter sooner than the 15K miles my dash has been telling me. Didn't have much of any water in there, but she was good an black while the front nano-net didn't look too bad at all. For the past 3500 miles or so its been acting funny around the DPF % PID as well as commanding more EGR than usual and taking FOREVER to do active regens - 2 tanks through the new filters and those gremlins are gone while MPG is up almost 1.3 HWY... I've only been running Mopar filters in this truck so far (some of others have gotten all sorts of filters) so this has to come down to fuel quality in the areas I frequent. I'm simply going to start replacing the rear filter every 7500 miles while leaving the front one at the 15k miles suggested by the dash to see if that prevents the issue for this next interval.
Also before anyone nails me for the upside down flag... I was too lazy to retake pictures after I fixed it.
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