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I spent yesterday in the dunes with the Cruiser. My first impression is this truck is heavy! Yet, it does have the power to move it pretty well in soft sand with 10psi in the tires. I weighed the truck on the way home this moring. With some camping gear and about a 1/2 tank of fuel it is 5200lbs! Rear axle is 2700lbs and front is 2500lbs. Funny but my Taco was almost exactly the same. Working the truck hard in the dunes it will get hot, I expected that. A friend I was hanging out with over the weekend says I need to get a better shroud. He had a built 350 in his buggy and went through all the cooling dramas. He said until he had the right shroud it would just not run cool 24/7. He looked at my shroud and pointed out what is wrong with it. So, a new shroud is now on my list!
Here are pictures from yesterday...
My dog likes the Cruiser!
The Kaymar bumper sticks out farther than I like, yet it is fairly stout. I think I will keep it since I don't plan to do much hardcore wheeling in this truck. The Cruiser does well in the sand, I could have ran 5psi but it was doing alright with 10. I was running in 4-high, 4-low and had the lockers engauged a bunch. I also used the Ranger box a few times off-road. Everything works well! My only problem yesterday was a couple exhaust manifold bolts coming loose. That took about 30 seconds to fix. Oh and tire rub is farthest inside lower corner of the fenders in front and a touch on the inside wheel wells in the rear. That is all there is even with these leaf springs. A little bit of trimming in the front and about 1/4" more offset on the rims would cure it 100%.
One truck we were with last night got stuck in the bottem of a rather large bowl, he lost 4wd due to a broken u-joint in front prop shaft. About dark we gave up on getting it out that night. The Cruiser hauled 5 people, my dog and gear back to camp in the dark!
Working on putting together some videos right now...

Here are pictures from yesterday...
My dog likes the Cruiser!


The Kaymar bumper sticks out farther than I like, yet it is fairly stout. I think I will keep it since I don't plan to do much hardcore wheeling in this truck. The Cruiser does well in the sand, I could have ran 5psi but it was doing alright with 10. I was running in 4-high, 4-low and had the lockers engauged a bunch. I also used the Ranger box a few times off-road. Everything works well! My only problem yesterday was a couple exhaust manifold bolts coming loose. That took about 30 seconds to fix. Oh and tire rub is farthest inside lower corner of the fenders in front and a touch on the inside wheel wells in the rear. That is all there is even with these leaf springs. A little bit of trimming in the front and about 1/4" more offset on the rims would cure it 100%.
One truck we were with last night got stuck in the bottem of a rather large bowl, he lost 4wd due to a broken u-joint in front prop shaft. About dark we gave up on getting it out that night. The Cruiser hauled 5 people, my dog and gear back to camp in the dark!

Working on putting together some videos right now...
