RKRUGER
SILVER Star
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2009
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- Location
- Minnesota
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- www.weekendfreedommachines.com
Please meet Moose. She’s a 2006 UZJ100 complete with AHC, nav, and all the luxury SUV goodies that $63k would get you in 2006. We bought her in 2014 with 91,000 miles and a fresh timing belt/water pump switch out.
Going back in time a bit... First was baseline with all fluids including those in that funny whirling buzzing reservoir near the right side firewall. Techstream showed the front was out of spec so I dialed up the front torsion bars. And the wife drove it back and forth to work...
I replaced the rear coils with factory AHC coils after she fell down and didn’t want to get up on a South Dakota Badlands trip towing my M416 trailer.
3 teenagers in the backseat and a tongue-favored trailer was more than she wanted.
Switched out to Sequioa wheels and Continental TerrainContact in the 265/70 -18 size. I really like this tire both on the pavement and on gravel fire roads etc. IH8MUD so really can't speak to mud traction.
This fall I was looking at two repairs... a front seal on my 2009 Tacoma DCSB and a failing cat on the 100. The cat was the cheaper repair and the wife wanted something new, so the Taco went down the road and she got a new Venza. I do miss that truck. One deciding factor was the ability to comfortably sleep inside the 100. Not really an option in the Taco. Arguably the 100 drives better as well, even 3 years older and 70K more miles on the clock.
I also have a 2010 Prius (Touring, yay) that’s been a fantastic commuter car but with the CCP virus-imposed quarantine I haven't put many miles on anything the last year. The deal with the CP (chief procurer) was lose the Taco, build the 100. So... two weeks ago a 48x72 pallet showed up from @cruiseroutfit with a big box strapped to an even larger box... 445# of ARB goodness.
Going back in time a bit... First was baseline with all fluids including those in that funny whirling buzzing reservoir near the right side firewall. Techstream showed the front was out of spec so I dialed up the front torsion bars. And the wife drove it back and forth to work...
I replaced the rear coils with factory AHC coils after she fell down and didn’t want to get up on a South Dakota Badlands trip towing my M416 trailer.
3 teenagers in the backseat and a tongue-favored trailer was more than she wanted.
Switched out to Sequioa wheels and Continental TerrainContact in the 265/70 -18 size. I really like this tire both on the pavement and on gravel fire roads etc. IH8MUD so really can't speak to mud traction.
This fall I was looking at two repairs... a front seal on my 2009 Tacoma DCSB and a failing cat on the 100. The cat was the cheaper repair and the wife wanted something new, so the Taco went down the road and she got a new Venza. I do miss that truck. One deciding factor was the ability to comfortably sleep inside the 100. Not really an option in the Taco. Arguably the 100 drives better as well, even 3 years older and 70K more miles on the clock.
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