Recent content by CA-RJ

I've had an Odyssey 34R-PC1500T in mine for the last 4 years and love it. I've had no issues with it staying charged. When camping, I run a fridge off of it as well and haven't had any issues there either.

I am running E0 every tank this year, more as a test to see if it affects my yearly average mpg's. We have decent access to it here in Kansas City and the station I use has it priced .05/G less than premium. The most I've paid so far this year is $2.50/G so it really isn't so expensive...

Havoline Pro DS synthetic in the 6 qt box from Walmart for $20 and a Toyota oil filter. Hard to beat the price.

Replaced my worn out GY Duratracs with some 245/75-17 Michelin LTX MS2's that I bought on Amazon for $77/ea! Love the new tires, even though the 4Runner looks more plain now.

I recently went from Goodyear Duratracs to the Michelins and man my truck feels like new. So smooth and quiet. I mostly do farm roads, fire roads, and gravel roads when I'm offroad and the Michelins have handled that just fine. My fuel mileage went up as well. I'm pretty sure I'm a Michelin...

Even the cheapest of oils available have specs above what the owners manual states to use (oil tech has gotten better over the years), so I would run whatever you put in for a full run. Curious, what did you use?

I have had the 5100's on mine for about 40k miles with the stock front and rear springs and no issues. Front set at 1.75" and the rear is stock height.

I bought my 4Runner with 136k miles on it and the shocks were toast. Like the OP, I didn't like the nose down and looked at different options for leveling. Not all of us want to lift our vehicles, we just want the level look. I went the Bilstein 5100 route, reusing my stock springs. I...

Edgestar 43 qt. It's about 8 years old and still runs perfect.

The filter location along with a Fumoto drain valve makes the V6 a breeze!

2004 SR5 with 265/70-17C Goodyear Duratracs with FJ Cruiser steel wheels. Truck has Bilstein 5100's with the front set at 1.75".

I use Fulley to track my MPG. My current stats are: 150 fillups, covering 41,172 miles AVG MPG: 17.4 AVG PRICE PER GAL: $2.42 AVG PRICE PER MILE: 13.8 CENTS BEST MPG: 22.9 BEST MILES PER TANK: 439.1

We went on vacation a couple of years ago like this without issue.

I sleep in the back of mine often. I double up on sleeping pads and use a sleeping bag and I sleep great! I even have room for the fridge. By the way, I love JTNP. Used to live about 2.5 hours from it. Miss that place.

Michelin Defender LTX. Snow performance? Check this out.