Recent content by mathers420

Here's some links that may help. https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/should-i-buy-an-80-costs-of-ownership.124556/ https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/80-series-faq-for-general-info-modification-and-repairs.84888/ The quick answer is, it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Is it worth it...

I was shopping for a 4th gen and favoured the v6. I found a v8 that was clean, so I bought it. Now I'm not sure I ever want go back to a v6... my wife has a 2013 4runner and I'd rather drive my 2005 with the v8.

This. Get some sliders, go exploring. Figure out what else you need based on that.

Did I read that people here think the Tacoma and Hilux should have the same GVWR? Have you guys ever looked at the difference in the frame between a hilux and tacoma? The hilux frame is fully boxed front to rear. The Tacoma frame is 1/3rd C channelled. That alone would be a huge difference in...

100% 3rd Gen 4Runners (1996 - 2002) are great vehicles. As long as the frame is clean and the radiator is relatively new, you shouldn't have any problems (beyond owning an 18 year old car problems). The one issue I've heard about is "pink milkshake" where the transmission cooler in the...

I keep thinking about something like this for winter biking. With a trike you might be able to have big enough tires to float over unpacked snow which would really open up the amount of area you could explore. It'd be slow going though.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/80-series-faq.84888/ https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/should-i-buy-an-80-costs-of-ownership.124556/

The reality is if you bring a clean truck up from the south and drive it in the winter, it will end up looking like that eventually. That's not bad, it's not great, but certainly not bad. No one would fix that around here unless they were going to stop driving it in the winter.

I'd trust it as much as the maintenance I put into it. They are tanks but the newest one is now over 20 years old...

Are you buying a Toyota truck from an area that salts the roads? If Yes, then you should absolutely look for a truck with a replaced (by Toyota) frame. They will be much, much cleaner underneath. Are you buying a truck form an area that does not salt the roads? Then no, you should look for a...

You didn't get flamed, go ask this on pirate4x4 and you will understand what it means to be flamed. People actually entertained your thought and gave you "possible" solutions. There's no denying that it's a bad idea to run a residential A/C system in a vehicle.

Crust riding has become my favorite type of riding, we had a couple of thaw-freezes this winter which left the snowpack rideable for a few weeks at a time. here's a pic of my bike at a local golf course.

we have a good community of winter bikers here, so there are 3 mountain bike trails systems in town that are groomed to varying degrees. The main area is owned/maintained by the local cycling group and is mostly groomed with snowmobiles. The other 2 areas are parks in the city that are groomed...

If you don't have purpose built mountain bike trails, it's hard to understand why mountain bikers are against e-bikes. No one has a problem (or should) with e-bikes on atv/multi-purpose trails where existing motorized traffic exists. The problem is when those e-bikes are riding on mountain...

The 2.7 is not known for blowing head gaskets. It is in fact known as a bullet proof engine. I overheated mine multiple times in one trip when the rear heater lines on my 4Runner broke on top of a mountain. After flushing the radiator and bypassing the rear heat, the engine functioned without...