Rooinater

sweet pics!

someday soon, i'll have the yota going and some pics. it's my plan to come back in a year or 2 and run a bunch of the trails in arizona again, but with the yota.

yep, i like the roo, but got to move up. i'm eye-balling the side routes that i know i can't make.

more like a couple dozen... i've bought one. they are really good kits.

just got off the phone with my dad. he's planning on taking his time with the driving... only wants to drive 6 to 8 hours a day... i'll try to push the old people...

the rear has a drop mustache bar and ea82 struts, which limit the heck out of the flex. i don't usually break the doj, just the stub axle. but i haven't broken one of them in months.

well hunting around and stumbled across this trail. what a blast! i wouldn't reccomend it for fullsizes, (but possible) there was some really tight spots, one rolled over suburban in a wash, a couple stripped and dead broncos and another stripped out suburban. the trail took about 6+ hours start to finish with no breakdowns or stucks. a few narrow shelf roads, a couple short jaunts off to a mine, and plenty of rocks. so here's a few pics of the trail.

we will see if i'm back by then! i'll try to, but it's all up to the car... all goes well i'll be rolling into gig harbor on the 6th.

lots of gusseting needed. otherwise it'll wind up like a pretzel!

cough, cough, i'll just sell you mine on the way up to washington. i leave on the 4th of july and will be passing through Sacramento on the 5th of july. meet me in Sac town or on the way up and i'll sell you mine. 2k or best offer. i don't have the access to upload pictures easily from my personal computer... so rob is gonna be your best bet for pics on the setup.

well i didn't really have any problems with the sidewalls on the bfg's. hell they use them in the baja races. those sidewalls on mine were very beefy. just don't over air them down. other than that great tires. as for the radial design, they are one of the stronger radial mud tires out there. swamper radial's sidewalls suck balls. if you get another set of swampers, stay away from the radials. get the belted bias plys or bias plys.

bfg m/t's are pretty durable tires! i ran them on the car all over the rocks in the az dessert. they last a hell of a lot longer than the swampers ever will, especially on the street.

and i'll be running propane, at $1.69 to $1.99 a gallon... and it's a lot easier to come by.

take plenty of pics

which is why i'll buy a second truck for a DD/tow rig.

yes it'll drive on the street. not like a car, but it gets there. i'm more concerned with the offroad performance. i don't have a trailer yet. but as soon as i can, i will trailer it by choice. top speed about 65 mph.

i also got about 22 spare stubs... just let me know if you need some. i just break stubs, since my articulation is severly limited.

yeah the right side is now good, waiting on the parts for the left side. i had to pay 25 bucks for them to press out the sleeve with the bearing race's out. all sorts of special colors and FUBAR'd in...

i have a couple std toyota rear housings (85 and older), axles and brakes laying around... just need a third members and cleaned up.... hint, hint... really cheap... for you, special deal. i got a wide track V6 axle on the way for the yota. sweet pics! my rearend with the ea82 struts doesn't flex as nice. not very often do i break doj joints though. twice while owning the car... mainly stubs unless a boot tears. limiting straps in the future? p.s. i love those tires. if i keep my car i'm buying some 29" tsl/sx tires!

many, many reasons i converted. a lot has to do with after market and well built parts readily available. i'm tired of custom making or getting someone to custom make everything. overall they are built stronger. the 31" tires weren't enough. the suby is great in the mud for diff clearance, but hung on every ledge and rock underneath while crawling. i had zap, my dad, and another buddy eric pushing at me for years to get a solid axle. then i collected up a rebuilt 4.7 twin stick yota case, 1/4 ellip springs, locked and loaded dana 44 axles... down the line for lil' roo. eric kind of kicked and beat at me to get a toyota. well not hard, it was fairly easy to convince me. and a lot of the parts i had bolted to the toyota. now i haven't really wheeled my toyota much any, but i've driven both eric's i knows trucks and i've seen them walk over all sorts of stuff i struggled to get over in the car. i'm taking my yota, rebuilding and trussing the axles and tcase's and over the next year will have all the major parts rebuilt. suspension travel is well over what roo ever would do...

pics? thanks ken for the help the other day!

marlin crawler's forum is pretty good. i only read and oogle at pics there. but what the heck.

well that's your opinion and you can keep it that way. when you get into the wheeling that eric, ken, brian, greg and a few others of us get into. it's a different ball game, grenading subaru parts on every trip and having to constantly dump money into it for another trail run. cause cv's suck, stub axles suck, subaru birfaileds suck, and independent suspension sucks for the big boy trails. i've been there and done that on the hard trails, in subies and solid axles. i'll take solid axles any day over another weak independent suspension vehicle.

should be going back to glamis the weekend of the 16th of june, if anyone wants to go.