Recent content by frankentrd

In other news, I FINALLY have some real skid plates! I'm super proud of these, the fit and finish was phenomenal for a 1st run! I designed my own because I'm running an Ascend Fabrications front bumper and I noticed it had the perfect mounting holes for some skid plates. Most aftermarket skid...

Had some free time and decided to throw together the NWF Crawl Box: Building it was pretty straight forward and super fun. I would consider it the modern version of the Marlin Crawler box as it uses the reduction planetary gear set found in nearly all Toyota chain driven transfer case. The...

Finally got started on sand blasting the frame! I started off by filtering all my sand. Even though these are brand new bags they still have impurities in them that need to be filtered out before loading into the sand blaster. If you don't remove these you'll spend more time than you want...

Thanks! Unfortunately DR is a little before my time but I'm glad I could bring some of that nostalgia back.

You're not far at all! We came through the bat area on our way home. I'd also love to check out Northern NV, I've heard there is some fun wheeling out there too.

Glad you liked it! I hadn't ventured up north much either until this trip and we barely scratched the surface. There are miles and miles of trails. I think next time I'll plan something around the Trinity Alps area. When we passed through it looked like there was some awesome wheeling potential.

Hell yea!

Day 5 We woke up ~9AM, cooked some breakfast, and then got on the road: Now this is the part of the trail where we were officially off the Shasta Trinity BDR and on to my own map. I knew most of the track was going to be paved due to it being private land but I still took us off road when I...

Day 3 We woke up the next morning ~9AM, made some breakfast, and did some fishing around the lake: The next section of the trail was incredibly slow moving. Not because we hit any hard wheeling but because we were driving through a fairly recently burned zone with lots of trees and branches...

Shasta-Trinity BDR to The Lost Coast Just got back from an awesome trip hitting the Shast-Trinity BDR to The Lost Coast BDR and wanted to try my hand at a little write up. I've been planning this trip since February when I first learned about the Shasta-Trinity Back-Country Discovery Route...

Yea it is haha I went with the Elate parts. I got the intercooled supercharger manifold, pulleys, and fuel rails from them. The parts are very nice and the guys over there are awesome! They also worked with us on a few issues we found. Some of the pulleys are different on USDM 1UZ's and they...

Little Saturdat morning project. When we go camping the dogs are almost always with us. One of them is a Great Pyrenees and barks at anything and everything: Usually we're out in the sticks away from people but for the few times we stay near people I needed a solution to keep her quiet. We've...

Thanks!

Next on the list is an FJ Cruiser transfer case swap along with a Northwest Fab crawl box. The 4th gen has one of the worst 4x4 systems in the Toyota ecosystem which is why they tend to not get as much love as the 3rd or 5th gens. Toyota plucked the drive train from the Lexus GX470 so it's full...

We're getting pretty close to the current setup. Last fall I took a trip up the 395 to check out the fall colors with one of my buddies. I didn't have a front bumper as I was working on the new one I ordered: When we got back I got to work getting my new bumper assembled and installed. I...