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I used to run chains when I ran 33s. I used to spin my rims in the tires aired down with chains and then my wheel weights would be in the wrong place. I find too that after a certain tire size you just don't need them any more.

Well, I'm not sure. There was a guy I sold a stoker crank to from Belgrade last year that was into big snow. He seemed to have some place down there. I had a pretty good time coming into the Little Belts from the Judith Gap side. That part doesn't get shut for sleds only down like the Monarch side d...

Last year sucked completely. My 4runner was down waiting for engine parts (you would not believe how hard it is to put together an early 22r in this region), we were broke and I had a hernia from turbo shoveling out our road so I could get the car out. This winter should be better. I am looking to g...

Watched the second one. It was OK. Just realized the older 4Runner is even still IFS!

I think you could get away with 40s with Toy axles on a dedicated snow rig. I would say run 35s in the summer for high traction wheeling and keep of the stupid pedal except when necessary. I know a bunch of guys here in MT that wheel 39s and 40s on Toy axles with a 4 banger and do just great. They h...

In an interesting turn of events I got the job as the appraiser for the whole county for department of revenue dealing with property values for property taxes. Oddly enough that seemed to quite the folks that were giving us a hard time. Can't imagine why... Over the last year we got the house up and...

So I was posting an engine swap thread over on Marlin Crawler Forum this year and it kind of turned into a house project thread...

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?board=16.0

Here are a couple of teaser pics. We moved in.

I was watching the show today you can view it now...

Came in the mail yesterday. Looks pretty legit...

Try this... http://masqueunauto.com/

Seems like it quit working.

Here is a link to the thread on marlin with the link...

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.ph ... rdseen#new

Yeah I really don't know why they would do that but I guess guys are actually getting them. It was originally posted on Pirate4x4 I guess. Wonder if I'll get a whole lot of spam or something...

A guy on Marlin put up this link for free vehicle badges. I ordered a badge that says SNOWTREK to slap on the back of my 4Runner whe I get it up and running again. Hope you don't mind, I couldn't resist plugging the site. We'll see how it turns out.

http://www.masqueunauto.com/en/

I agree, based on prior experience with skinny swampers, keep them on the 8" wheels. I have ran 32" radials and 34" bias TSLs in the past and flat footprint/highway pressure was around 21 psi for both of those. Of course I ran more psi for long highway but that is the pressure where y...

I would search around for some use truck chains, like the ones for a semi. That would give you plenty of material to make chains for 37s. Then just cut and weld to suit. I don't use chains anymore after running tires over 33", but when I did I found that chains with less cross bars work better ...

Yup, I made a rear square tube driveshaft with receiver tube and some 1/4" wall 2"x2" on a cheap build '81 Toyota one time. We never intended on it seing highway but I had it up to 60 with the square rear shaft and it ran just fine with very little vibration. For a front application y...

We use those here in MT. The freeze plug heaters make your rig more comfey faster because the heater is warmer right of the get go but I think the oil pan heaters actually do more for yor engine. We had -40° F this winter and my '80 Toyota would still start and run as long as I pluged my pan heater ...

It's tough to beat the animal traction, rumble and good looks of an old school swamper...

I really want a set of these in my arsenal eventually too.

Cool pic, you can really see how slippery it is. We have a peice of our land the seasonally floods and sometimes freezes. It's maybe 150 yards long where the ice is. One year we had drag races on it with about 17 of our 4WD buddies. Tire preasure really played on the launch. Throughout the day the s...