As seen in Toyota Trails!
Various articles written here have been published in TLCA's Toyota Trails magazine and on their website. After roaming around our site, click on the magazines to visit TLCA.
Tech and Fabrication
Knuckle Job
Big, Greasy Mess. Just no other way to describe it. And what adds to the unpleasantness of this job was that it was not even on my rig, it was on my wife’s. But it could have been worse, it could have been raining!
Rusted Cone Washers
Until very recently I have never had a problem with removing the cone washers to do maintenance on the front axle. Either by slipping a small screwdriver into the slot and getting them out the FSM way or gentle tapping on the aluminum hub housing has never failed to get them out.
Broken Springs
So you are out for a nice day in the woods and the worst happens, you snap a spring…. Now what. Actually it may not be as bad as you think, at least not if you have a few things in your rig. Don’t forget that neccesity is the mother of invention.
More than a Leaf
Everyone has heard of add a leafs and most of the time they are dismissed as being a stop gap for real suspension mods. While some of what you have heard may be true there are some benefits that you may not even realize.
Project Diesel Lilly, Part 1
By Eric
As with most of the projects that Tony and I do on the wagons, one usually follows suit in some fashion when one improves or modifies something for the better. So there is no surprise that Lilly is shedding her spark plugs for her a diesel engine of her own.