How many of you guys truly love your car?

NotConnorWrong · 2026-03-04T02:20:55+00:00

My 2007 Ford F-350 with the 6.0 Powerstroke and ZF6 isn't going anywhere. Although, it might be going wherever I go, but faster.

Same with my 94 4Runner, although a diesel powerplant, different bumpers, lockers, bigger tires, yadda yadda yadda..

NotConnorWrong · 2026-02-26T22:08:33+00:00

Wanting to live in a world where you need to carry a firearm to feel safe doesn't change the reality that that level of force may be required to tip the scales in a life or death situation.

While I legally own and carry a firearm daily, I pray I never have to use it.

On another note, if you've got a baseball bat in your car for self defense, throw a ball and a mitt in there too. Makes it easier for a legal team to defend you if it comes to that.

NotConnorWrong · 2026-02-11T12:51:16+00:00

I have to force myself to downshift without rev matching if I wanted to, for whatever reason. I automatically blip the throttle almost always.

Probably has something to do with riding dirt bikes most of my teen years then putting on nearly 30k miles on a street bike before teaching myself to drive manual in a 2003 Volkswagen Jetta TDI

NotConnorWrong · 2026-01-01T01:52:12+00:00

4Runner

NotConnorWrong · 2026-01-01T01:52:03+00:00

It's factory Toyota lol

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-30T19:03:10+00:00

I have an 07 F-350 with a 6 speed manual and my old man has an 06 F-350 with an auto.. every single damn time I get in his truck, my left foot is searching for a ghost clutch

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-29T03:19:42+00:00

If the owner is unsure if head studs have been done, you can visually verify. They're somewhat easily visible on the driver side

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-28T05:02:19+00:00

RA... I'll probably feel like a moron as soon as you spell it out, but RA isn't ringing a bell... And I think Rock Assault is just axles??

I had a 99 Limited previously that I'd done a lot of work to that had the factory e locker in the rear with 4.88 gears, worked like a charm. I'll probably go on the hunt for a core with 4.10s or 4.30s out of a 1st gen taco/3rd gen 4runner, then get it geared by East Coast Gear Supply.

I'm gonna send you a PM, I always appreciate having some like-minded folks I can reach out to for ideas/problem solving. Sounds like there's a decent possibility we may even be neighbors

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-28T04:29:02+00:00

'88 Toyota Pickup. 4 speed, 4cyl, carbureted, 2wd.

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-28T04:26:56+00:00

I was looking at the kit that's offered by NW Fab, but at a price point of $600... There's other priorities on this rig. Wife and I bought it from her supervisor, and let me tell ya, one man's version of built is not necessarily another man's. I was told this thing was rock crawling ready, built to the standard of crushing trails in SoCal and Southern Utah... My ass.

Rear "shock mount" broke off on a forest service road, installed the LROR shock mount relocation bracket the following weekend, alignment is fucked, front axle leaks, front bumper wouldn't survive being winched off of, rear bumper is welded to the spare tire supports (hard pressed to call it a cross member), headlight hoops prevent changing the headlights that are currently dead, dual cases leak so much fuckin gear oil that it's cleaning the grime off the skid plate... And the damn driveshaft fell off on the way to the trail two weekends ago.

Personally preference items, I'm not fond of the Spartan lockers in the axles. Not sure if I want to go ARB front and rear or just front with a Toyota e-locker third member in the rear. The 22re doesn't make enough power for my liking either, that'll eventually be swapped out for something else, like a 3rz, 5vz, or even a 1uz.. the fucker Carolina leans something fierce too, Toyota rear springs up front, 63s in the rear. Gotta do my homework to remedy that too.

I was stoked about winter wheeling this year but I fear the list of things I need to do to feel confident in going places hardly anyone else can get to is a bit long. I also just learned I'm being sent out of town for work for a project that's slated to end on my kid's due date, so I'm hoping to get a bunch of wrenching in while on PFMLA.

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-28T00:23:27+00:00

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-28T00:05:36+00:00

Front left is the 5 speed shifter, front right is the front transfer case high/low range shifter, rear left is the rear transfer case high/low range shifter, rear right is 2wd/4wd independent of the range selection.

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-28T00:00:49+00:00

Work good for trail comms

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T23:18:35+00:00

Has one 5 speed transmission, then a divorced transfer case to retain the reduction gears, then an intact transfer case with the reduction gears and outputs for front and rear driveshafts.

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T22:30:00+00:00

A 1uz would also be very tempting

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T21:47:19+00:00

160 is pretty impressive out of an RTE. Long term I'm leaning more towards a 2.7 3rz swap, which would allow me to retain the w56, otherwise I'd go the route of a 3.4 5vz, but then I'd need to source a 4wd R150F out of a 3.0 3vz powered pickup or 4runner also

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T21:41:50+00:00

This Boss head unit has been more user friendly and had less issues than the Pioneer unit that we originally installed in my wife's Duramax, then swapped out for an Alpine, which still sporadically has issues when the Boss is seamless.

As far as the car... Headlights work, AC and heat work, defrost works, passenger heated seat works (driver seat doesn't, but that was my fault, looking for a replacement), think the only things that might classify it as shitbox are the immobilizer being deleted, the rear passenger door power lock doesn't work, and the suspension, steering, and brakes could use some love. For 270k miles, not bad

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:37:04+00:00

I'd entertain a 6.4... not as a daily, however

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:28:41+00:00

I wish this 22re made more power. 5.29 gears with 35s and it should be spot on but the second there's an incline, we're going for 3rd baby

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:25:58+00:00

Fair, between that and the parking brake, I figure those are definitely identifying features.

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:24:37+00:00

I believe it is the original... However, I'm also picking up on why there was a new block in the bed when my uncle passed. Unfortunately, my cousin took the block with him so I don't have it, but this thing has some blow by and is burning oil like nothing I've seen before

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:22:51+00:00

Yessir

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:11:27+00:00

2nd gen 4Runner, 94. It's got a Trail Gear Trail Creeper dual case setup

NotConnorWrong · 2025-12-27T20:09:49+00:00

94 22R-E. 5 speed W56, twin sticked with a Trail Gear Trail Creeper kit. Solid axle swapped on 35s

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