TW's active 4runner builders BS thread

San Diego bound tomorrow
Untitled by Connor Rhoades, on Flickr

 

Oh boy oh boy. Details

 

Hope you don’t get much rain...

 

Ya I still hate KM2’s but a deals a deal

 

If you bought KM2’s new we wouldn’t be friends

 

MTR’s are too expensive new, but fuck are they one hell of a tire. I’m happy with the Falkens so far and they are cheap cheap cheap.

 

Something from cooper or falken will be my next tire. Probably falken cause I can get 5 for the price of 4 coopers. Just need to decide on size.

But I really like my generals. Wish they were a little more aggressive but they’ve done everything I’ve needed with good road manor too

 

I love my STTMAXX Coopers

Only one casualty yesterday in the Rubicon, cv boot clamp.

 

Not much snow yet so we got through Gatekeeper and the group stopped at the slabs after. About a mile or so in. 4Runner did great I thought. I could have continued but slabs looked icy and it was 3pm by that time. I didn’t want to run it in the dark on the way back. Roads were icy and snow covered coming in. I didn’t want to be stuck there lol

 

I’ll go with you. I’ve been wanting to run that forever and so has my dad.


Also this F150 is doing incredibly well. Made it to Palm Springs

 

Ya this summer I’m headed to London for a bit and then interning the rest probably. So won’t have a ton of free time. Will definitely do King of the Hammers in February and hopefully Moab in the spring

 

Just doing London or going elsewhere too?

 

No idea. It’s a family trip. But I have some friends at University of Manchester and Leeds. So I’ll probably visit them at some point too.

 

Hmm. Front and rear axles from an 80. No lockers, which is good because air lockers rule the world. $1200. Thinking about it.

 

Nope. But selling wouldn't be hard. I'd probably sit on the axles for a while, truss and build them. Gears, lockers. Order ADS shocks etc.

 

Didn’t want to post here until I had something in the works haha. I haven’t been around much, been super busy.

As you know, I bought a Toyota 86. I had a busy time coming up when I bought it. No time to get the runner out or go camping really until Lindsay got back from school. Sooooooo 4Runner was sold and I started looking into fixer upper houses as an investment/short term project.

Well Lindsay is officially coming back in Feb and has a company car coming with. That means bye bye civic, hello 1st gen tundra. Lindsay and I agreed that it would be fun to build up an older tundra now that we both have daily’s for around LA. So the search for a tundra and maybe a house in a couple years begins. Will be way more fun to wheel a car that doesn’t have to get me to work the next day. Also, for anybody who wants one, get an 86. So crazy fun to drive haha.

I hope I can still chill on this page... haha don’t lynch me please

 

I was wondering where you went off to, that’s sad . But 1st gen Tundras are sweet. I’m sure you’ll love the room.

 

Lol I can’t wait man. I was expecting to do the distance thing until April. I just got myself a studio apartment near LA and am not a huge fan. Can’t wait for that joint income and a nicer place! OH AND WE GOT A PUPPY.

His name is Jameson

 

It went to a good dude. I’m trying to get him on this forum so I can see how it goes haha.

 

He is in South Carolina for the next month and a half with her still. She’s had him there for about a month and a half already, and he’s a handful. He’s a good dog though. Just need to work out the puppy behaviors like teething using my arm... She’s a good dog trainer though so I expect he’ll be pretty solid when I see him again.