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[4runnermods]

I found this forum by looking at the Marlin website. I've known Marlin crawler for a few years now but I didn't know they had a forum going on. I'm also a member of Mud as Supported Vendor.
I own 4 Toyotas trucks, I'm not looking to get another one soon.
1989 Toyota Land Cruiser LJ73 (work in progress)
1990 Toyota Land Cruiser LJ70 (weekend)
1994 Toyota Land cruiser FZJ80 (work in progress)
2011 Toyota 4runner SR5 (Daily, needs a refresh)

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[4runnermods]

Thank you!! Ruger & Mudmaster
I'm getting a hold on the rules and treads. I posted a tread on the Land Cruiser tech already.

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[Slabzilla]

  2  Marlinland, always good to have another Toyota head here.   

[Gnarly4X]

Hello 4runnermods,

Are you an overlander?

In 1986, when I bought my first 1986 Toyota longbed, I spent many many weekends overlanding in California.

When I first moved to Arizona, I spent many hours pouring over topo maps and many weekends "overlanding".

Those days of exploration and discovery were by far the most enjoyable 4-wheeling I have ever done.

My thrashing and bashing rock crawling days are over, but I may do some overlanding again.

Gnarls.

[Rocksurfer]

[4runnermods]

Gnarly4x,

I used to do more overlanding, I still like it, mostly going exploring with a group of trucks. With a group of friends around the area that I live, we formed an overland group mostly Facebook and we used to organize winter expeditions on MLK weekend and other rides during the year. The excitement has faded a little among the group, we are not as active as we used to be.

A couple years ago with a few members of that group, we started getting sponsors to film overland travel, we did it for like 3 years. We went to several places across the US and to overland events since 2015 until Covid hit. I have really good memories from that time and I believe I feel the same as you by saying "were by far the most enjoyable 4-wheeling I have ever done"

Once you start doing it, you start figuring out what are the essentials that you mostly need and begin to get the basic gear. After that you make the decisions how far you want to explore or camp. It does take time to get comfortable and confident of what you are doing but I bet you will enjoy it.