2025! What's the Plan?

[dwphoto]

2025 is coming in hot... What's the game plan/ Goals/ Things you'd like to make happen?

For myself.

4runner:
get 3rz into
Hydro Assist
Cage
3 link front

Mouse

Rebuild 22re

More Wheeling ( Hammers, Rubicon, Fordyce, Calico, moab? )
Camping with kids
Cal city day run or one night with dirt bikes and quad with kids
Get out on the MTB more
Start Playing Beer League Hockey again?
Read 5 books


For Bad Lines Good Times

King of the Canners out at KOH
Continue to grow the forum (1638 members now ) 2500 by this time next year
Would like to hit 50 EP on the podcast (Currently EP 21)
Another big forum trip or two ( Oregon Dunes or Moab)
Another Meat Fest?
Cougar Buttes Clean up ?


What do you guys got?

Elliott

 

[WW_RANGER_X]

Heck yeah E!

For myself...Hoping to stay focused on shock work and keep motivation on truck work. 2025 is going to be BUSY.

Trucks:

-Get my 80s Dodge daily driver friendly again so i dont have to rack so many miles on the Raptor. End goal is to have a clean "around town" truck, hopefully with AC.
-Keep cracking away little things on the Raptor. Some sort of bed rack with RTT. More preventive maintenance, possibly 37s, more prelander gear.

Trips (in no specific order):

-Dezertfest Lasertown in April
-Dad/kids trip (if one comes up that works for us)
-Jawbone To Lake Isabella
-Elkhorn Road (one day or over night trip, not sure yet)
-Spectate a race or 2! (this one is high on my list. its been a couple of years)
-Big Visalia to SD camping trip with my family in June (KOA camping, Zoo, LegoLand, Sea World...)
-Random Cal City trips
-Clean ups

And lets all pray for low gas prices....

 

[Turboyota]

Turboyota:

1. Collect more parts for spindle/upright remake with bolt-on snouts. I grow weary of welding cracks in my snouts every other trip.
2. OEM-style coolant reservoir. Amazon reservoir is bullshit.

IvanTacoma:

1. Total Chaos LT install (this might be complete before 2025)
2. Link rear. Have all parts in-hand.
3. Regear front diff to 4.88
4. Buy doublecab bedsides from Advanced Fiberglass
5. Buy supercharger
6. Buy front 2.5x8” bypasses

Racetruck:

1. Cut it up/part it out/sell it

Trips:
January: Anza borrego
February: Mojave trail to Laughlin to Parker
March: AZPT
April: adelanto to randsburg to jawbone to lake Isabella
May: mammoth/Owens River valley
September: Grand Canyon North Rim

 

[triple_fcked]

1. Get my 1 Tons into the 4runner
2. Get something for a stock mobber, like a ranger or something. The current rig is a little too extreme and rough for the missus.
3. Finally make a rubicon trip happen. I always end up with the truck torn down by the time that season rolls around

 

[Kellyex1450]

Me:
-try and stay healthy
-run a marathon
-do more camping trips with family
-do more off-road trips
-don't take work home
-go to a BLGT event

Pissnoma:
-finish SAS
-tune suspension and try to talk myself out of upgrading it
-Rubicon with family/friends
-pray things don't break
-some sort of minimally invasive cage install

864x4maplebartrustyrusty:
-prep for Hammers
-tune carb better
-reservoir adjusters on front
-ignore various leaks
-register in Montana
-install Prius electric power steering
-install adjustable seats
- hit 300k on og motor

 

[BlackJacket705]

Nothing too interesting.

New Falken Wildpeaks and some Baja Designs amber ditch lights for the ZR2.

Short Course and Rally events in the Upper Peninsula, likely with some for forest service road exploring thrown in.

The linked 1st Gen 4Runner isn't in the cards this year.

I honestly just want a very low key 2025, with less work stress, more enjoyment and no new health issues.

 

[SByota]

Most importantly try to work less, I have some control over this and am going to make a big effort to not be there as much.

Rusty Red….. more refining and adding little things. I need to re-valve the rear shocks to make them a little softer. At some point I’ll rip the dash out again and tie the interior cage into an engine cage. That’s really the last bit of fabrication it needs. Maybe it get painted, but that’s a big goal.

Hammers 2025 like usual and hopefully a few other trips with @Turboyota @the bodj @dwphoto @4lowlance @WW_RANGER_X @Motiracer38 @dose and the rest of the gang.

 

[Motiracer38]

My plan is to finish the SAS Sequoia and get some miles in. I want to get the kids out and see the sights that I've been enjoying. I also need to learn how to go slow.

Prerunner needs to be finished up I suppose.

Oldest son turns 15 so I need to get his Ranger working and reliable. Anybody have a running 3.0 motor lately around?

Destinations I want to see:
North Rim
Rincon
Oregon Dunes
Yosemite
El Camino Del Diablo trail
Sand Hollow again to camp on the sand

 

[4lowlance]

Great thread. I need to figure out the family friendly spring Prelander trip.

April got so busy I think the AZ Peace Trail dream is dead for 2025 unless it happens in the fall.


Prep Britney to pre run 1-2 desert races.
KOH or February at Parker AZ I’ll be Co- driving in a 5 unlimited buggy

April 4-6 DesertFest at LazerTown
Easter, 2 birthdays and Point Mugu Los Padres trail maintenance will fill out April for me.

May week long business leadership summit in Denver CO should be fun

Between Jan and March I need to prep my wife’s XJ for a summer rubicon trip. I finally talked her into doing a real 3 day rubicon trip with us and both kids all crammed in her XJ. (Long arms, 5.13s locked, 35s, deavers ect)

Rubicon early in the season pending snow pack. This will be a first for me.

September 2025 I’m doing the AlCan5000 rally again with a buddy in his 2001 Volvo V70R, 5 cyl turbo wagon. That’s a 3 week 10,000 mile trip.

Point Mugu 4WD club will do a Fright Night poker run at the end of October for 2025.


As I type this out, looks like early May or all of June is empty. @WW_RANGER_X where is a good place for a pre lander trip in May? Maybe we do Jawbone to Isabella in May?

 

[dwphoto]

Awesome stuff dudes. Looks like some tall orders for some!

 

[charlie brown]

main focus has been my van build (grey ghost) money pit. never satisfied with next level. but i pushed hard and even had marvin at penhall fabrications help me out. a few more things and then just use it for 2 years. make decision to keep it or sell and move on.
left to do:
roof rack
solar system
rear bumper set up with swing away tire and a Molex deal on the other side
awning on the side, out door shower on rear.

for my baja truck (charlie brown)
up grade the front suspension. have most of the parts. hollander fab knuckles, camburge 2.5 hubs, wilwood 6 piston calibers, install the new steering swing set, steering rods.. convert the front back to the gen 1 body panels. prepare/make room for 37"
for the rear:
make a new back half.
install the larger fuel cell, new coolers.
possible new RR end. beef up tp prepare for 37" tires.

 

[Mullen]

The Desert Truck:

• New steering rack, power steering pump, steering cooler (already purchased)
• TC lower uniball conversion
• Front end prep
• OE timing belt
• Fresh fluids, hoses, belts throughout (already purchased)
• New battery and BD light package (already purchased)
• Double din radio
• Possibly new dash and cut out the windshield tubes
• Possibly cut off the down tubes to the bed cage to reduce bypass noise in the cab
• Inland Driveline carrier bearing to replaced the noisy as fuck Bruno unit (already purchased)
• New PRP GT3 mini seats for the rear, converting my truck to a 4 seater so both of my yutes can ride in the truck (already purchased)
• Cab cage change up to suit new seating setup
• Get the truck out at least once before summer

The 2014 Tundra:

• OE TRD Pro headlights (already purchased)
• BD fog lights (already purchased)
• Auto up/down window switches (already purchased)
• Stretch goal - 2650 Maggie
• Possibly TRD Pro grille
• Possibly more shit as I crawl the Tundra.com forums

The V:

• Install race bushings throughout
• Install WXM HX and big pump
• Install diff cooler
• Stop being a pussy and pull the trigger on E85, pulleys, port the blower and heads, choppy cam, etc. and let her eat