I sat under there and had Brandy lower the camper onto the ball and then back up several times. From outside the truck you could see the back of the bumper wings flex about 1/4" to 1/2", but not the front of the wings. Under the truck you could see no visible flex anywhere, thus it has to be the frame flexing. Which seems pretty scary, but at 3700 pounds and a max hitch weight of 400 pounds, I'm well under the Toyota rating of 5000 pounds total and 500 pounds hitch weight. So, maybe Toyota designed it that way? I can't imagine why they would? Hopefully it won't go south on me at 65 mph on the interstate with 19' and 3700 pounds of camper behind me. That would not be good and is what feared me most.

 

I think you'll be fine. If it's designed to take it, and your less than it allows, you should be fine.

Chris

 

Hey Guys,

Jumping in late here on this thread. But I'm still in, and just booked a cabin at Tellico Cabins for the 12-16th.

Lockem In http://www.tellicocabinrentals.com/t.../LockemInn.htm

I'm going to go back thru and read this entire thread tonight afterwork to get caught up.

Jutty

 

Austin, or Andy

If you guys have sites already, is there a spot I can crash, me and a buddy, I still have yet to call Steve and reserve a spot, my life has just been absolutley nuts and the truck and Tellico have been the furthest thing from my mind. More than likely I will be leaving all the females at home, unless I meet some amazing girl in the next month.

 

damn, thats far. :cry:

 

It'll be a blast though!!!

 

Hey I drove 10 hours to get there last year .. it was worth it

 

Shazad, you coming this year? Someone has to show up Chris in the mudpit!

What are you building now that the 4Runner is going to stock?

 

Nah, I'm out this year. I picked up a new hobby. It'll be awhile before I sart wheeling again. Make sure you guys get some good video of the mudpits, plus a lot of you guys have been modding like crazy, I can't wait to see the results in action

 

Had a chance at lunch to get caught up.

1. bamachem - Andy
2. Seaflea - Will And Donna
3. Dragr1 - Brett and Brandy
4. Doc279 - Doc and possibly Monica / camping
5. waskillywabbit - Brian
6. formydogs - bert
7. INsr5runner - Mike & puppy
8. supahonkey - Brenton (sas'd taco)
9. Stump1883 - Scott & Jeff
10. Firetaco - Ernie and Alison
11. evilcow - Dave and Jessica
12. ravencr - Chris & Kristen
13. Redplastic2p3t - Jeff
14. NCSU-4runner - Jeremy
15. Jonathan - Duh
16. Mikeys87 -Mike
17. Stegall - Allen
18. synovus - Rick (Taco)
19. turboale - Austin
20. hamstrungtaco - Brady
21. Josh
22. RedneckNV - Roy
23. lrsu - Steve (this is "running boards" from SE4RJ1)
24. ASU4runner - Andy H., Courtney, David and his double locked XJ with winch
25. 82Trekker/85Runner (Jutty and Vince)

Got dropped from the list a few pages back and just a bump for the update.

I will have some extra room at Tellico Cabins if anyone gets in a pinch

Jutty

 

Awesome!
Glad you found this jutty!

Guys,
I can't really remember how big the sites are... you can fit 4 tents on a site right? I mean, we will all be together anyway so it shouldn't be an issue but that shouldn't be too cramped right? I can't remember

 

Yeah, ther is enough room for 4 tents ( of resonable size) to fit. Getting all the rigs in the spot may be a problem, but I;m sure we can find room.


on another note, I finished swapping my old tranny for a rebuilt unit and I was able to rebuild a new tcase with marlins 4.7:1 gears.

 

Damn son...

Someone has been busy!

Just found out that Brady has a 5 person, so I think we should be good with one tent. You can always park in the middle part. Thats not a problem.

 

Thank you sir! Just have 2 more mods to do and I'll be ready. Marlin Crawler Box and In Cab Cage kit.

Jutty

 

Sounds like someone else is going to tackle slickrock and lower 2!

 

no joke.

the first 18 hrs i can stand... its those last 8 minutes im worried about

 

 

18hrs is a bit much for a weekend.... you could turn it into a week long trip and head over to uwharrie on your way back up. Its a nice place, not too hard... just a bit trickey if its wet. Just an idea...

 

Where is Uharrie ?

 

Its about an hour east of Charlotte.
here is a link to it.
http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/recreation/uwharrie/