How is the truck running up the hills? What boost are you running?

 

Teach me your ways master. . .

 

The truck is running great up the hills (for a 4 cyl auto at 9500' with 35's ). I'm running around 9 pounds of boost and the thing just cruises everywhere. I was down in Denver on Sunday and on the way home it pulled all the hills at between 65 - 70 miles per hour, the last grade right before you enter the tunnel it dropped to 60 miles per hour. I could of pushed it a little harder but I didn't see the need, the sweet spot with the OD off going up a hill is 65-67 and the flats with the OD on is around 72-75 miles per hour. I also noticed that the truck spools up a lot faster down in Denver than up here, I'm sure it would be a blast at lower elevation.

 

Thanks, but I'm no master. It just takes alot of practice, research and a clear vision of how you want the end result to be.

 

The project is starting to wind down a bit, but there has been a few details that needed to be worked out.

After the snow wheeling trip I noticed that the back window was having some issues. The driver side dropped down and would not go up. After taking the whole thing apart I found that the steel channel at the bottom of the window rusted away.



Instead of buying a new window I built a new channel out of 1/8" x 1" strap and 5/16" (I think) round rod. I didn't really get any pictures but the the 1" steel is on each side of the window and the round rod is welded to the bottom, I then welded the original tracks to the bottom of that. I used a couple sections of the stock gasket to keep the glass from touching the steel and glued it all togther with windshield urethane.

 

I also had to trim the front of the body a little because the tires were rubbing on it. It's a lot better than them rubbing on the firewall.





And here is a picture of the blown up trunion bearing that I replaced a while ago. You can see that most of the bearing rollers are shattered.

 

Any updates?!? I hate to think it's just getting daily driven and no more work...

 

NICE!!! Mine isn't quite as clean inside. Can I HAVE your Altimeter/Inclinometer? LOL Check out my pics...

 

I've been in the process of moving so I've not had a lot of time to spend in the shop, I've done a few little things but nothing worth posting. I'm also getting used to the truck and working on figuring out what needs to be done, and in what order.

I have been breaking a bunch of trail though! It's all local stuff, and I've alone, but it's been alot fun!

 

Here's some pictures, Georgia Pass May 22nd







End of the trail



Playing around

 

On the way down I got into some of the deeper snow on the trail and got to use the winch a couple of times.

 

you've built a really nice lookin snowplow...

man, that thing looks great... now, just build me a copy of that bumper for the 2nd gen runner and it will be even more badarse...

 

Thanks!

The best pictures are yet to come! ...

 

than get to uploading

 

I took the truck out the day after that last trip to the same area, but a back trail that I know of. This was an epic trip for the 4Runner because I realized this thing kicks ass in the snow; I made it ALOT further than I thought I could have. The secret was going nice and slow and floating on top of the snow, but knowing when to give it some throttle.

Start of the trail





Getting deeper with water, the mud under the water was deep!

 

And deeper





On the way back down

 

Another side trail

 

THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL RIG!!
Great pictures!!

 

A few weeks later (June 5th), I headed up to bash some more snow. With the temps getting warmer the snow got alot softer; you really couldn't float on top of it.

 

And deeper!