Anybody have any pictures and stories of their 4runners stuck? (mud, sand, snow, rocks etc!) Would love to hear and see your "worst stuck" story!

I know a lot of us wheel with other types of vehicles and probably have pics and stories about them, but lets just keep it to 4runners.

So swallow your pride and post them up!

Haha, yeah I have one. One day I wasnt really thinking and decided to do a little offroading in the rain. I got about three quarters of the way up the trail and before I knew it I was stuck halfway up to my rims.

Luckily I was able to get some rocks and sticks and got enough traction to barely make it outta there, but as I backed out, I turned the wheel to do a turn about type thing and I got stuck even worse than before.

So after about 5 hours of me and my friends trying to winch and pull me out by his tacoma, we gave up and decided to come back the next day. Lucky for me theres a heavy equipment rental place right across the street from the trail, and the guy was nice enough to pull me out with a bulldozer (for a fee )

heres a bad picture of how stuck I was, unfortunately this is the only one I was able to get

I haven't had my 4runner long, but I actually have a story. No picture, but it was at night anyway.


Christmas night we had a monster blizzard. I had the family out in the country at my parents house, and was needing to take my sisters boyfriend home. At this point, the wind is blowing 45mph and there was probably 13-15" of snow...which equals drifts of like 12 FEET in places.

I was driving on a two-lane paved highway in the middle of nowhere county, and was doing just fine, driving around the huge drifts, usually only having to push through about 1-2 feet of the tail end of the drifts by getting on the far edge of the road. Well, after I took him home, I was coming back through my tracks I'd made. And I was going too fast...cause I got too confident based on the trip out.

A drift pushed me off the road and dropped my right side into the road ditch...left side still on the pavement...still lined up correctly on the road. Snow covering all the windows on the right side, and snow halfway up my headlights up front.

Wind is blowing 45mph still, still snowing. I was appropriately dressed and had my cell, so I called my dad. Then assessed the situation and tried futilely to get unstuck. I actually made a decent run at getting out, but the ditch was too steep and I couldn't quite bite enough to pull me out.

Then a big electric company truck, dually with commercial utility bed came plodding along. I asked him if he had a chain or tow strap, cause I did not (my dad was bringing one). He didn't, but then I realized I had some new tie down ratchet straps in the back. I'd just bought them, and I'd sprung for the heavy duty ones that are rated pretty high. I told the electric company guy to hang on and I came back up with this dinky little tie down strap. He's like, "there's no way in hell that things gonna work". I said, "well I'd rather try and have it not work than not even try".


So I hooked this little 3/4" wide tie down strap up, and he starts pulling me out. 10 seconds later I'm up on the road and ready to roll.

do i even need to tell the story?????






you should see the BIG hole

There was this parking lot at the mall and ...

HA HA HA HA HA HA

Not even one comment about the guy taking a piss in the background?!?!

haha. i missed that. Good catch though. hhahaahhaa

Cascade is Idaho springs 2 weeks ago.

Different kind of stuck. Was cutting hard left and down hill, the slider pushed the tree over as I went by it, then when the slider ended it sprung back up into my wheel well and got a little jammed. Had to walk out and get a saw, luckly I was not far from home and nothing was damaged besides the bed, but I dont really count body damage as real damage anymore. Haha











Good times!

was at a bottom of a V part of the mountain. on the climb back up the rear end started to slide off to the side and i ended up like this. had to winch out

"Stuck"? What is this "stuck" you all are talking about?

I've actually never had my Yota stuck. I have been a couple times in Splodey, though. Once was with bald tires in a patch of sand down south of Canyonlands. I had my hilift and a wheelmate, and I had to jack up and put rocks under my tires three times to get out of that pit, in 105 degree heat. Very miserable. The other was on the side of the road, believe it or not - there's a highway along the mountain bench on the back side of the Salt Lake valley, and it was whited out with a snow storm. I'm tooling along and see a guy who is off the shoulder, waving for help. I always carry a strap in the back, so I pull over to give him a hand, and wasn't ready for how slick the shoulder was... I came to a stop, and immediately starting sliding sideways, ended up down in the ditch with him. The Dodge 1500 behind me couldn't get me out, we had to wait until an F250 came along and strapped up in front of the Dodge and both of them pulling yanked me out. Good times, good times.

Last March I went to the 1st Quarter SFWD meeting and ride in Tracy City, TN. We had a blast even though it poured rain all day long. We spent a good portion of the day fixing other people's broken rigs, but still got in some fun trails. Early in the day we had to reattach a rearend on a 1st generation 4Runner. Next, our trail guide got hung up on a rock and destroyed his rear driveshaft so I had to drag his rig out (I had to pull him out backwards).



It was getting late in the day and we decided to take the Parson's trail out so we followed our new trail guide up the rocky ravine. We got into the trail about a hundred yards and our new trail guide broke his rear pinion. We removed his driveshaft ,and since there was no way to go back down the trail, I went around him and hooked up a strap. I pulled him all the way to the top of the trail and then he got hung up on a huge boulder. I got a little heavy on the go-pedal and I discovered the weak point of my rig. I broke my left rear coilover shaft.

We used my hatchet to cut a log down to the correct length and wedged it between the frame and the axle. We then strapped the axle to the frame to lock the log in place, and drove the rig out. We had to winch the trail guide the rest of the way off of Parson's trail.

Here are some pics:



A couple of weeks later I went to Uwharrie and had a little problem...

YouTube - 4x4 with a tree for an axle

I had cracked the brake rotor mounting bolts in Tennessee and didn't know it, and then they broke at Uwharrie. I had checked virtually every other bolt on the rig before going to Uwharrie, but never thought about checking the ones that broke.

Today I replaced every rotor mounting bolt on the rig. None of the others showed any sign of damage. Good news is that I now have spares in case there is ever another problem.

Now that ^ was a bad day...

What happened?