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With today beautiful, sunny, and dry, I decided to start on another project I've been meaning to do once it warmed up: improve the cargo arrangement of the tow pig! For those of you who followed my Raider built, you know what I'm doing here. Nothing fancy, but will give me a lot more...

Ok, had a bit of snow today so took the Raider out. It wasn't much and it could get around find in 2WD (which let me had some fun). Though I did use 4WD as well just to keep everything all lubed up. Nothing too exciting, but it's the first time I've really driven it in the snow. Braking = not...

The Sequoia rear diff ring gear is 10" vs 10.5 for the Tundra and 9.5" in the LC. Sequoia rear is probably bigger since it runs in RWD most of the time so has to handle all the power through the rear diff. LC is full-time 4WD so the rear diff doesn't really see all the power. Obviously TC is...

Not much new to report on modifications. Took the water tank off for the winter but other than that, nothing much going on. We did get a foot of snow recently and I spent the day pulling stuck drivers out of ditches and stuff and helped out a F250 SuperDuty by dragging him up a 1/4 mile hill...

I don't know the Land Cruisers all that well, but they have the same engine but have an 8-speed transmission vs. the 6-speed in the Sequioa. LC is also full-time 4WD/AWD I think, while the Sequioa can run in 2WD (better for towing and MPGs). They both have lockable torsen center diffs. I could...

Helped out a F250 SuperDuty by dragging him up a 1/4 mile hill when he couldn't get his 4WD to work.....Sequoia made easy work of it, honestly.

Haven't done much of anything to the Raider in some time, as I've been on other projects and haven't done any wheeling recently. But, I did get this sweet new RTT: We got a bit of snow (around a foot, not really that much...) normally this would be a post where I put up sweet pics of the...

After three months of it sitting on a ship off the west coast, finally got my Ironman 8-foot awning for the tow pig. It's pretty much the same as the ARB ones in every way except colors, but it's about $100 cheaper so that's a plus. But thanks to delays in the shipping industry, I'm just getting...

I haven't had any issues (fingers crossed).....9 years of rally, about a dozen full stage rallies (and almost 100 rallycrosses, plus a few track days) and I've still not found any cracking areas of concern. Only thing we've ever broken was an oil pan (very big rock at 70mph that also killed the...

Been a while, not too much going on with the Raider as I've been working on some other projects and running the stage rally season in the e30, which has needed to have some stuff fixed. It gets a bit rough out there.... Anyhow, at a rallysprint last weekend I was chatting with a...

Thanks. That's good thinking, and I actually have a spare LED rear fog light in a box someplace so maybe I'll try to mount that up as a brake light when I need a project. Good thought though.

Been a while. The rig has gotten a lot of use towing to motorsports stuff. A few weeks ago it was Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR): Though it's generally preferable to do reconnaissance runs in a car (other than the competition car, by rule), we didn't have a recce car with us, so...

lol....man, working on this thing is easy. My other project cars are way more difficult :) That said, I didn't know crap about working on cars, or welding, or any of that stuff when I was 20. Pretty much all self-taught over the past 20+ years. All it takes is practice, youtube, manuals, and...

After a couple-months wait, finally got my seat covers from Wet Okole. I really dislike slippery leather seats, especially when they're made for Fat Americans like the ones in the Sequoia seem to be, with no sign of bolstering for those of us who are on the slimmer side of things (or, I'd like...

lol, truth. There's a guy with a brand-new TRD Pro Sequoia in my lot at work and every time I see it I think a few things: 1. The OEM tires on the TRD Pro are pretty mediocre 2. That tubular roof rack looks like it's made of PVC pipe with the fat connectors. I actually like a regular OEM rack...

Towed up to rallycross last weekend. This thing is far better through the twisty uphill W.Va. mountain roads pulling 5k than the old Sequoia was (no surprise there). Anyhow, after a day of dirty racing, the roof shower worked great at rinsing off a lot of grime. Of course, I forgot to put a...

For a while with the old Sequoia, I had planned to build a rooftop water tank (using the home-build PVC pipe method) but never got around to it. At rally/rallycross events, things (and people) get very dirty and having some water or a quick shower right there has always been something I thought...

Doing the wiring. Very exciting. On a side note, there is infinite space underneath the center console for stuff. Good place to stash the relays. But, now I have working lights. Yay. .