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.
Trail Fixes
Pulling a Tranny
By Tony and Eric
Pulling a tranny in the woods? Just how to make this happen started out as a conversation where we went back and forth for about an hour trying to find an easy way to do this with only the gear in the rig should you ever have to do this.
Welding a spring hanger
Day 1 of Rubicon 2010, I hear and feel an occasional clanking sound coming from up front. Now the first thing that comes to mind is a broken birf, and that would not be the first for me. As I press on to catch up to our trail leader, Don, I get out to asses the situation. What I see definitely stands out, my driver front spring hangar is about 6-10 inches below the frame rail. It was a clean break, right at the weld, or lack of weld I will say. These spring hangars are not welded on how I would have thought. Only a few short spots around the edge and thats it. Not even a center rivet helps attach it to the frame.
Trailside Birf Replacement
By Tony Konovaloff
As anyone who has done it knows, a Birfield replacement is a big greasy mess. But add in the thrill of doing it on the side of the trail and the fun is multiplied exponentially. And now you get to know just what I had to go through after blowing a birf apart on the way up Cadillac Hill on the last day of our Rubicon trip.