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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.
I’ll just post a picture a day until someone tells me to stop.
My bachelor trip a few years ago. This picture explains how I feel about Jeeps.
Then we did this
I did a little research quick and didn’t see anything Ontario based. toyotafiberglass is out West and is very popular, but that’s more first gen 79-95.5 pickups and Runners and they have a Tacoma bed I think
This is a device a friend built to press backing plates off rear axle shafts. Worked pretty well until I busted one of the angle iron pieces off. The backing plate was pretty seized on there. I had to weld it all back together. You know youre wrenching session isn’t going well when you have to start welding your tools back together.
Stupid rusty toyotas. Side note: Its awesome having friends with Toyotas because can all share tools like this and spare parts.
Get pics of the sliders and winch! What did you end up getting?
There was a set of Tacoma sliders on kijiji for a bit there, I was going to cut and mod them to fit my first Gen.
I’ve been hearing that a lot more lately, friends are ready to start building trucks or getting trailers, but they’re always limited by space. For us of the younger generation (25 years old) owning a house anytime soon is far fetched
Best part of this trip: on the way up we were all in a convoy with 6 trucks, some on trailers and some driving and we past a group of a few jeeps heading up. So I ripped past them, covered them in black smoke on the highway. And he saw this written on my tail gate LOL. Then they all gave us the finger.This is basically up to date now, here’s a to do list:
- IFS rear axle with new seals
- castor shims
- ujoints all around
- brakes all around
- new seals in the front axle
- the blower fan resistor
- manual temp gauge or fix the SR5 cluster
- clutch isn’t engaging all the way, figure that out, hopefully its just adjustment in the pedal
- rear window doesn’t work
- all brake lines
- hook up ebrake
- New pitman arm and tie rod end
- install steering stabilizer
- coolant was leaking from the front of the motor somewhere, after I got it running I noticed, but then I put it away for the year. Really hoping it’s just the water pump
- install window trim and badges
- build rear bumper and tire carrier
I should be able to bang a lot of that out in one day with some help.
After all that I can start looking at a pop up trailer to lift! Also here’s what I’m thinking about doing for a rear bumper. I’m open To suggestions for sure, I just don’t have a way of bending tube right now so I’d prefer mostly square. I did have these rear quarter panel armour bent up from DOM by a friend though.
This was the inspiration for paint
Yeah true, thanks for your thoughts. I never really considered going back to the same camp site, we usually do set up all of our tents and cooking stuff in one spot and then leave it. It would be a pain for me taking down and resetting up everytime. And because we are more into crawling I don’t think I’d like having that up on my roof for certain trails.
I’m going to get a small pop up camper in the spring I think. I want to lift it and try to fit a set of 31s that I have hanging around. I think it will fit down most of the trails we go to. It’s not like your wheeling around the trail with it on for fun. My thought is that I will just leave it loaded up with all our gear, and when we want to go we just hook it up, toss our food and beer in and go.
