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So I've been watching the slow "unveiling" of the Bronco with much hope and anticipation that it would have some off road capability. In fact, I would have been stoked if Ford just released the Everest alongside the Ranger and called it good....but making a boxy Bronco is just icing on the...

My issue with the current GX is the hideous new Lexus bumpers. Can that even be fixed with an aftermarket bumper? Soooo much plastic and it hangs down so low. I could get used to the door. My disco has the door and in a lot of ways I prefer it to the lift gate (split tailgate is preferable)...

After coming from my L322, the limiting factor is tire and tire selection over locker or no locker. Next is sliders and armor. Then maybe we can discuss if lockers are required. Now, with the LR3/LR4 you'll have more aftermarket options to get it "trail ready" (over my L322) but you'll likely...

Looks like ARB has the air-locker available for the 200 series. The 200 series looks SWEET once you mildly upgrade the suspension and take away some of the mall-crawler plastic. I'm in the same boat. I'm most likely going to go Toyota with my next purchase and I'm doing my research. It's...

The fourth leg, after leaving Fuller Bottom is Coal Wash. Coal Wash starts in the North where Fuller Bottom veers west to Ferron, Ut; Coal Wash continuing South. It's also where routing maintenance ends and you'll be greeted by a few technical climbs. Other than that, it's not to bad. Coal...

This would be the end of the well-maintained roads of our trip. Coal Wash warns adventures that more technical terrain is on the way with a nasty climb out which will test stock vehicles, and then from there......Devil's Racetrack, where things start to get good..... More to come..

The third leg of the traverse was taking Fuller Bottom down from Buckhorn Well to the Coal Wash turn off. Those familiar with the area will recall that the primary feature of Fuller Bottom is the San Rafael River crossing in a nice "bottom" with cotton woods and other greenery. This would be a...

Mountain biking that area looks extremely rewarding......but hot and exhausting! I've compiled a bunch of shots for the next leg of the journey, hopefully I can post it this weekend.

After Completing Hadden Flats, you will take the Green River Cutoff Road to Buckhorn Well, a fenced enclosure with kiosks and restrooms that is large enough to serve as a staging area for multiple areas on the north-west side of the swell (if you are an ATV/SxS guy, it's big enough to drop...

Awesome build! What happened to your parts rig? I must have missed that story? Your engine temps are on the warmish side for idle (but well below concern). Do you have the 180F thermostat in? I can hit 194, but it's usually in 4-low on the trails in triple digit heat . I'm usually 188-190...

So we just completed a mini-traverse of the San Rafael Swell in Utah, starting at Huntington State Park and finished at I70 after crossing the Devil's Racetrack. Since we have young kids, we camped with the trailers at Huntington State Park and did this route in a single long day (10am to...

A bit off topic, but after watching Dahl's vid, I wish I was in Australia. I love how not only can they GET a 70 series Land Cruiser new, but the "wagon" is cheaper than the truck. The reason I'm looking at Tacomas is that I can get a TRD Off-Road for $37k. I'd rather have a 4-runner with...

I'll bite. I don't own a Tundra, nor a Tacoma (I'm looking to get one, hence my lurking in these forums), so I'm probably not qualified to say much. But then again, nobody is talking? I've had some experience with the 4Runner on the trail (my cousin has a 5th Gen. TRD Pro.) Anyway, it comes...

Salisbury front and rear "are" DANA 60s. They were built under license, use metric units, and have a different spline count. They'd be more "plug and play", but hard to find over here. If you could fit regular DANA 60s under your classic (which shouldn't be too hard compared to your engine...

The problem with 90s isn't the sidewall advantage over 20s, it's the fact there is literally zero off-road options for 19" rims that aren't super expensive (and hard to find). I have 19's on my L322 and somedays I wish I had 20s. I'm going to try to find a set of Cooper Zeon LTZ's when my...

L322 doesn't have sub-frame components like the LR and RRS series. It's a pure unibody. At this point, sliders aren't "going to get figured out". The L322 platform is 15 years old (first rig was an 2003) and not a single 3rd party bumper, slider, or recovery mounts have been released for it...

19" wheels are the main reason my L322 is limited to 4 rated trails or less. After that, it's lack of mountain points for sliders. Sadly, if there *were* mounting locations for sliders, the L322 would be a far superior platform to the LR3/LR4 due to it's wheelbase and I actually prefer the...

Yeah, those wing radiators...........Ugh. They actually cross the wheel centerline! Doesn't matter if you *could* design an aftermarket bumper, those radiators totally kill your approach angle and put critical systems directly in the path of an oncoming obstacle. And sadly this is most likely...

The known maintenance issues of the early rovers are well known. They can be reliable if you keep up on the maintenance. My D2 has been the most abused yet reliable used car I've ever bought. That said, I've done a lot of preventative work to it. Even then, it could still drop a cylinder...

No, you can see in my videos that there is quite a bit of annoying shakiness. It was all handheld using built-in stabilizers (if needed) and the DSLR footage was put through a panning-stabilization algorithm in Vegas Pro. Sadly, a LOT of good footage was unusable due to poor technique. I've...