Toyotally Awesome 1987 4Runner

So drove this pile to work a few days everything seemed good no issues... drivelines seem nice and smooth on the highway. I do notice more gear noise from the Tcase going down the road but from my reading that's pretty normal with dual cases.

The only logical thing to do would be to hook this thing up to 35 ft motor home and drag it to Idaho.

Night before we left I swapped out this lower radiator hose that looked like it had Elephantius
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Hooked up the truck to motorhome with tow bar. disconnect battery leave key on so steering wheel doesn't lock event pulled the rear driveshaft and strapped it up to the frame for my boy @vcyota92 normally I just throw truck in neutral and go with this being such a long tow and no having a drive train I actually give a shit about. Decided maybe I should listen to him for once...cause he's right "it's only 4 bolts. "

Mose is driving




First night we made it out to the Winnemucca dunes in Nevada... I had to unhook the truck. Plugged in driveshaft

Double low... feet on the floor... idled up this shit!
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dunes were soft! and I didn't really feel like airing down so I took it easy cruising around
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Kids had a blast playing in the dunes... def much needed after 12 hrs in the motorhome.


Loaded truck back up around dusk and hit the pike about 5am

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made it to Idaho
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Man I've got alot of catching up to do.

So in Idaho over the 4th of July my father in Laws Jeep Club was doing a night run... 🤡

one of these is not like the others....
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We hit dirt and pulled up to the start of the trail... aired down and had a driver meeting... "Alright everyone we have 50 Jeeps and 1 Toyota" ME "YEAAAAAH!" while clapping. Bahahaha

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trying to blend in
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was telling Bob jokes the whole time....

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The trail was just a fire road with some steep climbs that low range was nice to have....Was pretty much a perfect little shake down run considering I had just swapped the drive line and flat-towed 800 miles from home haha

so rad how long it stays light up north. it was like 930pm and was still light out... Finally, we made it to the top of the mountain. there was a big rock formation at the top, and everyone parked around. I just parked behind my father-in-law's Jeep. As more trucks began to pull in I cracked sport soda and watched the more built rigs... post up on the rocks in the middle... I was like ah man.. I should have done that...Well half a Miller lite later..... I was back behind the wheel of this vessel and on my way towards the rock pile in double low... The Jeepers gathered and watched in amazement. Much to my surprise...It just idled up the rocks with my feet flat on the floor... got up about as far as it would flex out. pulled the Tcase brake and shut her down...
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Good times.
 

It was time to cut up the crawler in the garage.
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Was honestly bummed to cut this thing up just no time to rebuild it to a running driving machine with all the other nonsense I've got going.

Cinder Hills prep.
just gave her a nut and bolt check.
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added a few stickers

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Drug her all the way out to Cinder Hills in Flagstaff, AZ for our first big forum trip.. ( tons of photos from the trip in this thread)
https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/threads/blgt-cinder-hills-takeover-labor-day-weekend.520/page-10


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The 4runner was fun cruising around the cinders. The Mouse would have probably been a little bit more suitable for whoops but the whole point of the 4 runner was to have a family wheeler and that it was...
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another rad trip in the books.
 
Drove down to San Marco in this shitbox. Wally and I were on the Bent Motorsports podcast

Transported some wheels and a fridge ( work truck)

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found my doppelganger
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my storage unit is getting smaller
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