4x2 Off Road Capability

If you don't want to get a full plate bumper(doesn't sound like you need one) think about a low profile winch bumper that replaces the middle lower plastic section and aluminum crash bar. You get the winch without all the added, and possibly in your case, unnecessary extra weight that would require new front coils. There are several brands listed on the forum.
It may have been embarrasing but you picked a convenient place to get stuck. Learning is necessary but so is risk management.

 

I also have a Pull-Pal anchor to go with my reciever mounted winch for self-recoveries, forward and backwards. It’s especially useful since the desert has so few trees or even boulders in many places for anchors. I wonder how the Pull-Pal does on asphalt, do you think the parking lot owners would mind?

 

front mounted winches are all fine, but what was he going to pull into in this scenario? Having one on a receiver is so much better- and cheaper, too. I went with this after seeing several jeeps and trucks make the same mistake getting stuck heading down a slippery hill approach to a stream crossing and they got caught on the same boulder. Couldnt back up on their own and couldn’t go forward. It was pretty funny seeing a line of 3 of them stuck against eachother as all their winches were mounted in feont and there were few good anchor points to do the snatch block reverse winching trick. Also, if I pull into soft sand, its nice to be able to winch backwards.

 

This is one of the funniest and most entertaining threads ever. Not kidding.
Bro, by the time you start adding this crap to your truck, its gonna be as much as or more than the 4x4 would cost. Not that you wouldn't mod it if you had 4x4. So, like the guys said, get yourself a good set of AT tires, keep the bitches aired down and go have fun .
Happy offroading.

 

Oh yeah- and a good compressor, that’s all you need!

https://youtu.be/P5fr67YUif4

 

Didn't take long, but your pic is already a meme going around Facebook:

 

This is awesome!!!

 

@TacoMan951 - I have to give you credit and my admiration for being so self- confident and humble, more of us should be like you. I would have never posted my stupid stuck truck photo on the web, but you came here using your mistake as a learning experience, way to go!!

 

I didn’t know Toyota made a 2wd “Off Road”?

 

Happens to the best of us, OP!
The mall shouldn't be taken lightly, always have a fully stocked fridge, CB, and some loyal Instagram followers... just in case.

 

I'll 2nd (3rd, 4th, 5th?) what others have said about getting better tires first and foremost. The street tires are for just that. And from personal experience having owned a 2wd SUV with no locker or LSD that got stuck in my back yard-airing down does wonders! I had street tires on at the time and although it was on a slight slope, I didn't think it was that big a deal to drive back there on dry grass on a sunny day...Became stuck almost immediately when I tried to drive out, dug a rut in my yard and even with my neighbor sitting on the tailgate for extra weight/traction it wouldn't move. After trying to shove cardboard under the tires, rug remnants, rocking back and forth, I finally decided to try airing the tires down and walked it right out with no problem. Valuable lesson learned that day! That vehicle, which shall remain nameless, later got stuck going DOWNHILL where it started to level out and was traded in on my Tacoma (which is what I wanted forever anyway) within the week! Weight in the bed depending on the situation would be another suggestion since your drive wheels are under the lightest part of the truck.

 

I'm confused. The pic from OP has a red truck in it.

 

I assumed it was his... Have we all been Smittied???

 

One of them has been photoshopped! To me, the red one looks like the original.

 

Just run that line under the truck and pull off a fire hydrant!

Or the police car when they show up.

 

How are you going to do the 2lo mod on a truck with no transfer case?

 

Actually they have no rear diffs at all. And 40" tires plus 900 horsepower

 

we all have been Smittied > here4 https://sugarspunrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Vanilla-Cake-Recipe-1-of-1-15-500x500.jpg

 

35-37" tires, twin cooled 800hp V8's. And yes, there are some (very few) with high speed lockers that are more of a hybrid posi-trac. I use to hang with some of those guys in CA that raced the Baja 1000

 

Why get all muddy? Run the line over the truck to the hydrant!