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Finally had a chance to out again..has been a while

GX470's are spectacular. Coil conversions are cheap/easy/common and solve the rear air suspension problems. Come to the dark side- we have lattes! https://www.facebook.com/groups/LexusGXOR/ https://lexusgxor.com/

Have you looked at GX470's? The 3rd row folds up against the sides and is easily removable - you may have more height to work with there.

You seem to have been spectacularly lucky on one hand and unlucky on the other. http://dashboard-light.com/vehicles/Land_Rover_LR3.html http://dashboard-light.com/vehicles/Lexus_GX.html

Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac and Hankook Dynapro AT-M do well in northern NH.

Yeah, the V8 is nice to have. I have 255/75's and winch/armor on my GX470 and it's perfectly happy.

Don't let the Lexus badge scare you off. :)

For what it's worth, I've done this: 1st gen Taco -> 1st gen Tundra -> 1st gen Taco -> LX450 -> GX470 -> GX470 #2 No regrets in moving to an SUV, and Lexus build quality is lovely.

The GX470 does not have VGRS - presumably the OP was looking at an LX470. If that is the case, the LX470 does not have air suspension.

Excluding the V8 models ;)

You should check out GX470's and GX460's too. No locker, but they all have V8s.

It is likely capable of monitoring five tires. I haven't looked at a 5th gen, but in Techstream there are five slots for TPMS IDs for a GX470 (same as 4th gen).

If you're planning on taking it off road, consider getting the rear diff in the GX470 rebuilt with a solid pinion spacer. A high mileage 8" rear diff with the OEM crush spacer is likely to fail eventually if ran hard enough.

https://lexusgxor.com/general:purchasing Model year 2005+ for VVT-i / more power. It runs fine on 87 (but the manual asks for premium). There are a few people in GXOR with over 400k miles on their 470's.

Probably valve cover gaskets as mentioned above - sometimes tightening the bolts a bit can fix it (they may back out over time), but you may also need new gaskets.

Lexus USA now has some good visibility into us offroad people :)

My e-locked 8.2 is on the way :D

That is pretty heavy. I felt my FCP's were too stiff before my rear bumper / tire carrier (though the front was perfect with hidden winch), so the sweet spot is probably around 5k lbs?

In that case, https://lexusgxor.com/

There are a lot of suspension options out there - are you on GXOR yet?