The bumper looks great! How do you access the pin on the 2" receiver? You mentioned that you are missing the sway bar. FYI- you can still use the stock sway bar with the long arms. You need to heat up the sway bar ends and bend them as to add more width. Then you may need to get a longer bolt and tube to link the sway bar to the LCA. Even better, get a sway bar quick disconnect, then you'll get full flex on the trail and corner like a slot car to and from when your on the street.

I'll have to post some details of the sway bar modification one of these days, but in reality there isn't much too it! Something anyone with a propane bottle for heat and a bench vise for bending can figure out; your just stretching the sway bar to be a bit wider!

 

im pretty sure adjusting your stock t bars will be the same as having OME t bars set at the same high if not similar. adjusting stock t bar for more high makes them a little stiffer. OME t bar gives you more lift with a larger diameter t bar so it will be stiff as well. that is the way i see it. running custom suspension set will have to be a trail and error since we dont run common suspension set ups lol

i heard its hard to find places to go off roading in Hawaii. with all that water around you, i would change hobbies to something in the water lol. btw been to Hawaii once and LOVED IT, just cant see myself living in paradise

thank you. been a while since i been to the park, hope to go more now since i been itching to hike some of the other trails i havent been on yet.
the rear section of the bumper isnt fully boxed. thank god since it would weight even more. i can reach around to the inside to access the pin. not really missing sway bars, i removed them when i had just the BJ spacer lift kit. i got use to the roll and i dont really drive faster than i can handle. i have to keep in mind im in a 4x4 and not my little s2000 lmao. once i installed the LT kit, it seem to roll even less since it had a wider stance. than i installed the OME t bars and now feels like i have sway bars again. handle extremely way otw to Yosemite with all the twisty roads. i usually take corners pretty well but will hear tire squeal, with OME i dont. again they are still new and hope that they soften up just a little bit. im still happy with how it rides on the street. the true test and purpose of this truck will be on the ROCKS

 

Wow, that place is nice. I've always wanted to go visit Yosemite and the grand canyon. Sexy pix Toyo, Especially the black n white one.

 

yea i been there through out my entire life. just a few years back i done a few hikes there. it was really fun and surprised how much i could hike without really getting tired. it been a while but i plan to go back once it warms up. my white runner looks amazing when done in black and white. my next anything will be white from here on out lol

 

still breaking in the OME t bars and i have to say it handles high speed (20-30mph) fireroads covered in snow with ruts much better than stock t bars. the OME t bars dont flex as easily compared to the softer factory t bars. i hope the OME soften up with each trip. you guys know i love to flex.

got to do the only trail i like thats open during snow season. Bald Mountain. got off camber a bunch of times and it feels worst than it looks for the most part. also it feels better to be on the high side than the low.



dont know why this was so burly, lens must have fogged up


dont need SA for steep off camber climbs

inclinometer would read 20-30 degrees at times. there was alot of these off camber spots, going high on the left than right a few times

very steep climb, no SA needed just a locker will get you thru most of anything


just to the left of my runner is the tower (end of trail) we usually try to get to. few built guys was on the way back down and told us that going there is no problem but as you can see come back will be hard. a few of them got stuck. plus i had dinner plans and needed to be back by 5ish. so we stopped where the picture is. looks like we are far from tower but really we were only another 5-10 mins tops from it.

 

Great pics! MAN, I miss playing in the snow like I used to. ..... WAYYYY more often! Lol

 

got another run this weekend i plan on going. with raffles too. i never win unless my gf goes. she wont make it this time so im SOL lol
hope to still have snow but i heard the trail we are going on isnt hard but will see haha

 

Love those snow pics!!

 

thanks i love snow wheeling. wish i did more this year

 

so i had these wedge cup holders for a while and my gf hated them cuz water bottles would fall out of them when we off road. i have one on each door. i went to hardware store and found these ABS pipe ends that fit right into them perfect. but it would interfere with the top half of the door panel. so i trimmed off enough and now it works great. i love it

 

Genius! let the bookmarking commence!

I don't have map pockets unfortunately but I'll remember the plumbing fittings, they even come in super big gulp sizes! Heck even keg sized if you go to the right supplier.

 

Great idea!! Looks good too

 

Nice snow pics and nice job on that rear bumper!

 

Cool! I'm gonna do that cup mod to my wedgy things too.

 

im pretty sure i seen others add the map pockets or just find some new panels that have them and your set

thanks, if you wheel like i do its a must. the IFS allows me to speed thru the washboard stuff haha

got more snow pix!! and thanks still working on adding "stuff" to it

its a must, its can be dangerous when that bottle goes under the pedals

 

did a 4WP appreciation run today. had a great time on a road/trail i never done. sky ranch road. started off as just a paved road and than it got powdery. i had a blast but too many stuck jeeps for my liking :p


this BA looking thing came along. cool to have but it was heavy on the powder stuff.


i stayed in 2WD for a while drifting with this guy in front of me. had a blast


finally had to air down and some water for my dogs
can see a large group of guys behind me
love hanging out with other 4runners of all shapes and sizes




we parked all over the place, had free tri tip and it was damn good!! free raffle too. only won a TG hat but i had fun








lots of powder, my buddy got stuck going around a stuck jeep that i pulled out
was more stuck jeeps but i got tired of taking pix of them haha, was atleast 4 and some of the same ones was stuck over and over

 

sweet pics

 

Awesome pix. Dude that one rig looks crazy. How good does it perform off-road?

 

thanks been a while, what you been up to besides making beer haha

this was more of a snow covered road with powder at certain sections. i didnt get to meet the owner but it did pretty ok i guess for its size. just need a lot of running starts at powder areas lol

 

the more i drive my runner with the OME T Bars. the more i like them. handles bumps much better. it takes the bump and returns to normal without any bouncing. still flexes great on the trail.

took a few friends that never off road before. had a great time. they are hooked and wanna do it again next month..

loaded and locked!!



my buddies well built taco on dana60s




slushy snow here and there. alot of water/mud.



this doesnt look steep but after a few guys have gone up it. it must have soften it up so some of the guys had to take a running start