Yea I know right! I'm amazed I haven't been told anything for not having any front mud flaps. I gotta jump on that quick. I don't want any more tickets. Are they more nit-picky about mods out there in Canada then they are down here?

 

Best thread ever for IFS upgrades !
Lots of knowledge, great pics and vids RedWagon !
Best wishes on your projects / life.

Yeah out east built rigs are not as common.
I heard of some crazy cops out in Rimouski ( Gaspé )
pulling late model Rubicons on OEM 33's for inspection !!

 

Johnny and Laurentian, yeah I have gotten some attention from RCMP but they have been nice and let me go. One US Park Ranger gave me advice as well. All where good about it as I am polite to them.

Once I go to get BC plates though; I will need to get Red inspected so you guys can expect some mods and rust clean up soon.



Also, right now I am loading photos onto my PC. There is around 85gigs of data so this will take some time. Then I need to upload to photobucket and I can get them in the thread.


Got Red out of the alignment shop, he did a good job as usual but I sill get a bit of wander. I have a new idler arm, pitman arm, wheel bearings and outer tie rod ends. The inners are just a year or so old and not beat up.

My last culprit I think is the steering box. Has anyone reading had one go? If so what did it feel like. I know of a 4Runner in the wrecker with 100km on it. I'll go see if it still has a steering box in it.


Took the 4Runner to Stave Lake today as well. Went hiking and played in the mud flats. Loads of people out so I want to do that again next year but find some people to go with.


Thanks for the kinds words. Pics soon I promise.


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Teaser photo!






This is near Portland in an OHV area. Loads of fun. This was my first day playing with the new Blazeland LT.


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Looks a little like Brown's camp...pretty fun place. If I'm right, happen to remember which trails you did?

 

It was Browns camp and that place is super fun. I tried to find all the hard trails but don't remember the name.

People where nice there too. Had a hell of a party.

 

So when can we expect all the pictures to be uploaded? Im getting anxious.

 

Yeah, what Richard said. Brown's was my stomping ground growing up! Where I learned to hunt and 4wheel before I even had a license.

 

Well, there is about 100gig of date. This will take some time to go through.

I think I'll do it in stages.

 

Any filter requests? There are so many photos I don't have any idea how to sort them out.

I'll do them in bursts as I get upload time. Putting them on photobucket is a drawn out process.

I have a paid account with them. Are there any better sources for photo storage out there? I would not mind doing it all over if I knew a better option.

 

i upload a lot onto my fb account but i dont if they are uploaded at a lower resolution.. most my pictures i post here are linked from my FB. FB is facebook.
i upload my good ones to photobucket tho

 

Photobucket has been doing what I need so far. I wish I organised my files better early on though.

 

yea its though trying to keep them all in order. i think next time you do a big trip. after each area or every night or so. go thru and upload the good stuff and do it along the trip.

 

Hey buddy... You can move them around or organize the albums. Once you figure out what were you want the man, just go to each of them and rename each photo 1, 2, 3, 4,... Etcetera. Just don't post any until you have organized in the order you want. It only organizes albums individually, so you don't have to worry about it screwing up all the picture you posted already. This helped in doing the slideshow I did. Really great to hear all this... I can't wait to see it, but I totally understand how overwhelming it is to get all that stuff organized! Really glad you're home safe as well man!

 

I'm going to pick out the best/favorite ones and do them in the order of my trip. Some of the best wheeling is near the end as well so we get to save the most fun photos for last.

I think I've got some decent wildlife photo's in Yellowstone as well.


This is going to be a big photos dump so I think it will take awhile.


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Toyo got lucky, even though my camera has the wrong date it separated the folders. When I used the right program to extract them to my PC files they are broken up into nice tidy files. This is going to make it much easier. I also split the folders. One for each memory card.

 

Right on! I also did I think two different albums for Big Bear that time... One of all of them from you and I and one from Richards... Then I made a third album and just moved over the ones I wanted to use ... Can't wait to see it man!

 

Went wheeling today at Stave and bit off too much.

Toasted my winch and tried to pull the bumper off. Don't have to drag that come along around anymore. It gets overloaded and jams a bit.

I need a long recovery strap as well.

At the end of all the different attempts I had to back down something similar to John Bull but slippery, muddy and sharper rocks with big tress close to the track.

I don't think I'm happy with my Smitty Bilt XRC8 winch. It gave me grief at Moab as well. Both times I had to use it when it REALLY mattered it has failed me. I could have been in some serious ˟˟˟˟ today if my backing down didn't go off amazing well. Nailed it actually. Could have saved myself 3 hours.........


Not as many photos due to lower light and card filling. Got some video though of my two front tires toeing in while unloaded and spinning. I'll get that up. Watching it just now has sold me even more on a solid axle swap for the wheeling situations I keep finding myself in. The Blazeland kit sure is fun for now though. Really fun and still happy I did it.



On New Years Day, also at Stave Lake I rebroke my tire carrier. There is some seriously gnarly wheeling to be done there. I have not even scratched the surface of the area and this is just one of sooooo many here in British Columbia.

 

My xrc winch still working strong. Haven't used it in awhile tho.
If you got it at 4wheel parts. I heard its lifetime warrenty on it... Worth a shot

 

I wheel with quite a few guys who will swear by there smittybilts.

I imagine that unless you really put a lot of money into ifs youll inevitably come to sas as the answer.

You wheel pretty hard so youll be pushing it to its limits.

Your not locked are you?? That will add quite bit more stress as well. Curious as to how much it will change your wheeling once you do lockers. If you do it before sas.

 

I'm locked in the rear. I'm not sure how well CV shafts will hold up to the wheeling I do and lockers.

For a good set of CV shafts I could pay a guy do do a good quality SAS.


Here is a couple photos of yesterday and I've got some video uploading as well.