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I'm taking my first trip to an ohv park. Is there a good list somewhere of what I should bring? Besides friends and duratracs because I have neither. SWEET HUGE PIC, BRO  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 2, 2015 19:32
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Oh neat, this thread is now the "post terrible formatted / hosted pictures thread".
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Apr 2, 2015 19:37
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Safety Dance posted:Oh neat, this thread is now the "post terrible formatted / hosted pictures thread". The official get out and rape your tables thread (4000x4000 pictures inside)
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Apr 2, 2015 19:43
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:The official get out and rape your tables thread (4000x4000 pictures inside) I'm dubbing it "4Runner Syndrome".
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Apr 2, 2015 19:58
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crutt posted:I'm taking my first trip to an ohv park. Is there a good list somewhere of what I should bring? Besides friends and duratracs because I have neither. http://www.offroaders.com/tech/Offroaders_Checklist.htm Most of this poo poo is close enough. Recovery points, Recovery gear, and weather/survival gear.
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Apr 2, 2015 20:00
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Apr 3, 2015 07:13
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In Honolulu, I actually saw a Wrangler that someone had butchered into vaguely resembling a Hummer. 
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Apr 3, 2015 07:18
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We should cut offroaders some slack with picture posting. Because seriously, backyard mechanic types are usually really bad at computers.
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Apr 4, 2015 03:31
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Anyone here in BC? It looks like I may be in Vancouver for another half a year or so... if so I think I may get my H1 fixed and bring it up to Canada for a bit and check out some of the local trails in around BC.
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Apr 4, 2015 08:30
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jonathan posted:Because seriously, backyard mechanic types are usually really bad at computers. It's generally been my experience that the people you're talking about aren't goons. 
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Apr 4, 2015 18:14
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Big K of Justice posted:Anyone here in BC? poo poo. I visit every few weeks. The good forum is crawlinbc.
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Apr 6, 2015 16:45
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Here, have a massive* picture. *Straight out of Google it was something like 18,000px wide. Looks like it did a decent-enough job of stitching together most of it, aside from the Jeep itself.
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Apr 9, 2015 21:26
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This is a bit different than my Mustang. I guess I need to go find some dirt.
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Apr 16, 2015 05:23
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Cavepimp posted:This is a bit different than my Mustang. I guess I need to go find some dirt. Is the new 4runner basically a bigger version of the FJ Cruiser?
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Apr 16, 2015 14:24
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Cavepimp posted:This is a bit different than my Mustang. I guess I need to go find some dirt. I am so jealous right now.
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Apr 16, 2015 14:32
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Sandbagger SA posted:Is the new 4runner basically a bigger version of the FJ Cruiser? The FJ is shorter but I'm not sure I'd say it's that much smaller. To be honest, this is all still really new to me so I've still got a lot to learn, but I've got some buddies with FJs that are going to show me the ropes and can do a comparison. I mainly just needed something I could fit all my camping and fishing gear in that could take some rougher terrain than a Mustang, and then went overboard from there.
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Apr 16, 2015 15:52
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Cavepimp posted:This is a bit different than my Mustang. I guess I need to go find some dirt. That thing is sexy as hell. Please let us know how well it works (I want to upgrade the wife to a 4-Runner for no reason other than I love them).
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Apr 16, 2015 17:30
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Siochain posted:That thing is sexy as hell. Please let us know how well it works (I want to upgrade the wife to a 4-Runner for no reason other than I love them). I'm headed out to do some camping, fishing, and exploring tonight and will report back. So far all I know is that it's been pleasant on the road and handles speed bumps well, and everybody at the office needs rides all of a sudden.
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Apr 16, 2015 23:43
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I took my extremely mild TJ down some extremely mild trails today.  I still managed to bash it into a tree. 
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Apr 20, 2015 03:04
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Safety Dance posted:I took my extremely mild TJ down some extremely mild trails today. Congrats on the dent, some people pay a lot of money for lesser Trail Rated badges. How do you like the little mini-LED bar - have you used it much at night? Most of the LED bars I see fit firmly into brotruck status, but I've thought about installing some smaller units as backup lights because I had to reverse down a road once after dark and it sucked. I tested the XJ's new cooling system mods and valve job out this weekend with a quick overnighter up a moderate road (CA/San Bernardino NF/Lytle Creek/Coldwater Canyon/last yellowpost campsite). It ran fantastically the whole time, and the temp gauge never got above 210 even after a couple of miles uphill in 4wd on the rocky old mine road. I topped it off before/after the freeway section to get there & got 20mpg too which was cool. The recently purchased swaybar disconnects and 31" Cooper S/T Maxxs made a huge difference from the last time I tried that road - only broke traction once when I crossed a creek with some wet rocks (open diffs). Didn't stop to take any poser photos, but the campsite at the top was nice once we spent 20 minutes cleaning up the goddamn shotgun shells and beer cans left by the last 909 occupants. I found a cut-up CV boot, a pair of needlenose pliers covered in axle grease, many fragments of underbody trim, a few pieces of interior trim (??) and a set of Wrangler soft-top window screens laying by the road... I think some people had a hard time getting up there. 
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Apr 20, 2015 05:47
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Congrats on the dent, some people pay a lot of money for lesser Trail Rated badges. How do you like the little mini-LED bar - have you used it much at night? Most of the LED bars I see fit firmly into brotruck status, but I've thought about installing some smaller units as backup lights because I had to reverse down a road once after dark and it sucked. Ha. I like the mini-LED bar okay. I wish it had a narrower beam, but it puts out a decent amount of light for the money. I haven't had a lot of chances to drive around in the boonies at night in this truck, but the light worked really well when it was on the front of my motorcycle. I've been considering adding LED reverse lights too, not sure where I'd mount them.
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Apr 20, 2015 06:19
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It's a month late and while I wanted to do more with it and get the color correction/audio/fades/other bullshit tuned etc, I finally got fed up with boring footage of Jeeps and just threw it up on youtube raw. It was also too long so I ran some of it at 300% speed but whatever. Hot AI SoCal 4x4 Cleghorn Footage Featuring the Sick Setups and Nuanced Narration of: Astonishing Wang (yellow TJ) Tuna (white JK) Krakkles (blue XJ) Boostcreep (gold WJ) Kastevich (white TJ) and the excellent hydrolocked Honey Badger (non-AI friend, black TJ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLqUIe9K3U
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Apr 20, 2015 08:25
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That looks like fun.
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Apr 20, 2015 21:38
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So my friend's CR-V up and died at 200k miles. He's taken an interest in cars in the past year or so, so I've been trying to impart some of limited wisdom and experience in him, and he has a ton of enthusiasm for it but a lot to learn. We've been browsing craigslist looking for a new car, and one of the ones he was interested in was Suzuki Samurai. The caveat here is that while we effectively have a 10k budget, half the finances will be offered his father. In short, he's willing to match him dollar-for-dollar up to a total budget of $10k. Problem is, his dad stubbornly believes that a car is an appliance, so he will not help to buy anything that isn't reliable, low-mileage, and four-cylinder. That brings us to this craigslist offering: http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/5040100104.html  We've called and negotiated a price, but it's going to be tricky to pick up because while the vehicle is in Nassau county, Long Island, we're about 4 hours upstate from the city. The plan is to drive down on a weekday, take care of all the paperwork at the DMV and drive it back up. So I'm looking for some opinions. YES it takes 17 seconds to get from 0-60, YES it's probably kind of a handful at highway speed, but does this look like a good build? The guy who owns it has his own law firm and told us he put $5k into it and basically kept it garaged as a "just in case" vehicle for when they went upstate skiing. It sounds like the perfect Samurai, not a stock showroom model with an ambitious asking price, and not a totally thrashed hunting/trail rig. In the interest of maintaining its current condition, my friend also intends to pick up a beater Subaru for the winter. Are we going to discover that it's a nightmare to daily drive a Samurai or is this going to be the most fun summer ever?
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Jun 7, 2015 01:39
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The condition looks good, check how much is bondo and how much is metal with a magnet. But... it sounds like he should get a subaru brat instead. 4cyl, about 25 to 28mpg, pickup, 4 wheel drive not all wheel drive. Reasonably reliable once the engine is cleaned up with new head gaskets and such.
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Jun 7, 2015 08:01
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Yep, they rust like a motherfucker, but they do the job off-road. I found mine to generally be quite well-designed and easy to work on, too. You have to want a 4x4 to do 4x4 things, though, they are a traditional leaf-sprung live-axle truck, just 3/4 scale, and on-road refinement is not their thing. I have daily driven one, and it isn't honestly that bad, as long as you understand what it is - coming from a CRV may be a bit of a culture shock. It depends on why he's interested in it, and what sort of things he's looking to do. Something like an XJ may be a better compromise as a daily.
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Jun 7, 2015 22:44
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We were gonna pick it up Monday but it loving sold over the weekend. Same thing happened last time I saw a beautiful, perfect Samurai on CL. Another one gets away.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:31
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crutt posted:I'm taking my first trip to an ohv park. Is there a good list somewhere of what I should bring? Besides friends and duratracs because I have neither. lol i got put on probation when posting my 4runner, it seems to run in our blood. speaking of which, building the truck has become quite the addiction. this is the day I bought it.  So far I've had a custom bumper designed by a washing machine engineer on my 4runner forum and cut from cad files. Snorkel, which I haven't technically used, but since i do lots of water crossings up to my headlights, it'll eventually become necessary. and today I threw a lightbar on, which i'm very happy with, it will come in handy when I go hunting and want to access remote spots before sunrise. Next mods will be 3inch suspension lift and 285/75/16 duratracs   Last is Jones lake B.C, just outside Vancouver. If you have a 4x4, you can park right on the beach, set up your bbq and enjoy. I honestly don't know how people can live in this Province without a 4x4 anymore. 
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Jul 5, 2015 06:33
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Gosh that looks awesome. Here's my Toyota. I've posted it before but since then I ditched the 265 duratracs for 305 MTRs, bought tube doors, and had the bumper powdercoated gloss white while it was being repaired. Today I enjoyed a day at the beach with the Houston FJ club.    A week from now I'll be on the road to FJ summit in Ouray, CO. CAN'T WAIT!
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Jul 6, 2015 06:32
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Geology posted:Gosh that looks awesome. Here's my Toyota. I've posted it before but since then I ditched the 265 duratracs for 305 MTRs, bought tube doors, and had the bumper powdercoated gloss white while it was being repaired. god i wish i bought a fj cruiser. do they give you the gears over the tube doors? i went past 3 rcmp checkpoints (canada's answer to local pd, all the way up to fbi/cia/l but federally regulated, so no retards and minimal highschool bully victim) where i live, there are 2 kinds of 4x4 enthusiasts, nerds with jap 4x4s, and retarded kids making 90k a year drilling oil driving lifted f350s. l luckily made it past, in spite of no front plates, no turn signals and a light bar uncovered 
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Jul 6, 2015 07:51
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BCBUDDHA posted:god i wish i bought a fj cruiser. Yesterday was the first time I put the tube doors on. In Texas they're legal so long as they have side view mirrors, which mine didn't, but nobody bothered me about it. The doors accept standard jeep mirrors but I was missing some of the hardware to attach them.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:51
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Geology posted:Yesterday was the first time I put the tube doors on. In Texas they're legal so long as they have side view mirrors, which mine didn't, but nobody bothered me about it. The doors accept standard jeep mirrors but I was missing some of the hardware to attach them. Do FJ Cruisers not have sills along the doors? If they do, you should be ok to drive doorless, at least in Texas. You also apparently only need one rearview mirror, as long as your rear window is unobstructed: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.547.htm.
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Jul 6, 2015 16:01
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EightBit posted:Do FJ Cruisers not have sills along the doors? If they do, you should be ok to drive doorless, at least in Texas. You also apparently only need one rearview mirror, as long as your rear window is unobstructed: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.547.htm. It's an FJ cruiser - the rear window comes obstructed from the factory. I wouldn't feel comfortable driving on-highway without both side mirrors anyway.
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Jul 6, 2015 16:29
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BCBUDDHA posted:and retarded kids making 90k a year drilling oil driving lifted f350s. We're not all retarded kids. And LoL I wouldn't get out of bed for 90k a year in an oilfield job.
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Jul 6, 2015 20:35
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Any other BC spots? I'll check out Lake Jones. I'm up in Vancouver working on a project for a bit, once I get that new engine dropped in my H1, I'll drive it up to Vancouver so I can do some wheeling on weekends at least. I hate the city.
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Jul 7, 2015 03:55
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Big K of Justice posted:Any other BC spots? I'll check out Lake Jones. I'm up in Vancouver working on a project for a bit, once I get that new engine dropped in my H1, I'll drive it up to Vancouver so I can do some wheeling on weekends at least. I hate the city. Sunrise lake on the west side of Harrison Lake Eagle mtn north of coquitlam Register an account on crawlinbc and introduce yourself. Hutt lake out past squamish is great. If you're up for a 2 day trip, see if you can gather some people up to do the Whipsaw trail. I returned my Rubicon to stock as I have it up for sale. I'm out in Alberta right now or I'd show you around some.
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Jul 7, 2015 09:40
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Getting a backroad tour around the lower mainland would be awesome. I dont have any friends into that sort of thing though and no way I want to explore too much solo. In other news took a quick trip up some dirt roads just north of Stave Falls in Maple Ridge.    Also played around with "Crawl Control" which maintains a set speed up or down hill off road, and it does so by firing the individual brakes on and off with the ABS system, which makes it sound like the truck is shaking itself apart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrdar8u-bF0 D C fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Jul 8, 2015 05:19
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D C posted:
My jeep rattles worse than that 
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Jul 8, 2015 07:00
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I've done some stuff to my 3rd gen since my last post.
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Big K of Justice spotted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhFIXiXu4Y
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