My 00' Highlander build

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Moab-March 14th

Last minute details before first trip to Moab for the year. One thing led to another and I was checking my rear axles for leaks at the abs sensors.
They were both leaking badly. Thinking back to when I installed them I took for granted that the shop had done the press work correctly. I needed to pull them so I did at 10 am. After pulling the axles I found the were pressed down to about 11mm. I took them somewhere else and he said yea we do the "3 quarter method". Essentially they put 3 quarters between the retainer and bearing then press.



When I pulled the seals I found this...one of them didn't have the little spring than holds it tight. When I went to the dealer to get more he pulled them from a bulk box. That spring wasn't on the first two he handed me and when I asked he had never realized people need both pieces.

All back together and on the road to BFE

Nice place to wake up..the only people there were the other handful in our group.

Part of the group

Four of us ran Flat iron mesa

Same day we ran part of Behind the rocks

 

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I had been in contact with Chris and planned to try and meet up Sunday. It worked out well when they had decided to run Kane's as it dumps out south of Moab shortening my drive home.

I met up with [MENTION=78892]Fishwerks[/MENTION] , [MENTION=82211]TCMach[/MENTION] , [MENTION=94888]EatonKyleH[/MENTION] , Tracy and couple of their buddies.

Kyle dropping in, not shying away from the first obstacle.

Lunch time

Airing up after a great trail run and another 10,000 pinstripes. Sorry set of pics, I may have more to add later.

Two hours later and I"m about home and figure the guys and girls were enjoying a beer and burger at the brewery.

 

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March 22 Choke Cherry Canyon

Started off assembling a group and talking with JJ the sheriff.

this is a fun spot towards the end of the clip my left tire goes way air born again as per norm when coming out.

LAst obstacle I didn't try..

Trip down there isn't complete w/o running into these guys

I've got some videos that will be adding to these last couple pages of posts..check back if you read here

And I smashed the heck out of the front of my [MENTION=17736]AddictedOffroad[/MENTION] bumper. All the weight of truck was on it as I took the wrong line donw a rock face. I was amazed to see that it took it with out much damage. I really thought the front was caved in and will post that video too. Nice work Scotty.!

 

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I need to start catching on what's happening

Time to catch up on what I've been doing "WITH" the 4runner lately. Knock on wood it's much different than last year when I was doing things "TO" the
4runner just to get it operational. This will probably take a few days...There isn't a lot of build info coming up, I've sort of plateaued on that for now and enjoying the ride and getting out.

April 7- Fishing for trout in the Animas
River was looking good and I was off work...

Bowski

Brownie

April 12- Fishing for Bookies
Takes me to places like this

Brookie

 

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April 14- Molas Pass
We started getting some late season snow so we headed up the mountain over Molas Pass to Ophir for some light snow wheeling and a snowboard run.



Ophir Pass
This is as far as I could make it a good mile from the summit. We actually turned around and went up in reverse to that point. Was worried I wouldn't be able to turn around.

 

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April 18-Kennebec Pass

More rain in town means snow up here,,,

 

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April 29- BAMuffler

This thing is bad ass...

Puppy agrees

 

[mcaz5]

Truck's looking good man! Why'd you ditch the 17s? I thought they looked great on your truck. Can't quite tell for sure, but it looks like you wrapped the new wheels in some Toyo's? How do you like them? I've enjoyed them pretty well so far.

Edit:
Realize now that you're rocking the Coopers. I always get those and mine confused. Haha

 

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April 29- Cruise Moab 2015[/B

This was an awesome event. Well worth the registration fee.

Day one was Golden Spike

Moab Rim

The desert was very green for April and the flowers were just starting to bloom

Posing and waiting. My friend was leading the group in a 3rd gen and we were constantly held up by the larger rigs. Still lots of fun. I sure like the 80 series behind me on 37's too.

Fun comes with a price

Lots of fun things to look at at the campgrounds...like Larry H. Millers son's $147,000 super cruiser reveal..4 wheel steering and IFS portals front and back.

Flat Ion Mesa

 

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May 7- Timing belt/Water pump kit

Aircabman premium kit installed by the dealer

 

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Truck's looking good man! Why'd you ditch the 17s? I thought they looked great on your truck. Can't quite tell for sure, but it looks like you wrapped the new wheels in some Toyo's? How do you like them? I've enjoyed them pretty well so far.

Edit:
Realize now that you're rocking the Coopers. I always get those and mine confused. Haha

Thanks..Yep, Coopers and I got 16's because I wanted more sidewall for airing down. These tires have been superb so far.

 

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May 15- More rain so time for a night Snow run up Kennebec Pass

Started dumping on our way down..Crazy I had already been to Moab twice this year and it's still snowing.

 

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May 27- Rock Therapy 2015

Back to Moab and the day I met [MENTION=65101]BrianSD_42[/MENTION]. I could tell he was a deep thinker. Brian brought his cool buddy Rob, then there was [MENTION=107971]derpiful[/MENTION] and his buddy whose name is escaping me and many more..

Top of the World

Hayden making it look easy.

This guy was one of the several victims to lack of throttle control. It was on this spot where he tried to follow me when I took the slightly harder line that the mistake was made. After a couple failed attempts, instead of going at a slight angle to get a rear tire to bite he kept gassing and POP. But the evil results didn't rear their head until he tried to leave at the bottom of the trail..Broken axle

I think this guy carried a feather duster and detail spray....so clean

Mr. clean photo bombing...

Got back to camp to discover this poor guy was not having as much fun as we were. Real cool guy that took it well and best of all wasn't injured.

Flat Iron Mesa

more truck part stripping

Beautiful sunsets over BFE

Top of Strike Ravine

 

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Hey Moab looks fun. Come up to idaho and fish the snake river and Henry fork. Nice large fish come out of here.

Also on your kings. You don't mention much about them, did you take the spacer out of them for extended travel? What springs are you running on them?

 

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Hey Moab looks fun. Come up to idaho and fish the snake river and Henry fork. Nice large fish come out of here.

Also on your kings. You don't mention much about them, did you take the spacer out of them for extended travel? What springs are you running on them?

Yes and 650lb..

 

[BrianSD_42]

It was great wheeling with you man!

 

[derpiful]

It was awesome to meet you and be able to wheel with you!

See you again soon at the Jamboree!

 

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I've gotten behind on posting for a few months. It's not because I've been sitting around doing nothing. The truck has been running quite well this year. At this point my thread is changing to more of a report on things than a build. I have a few more smaller things to do or get but that will be all for this truck. It serves and suits my needs very well any thing more would be overly excessive.

Catching up were I left off.

The trip to Moab was fun but the rig took a hit to the Sonoran Steel PB. Hard to believe I didn't even feel it happen.

I pulled that bar off and put the stock one back on for the time being. I did call @sschaefer about it.

June 6, Chokecherry Canyon

I had to take a few stabs at it. You can fast forward to the end. Notice how close I come to taking out my passenger door.


This was a very fun climb here.


Wrong line

Right line

 

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if you watch this It takes me until the end to make it so FF if you wish..someday I will learn to edit.



Another Fun little down and up,,,,this guy drives this Tacoma like theres no tomorrow.

BIG PIG in the air

MY turn and this was a little close for comfort....

 

[Unner]

Your truck is so clean, it's awesome to see you out there driving over stuff most people wouldn't even think about. That last pic has me scared just looking at it haha.

I missed your update from Moab somehow, what happened to that Taco?