So after the new m/t's i felt i was pretty set, road with the setup a while and had some fun





So one night at a local mudbog competition I got ansi watching all the other guys have fun so i got out and lined up for the competition!! The distance to beat in the street truck class was 169ft the bog length was 200ft I pulled in at 171ft baby!! won my class's competition!! the video doesnt do much justice but it still shows my pretty white truck jumping into a sticky ass mud hole!
03 4runner wins mud bog.mp4 - YouTube









Unfortunatly I submerged my timing belt housing in the thick sticky mud. however after running the truck fine all weekend after the competition, When i started the truck up monday morning I ran into some issues. Evidently some of the mud hardened into clay inside my timing belt houseing. When i started the car that morning a chunk of clay fell into my timing belt, traveling with the belt under the crank pully causing the timing belt to jump a few teeth. My timing was about 15-20 degrees off and the whole driver side of my engine was missfiring.


So we loaded the truck on the car hauler and pulled out the trusty old dodge 2500 1st gen cummins to tote the 4runner over to a friend of mines house. He used to work for toyota an has done a number of 4runner timing belts. It was nice to drink some beer and have him watch my back while i tore into the front of my engine to rebuild the timing belt houseing companants.

My wife even found herself useful she said " man this engine is dirty can i help clean it?" I said of course hunny!!! cant beat that right!