Spoonman’s Little Tacoma

Boy she took a beating today.

 

Hell yea! Mine too bro. Fucked her up. Right in the cooter

 

Got a call at 1730 last night for a friend stuck on the wrong side of a raging river crossing. 3 hours away.


So keep in mind, I had just come back from this area at 130 Sunday morning, Arriving home at 430 am. Slept for a few hours. So I loaded back up and headed to help. Meeting another friend with a land cruiser on the way. We forded through a few sketchy deep river crossings that threatened to sweep me away, and found out stuck friends.

they had crossed this creek on Friday, but we got severe rain Saturday night and it was now over 4 feet deep, flowing FAST and dangerous. We threw straps across, pulled the first guy through on a strap with the cruiser. we almost lost him to the current. We had to run my winch line to him RFQ to get him all the way through. It was somewhat scary.


Even though we tarped his front end he still took in water. We drained 2 gallons of water from his OIL drain plug. Sucked the water out his intake Manifold, and pulled plugs to Shoot out what got into the cylinders. He fired up and was able to drive out under mostly His own power Dispute major electrical malfunctions.

We also pulled a 16 Tacoma through, he stayed dry. We winched and strapped him from the start and with the tarped front end his air filter was bone dry coming out. I hooked up a strap to him, to drag him through the rest of the crossings.

LC buddy hooked up to the other rig to drag him through. It was only a mile back to the trailhead so we made good time getting back. The rig that took on water wasn’t street worthy of the 3 he drive home. I trailered the soaker, my friend drove my Tacoma 3 hours on the highway to get home.


Got home at about 0615 this morning and had to immediately leave for work.

pretty rowdy ass time.

 

That sounds pretty nuts, I hope you got a few pics. I got stuck in a flash flood one time in Arizona and it was scary, crawler on 37’s pushed sideways and water going over the windshield. Took 2 winches to get me out and all the fluids were gone.

 

Some fun before I got the recovery call

https://youtu.be/x8jxIfVu4rU

 

couple pics of the rescue

 

Another successful solo recovery of an abandoned vehicle on the trail.














https://youtu.be/KyQibGoOEhY

 

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did some easy trails with a couple buddies with slightly less capable units.

 

Favorite pic in entire thread. This thing is absurdly rad.

Recovery looked as wild as you described and nice work with the trail clean up!

 

Omg omg omg marlin parts



Vs tg




Video comparison
https://youtu.be/15dgXvzQ1aA


Also look at this dog

 

Damn with how much slop there was in that TG adapter, I'm surprised the splines didn't just shear off with all the torque.

 

Me too. They eventually would. It was wearing them away.

 

Speaking of Marlin.

So, I was searching through your thread looking for your uptravel amount, since your truck is the closest to mine in specs, when I came upon the question of whether anyone was going to go to the Marlin Crawler Rubicon weekend.

I didn't know about it, but yes, yes I will be now.

 

Ok so TG and marlin right mix very well.

 

So the trail gear box 100% does not fit into that marlin 23 spline sleeve. So I might have to change out to more Marlin stuff.

 

So who wants my TG 4.7? 2500 cad

1850 usd

 

Yea they cut their splines different.

 

Oh really? I didn’t know this.

Thanks obama

 

No problem syrup sucker

Should have searched noob!

 

Honestly had no idea that was a thing. Where’d you hear this?