Cool Rigs/Inspiration/Ideas You've Spotted

[Trail X]

Easy when you don't have springs installed...

[Moots1288]

Easy when you don't have springs installed...

. Hard to for us to keep the front planted like that

[Aries]

. Hard to for us to keep the front planted like that

There's to much wrong with that pic. No engine and the front pinion looks pointed to the ground for just a few. And where's the cab?

[Moots1288]

. Hard to for us to keep the front planted like that

There's to much wrong with that pic. No engine and the front pinion looks pointed to the ground for just a few. And where's the cab?

wait theres supposed to be one of those

[ErikSS]

I think I see the oil pan. There is no "cab", it's a 4 runner. I don't know about the springs though. Is it possible those shocks are supposed to hold the truck up?

[The Roadie]

I'd guess it was an articulation test to see what the linkage/shock limits were BEFORE specifying or installing the springs. At least that's the process I'd use if it wasn't 100% CAD modeled ahead of time but I had access to a forklift.

[HARDTRAILZ]

Kinda digging this....

[bgwolfpack]

Interesting Kyle. Do you have dogs? Child safety seats should face rearward. Although a hatch out the rear and squirt guns would be cool. Smoker maybe? Wait! Beer chest! Got it.

[HARDTRAILZ]

No dogs. They only face rearward for so long. The daughter is forward facing now. I was trying to convince the wife I need a rollcage to mount the kids seats to for safety and she said if it was that dangerous, I was going alone.

I like the idea, but I think I would want more of an open bed with removable shell or some kinda soft top kinda thing over the bed from the roof rack down to bedside.

[Trail X]

Interesting that you posted that Kyle. I've actually been talking to my buddies here at work about how chopping off the back of the TB would be awesome. Of course, they said "why not just buy a pickup", but I didn't expect them to understand.

I'd love to reconfigure it with a removable hatch where the back of the truck gets chopped, so that there could be a pass through to the cabin. Then add in a bed with some tool boxes on the sides over the wheel wells.

Seeing those pics just make me want to do it more.

[HARDTRAILZ]

I did not want a TB when I got mine. I was looking for an Avalanche actually, but the price and a test drive sold me even though I thought they and the rest of the platform as well were ugly as hell. I despised my buddy's envoy, cause I thought it looked too plastic and feminine. However I had never driven one and only rode in his a time or two.

Turning my TB into an avalanche style rig has always intrigued me, but it was always too new and too nice to think of really chopping it up. That was a heep thing they did to destroy unibody's even quicker. However seeing something clean and not over done like that got the wheels turning again.

[Trail X]

I like the utility of the Avalanche, but I think it's made overly complicated, but yeah, that was roughly my concept. I'd like to also mount the RTT behind the wind shadow of the truck cab. Damn you for posting that! You watch now, one day I'll go quiet for a good 6 months and come back and post up a chopped up black trailblazer!

[HARDTRAILZ]

I like the rtt behind the cab. Seen some nice setup on expo that way.

You go quiet and start that project and I will come lend a hand.

[Trail X]

Give me a few years. Gotta have a 3rd car before I start something of that magnitude.

[AWCougar]

I have been Obnoxiously stuck on the thought of this.
I have been reading all sorts of books dedicated to suspension geometry and have been drawing up rough sketches.

[v7guy]

Chris, I like it!

[AWCougar]

But I would try to find a rear axle that was the same width, because that rear end just looks tacky.

[mikekey]

I suppose if one just wants to go fast off road in the desert.

[HARDTRAILZ]

Does not impress me, because it looks halfass. I dont like the incomplete aspect. It also does not fit anything I do with the truck.

I do think they(desert trucks/prerunner) are some amazingly engineered rigs, but not something I aspire to own. Unless the wife wants to let me run Baja.

[The Roadie]

Most of the *real* functional prerunners have huge front travel and 2WD. Only good for one thing of no interest to most of us over 24 years old.