1st gens in the snow!

Is that by loon lake? I was up that way. Everything was flooded. Crazy

 

Ya we were trying to get to Postpile, the old Rubicon trail entrance. We hit another water crossing that we didn't want to go through. It poured rain on us most of the day, it was crazy how much run off we saw.

 

Portland OR got slammed last week with 12" of snow and then some ice. Further down the Willamette Valley, we got less, only a couple inches... does this count? I've got a couple tires in on the snow...

 

Yup..same rout we took!!! Shit was insane. We went up dec 10th for the jeep toy run

 

That's the same day I was up there. I've gone to the toy run the last 3 years now. I joined the El Dorado Jeep Herders last year.

https://youtu.be/W-ITOPYSpfg

 

Oh...were you with that group of jeepers that came up behind is?

 

I was with my buddy in a black 2005 jeep rubicon. We let a jeep on swampers and a first gen Toyota pickup go around us. We watched them go through the water crossing and that video was actually taken from one of them. I'm still kinda surprised I actually went through it in my Tacoma. We were ready to turn around until we saw the 2 other rigs drive through it.

 

it wasn't bad at all. we had 17 trucks go through it..lol

 

I wish we got snow.... But most southern drivers would panic if we got snow so im sorta glad we dont get it.

 

Seems like a good opportunity to get water in your differentials via diff breathers. Typically I'm not a big fan of water crossings. It didn't seem as deep after I drove through it though.

 

oh yea. Definitely. But everybody in the group was warned about relocating breathers before this trip!! No harm done!

 

Gosh all them city slicker yuppies sure lost all sence of normalcy up there around Portland didn't they!? Lol. They think the world is coming to an end with 2 inches, i cant imagine what a shit show of all common sense lost it must have been up there with a foot lol!!

 

Funny I should see a post about "Loon Lake". I spent every weekend there decades ago when I lived in Sacto. It is really nice up there. Back then? You could be alone with no one around. Don't know how it is now.

 

Untitled by kyle mcmahon, on Flickr

Untitled by kyle mcmahon, on Flickr

Untitled by kyle mcmahon, on Flickr

Untitled by kyle mcmahon, on Flickr

 

I can tell everyone about snow and ice. I drive for a living and I haven't worked a full 5 day week in well over a month. Anyone who orders anything from Amazon or any other company and thinks it's going to get there in the "normal" time frame? Think again. Freight is screwed up nationwide. My Taco? Normally I have to go out of my way to "lube the hubs" per the factory service manual. For the last 2 months the interstate and driving around town lubes them just fine in 4WD.

My problem is that when I bought this used Taco from my dad a couple of years ago and then moved I realized (last winter) that while Michelin MS/2's are probably the best tire out there for Kalifornia weather they just barely get the job done where there is snow and ice at least 6 months out of the year. I certainly don't want to throw them away when they are still good considering their cost but before next winter I'm getting some new aluminum rims to make up for the extra weight of some more aggressive tires like the Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs or BF Goodrich KO2's.

I love the snow but my travels off-road are severely limited with MS/2's in the mud or snow. They just aren't designed for it although, for what they were originally designed for, they are quite incredible in dry conditions. It's amazing what I can climb up when it's dry in the summertime. No problems at all with sidewall damage either when driving through massive beds of sharp rocks. They are the best tire in the world for dry conditions but suck in the mud and snow and my God. When Wyoming thaws out in the spring the mud is even worse than the snow when off road because of the clay content. At ten mph or less you can just slide off the road.

 

Still is man. I remember going up during a weekday. Not a soul in sight. Gods country

 

ahh how much i love to see these tacomas in the snow. i wish i can get mine to a decent place with snow, but since i have a 2wd prerunner. i really cant get too far.

 

before lift

and after.. lift is very new haven't been able to go really play in the snow yet

 

What lift are you running?

 

3" toyotec coils
Wheelers progressive 3 leaf
Bilstien 5100 on all fours
SPC UCA's