Flemster
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Its all wired the same as my full (kinda messy) just the A-pillar for the front light and through the grommet on the rear hatch for the rear lights.
Flemster's 2000 SR5 Sport
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Its all wired the same as my full (kinda messy) just the A-pillar for the front light and through the grommet on the rear hatch for the rear lights.
Flemster
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Ballard
After typing that previous post up I just felt like getting out. I wanted to snag some photos of the rack and just go explore a little on my own. All my friends/wheeling buddies are tied up with finals this weekend but all mine are later in the week so SOLO trip it was.
Check the Forest Service site to see what was open and basically nothing is still so Ballard it was. (Open year round) I packed up my shit and headed out.
Was not really sure what to expect, I rarely wheel alone and especially avoid it in spring and winter when its muddy and snowy but I have been having some good luck with these tires so I felt comfortable. Drove up stove prairie rd to Buckhorn Rd. Buckhorn then leads all the way to Ballard. Buckhorn was well traveled and fairly dry, just very washboarded. Love the kings for that alone. I also aired down to 20 for comfort purposes.
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I'm honestly really digging the half rack, especially with the longer back piece.
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After about 10 miles or so you hit a fork, if you go right, you go up Ballard. This is how the entire tail was, until the end where it got much deeper and packed slippery snow was the trail.
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Half Rack Glory Shot
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Halfway up.... I found my friend Noah shooting with a buddy. He had just picked up a new 12guage and wanted to shoot some skeet. Invited him up the rest of the trail but his fuel light was on. So he hopped in with me!
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We went maybe another 4 miles before a hard right and a really steap section with loads of ice. Gave it one try, almost slid into a tree and called it good for the day. This was right after turning around and getting to a flat section.
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Another shot of the rack, shows my wiring, messy atm. This rack isn't staying on my truck so I havnt wanted to waist the zip ties haha.
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Headed out the way I came in, 4 hours from leaving my driveway to pulling back into it, with a stop for burritos at Cafe Mexicali! Not a bad Sunday evening right before finals.
Not teribly muddy for having no front flares and having about 2" of poke.... Dry it looks way muddier though... I HATE MUD.
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After typing that previous post up I just felt like getting out. I wanted to snag some photos of the rack and just go explore a little on my own. All my friends/wheeling buddies are tied up with finals this weekend but all mine are later in the week so SOLO trip it was.
Check the Forest Service site to see what was open and basically nothing is still so Ballard it was. (Open year round) I packed up my shit and headed out.
Was not really sure what to expect, I rarely wheel alone and especially avoid it in spring and winter when its muddy and snowy but I have been having some good luck with these tires so I felt comfortable. Drove up stove prairie rd to Buckhorn Rd. Buckhorn then leads all the way to Ballard. Buckhorn was well traveled and fairly dry, just very washboarded. Love the kings for that alone. I also aired down to 20 for comfort purposes.
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I'm honestly really digging the half rack, especially with the longer back piece.
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After about 10 miles or so you hit a fork, if you go right, you go up Ballard. This is how the entire tail was, until the end where it got much deeper and packed slippery snow was the trail.
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Half Rack Glory Shot
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Halfway up.... I found my friend Noah shooting with a buddy. He had just picked up a new 12guage and wanted to shoot some skeet. Invited him up the rest of the trail but his fuel light was on. So he hopped in with me!
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We went maybe another 4 miles before a hard right and a really steap section with loads of ice. Gave it one try, almost slid into a tree and called it good for the day. This was right after turning around and getting to a flat section.
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Another shot of the rack, shows my wiring, messy atm. This rack isn't staying on my truck so I havnt wanted to waist the zip ties haha.
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Headed out the way I came in, 4 hours from leaving my driveway to pulling back into it, with a stop for burritos at Cafe Mexicali! Not a bad Sunday evening right before finals.
Not teribly muddy for having no front flares and having about 2" of poke.... Dry it looks way muddier though... I HATE MUD.
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Flemster
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35's Baby
I've started the trimming process, tubing is going to happen later this week hopefully. I've also done a lot of odds and ends and discovered more problems. I'll start with the tires!
To start off we found a great deal on mounting and balancing in Fort Collins at a shop called Big Deal Tire and Wheel. It was only $65 for all 4, we dismounted and used Nicks runner to take the tires back and forth. Putting 35's on the roof rack was quite the task I'll say.
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Threw them on and took a good look at er.
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Drove it around town and then to my parents house. It is noticeably slower but honestly not that bad. Still do 70-75 on the highway, and can pull steep hills at 3k rpm doing about 60-65. ABout the same just worsened mpg.
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She looks mean!
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When I got home I started trimming. I trimmed slightly above the body line in hopes that Ill soon have a passenger fender flare again. Regardless im making lots of room for these tires in the fender department. The pictures show the rough taping just for some paint protection near the cut and a marker to not cut past lol. You can also see a finished and semi cleaned up cut vs a rough cut. Yikes. My dad was judging me hard as I chopped up my body. Sorry POPS
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I removed my motorized antenna. Gonna just put in a taco whip or something to fill the hole, I don't listen to the radio so I could care less. I also cut just about everything I could without putting a hole in my firewall to make drive-ability a little better around town.
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I'm going to go and take more real pictures hopefully soon.
I've started the trimming process, tubing is going to happen later this week hopefully. I've also done a lot of odds and ends and discovered more problems. I'll start with the tires!
To start off we found a great deal on mounting and balancing in Fort Collins at a shop called Big Deal Tire and Wheel. It was only $65 for all 4, we dismounted and used Nicks runner to take the tires back and forth. Putting 35's on the roof rack was quite the task I'll say.
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Threw them on and took a good look at er.
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Drove it around town and then to my parents house. It is noticeably slower but honestly not that bad. Still do 70-75 on the highway, and can pull steep hills at 3k rpm doing about 60-65. ABout the same just worsened mpg.
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She looks mean!
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When I got home I started trimming. I trimmed slightly above the body line in hopes that Ill soon have a passenger fender flare again. Regardless im making lots of room for these tires in the fender department. The pictures show the rough taping just for some paint protection near the cut and a marker to not cut past lol. You can also see a finished and semi cleaned up cut vs a rough cut. Yikes. My dad was judging me hard as I chopped up my body. Sorry POPS
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I removed my motorized antenna. Gonna just put in a taco whip or something to fill the hole, I don't listen to the radio so I could care less. I also cut just about everything I could without putting a hole in my firewall to make drive-ability a little better around town.
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I'm going to go and take more real pictures hopefully soon.
Flemster
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Other things that I have done in the past week or so.
Replaced calipers and pads. Calipers seized on me. Yay warranties.
Replaced CV axles.
Filled Front Diff due to massive leak on driver Axle seal. Found that while doing CV axles.
Heres the wrecked old CV's
Passenger Side
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Driver Side
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Both had ripped inners for almost 60k miles. Lasted a while TBH, They didn't even stop functioning, one just clicked pretty bad, surprisingly it was the pass which was at least still greasy, not bone dry.
New Brakes, match the kings.
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Diff looks good. No shavings on the drain plug. Both plugs came out easy with a 10mm Allen Key. Had no idea where or how to do it just found everything buried under loads of grim.
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Also had to replace my bolt for my swing-out after an unfortunate user error accident resulting in the loss of a subaru's taillight.
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Used a extractor and then replaced with grade 8 hardware.
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Thats all for now folks.
Replaced calipers and pads. Calipers seized on me. Yay warranties.
Replaced CV axles.
Filled Front Diff due to massive leak on driver Axle seal. Found that while doing CV axles.
Heres the wrecked old CV's
Passenger Side
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Driver Side
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Both had ripped inners for almost 60k miles. Lasted a while TBH, They didn't even stop functioning, one just clicked pretty bad, surprisingly it was the pass which was at least still greasy, not bone dry.
New Brakes, match the kings.
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Diff looks good. No shavings on the drain plug. Both plugs came out easy with a 10mm Allen Key. Had no idea where or how to do it just found everything buried under loads of grim.
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Also had to replace my bolt for my swing-out after an unfortunate user error accident resulting in the loss of a subaru's taillight.
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Used a extractor and then replaced with grade 8 hardware.
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Thats all for now folks.
squishmitten
New member
35's!!!! Truck's looking so mean!
Are you stopping at Glacier National Park or Yellowstone on your trip? I'll be in Glacier in mid July myself!
Are you stopping at Glacier National Park or Yellowstone on your trip? I'll be in Glacier in mid July myself!
Road Bull
Senior Member
Nice tire upgrade and progress on some maintenance. Question about your Hi-Lift mount. What are you using? Is it lockable? I have yet to look into locking mounts, but it seems like a good thing to have to make sure my Hi-Lift doesn't walk off if I am away. I don't usually DD with it on there, but I would rather be able to lock things and not have to worry about it as much.
Flemster
Member
We will be, Im guessing we wont be there around the same time. We are going to be there late July, not sure on the exact dates but [MENTION=57546]4-Ripcord[/MENTION] may be able to clarify off the top of his head. It would be cool to bump into each other though!
It just mounts via two bolts coming off the swing out and threaded knobs. I run a cable lock through that and my spare. Slow them down a little.
StockyStock
New member
I thought Yukons were the one's everyone didn't like..? G2 or literal gear busting is also something I've read. Dunno if that's true though
Swede
New member
You're Welcome
Flemster
Member
Flat Tops Wilderness Area
Finally another actual camping trip!
We went to Glenwood, CO to explore the Flat Tops Wilderness Area and White River National Forrest.
We started midday Saturday due to sending out some Racks that morning and some other setbacks. We left for Dotsero, CO around 3 in the afternoon and got there around 6pm. We headed up CR301 (Colorado River Road) and then turned left onto CR600 (Coffee Pot Road). After about 5 miles we found a sweet spot to camp.
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Here was our camp, and then our gorgeous view from camp
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The next day we headed for a trail called Grizzly Jeep Trail which is rated difficult in the fun treks books. To get there you take Coffee Pot Road to Transfer Trail (CR140) and then that leads into Grizzly (CR632).
We found early that we were a bit to early in the season to run the route we wanted to which was ok, I love the challenge and the change in plans. First patch of snow we came accross about another 6 miles up Coffee Pot Road.
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We could have tried to push through it but it sluffed off the trail onto a really off camber spot and I am a strong believer in stay the trail and not rolling my truck. Time to find a bypass.
We found a two-track leading up the hill to the south of the snowdrift so we followed that. Took us through the woods and around the snowdrift. I felt good about it being well traveled and had fun breaking through some snow drifts that only ATV's and UTV's had gone through.
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Ended up back onto Coffee Pot Rd. and kept pushing for Grizzly.
Made it to the trail head and started pushing through.
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Really put the 35's to the test breaking trail for everyone.
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Also got to test out this fancy thing.
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Right here is as far as we made it down grizzly. The drift got really deep, 3-4ft plus and on the other side was a water crossing that got to be a little over 5ft deep. No thanks, not with my open airbox. We turned around their and headed back to find another route.
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TBC...
Flemster
Member
Flat Tops Wilderness Area
Contineud....So we headed back out to Coffee Pot Road to see if we could find an alternative Route out to Glenwood without backtracking to I70. Long story short we found another massive snow drift and had to turn back.
Headed back out of Coffee Pot.
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Played on a snow drift to test the articulation/stuffing of these 35's...
I'm impressed.
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A little trimming/hammering left to do in the rear and tubing happens tonight and tomorrow morning.
This is the top of the two-track we took, the road in the distance is Coffee Pot Road and if you look even further you can see Beaver Creek, Vail, and all the surrounding mountains as well as I-70 to all to the East of us.
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So we drove all the way out and into Glenwood and then up Transfer Trail (CR602) to the North of Glenwood.
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This is where we setup camp for the night.
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The next day we were planning on just heading home but I talked everyone into driving as far as we could on this road till we hit impassible snow being we knew there would be some. We found this immaculate view.
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Not long after we hit snow.
Turned back and headed for home.
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Flemster
Member
Mods
Firewall Tub
Honestly this kinda wasn't that bad but also kinda was terrible.
Total Time - 10 hours
Things you need.
-Tall Jack Stands
-Floor Jack
-Wrench and Socket Set
-Pliers/Vice Grips
-Welder
-Grinder
-8-10 Cutoff wheels (I went through 8)
-Flap Disk
-Marker
-Gasket Maker (I used the ultra black stuff that comes in a pressurized can)
-Self Etching Primer
-Rubberized Undercoating
-BFH (Big F*Cking Hammer)
-Some Will Power
Also read this amazing write up by Brandon at Coastal Offroad
Clearnencing 35's at Ride Height
First thing is to jack it up, I placed tall jack stands on the cross member and then pulled my coilovers. Then using a floor jack you can jack up your tire and check for where you rub at full bump.
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This was sitting at full bump no turning.
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While turning. See where I trimmed out the firewall.
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Here are both cuts.
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I did not have to cut much with the SPC uppers and the alignment I have.
Now to patch it up. I used the worst possible thing to do this with but I used a flux core with .35 wire... not great. It was not easy.
I used cardboard to make the shape and cut it out of 16 Guage steel. Patched it up
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Done and flap disked my popcorn
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Same process on the otherside
I really failed to take pictures being it was 90 degress and we had been spending so much time cutting welding and repeating.
Next step is to seal it up using the gasket maker.
Do all the welds
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Inside and out
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Once dry to touch paint with primer inside and out
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Then paint on undercoating
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I wish I took more pictures but I sucked and it sucked. I proceeded to go wheeling literally 30 min after finishing and not front end rubbing to report.
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I also hammered my pinch weld A LOT, most of it was done by hammering and the chop was just the extra mile I needed. I resealed the entire pinch weld because I split it with the hammer. Overall not a terrible job just really takes it out of you and if you use a nice welder it would be so much easier.
Thanks for the help [MENTION=107971]derpiful[/MENTION] and [MENTION=82211]TCMach[/MENTION] your moral support/help welding the holes I couldn't fill was much needed. Hayden I also apprciate your reasurrance that anything that got messed up could be fixed with gasket maker XD
Now to wheel the piss out of it and replace everything constantaly!
Flemster
Member
If had not just tubbed Kelly Flats would have thrown me for a loop. It was Flexing full bump everywhere constantly. It was a great test to see how well I did. Rear end needs some more love before I rip off my rear flares
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Flemster
Member
Kelly Flats
The Fort Collins crew got out for a quick night of camping and a quick run of Kelly Flats in reverse.
I put my last coat of paint on my firewall chop and threw in my floor mats and left for this one. Did not even put back together the interior trim.
Nick(5th gen) and Noah(Taco) had already gone up the Poudre earlier that day to run a trail but we left Foco around 7ish to hopefully make it to camp before dark.
[MENTION=107971]derpiful[/MENTION] finally picked up an RTT from an REI sale and our buddy Cameron finally lifted his jeep after wheeling the hell out of it stock. All of us on fresh meat too!
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Hayden and I are looking very similar these days hehe. Great minds think alike.
We found Noah about 14 Miles into Pingree Park Road.
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We drove in another 5 miles and went off a side road for a while in the dark, found a great spot and set up camp.
Woke up to this.
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After our coffee and Bfast we headed for Kelly Flats, everyone had already run Kelly but I somehow had never been. We decided to run it in reverse and go down heart attack hill instead of up.
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Also look at Nicks tent from the 80's or 90's badass
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If you look closely you can see a a.fabster custome lightbar mount/cutout in noahs front bumper for that extremebar. Been borrowing a flux core weld for a while and that was practice for my firewall chop.
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Cameron gave the chutes a run for its money. Chutes won. Couldnt get up it without body damage so we called it.
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Now we headed down Heart Attack Hill.
My fender is popped out but thats because I never got around to remounting it after cutting everything.... SHHHH
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Noah sending it in the Taco
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Time for a flex test!
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[MENTION=107971]derpiful[/MENTION]
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Nick straight 3 wheeeling
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Overall really fun trail, I see what all the hype is about. Things I need to fix now as per usual. Over the past 4 years of straight abuse to my roof tracks has taken its toll through product testing for Rockymtnracks.com and me jumping/bashing my truck, they need to be replaced and the roof needs to be reinforced from the underside. So that will happen before Canada. My gas tank skid needs to be remounted to the mount closest to the driver rear tire. Been broken for a while and the rattle drives me insane. Front right CV is popping even though its like sorta brand new. Front left lower shock bolt is too small and slides around in the mount. Rear diff needs to be sealed, front axle seals need to be replaced, and rear upper control arm bushings are beyond toast. O and timing belt and water pump. yea..... fun stuff. And I'm sure there is soooo much more.
Here is a pup to leave you off.
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Flemster
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Trying my hardest to keep the Yota Wave alive! The runner is looking good man!
Love the camping trips and fun you are having, keep it up
Thanks man! I try my hardest
theesotericone
New member
Just stay on top of the repairs. Trust me, there is nothing worse then breaking down on trail because of something you knew needed attention. Not only do you have to make the repair is a harder place but you also get to kick yourself in the ass for being lazy. lol
I saw you've been posting more on Instagram lately. I've been seen more posts on the 4Runner reddit or Instagram 4Runner versus forum's it seems. I try to direct a lot of them to this website for information/help/advice as much as I can. Surprises me the amount of people who use reddit or instagram only and no forum's or even the toyota forums..
