A family who loves things with wheels, the outdoors and adventure!
Here we share info about our 4WD Sprinter Van, 2nd Gen Toyota Sequoia, Land Rover Discovery 2 and Subaru Forester XT. As well as the activities these vehicles take us to such as mountain biking, camping, hiking, snowboarding and skiing.
We greatly appreciate the freedom our vehicles provide us and feel that their upgrades and maintenance are important to our lifestyle so we decided to share these details to hopefully make other people's journeys easier. Our motto is if it breaks upgrade!
Because life is about more than just vehicles some of our videos are of things that we found useful or fun.
If you find these topics to be interesting you're in the right place! Tap SUBSCRIBE!
Partly incorrect, Yes, locking the center diff sends even power to the front and rear axles. However, it does NOT lock the front axle and the rear axle and turn in the same speed. Unless your vehicle is equipped with a front and rear diff locker. Which is not the same as a center diff. When you loose traction on a tire, you will still spin uselessly.
And then there’s diff locks front and rear. Center lock is still only two wheel drive if a wheel in the front and rear comes off the ground(aka flexing hard on the boys) rear and front differential locks are the only true 4wd. I don’t have those
Thanks for sharing! Agree triple locked is even better than just center diff locked even with a traction control based system like Land Rovers or Atrac in Toyota or quadra drive in Jeep. We don't have triple lock... maybe one day :).
Note that you had to use blocking under the jack to get the tire in the air. I found that out the hard way with my Tundra. Lucky for me I was testing the jack at home. I could take the flat off, but the spare would not clear to go on without putting 4x2 blocks of wood under the jack with a second jack I had at home to lower the truck to lower the original jack. After that I always carry blocks of wood. When I mentioned to the toyota mechanic that the stock jack was too shot, he said we know. Also you did not show the little tab in the bumper you have to remove to lower the spare.
The whole trick to making your toyota sequioa or Tundra into a real toyota is to unplug the first wired connection on yoir master cylinder. Disabling the totally anoting traction control and VSC. The lights will light up on your dash but ignor it it will run fine without unlike your lexuses and newer models 2008 and up. 2001 -07 this is the best mod you can do for your truck never get booged down in dnow drifts or mudd thAt trac clngrol VSC puts your brAkes on when that is the last thing you need happen going throw a snow drive. Now you have a legendary toyota 4wheek drive.
Thank you so much for your forward knock tip I had been fighting with it for nearly an hour. You could also mention pushing the black plastic rod clip up. Great video
Wind noise has been bad with all ear buds I've ever owned even ones not in this video for wind noise when cycling. Jaber elite 7 pro are of the best I've tried so far.
Always check what is underneath first.Years ago a friend of mine ran and dived off a jetty and impailed himself underwater on a big tree that must have drifted there by the current. the phrase "look before you leap is about safety" ok.
I had to do this once or twice it wasn’t fun so I bought one of them lithium air pump inflators you see ever where kinda price but totally worth it !!!
Wrong bike pump are not heavy duty fill a tires bike pump bikes or inflation balls such worst info ever that how explode on your self check online and plus every car has how much psi on front and back think again
Our understanding of models is - From 1999 - 2001 they had the mechanism in the transfer case but there was no lever to actuate. So we bought one to activate it - ours you see is after market. 2002 - 2003 they took out completely so if you wanted you have to change out the whole transfer case. Land Rover brought back in 2004 which is why that year and later are well sought out years. If yours only says L - N - H then it appears your vehicle doesn't have it installed.
They’re just a great all around vehicle . They drive great are super comfortable and you can tow up to 7,400lb . We just looked at a 2024 and loved everything about it except the rear storage area , I’m not sure what they were thinking but it was a deal breaker for us . Thanks for sharing
No yours doesn't. 99 - 01 they had the mechanism in the transfer case but there was no lever to actuate. So we bought one to activate it. 02 - 03 they took out completely so if you wanted you have to change out while transfer case. Land Rover brought back in 04 which is why that year and later are well sought out years.
bought me a 2011 for 18 with taxes i believe this yr in march. LOVE the thing! family wasn’t happy i bought a second at the close end of my 21 years but one family member said they rather want me to buy that than an apartment but the storage is 👌🏽🤌🏽 but got into an accident two months of having it but is finished 🥳 but i can’t pick it up until my insurance pays them for one more thing then i can pick it up. also am in school also 😅
Ok this was super helpful but I’m still confused a bit on the whole going left high and low. How do I know if I have that available. I have an 04 Disco 2 and I can’t seem to be able to move it other than from high to low
Historical Trivia: 2nd Gen SEQUOIA is the 1st and only Full Size Body on Frame TOYOTA Truck without a REAR SOLID AXLE. A Multi Link Suspension is ideal in offroading hence the range rover and nissan patrol/armada and qx80 all use the multi link Suspension. Also, the 2nd Gen Tundra, SEQUOIA and LC 200 Series all had 5 lugs. The generation prior and after all have 6 Lug. The 2nd Gen SEQUOIA is starting to grow on me. I Love the rear power window which is abscent in The 3rd gen
I've got a family of 6 plus a large dog and we go overlanding/offroading quite often. We've been using a 2023 Subaru Ascent with a few mods (2" lift, skid plates, rock sliders, winch, welded front recovery points, 18" wheels, and rear diff locker) and it's been very capable. We carry our pop-up tent on the roof, have to take it down to use it which is slightly annoying, but not the cars fault. Anyway, although we owe nothing on the Ascent and we did all those mods, I'm still considering upgrading to a Sequoia. We recently broke both rear axles and the CVT is already showing signs of having problems after only 30k miles. I found a Toyota Sequoia 2020 Limited for $57k with 36k miles on it, but our trade-in would only be worth maybe $35k max. Not sure if it's worth taking on a loan again considering we'd be gaining bigger vehicle, but give up all our offroad mods which we'd have to buy all over again. Part of me wishes we'd started with the Sequoia instead of the Ascent, but my Wife doesn't like big vehicles. The Ascent has 8 seats and has way more 3rd row room than the 4runner has...although the Sequoia is way more comfortable in the 3rd row by far (I test drove both and sat in all the seats recently). I feel like the Sequoia would handle our passenger/cargo weight way better than the Ascent would and probably wouldn't have any problems to show for it (i.e. no broken axles or extra wear on the transmission). Wish I could find a 2020 Sequoia closer to $40k. Seems like the 2020 is the sweet spot right now.
Why not consider an older one? Toyota's are built to last. Our 2013 had 280000 kms and we maintain it well. I don't think anything is happening to it soon and even if it does it's a smaller chunk of change than a newer car. Buying cars is so personal but thought I'd throw that out there - wish you luck with it.
@@OffRoadDiscovery That's a possible option. I'm spoiled with some of the features of our 2023 Ascent, which is technically my Wife's car, so she has to really like the Sequioa. I did find a nearby 2018 Sequoia Limited with 42k miles for $42k. Looks like someone already put 20" FUEL wheels on it too, wrapped in Pathfinder All Terrain tires. I haven't heard of Pathfinder before...
Glad it helped, yeah it's hard to know exactly where everything and how it works without seeing or doing it. We took our jack out also just to test it because we'd never had to use it.
I bought my 2016 Sequoia in 2022. It only had 36,000 miles on it. Paid 40 for it but would do it all over again! Absolutely love this rig, the only thing I wish would change is how quickly the front rotors warp, which I’m assuming is because it weighs over 6000 pounds. I also installed air max air bags in the rear coils which has made a world of difference towing our 30ft camper. Will definitely be running this until it dies… just cleared 60,000 miles
I bought my 2018 in 21 with 38k Miles for 45k. About to hit 60k miles and it’s a blast. Went to Florida, Canada and DC and the kids love road trips. I have a velocirack bike rack that can carry 6 bikes and it makes the truck look meaner and ready for doomsday!! We love it!! I also like the facia update for 2018 with the led headlights. Looks very mean! Great suv!
The ReadyLift gave about 2-3 inch lift and we run 33 inch tires. Full info on the lift can be found here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sM3j9aGGGa0.htmlsi=XoJDYRZMws8sCWqB
I have a 2010 Sequoia, and it's still going strong. I'm finding some of the parts are getting harder to come by. For example, recently got into a fender bender and had to get the front light grill replaced and all the body shops in TX that I checked had the replacement only available on back order. In any case I really like your videos and added a subscription to stay up to date.
That's really interesting there are so many 2nd Gen's on the road, we haven't heard of this being an issue. Hopefully, it just is on back order and not a production thing! Thanks for subscribing & safe travels.
We got Thule bars that we attach the ikamper too. We actually just remove those bars and hoist the ikamper with bars on a pulley system in our garage, then can lower the whole thing next season. We use the stock bars for our ski box. Neither gets in each other's way so we find it works really well. The stock bars can't move where needed and hold the weight needed...at least for us.
