It's springtime! Post your truck, discuss your favorite trails, or blog post about repairs/modifications. Want a hobby that will attract hot babes? Look no further!Previous thread: >>28909340
Time to kick the beehive!Jeeps are fucking gay zoomer retard versions of Landrovers
>>28936368>Time to kick the beehive!>>28936348>hot babesShe's OK but kinda scrawny.
>>28936348Sticc
Is offroading about the vehicles or is it about the /out/?If it’s about the /out/ I don’t really get it. Once you take away the places that are served by roads, the places you aren’t allowed to drive, and the places you can’t get to even with a 4x4, how much is really left? Seems like if you want to get away from things you would be better served by driving a sedan to where the asphalt ends, getting out, and walking orthogonally to the ohv trail.If it’s about the vehicles themselves and pushing them on difficult terrain I can get that. But it seems a waste as a way of getting to nature.
>>28936493Both. Wheeling itself is fun and so is camping.
>>28936493>how much is really left?Depends on the terrain. If you like deserts and beaches, there are plenty of remote places you can drive your 4x4.Even in rural areas in Europe, it's not that hard to get remote. A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor told me about plots for sale (he had just bought one) in a little settlement of about half a dozen off-grid houses in the middle of a Army training range near our town. It's accessible by two unpaved roads, one 4x4 only and one that's passable by normal cars when dry. On the weekend, we loaded up the kids in the car and drove out there to take a look. After we got to the edge of our town and onto the sandy 4x4 track going to the village, the only people we saw in three hours of driving were a small group of soldiers walking along the road. They were doing a FTX and got lost. I loaned them my table so that they could get MGRS coordinates and figure out where they were.
Anyone here have a lifted 4runner or Tacoma that can help me decide on a tire size?
>>28936563What gen
>>28936348That's a man (I can tell by the bulge)
>>28936563I've got 275/70-17's
>>28936585What do you have for a lift?>>289365722ndI have between 2-2.5" in the front, more in the back. 265/75/16s fit on the truck stock. There doesnt seem to be any consistency, some people trim, some people don't
>>28936618Sorry, I'm retarded, they are 285/70-17's, on a 2nd gen Tacoma with roughly 2.5"-3" of lift, King coilovers and dakar springs in rear. Had to remove front mudflaps and trim a tiny bit on the corner of the fender flares.
>>28936440Hardly any jeeps for that matter
>>28936637But they ARE on the list.So is Porsche BTW.Landrover won Dakar (in its class) for the first time in Dakar this year.>9+ hours behind a Dacia Sandrider, Ford Raptor, Hilux>3 hours behind a KTM bike>3 hours behind a Polaris SxSImagine being "the ultimate offroad machine" and losing to the same company's grocery getter that originally sold for 1/4 the price and was built in some giys shed.
>>28936348Homosexual shit in op
>>28936632Get skinny tyres on that underpowered trug.Your effective ground patch on a 285 vs a 255 is the same until like 2psi; the 285s gets like 1% more contact area.
>>28936756Why didn't you make the thread?
Ok chuds, am I regarded for wanting picrel? Series 2 1999 TD5 with 168,000km / 104390 miles in ostensibly good condition.
>>28937245I owned a TD5 defender, had lots of them in the extended circle of friends. 99 being an early one is the 10P motor which has plastic head dowels - over time the head will shift, it blows the gasket and wipes out the edge of the valves on the bore if it goes far enough. Has to be replaced with the metal ones. 10p TD5 also has the fuel return gallery through the head which when they get hot they very often crack, so DO NOT let it overheat. The 15P fixed this. The temp gauges read in the middle until you get to like 115c at which point its already exploded.The auto gearboxes are trash and let all the gears out often, especially if you put big tyres on or tune it.If its manual its a dual mass flywheel and if you clutch dump it hard the pressure plate can fall apart. Happened on my Defender not long after I sold it. Pretty funny.They respond great to tuning. Once the head dowels are changed, hybrid turbo and a tune flashed on and you'll be blown away.Hmmm other things that can go wrong on them - the thermostat is pretty common. You need a special diagnostic tool, a nanocom, to communicate properly and do everything in the ECU. Regular scanners will not work properly.The front end balljoints are very common to fail as they get to this age, and they're an absolute cunt to do.They're terrible cars if you just want to drive and never have to work on it. Get an 80 series if that's the case. But if you put in the maintenance, I like them.
>>28937259Ok thanks for your input. Sounds like it will be a bit of a headache and it is an auto which is a shame. I kinda just want to use it periodically for camping or towing and not stress about it too much so I'll probably keep looking. It is museum piece level nice though most of the ones I see are totally clapped.
>>28937268Ah it's one of those things that if you get a good one that's had maintenance done, they're really good, but if you get a bad one its bad. The best ones are the facelift, the D2A, they had the best motor. It's also one of those things that once you own one and fall in love with it you'll never consider anything else. Stockholm syndrome
