Off roading at stock height?

[fins59]

Any of you guys take your rigs off road at stock height?
And how well does it perform?
Debating on buying springs now.
There's so many other things on my rig that want my money.
Amy and all comments are welcome.
Mine is currently a bone stock 2000 SR5 4wd auto. It does have the bigger tire package on it.

 

[Do-boy]

I haven't hit anything that i thought was "hardcore." But have gotten into situations where stock height was just enough and 4lo were needed. If you haven't wheeled with it yet, I'm going to give you the same advice my friends gave me: Go see what it can do. It's really quite eye opening.

I've decided to focus on maintenance and camping organization before worrying about its crawling capability. It's not even easy to find places to go that I can't do stock, modifying makes the ride more comfortable and gives you piece of mind that you're not scraping stuff.

 

[fins59]

I'm needing shocks currently. So I was thinking of lifting while I'm at it. Also the rear seems to ride really close to the stops, makes it rather harsh on some bumps. But I don't wanna lift it just to lift it. So I've turned to thinking bout new stock height rear springs and new shocks all round, then I can do other stuff that needs/wants doing.

 

[scrap metal]

You'd be surprised what a stock rig can do. Just do it.

 

[Do-boy]

Oh that's a completely different story. Maintenance is always an excuse to upgrade. OME springs with your flavour of shock. Monroe for cheaps, Bilstein for an upgrade, coilovers if you're ballin'. I would never put stock stuff if I'm planning on upgrading in the future. I would lay out a plan for you here, but honestly, this place has lift advice out the wazoo.

http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-gen-t4rs/66976-3rd-gen-4runner-lift-information-faqs.html

 

[gamefreakgc]

OEM Tokicos are $30 each online from Camelback and Toyota of Dallas.

What makes these 4Runner great is they have amazing ground clearance as stock rigs, unlike most SUV's. Try it out on a few trails first then decide.

Though if your rear shocks are leaking, then replace them. Mine were toast when I got the 4Runner and it bounced around like a pogo stick.

 

[Spunk]

Oh, offroading at stock height is devilishly fun. It can drop jaws, even with swaybars attached.

 

[JayRolla]

Depends on how much you want to beat up your rig. I always could offroad stock. Just need to be more careful.

 

[02SE]

It depends on what kind of terrain you want to drive on. In 17+ years with my 4Runner, I have yet to need a lift for anything I would want to subject it to. With slightly larger LT 265/75R16 tires, and the E-locker as back-up, it can go places that has often surprised people driving their 'built' rigs.

I got my fill of extreme trails and parts breakage out of my system, when I had 4wd vehicles prior to my 4Runner. Breaking parts out in the middle of nowhere, got old after awhile.

I'm a big believer in function over form. I don't do anything to a vehicle, just for poser value.

There are those that have the lift, bigger tires, armor, etc, etc. and never drive on anything more difficult than a gravel road. That's fine for them. Of course there are people that need all of that extra capability from their truck, too.

You just need to decide what you want.

 

[96 ToyRunner]

Im stock height with just one size up in tiresand I've had a few people ask me what size lift im running and with a big smile I tell them it's stock with slightly bigger tires:bravo:

 

[mplsdunk]

What about us 2wd guys? I planned on getting some bigger tires and maybe some skids and hitting the trails. I've never had an suv but I can't imagine the trails in mn would be too bad...

 

[Brique]

I went stock last spring and pulled off some really challenging obstacles. I was impressed. The bad part was my old shocks were awful and my truck got banged up underneath pretty good.

 

[Unner]

Im stock height with just one size up in tiresand I've had a few people ask me what size lift im running and with a big smile I tell them it's stock with slightly bigger tires:bravo:

I'm stock height with some AT's in stock size and the running boards removed and it really does look lifted. I can't wait to get some bigger tires and a small 2" lift or so. Then It should look even better.

What about us 2wd guys? I planned on getting some bigger tires and maybe some skids and hitting the trails. I've never had an suv but I can't imagine the trails in mn would be too bad...

I think the main thing limiting you will be the 2WD not the ride height.

I went stock last spring and pulled off some really challenging obstacles. I was impressed. The bad part was my old shocks were awful and my truck got banged up underneath pretty good.

What got banged up? Just the stock skids or some other stuff too?

 

[Fastphin]

It depends on what kind of terrain you want to drive on. In 17+ years with my 4Runner, I have yet to need a lift for anything I would want to subject it to. With slightly larger LT 265/75R16 tires, and the E-locker as back-up, it can go places that has often surprised people driving their 'built' rigs.

I got my fill of extreme trails and parts breakage out of my system, when I had 4wd vehicles prior to my 4Runner. Breaking parts out in the middle of nowhere, got old after awhile.


I'm a big believer in function over form. I don't do anything to a vehicle, just for poser value.

There are those that have the lift, bigger tires, armor, etc, etc. and never drive on anything more difficult than a gravel road. That's fine for them. Of course there are people that need all of that extra capability from their truck, too.

You just need to decide what you want.

Been there done that too, got the minus in the pocket book. Will upgrade as breakage occurs.

 

[mplsdunk]

Yeah. I'm just wondering if anyone here off roads their 2wd. Me and my buddy just each bought 4runners. Mine from the original owner but 2wd. His is limited 4wd but has a salvage title and cost twice as much. Pros and cons.

 

[scrap metal]

I've wheeled first gen 4runner and my last 3rd gen at stock height. They will do alot. Lifting is a "cool" or regional thing. You go into central and south America where there are jungles and they're all at stock height.

Had a buddy with a stock 95 zj grand cherokee crawl around with all of our lifted rigs. You just have to take a slower easier line.

I missed the part where you mentioned your sick components are sagging and old. .. definitely a good time to get a lift in for the same amount of money if that's what you want.

I would say armor especially rock sliders are pretty important depending in your terrain

 

[SlickmisterN]

Yeah. I'm just wondering if anyone here off roads their 2wd. Me and my buddy just each bought 4runners. Mine from the original owner but 2wd. His is limited 4wd but has a salvage title and cost twice as much. Pros and cons.

Source an E-locker rear end and pre-runner it up!

 

[mplsdunk]

Source an E-locker rear end and pre-runner it up!

Don't see why not. It's got 200k on it and I have all maintenance records which are good. Some rust but it's mn... Frames good.

Are they are direct bolt in? Then I'd just have to wire it in?

 

[MyHigh]

What about us 2wd guys? I planned on getting some bigger tires and maybe some skids and hitting the trails. I've never had an suv but I can't imagine the trails in mn would be too bad...

If anything see about getting thr rear locker, although that might just get you further in trouble if playing around.

Lol.... Okay just finished reading the rest of the post and seems others have recommended the locker!

 

[Twan]

Currently stock height, but I have a full set of Savage skids and 4x sliders. I could really use a lift after the last time I went, as I took some damn hard hits to the skids, enough to dent the oil pan one, which also tweaked the hardware pretty good. These were the two bolts that sandwich the oil and trans skids together.