[Unretired]

I was last to arrive and somehow ended up in the group of 7 lifted Jeeps with monster tires. Thought I was cool as the morning went well in mud, hills, rocks, roots... even tugged a rubicon out of a hole he got himself stuck in. Then the afternoon came and we went in to the real ROCKS and I was destroyed. Stock size tires, stock suspension and lots of weight were not the right recipe. At least I had good skids & sliders because I used them a lot. I was deep in the rocks and high centered several times... stacking rocks, jack & cast, tugged, winched... it was ugly. I don't have any pictures because humorously I was in the truck with a foot on the brake the whole time while everyone else worked. We will see if someone else posts some photos so people can see what a non-lifted SR5 can almost do...

Originally Posted by Anand

@Unretired I had a thought that was your truck in the other group! We caught up to your group just in time to see your truck getting a little help on the rocks, but I don't think we ever actually got a chance to chat.

[LFD_Off_Road]

Originally Posted by Unretired

I was last to arrive and somehow ended up in the group of 7 lifted Jeeps with monster tires. Thought I was cool as the morning went well in mud, hills, rocks, roots... even tugged a rubicon out of a hole he got himself stuck in. Then the afternoon came and we went in to the real ROCKS and I was destroyed. Stock size tires, stock suspension and lots of weight were not the right recipe. At least I had good skids & sliders because I used them a lot. I was deep in the rocks and high centered several times... stacking rocks, jack & cast, tugged, winched... it was ugly. I don't have any pictures because humorously I was in the truck with a foot on the brake the whole time while everyone else worked. We will see if someone else posts some photos so people can see what a non-lifted SR5 can almost do...

I thought we had grabbed a couple photos of you on the rocks, but looks like no. I've asked around if anyone else did, Ill send them over if we find some.

Here's a couple from earlier in the morning

[SolarBurns]

Finally ordered 4th gen roof rack rails. Thanks for quick response to my questions. Looking forward to getting my rack up!

[007Tacoma]

Originally Posted by SpeedyKevin

Snaps that looks good! Do you find the bumper trim helpful? Approach wise? Thinking about cutting mine a little

I hit some rocks in Moab with my outer edge of my front bumper. Since the damage was already there...

[MaddoxPics]

Wanted to mount my lightbar up front, similar to how the guys with the Frontrunner roof racks do theirs. I wasn't completely against cutting up the wind fairing and doing something similar to the prinsu racks, but I just preferred the look of the bar between the crossbar and roof rather than above the fairing.

Got one of the new thicker bars and mounted it as far up front as I could get it, and bought some 3x5" L brackets to mount the light bar. Had to drill out the holes a bit to fit the lightbar, but besides that it all went smoothly.

Surprisingly wind noise isn't an issue. It makes roughly the same amount of noise as the wind fairing did (may be a tad bit louder), at around 70-80mph, below of that it's not nearly as noticeable.

Here's a quick cellphone shot. I'll get some high quality photos later this weekend.

[ryguytheman]

Originally Posted by SpeedyKevin

Snaps that looks good! Do you find the bumper trim helpful? Approach wise? Thinking about cutting mine a little

I know that my trimmed bumper cover has worked out well.

[Anand]

Originally Posted by MaddoxPics

Got one of the new thicker bars and mounted it as far up front as I could get it, and bought some 3x5" L brackets to mount the light bar. Had to drill out the holes a bit to fit the lightbar, but besides that it all went smoothly.

Oh.... Now that's an interesting thought... May have to shift my cross bars around to see how this works for my setup

[LFD_Off_Road]

Originally Posted by Unretired

I was last to arrive and somehow ended up in the group of 7 lifted Jeeps with monster tires. Thought I was cool as the morning went well in mud, hills, rocks, roots... even tugged a rubicon out of a hole he got himself stuck in. Then the afternoon came and we went in to the real ROCKS and I was destroyed. Stock size tires, stock suspension and lots of weight were not the right recipe. At least I had good skids & sliders because I used them a lot. I was deep in the rocks and high centered several times... stacking rocks, jack & cast, tugged, winched... it was ugly. I don't have any pictures because humorously I was in the truck with a foot on the brake the whole time while everyone else worked. We will see if someone else posts some photos so people can see what a non-lifted SR5 can almost do...

Dan with OEX had one photo taken right after you had shifted on the rocks and was about to drive off, but looks like that's all we have.

[jhguth]

I'm so annoyed, I've been waiting to install my gas tank skid for like 2 or 3 months because I knew I had a project coming up that would involve painting some equipment with industrial epoxy coating and planned on just throwing my stuff in with the equipment only for the client to decide they would source directly.

I painted with POR-15 and the 1st and 2nd coat looked great but I decided to do a 3rd coat on the outside and maybe the second coat wasnt dry enough or something but it had all these drips and bubbles (POR-15 usually self levels pretty well) and it's really annoying me

[DannyLlama]

Anyone here with the front bumper installed on a 2010-2013 with feedback?

Thanks,

Danny

[LFD_Off_Road]

Originally Posted by DannyLlama

Anyone here with the front bumper installed on a 2010-2013 with feedback?

Thanks,

Danny

We haven't done many fronts yet on 10-13. I'm not sure if any of the guys who have them are active on here.

[TheBlandRunner]

Originally Posted by DannyLlama

Anyone here with the front bumper installed on a 2010-2013 with feedback?

Thanks,

Danny

I am a little biased but i love it! I had to drill a hole for my KC Cyclone turn signals but otherwise it was a perfect fit.Its super beefy and the recovery points are some of the thickest in the industry. Its also super easy to access the winch. Rocking my spare in one of these pics after getting a flat. Let me know if you have any questions or if you would like some additional pics.

Big Creek December 2019-121 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

Big Creek December 2019-170 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

Big Creek December 2019-129 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4643 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4673 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4683 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4759 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4779 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

[LFD_Off_Road]

Originally Posted by Unretired

I was last to arrive and somehow ended up in the group of 7 lifted Jeeps with monster tires. Thought I was cool as the morning went well in mud, hills, rocks, roots... even tugged a rubicon out of a hole he got himself stuck in. Then the afternoon came and we went in to the real ROCKS and I was destroyed. Stock size tires, stock suspension and lots of weight were not the right recipe. At least I had good skids & sliders because I used them a lot. I was deep in the rocks and high centered several times... stacking rocks, jack & cast, tugged, winched... it was ugly. I don't have any pictures because humorously I was in the truck with a foot on the brake the whole time while everyone else worked. We will see if someone else posts some photos so people can see what a non-lifted SR5 can almost do...

@Unretired I found one more of you stuck on the rocks

[Anand]

Originally Posted by LFD_Off_Road

@Unretired I found one more of you stuck on the rocks

That just looks like he's negotiating the rocks well :P Solid photo to show the bumper and front skid a little muddy though!

[Daikon]

Originally Posted by SMH4R

Finally installed the wide front skid from these guys and love it!

did you re-use the stock 'filler' cover/plate?