Well it was a relatively fun day... sort of...
We ended up checking out Edison Butte OHV (Snow Mobile area during the winter) and running up there. The entire trail is "Most Difficult" and very technical, not something a stock 4Runner could have done (even BackOff and I had trouble on some spots). It took us much longer than we figured and was a bit more challenging than we had assumed.
I'm not very good with taking pictures, so I do apologize for that... The trail for the most part was fun (aside from some issues I'll touch up on below)
There's was one spot I had scouted real quick and had forgotten to take a sharp left when cresting over a small hill, oops. Almost dropped into a collapsed lava tube... I guess that's why you let the crazy guy go first! (Honestly I was about to tell BackOff to watch out for that when I failed to heed my own advice, DOH!)
Luckily I had stopped the 4Runner after I realized where it was going and BackOff helped get some tension backwards so I could get back on trail without issue.
There were a couple spots where it was so tight I scratched/scuffed my wheels, that was a bummer...
But no where near as bad as my idiocy as we tried to make up time on the last half of the trail. We were on a nice stretch of basically flat forest and so we picked up the pace to about 25-30mph and I
thought I had pulled the 4Runner far enough to the left to avoid the 2ft diameter by 20~25ft long dead tree on my right side... I was very wrong. It caught the outer edge of the tire, bumped the 4Runner into the air a bit and when she landed shoved my wheels to negative camber (the SPC UBJ pushed in, despite being 250ft.lbs torqued) and I am fairly certain I bent the spindle on the passenger side. BackOff and I managed to lift the wheel, pull the UBJ back to outer position, use one of his 3/4" wheel spacers to give enough room for the wheel to turn and get her ready to limp home...
Another 5~10miles down rough trail until the fire road bypass which was another 9miles from highway 45... That was the most physically and mentally demanding driving I have ever done. But we got her back to the main road for AAA to collect her and drop her off at the dealership.
(How she looked while we waited for the tow truck to come
The rough visual I did on the trail/side of the road looks to be the spindle is just bent to hell, I'm not sure about the LCAs or UCAs, also a bit concerned about the UCA mount that goes through the shock tower, but I won't know the extent of the damage until I get it on a rack tomorrow and go over the damage with the auditor. So that's gonna be fun, at least it's my day off tomorrow so it'll be a bit less hectic to get this taken care of.
Hopefully if the damage is as localized and repairable as I think it is, I might be able to get the 4Runner back on the road by this upcoming Sunday. If not, I'll still organize the trip for you all this Sunday and maybe do a ride-along or something.