Grass strategy? - Toyota 4Runner Forum

jppower · 06-10-2019, 12:59 PM

As far as driving through tall grass and preventing it and other things like sticks from getting stuck in the under carriage. Is there anyway to prevent this from happening? Will skid plates take care of it?

RotaryDreamz · 06-10-2019, 03:55 PM

Once you go off the trail there is no guarantee nothing will find a home under the rig. I bought my full skids for damage prevention, when I need to take the rig off trail to the good hunting spots. Usually when I get back to camp and look under, I'll see some of the dead and dried grass or small timber on the inner top portion of my skid plates or stuck in my exhaust heat shield.

Ferrett · 06-10-2019, 07:27 PM

You're gonna have to poke your head underneath once in a while and pull out debris.

One guy I remeber would park on his lawn after a messy run and turn one of those arcing sprinklers on for an hour. YMMV.

Ferrett

techno · 06-11-2019, 02:09 PM

Just wanted to mention using caution if driving through tall, dead and dry grass. Hot engine /exhaust parts can start a fire.

jhguth · 06-11-2019, 04:34 PM

For tall grass you can put mesh on the front to keep it out of the radiator, for underneath just stop and check periodically and carry a fire extinguisher

Ray Dunakin · 06-14-2019, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by techno

Just wanted to mention using caution if driving through tall, dead and dry grass. Hot engine /exhaust parts can start a fire.

That's something that always worry me. I often have to drive through dry grass, weeds or sagebrush when I'm off road in Nevada and parts of SoCal.

nevada · 06-14-2019, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Dunakin

That's something that always worry me. I often have to drive through dry grass, weeds or sagebrush when I'm off road in Nevada and parts of SoCal.

DRIVING through it shouldn't be too much of a concern. but parking/stopping a hot rig definitely would be.

fourwd1 · 06-16-2019, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jppower

As far as driving through tall grass and preventing it and other things like sticks from getting stuck in the under carriage. Is there anyway to prevent this from happening? Will skid plates take care of it?

Umm, stay in the mall parking lot?

techno · 06-24-2019, 10:55 AM

In a sort of coincidence, I was working with an electrical transmission tower line crew last week and we had big problems with long grass while accessing towers. The F350 got grass wrapped around the driveshaft to the point where it started breaking stuff. There was a sort of massive grass dreadlock all caught up in everything.

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