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Had to winch up, the overhang and departure angle of 4runners isn’t the best as you guys know. Tacoma’s and some Cruisers are the same way. My friend with 40s and and a bobbed bed did make it up right after me though, that was pretty awesome!
That’s awesome! I think that’s one of the most capable vehicles in stock form for wheeling. How do you like wheeling it? Some trails I’ve run are so tight I can’t imagine doing it in an 80
TNTT WHEELING TIP #1
Suck a little H20 in your motor? No worries. Here’s how we dealt with this:
This works best only if you don’t have enough oil for a full change.
1) Shut the motor off immediately, and get pulled out of the obstacle
2) If a Jeep offers to pull you out, kindly reject the offer
3) Pull of spark plug wires and pull the plugs.
4) wait until the water and oil settle back into the oil pan
5) oil is lighter than water and naturally will float on the surface. If you crack the bolt on the oil pan, but don’t remove, water should drip out slowly. All we did was wait until the water turned to oil and then tighten bolt
6) crank the motor with your hand over the spark plug tubes until you see no more water coming out onto your hands.
7) dry out the filter which is probably soaking wet. And then it’s probably best to change the oil and filter as soon as possible. This motor needed timing chain guides and some other work so it was junk to him anyway. Wheeled for another couple days with that fix.
I saw a nice third gen Runner yesterday in Waterdown, had 33s, a snorkel. My wife tried to grab a picture but she’s too slow. I’ll try harder next time
Thanks for the input guys, I was trying to draw my own conclusions about it based off videos but it’s better to have real opinions. Definitely looks like a good place to go with the wives for a leisurely weekend. Any fish in those lakes?
I’m with you Jason, I’d probably rather camp with just my group than 1000 other people.
Ill have to give it a shot this year, I’m somewhat fortunate that our normal group has similar built rigs and they’re usually willing to travel because most of us have trailers and work for ourselves so we’re flexible with time.
@Slick I love the look of your truck, especially the bumpers, and the way it works with those angled rear fenders. I’ve always thought since I saw a pic of your truck it’s an awesome expedition type rig
Believe it or not only the front housing bent the first time. When we did it a second time the housing bent a bit more and something busted the rad. I still got 300 bucks for that J**p when I drove it into a scrapyard in Hamilton. I drove in and the guy said “wtf happened to that thing?” So I showed him the video of us jumping it and he told me to go upstairs to show his boss. I walk up and show him the video and the boss laughed and looked at his employee and said “give that kid 300 bucks” Only paid 400 for it! Honestly there is nothing as fun as having a beater rig to kill on the trail. We do every year, As long as you have a way to get it home. I made this grand cherokee fit on my gooseneck with my 4Runner.
Another from Greens last summer
