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I totally porked myself today. I'm prepping the rig for a family vacation (a few thousand miles) and thought I'd hit the transmission fluid complete exchange... I just did the differentials and the transfer case.... I own the FSM. I could not find the transmission drain plug torque spec...

I just got back from a four day trip into Coso/Death Valley. There were 16 vehicles in this run. I normally don't like more than 5-6 so I was a bit apprehensive at the start. There was a pretty good mix of mostly Toyota's and a couple of Jeeps with 2 token Montero's. I was one of 3 FJ80's. Two...

@SoCalDesertCruiser Still on for the 8th-12th?

My kid drives the 62 now so I'm not as aware of its daily creaks and groans, until I moved it out of the driveway a few days ago. Horrendous clunking/rattling with every move of the wheel. Long story short, several of the front OME Spring bushings were shot...one set completely GONE! The...

Hey folks, I have a chance to do a couple week trip this summer and I'd love to hit all the great 4x4 spots in the Southwest. The trip has to start in Denver so I figured I'd try and wrap around and down through Death Valley and Reddington Pass and continue east to the Gulf region. I'm...

The dates for this year's spring DV trip is 3/25/17 - 4/2/17. Leave on a Sat, return home on the following week Sunday. Hopefully we'll see the spring flower bloom in DV and not hit too much bad weather. However, bad weather is always a possibility in DV during that time of the year. This...