Official Let's see your Backcountry 4x4!
- Thread starter Greg
- Start date
troseph
New Member
- Location
- American Fork
Just joined. I'll make this my intro.
2005 Xterra.
2" calmini spacer/shackle lift
Thule M.O.A.B roof basket chopped down
Custom light bar w/ hella 55w floods
2005 Xterra.
2" calmini spacer/shackle lift
Thule M.O.A.B roof basket chopped down
Custom light bar w/ hella 55w floods
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Welcome Troseph! Nice lookin X you got there!
Panos
12Volt Specialist
- Location
- Salt lake City
I hope to join this thread with my new rig in the works 
Crawler
Registered User
- Location
- South Jordan
Has anyone here setup a Ford Excursion for Backcountry travel? Been thinking of doing it with mine but I am a bit worried about the size and wieght of it.
Spent the last nine months working on this. It was an all stock Samurai when I picked it up, now it's a goofy snail-mobile pop top to take the wife and kid out to places I ride motos. We've been everywhere (twice) in Utah that we could go in our motorhome, so we sold it and downgraded (upgraded in my opinion) to a vehicle that can get us away from humanity, albeit at a very slow pace.
31" tires, Trail Gear 3" springs, 1" shackles, Sky OTS Stage 1, 4.16 gears, stock motor. Little bugger rallied up Little Cottonwood last night for it's first "photo shoot" at about 32mph for most of the way. Had to downshift to 2nd gear for about 1/4mile.
It's more or less done, but I still need to finish the pop top, add a sink, stove, water tank, water pump, etc.
It's maiden voyage will be a 10 day Utah loop this March. Going to drive it around all winter to work out the kinks. It will likely get a 1.6 FI next year.
31" tires, Trail Gear 3" springs, 1" shackles, Sky OTS Stage 1, 4.16 gears, stock motor. Little bugger rallied up Little Cottonwood last night for it's first "photo shoot" at about 32mph for most of the way. Had to downshift to 2nd gear for about 1/4mile.
It's more or less done, but I still need to finish the pop top, add a sink, stove, water tank, water pump, etc.
It's maiden voyage will be a 10 day Utah loop this March. Going to drive it around all winter to work out the kinks. It will likely get a 1.6 FI next year.
As the cruiser will be finding a new home, we decided to get going on the rest of the 4Runner:
So far, I have done the following:
-OME Heavy/heavy lift
-Sliders
-IBS Dual Battery system
-ASFIR Skid plate
-One size larger tire
-ARB Air compressor
The idea is to maintain a relatively stock vehicle, without a lot of unnecessary 'fluff' to get in the way.
I have an ARB winch bumper in the garage that will go on one of these weekends we are home, as well as some auxiliary lights. A Warn M8000 will be added when the bumper is installed. The idea here isn't for 'wheeling' but to protect the vehicle during travel on backroads at night, and to provide a means for self-recovery when in a pinch- I often travel solo with just my family.
In the works:
ARB Air Locker
Aluminess rear bumper with the box
Lift and tires:
My good friend has the exact same 4Runner, just without the V8....we put the same lifts on and helped each other out with them:
ASFIR Skid:
IBS Dual Battery and ARB Compressor:
Sliders:
2004 4Runner. V8.
So far, I have done the following:
-OME Heavy/heavy lift
-Sliders
-IBS Dual Battery system
-ASFIR Skid plate
-One size larger tire
-ARB Air compressor
The idea is to maintain a relatively stock vehicle, without a lot of unnecessary 'fluff' to get in the way.
I have an ARB winch bumper in the garage that will go on one of these weekends we are home, as well as some auxiliary lights. A Warn M8000 will be added when the bumper is installed. The idea here isn't for 'wheeling' but to protect the vehicle during travel on backroads at night, and to provide a means for self-recovery when in a pinch- I often travel solo with just my family.
In the works:
ARB Air Locker
Aluminess rear bumper with the box
On to the photos:
Stock, other than the box:
Lift and tires:
My good friend has the exact same 4Runner, just without the V8....we put the same lifts on and helped each other out with them:
ASFIR Skid:
IBS Dual Battery and ARB Compressor:
Sliders:
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Roger, will there be a build thread? I may be following your footsteps with the 4Runner build.
Great meeting you in person today, love the rig
Yeah, I could stand there and pick your brain all night about this stuff, being as I'm a newb to it all.
I'd be up for a late October ride if you and Andre want to head south. I have a route from Green River to Fruita (loop) with a piece of it that I'm not sure if it goes or not. The rest is open desert single track and dirt roads.
Roger, will there be a build thread? I may be following your footsteps with the 4Runner build.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...dy-s-2004-Toyota-4Runner-V8-Adventure-Vehicle
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Currently 1983 Gmc 3/4 ton 6" tuff country Rollin on 33" A/T's 6.2L Diesel. 1970 Alaskan 8' pop up camper, sink, 3 burner stove, heater, fridge/freezer, 30gal water tank, table converts into full size bed.
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
I like those Alaskans.
Rot Box
Diesel and Dust
- Location
- Smithfield Utah
Welcome to the Alaskan Camper club
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I like those Alaskans.
Yea they are super cool!
Welcome to the Alaskan Camper club
Thx! I plan on putting it on a light weight trailer and tow it behind my blaza when it's done
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Eventually I'll put my Alaskan camper on a trailer. These pics are good starting points.
blackburban
2000 Dodge Durango SLT
- Location
- Duchesne, utah
1990 Ford Bronco XLT 5.0L EFI with the 5 speed manual
completly stock soon to have a lvling kit and a gps unit 31x10.50R15 pathfinder trail a/p tires on stock rims and still working on it for the expedition rig going to be having a front winch mount bumper and custom rear bumper in the future its not much but its a starting point heres the pics as i got it now
completly stock soon to have a lvling kit and a gps unit 31x10.50R15 pathfinder trail a/p tires on stock rims and still working on it for the expedition rig going to be having a front winch mount bumper and custom rear bumper in the future its not much but its a starting point heres the pics as i got it now
Wicked Monkey
Banned
- Location
- Utah
Update pics. Gee how time flys...
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