Recent content by Flightless Kiwis

Sadly for us, the time has come to part with the Flightless 4Runner. Our Four Wheeled Ticket to Freedom carried us from Deadhorse, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina and many places in between. This awesome rig wants to go home and needs someone to drive it there. We are selling our Alaskan plated...

Some reassembly required ?! Now the brakes are sorted out the next project is to reattach the rear suspension mounting plate. It seems at some point, some damage was done to this part of the chassis and has slowly gotten increasingly worse over time. The only reason I found this was because...

Some reassembly required ?! Now the brakes are sorted out the next project is to reattach the rear suspension mounting plate. It seems at some point, some damage was done to this part of the chassis and has slowly gotten increasingly worse over time. The only reason I found this was because...

Hi all, We are currently rebuilding our rig in Mexico after a year on the road ( Alaska - Argentina ). I have a thread in the Trips in Progress forum but I thought I would post here too with 4runner related happenings. We are from New Zealand and have a 2001 4runner. 3.4L with a little over...

Out with the new in with the old! While heading back north towards Oaxaca we had a slight brake related issue. After a couple of days of intermittent alarms and dash lights the brake booster gave up all together. Fortunately this was on the way to Overland Oasis, Oaxaca. Unfortunately for us...

Like most things its taken some time to get round to starting this thread. We began our adventure in Alaska in May 2014 after stopping in at Overland Expo, Flagstaff. We flew into Anchorage, Alaska with just our packs and the only forward planning we had done was to organise 10 days of...