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Lance, 7mm, pretty damn big stones, hope you have fully recovered...

I was fine with packing back up and heading home that night. It's all about the adventure, quality not quantity kind of thing. I guess I'll have to shrink the pictures down a bit more next time. We are planning on going back up in April to do a LOT more wandering around, about the third week...

I moved out here from Kansas City, in '98, never have I thought about moving back, love it out here too... -Jon Maybe Bigfoot tried to block the road!! :-) Or maybe it was a dead tree blown over by a storm...

It's the cold I fear the most, 14 years living in an oven changes you. :-) I've gone on plenty of camping trips in the past, all over the country, wildlife isn't normally something I fear. It pretty much was just the cold... p.s., I'm not much of a speller either, and spell check only works...

My girlfriend and I planned for a quick one day camping trip up north, taking the Celica to see if you can even camp from it. Friday night, we got the car mostly packed up with sleeping bags, tent, cooler, chairs, extra blanks and pillows, etc.. Saturday morning, we got up at a reasonable...

Damn, you're ready to work now... My green flashing lights ust plug into my lighter outlet. Last time I used them, I mounted the controller up with the lights, turned them on and off by openning my sunroof, pushing the button, then closing the sunroof... -Jon

Grab the engine out of my garage, have a good machine shop go through it, new bearings, rings, valve guides and seals and be back up and running in a few weeks. You already know how easy it is to change the engine in and out. -Jon

I have a '00 model EJ251 engine sitting in my garage, awaiting for a project that I've shelved. I'm not sure of the mileage, as I bought it from someone else who also bought it for a sandrail project that never happened. As a good, core engine, I'd be willing to sell it at a fair price, if...

Also, thank you for your service, defending our freedom. I certainly appreciate it. Stories would be great. -Jon

Mine was acting up and making bad noises for 4 or 5 months before it threw a code. As a function of coil-on-plug, there are NO plug wires. (just 8 coils and 8 plugs) After reading about people breaking off plugs inside the heads, I let the dealer take care of changing all the parts. I hear...

Having a 2nd gen Expedition myself, I would agree with the ignition system. The engine has 8 coils, coil-on-plug set-up, which is known to fail within the first 100K. Plus, a coil that is going bad can lead to spark plug damage, I don't understand that, but that's what they told me when I had...

Except I'm only 2wd/rwd. If I had been with a group, I would have gone for it, but better safe then stuck or broken down alone. -Jon

We made it about 7 or 8 miles up pass the turn from Cow Creek Rd. We had just come down a very rough section into a tight little valley that curved left straight into what looked like two black rock faces (black from all the tires spinning on them). I hear I might have made it up the right...

I knew we should have tried harder to get all the way up the trail that day. My 2wd expo car made it about 1/3 of the way up from Cow Creek Rd., before smarter heads prevailed and we turned around. I love an adventure, but wasn't into spending the night stuck in the middle of the desert for...

My pleasure, all the rigs and trip reports here keep me always day dreaming of how the car could be better, or what's the next big change to make needs to be. -Jon

This year, we took our day outing in the Celica on New Years eve, under the loose premise of finding some old off road friends out near Wickenburg, at a place they call the Jeep Club. We got a late start, mostly due to the post holiday lazy sleeping in mode I was in. I tried to avoid...

I'm so use to reading texts these days, on my phone, that anything resembling a complete sentence, whether it has the right punctuation or not, reads perfectly. Yes, you did a great job writing a story that kept us VERY interested. I'm glad my post about dealing with tree options got a few...

Love my DuraTracs. I've had them on my Ford Expedition for 1-1/2 years, about 28K miles, mostly pavement with the occational burst down trails and rally roads. The grip and sand and mud has been great and thier on road manners, even in rain storms while towing my race car, nothing but a very...

Great story, great adventure. A large downed tree blocking your path in both directions sounds like a LARGE challenge for most people in the world. Glad you kept a cool head and worked through the problem. I'm wondering how many others on here have had similar situations, path blocked by...

By flat tire feeling, are you saying the car is pulling to a particular corner and handling in general, very poorly? Or are you saying it's pulling to a corner and feeling down on power? Could it be a wheel bearing going bad, just not making a lot of noise yet. -Jon