Malburg114's 3Link go fast SAS

Wheels are 17x9 4.5" bs and -12mm offset with 37x12.5r17. Figure mines 68.5 and 3/4 of the tire is outside the fender. But I do have full steering without rubbing the frame or anything anymore which is nice. I'll see if I have any pictures and just post if you have more questions. I don't mind answering them cause I asked a ton when I did mine.

As for st George and trails something easy I've never done but looks cool is torquerville falls. Just a cool scenic trail with a waterfall. Probably doesn't require 4wd. In sand hollow one trail I really like is milts mile and I think is mostly doable in an ifs truck with lockers (I did it on 35s last year after my sas). Another one we recently did was John's trail (granite our trail guide got us lost and we missed half the trail) but it was fairly easy as well. Trails are just hard to find there unless you have a GPS with the coordinates. Let me know the dates though I'd be willing to come up for a weekend and run some trails. I have a pretty good idea of how to get to most the trails and some of the lines.

Figure this was 62.5"? Wms


And this is now 68.5"wms let me know if this helps.

 

Awesome, thanks for the pics, that second one is exactly what I was looking for! Pretty sure I will go ahead and set the C's/knuckles to keep me at 69" wms. My last rig was on 69" one tons and I loved wheeling it, but I also ran with a guy that had 72" wms rock jocks and it was super stable on off cambers and ledges and stuff (awesome in Moab and areas like that) but my family likes to get out and do alot of the scenic back country roads and old ghost town type trails we have out here, and most of them have some pretty narrow shelf roads and I feel like it might get too wide if i start moving into that range.

Thanks for the St George suggestions, we'll be getting into town April 15th and leaving on the 21st, not sure of a "schedule" yet, but if you can make any of those days work let me know and I'll try to plan the rest of our stuff around it, would be awesome to meet up and go check out a little bit of the Sand Hollow area (and your truck in person)!

 

Glad those helped. Just happened to have thay picture. Even though mine isn't super low it's real stable. Thought I was going over last trip I was so off camber but never lifted or unloaded. I think 72 is to wide. And it does throw a lot of rocks now. Can't hang your hands out the window anymore unless you like rocks to the knuckles lol.

I could probably meet you up there like 20-21? Im off Friday-sunday right now. Not sure what day your leaving but weather would still be nice around the water for camping still. Let me know when it gets closer cause we are planning on going to Moab the march 24-april 1 and depending on the carnage lol.

 

Made a day trip out to King of the Hammers. Didn't take the truck just went with my dad and some friends. Place is insane. Couldn't see anything for the 1st half of the day because of the dust. I've been to a lot of desert races and even baja but nothing compared to that. Hoping to make it next year for a few days and do some wheeling there this year.

 

Well closed on my first house last week and all my money in the near future will be put into it getting it to where I want it and to finally buy my own trailer so the truck is going on the back burner. Only major thing left I want to do is a rear axle and I have all that figured out just have to find one and get a locker and gears for it. Next major thing besides the rear axle is a cage as well since trails are getting harder and im taking more chances.

 

Congrats on the house!

 

Congrats man! Best investment... but you think the Toyota is expensive...

 

Thanks. Appreciate it

thanks and tell me about it.. done some big things already and its not cheap at all.. will be worth it in the end though

 

Should be ready for another week in Moab. Greased torqued and looked over everything. Should be a good time. Also finally put my licence plate mount in. Have to finish my new garage (texture paint and sand the floors) then I'll move all my tools over and probably start on a cage.

Pictures of Moab to come.

 

Stock 3.4l. Not even a cai. Why? Because it works fine and only has a 130k on it. I don't daily it anymore and trailer it to most trails (unless their local) and the stock motor is more than enough. Very few times have I needed extra horsepower. And I wouldn't hesitate to drive it across the country right now because it can do 80 with cruise control. I wouldn't push it as hard as I do when I trailer it but I'd still try hard stuff. Hell I prepped it in preparation to drive it back from Moab since my dad is doing the JP Dirt and drive there and isn't trailering his so if his breaks I have to drive mine back.

I probably wouldn't do a motor swap either until it's old enough to register it as a classic car as smog and registration would be hard to do. It's hard enough to get it to pass now. If anything id throw a supercharger on it since that would be pretty close to the 4.7l tundra v8 hp wise. And a motor swap isn't just tossing in a bigger motor. Lots of things go with it like the tranny, transfer case, fuel systen, cooling and wiring.

And probably a bigger reason is breakage. I'm already pushing these axles and tranny and transfer case how they are. Add more power and I'm sure id start breaking stuff more often.

 

And if those all weren't enough reasons, the 2 biggest would be Money and my truck works well how it is. Don't always need the blingiest stuff to do the hard trails

And plenty of guys still run the 4cyl with bigger tires and axles than me. Even more guys do it with the little 22re.

 

Gearing makes a big difference. Think the 22re made 90ish hp? That's why you see most of them running 5.29s And dual cases. And 37s are small now lol. 40s-42s are normal on most rigs even with toyota axles and the 4cyls. The 2.4l and 2.7l is a popular to swap into the pre tacoma trucks as well for that little extra power

 

150 hp from the 3RZ and it’s fine with 37’s on beadlocks. 65 all day, 75 if you don’t care about mileage. I started losing the bearings in my 350k 3RZ and swapped in a fresher unit from a rusted truck instead of an engine platform change...they just flat out work

 

Any idea of what trails you're going to run? I'm sure its in here somewhere but what trails in Moab have you run with your current setup so far?

 

With the current setup (37s, bobbed bed and new axle) none. I did go to moab last year though on 35s and the full bed and old axle though. Last year we ran Golden Spike, hells revenge, hells gate, cliffhanger, and something else I can't think of. Last year we signed up for trails but all my buddies and dad have been enough we are just going to do trails on our own this year. We plan to do kane creek, hells revenge, play in bfe (going to the vendor show Thursday and will probably go then) maybe top of the world, and maybe 2 more depending on what trails are open.

 

Fun first real day in Moab. Relaxed a bit and got a late start but ran top of the world. Wasn't hard at all but still fun and a good warm up for the rest of the week. Turned out to be a better trail than we thought and ended up getting our picture on the edge. Plan is to run Flat iron Messa tomorrow.

 

Flat iron mesa yesterday was fun. No real pictures yet but a few more from Top of the World

 

And a few from Kane Creek today. Had a lot of fun and will definitely do it again. Maybe had to much fun splashing through the stream haha

And the bottleneck right at the end of the trail. Probably sat for 2-3 hours. Guess a land rover got stuck and couldn't get it winched over

 

Looks awesome, super jealous, wish I was out there this year!

 

Well trips over and I'm already hone and unloaded. In total we ran 5 trails ranging from easy to hard. Top of the world, flat iron mesa, Kane creek, hells revenge (including hells gate and Mickeys hot tub) and rusty nail on the final day. Did have a buddy in an xj roll on rusty nail bit we flopped him back over and continued on. Overall great trip and had a ton of fun. Truck worked great and made a lot of stuff look easy. Talked to some vendors and already ordered some stiff for a rear axle. Time for a cage though as well.

Some photos.

Dropping off probably a 5 foot ledge. Rear is just about maxed out. Front still has a lot left



The xj. Faired pretty well considering it went all the way over. Could easily take the exo off chop the roof and put a new one o with some paint and no one would know.



Our group. 2 tjs, the xj, an fj40, my tacoma and a xj.


Easter egg rock on flat iron mesa


Hells gate


I didn't take many pictures but one guy took a ton of videos and pictures and is slowly sending them. Most videos are posted on my Insta