TW's active 4runner builders BS thread

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  1. Oct 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM
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    Maybe. I've been looking for a trailer, but I really don't have free time to wheel right now anyways. I haven't even camped since we were in Calico.
    I told myself I was gonna build a long travel kit for it because I'm dumb. So who knows. I might just graduate and buy a diesel.
     
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    I wish mine was a double cab so badly
     
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    Only way to go
     
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    If you want even more room lol

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    Honestly never seen a Mega Cab 1/2 ton before...
     
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    Everything on it is a 2500, minus the rear axle. It’s a 10.5 instead of an 11.5”. SFA, HD suspension. They only did the “1500” Megacab from 2006-2008.
     
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    fixin 2 put my 2nd alt in the runner in 4 yrs. What are you guys going with?

    2k3 V8
     
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    If this stupid Chinese tent group buy doesn’t go through, I’m ordering Kings.
     
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    Looking like it’s going south?
    I thought about it but didn’t jus cause I figured if it was a success, it’d happen again and didn’t want to go through the headache
     
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    We're basically 2 months in of trying to get this whole thing to work. But I can't just back out because I'm suppose to TW express 10 other tents from Houston to Phoenix. So if I'm out, they're all out. Not ready to do that quite yet. So I'm hoping it will just go farther and farther south.
     
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    Just finally signed up for TW. Here is my 2008, crazy that I just hit a decade of owning it!

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    Is that pic up at reward mine?
     
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    Close, this is actually up above Keystone Mine.

    Been to Reward Mine before though- eerie to drive into a mine. This was when I had 7" lights on my roof so I cleared by about an inch.

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    Thought it looked like that area. Your rig looks real familiar I think we have met on a run there maybe. It would have been with Mojave Mike if that rings a bell
     
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    Yeah I'm happy with it. Check out Craigslist in your area. This guy works at a body shop and does it on the side in his garage too for extra cash. Probably someone similar in your area.
     
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    I have actually only been lucky enough to do one run with Mike, he definitely knows the desert. I think that was Dave, Brad, Mike and I. Josh and Jon are two guys who both have trucks that are very similar to mine, so it may have been one of them. You are sure far from California now!
     
  20. Oct 22, 2017 at 7:15 PM
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    Ah okay must have just seen it on 120 or been one of the other guys. Ya i miss the desert for sure. Trying to get back to the West Coast asap. There is nothing around here unless you drive like 3-5 hours.

    I did 2 or 3 runs with mike best one was the Mojave road that’s a great trip.
     
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