Its certainly featured on Matt's YouTube channel frequently... that dude is one of the reasons I own an XJ instead of a GMC Yukon.
New Land Cruisers coming out in 2024
It shares its underpinnings with the Lexus GX, but not its engine. And it's not the luxury truck that the 200-Series was.
- 4" narrower than the 200 series
- 112" wheel base
- Front IFS, rear solid axle. Factory rear locker. Full time 4wd.
- Hybrid Turbo inline 4 cyl 326HP 465 lb-ft torque
- Base model starts at $55k
- Three editions - "1958", "Land Cruiser" and "First Edition".
More info in the linked article.
South East Alaska
This was taken on a cruise on a rare day when the sun came out and I could watch the sun set -- at 11pm. :D
Sand Hollow, UT
I figured I'd post just a short trip report for a Sand Hollow trip in Utah that we did last weekend.
The forecast we super hot for both days (over 100 degrees) so we decided to go in the morning.
We ran Milts Mile on Saturday. That was a really fun trail, but it claimed my passenger-side hub knob. I was able to scoot up middle monkey (which was hella steep but surprisingly not too scary).
The off-camber stuff scared me the most. In the photo above, this section of rock had me in my head so much that I stopped and my spotter and to jump out and assure me the passenger tire was still on the ground.
I don't have sway bars at all (with plans to fix that) so I get tons of body roll.
On Sunday, we ran Ridgeline and the first part of West Rim trail. My wife drove that day and had zero problems with the initial shelves and rocky climb on Ridgeline.
She was able to take the "fun" lines at the Funnel and Steps as well.
What blew me away is she managed to drive up Toll Booth #1. I didn't want to try and drive it because I was worried about the amount of body roll my XJ has, but she wanted to give it a shot, and boy did she ever.
Finally, we hit Top of the World - snagged the photo, and left via the Water Tank "road".
We've got another weekend trip planned in November and we can't wait to go back!
South East Alaska
Recently took a cruise to alaska and the weather cleared up a bit in time for sunset.
Hmm…. Photo didn’t make it. Lemmy is hurting right now….
Anybody else live the awning-tent life?
I've got an ARB awning tent that packs relatively compact and light that I use for camping when wheeling. Works super well for me and my dogs (or whoever's with me).
This is what happiness looks like for Ellie
Was at my parent's house in cool weather and we were able to play fetch until she was completely exhausted. Then we had BBQ haha.
That's not ideal. Glad they got a recall out. I need to issue a recall for my XJ for the same reason, because of stuff I did lol.
Thanks for the tip. That's super useful.
Its a neat rig and its surprised me a few times by just rolling over stuff. A guy named Ken runs a youtube channel called OffroadHub. He's basically built an FJC about as big as reasonably possible. Kinda nuts what they can do.
SAS 100 Series and FJC
A couple years ago, my buddy and I had just finished enough of his SAS project on the hundie that we needed a test drive. This trail is relatively close and has some great views. We managed to rope our other friend (who owns the orange FJC) into it as well.
Nothing failed and all the welds stayed welded, so that was nice.
My favorite Tundra. My dad owns one of those (basically a stock-looking, white version of yours). That truck will probably live longer than me.
This was shot with a full moon behind me. I was happy to get the unique moonlit landscape with some faint milky way at the same time.
Milky Way - Near Moab, UT
This was shot with a full moon behind me. I was happy to get the unique moonlit landscape with some faint milky way at the same time.
From the day I bought the TJ
The clutch basically gave up yesterday. Gonna miss driving this for a few days while it gets repaired.
Long term, I agree -- the whole point of the fediverse is to distribute the user base, moderation capacity, etc. Initially though, we're just trying to make it as easy as possible to for folks to discover lemmy and use it.
Sending them on a wild goose chase to find an instance and sign up complicates that. Getting them to come back the next day is also way harder when that experience sucks.
If folks can sign up on your instance and use it as their gateway to the lemmy fediverse, its tremendously helpful for distributing load.
The challenge is, letting people know your instance exists, and when they finally do and you get 30 signups per hour, scaling your instance to keep up.
Long term, you also have to deal with all the sysadmin crap (scaling up/down based on load, security and updates, backups, assholes that DDOS your instance because they don't like your moderation decisions, copyright take downs, legal requests, etc).