- Hey guys, my name is Jeremiah Euclide,
and this is my 2007 FJ Cruiser.
♫ I'm in it just to rewrite history
♫ Cause I'm in the mood to
♫ Labor, lust, the leaders of the new school
♫ This ain't for the radio
♫ Can't find this on You Tube
♫ This the type of killers that these critics ain't use to
♫ Victorious, victorious
♫ Victorious, victorious
♫ Victorious, victorious
♫ In this day I got time for innovation
♫ I've got time to be creative
(suspenseful music)
- Alright, about the truck.
In 2014, from the dealership immediately took it
to the Nicolet-Chequamegon National Forest.
Did a little wheeling, decided that I needed
tires immediately because the Pirelli's
just weren't cutting it.
Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac was a great option for me,
great in the snow, quiet tire, lasts long, what not.
Put them on the stock wheels
which were some BBS aluminums, gouged them out pretty bad,
sold them to a friend, and swapped those tires
onto what I now have on which is Vision Wheel.
The wheels I decided to put on were 17 by eight
with a zero offset.
It keeps the tire and the whole wheel inside the fender well
which to some people isn't as cool as it could be,
but for me it keeps the vehicle cleaner on extended trips
when you don't have access to a car wash or anything
of that sort for three to four days.
It's ideal to be able to keep your windows clean.
The tire I went with was 285/70/17 which,
if you do the math, it goes to about a 33 inch tire
give or take.
The first time we went up Thunder Mountain
was about 1am.
Hard to see, scraping on a lot of stuff,
so ultimately I decided I needed to lift the vehicle
a few inches.
Nothing dramatic, but something to give me
a little more ground clearance.
I decided to go with the Bilstein 5100 Shocks
off of a TRD edition FJ Cruiser.
Lot better dampening properties to it
and give it a smoother ride on the trail.
I paired that with OME coils on the front, the 885's
which is made by ARV which is a popular company
that makes a lot of bumpers for Toyota.
Rear coils are also an OME spring made by ARV.
Both springs front and rear are a higher spring rate.
It gives me a higher load capacity
that way I'm loaded with all my camping gear,
recovery gear, tools, water, fuel, anything I need to have
if we're on a trip.
It can hold that extra capacity without sagging
or effecting the ride quality in a negative way.
With independent front suspension, as everyone likes
to ridicule, the lack of articulation in the front
is an issue.
It's definitely a sacrifice you have to make
when getting independent front suspension
is a lack of articulation.
Something that aid in that was
I removed the front sway bar entirely.
No disconnects, took it out, threw it away.
Same thing with the rear.
Took the rear sway bar out.
Threw it away.
It allowed for, I believe, almost two more inches
of articulation overall.
Because I actually take my vehicle off road quite a bit,
some necessary things I had to do were
protect all the goodies underneath.
Starting at the front bumper which is made
out of Steel tube.
It also has aluminum skid plate on it.
Continuing from the bumper to the front sub frame,
it's fully aluminum skid plated to prevent any damage
to the pulley system, or the A/C system, the radiator,
anything that can't be damaged.
After that I still have the factory skid plate
over the oil pan which is soon to be replaced.
Then I have an aluminum skid plate
over the transmission pan.
Sometimes when you're going over obstacles
such as rocks, depending on the way you go over it,
it has a tendency to want to push into your rocker panels
or the bottoms of your doors.
Even though the FJ has a nice little plastic patch
on the bottom to prevent any visual marks,
you can definitely still vent them in.
What I did was I fabricated some rock sliders
with a nice kick out at the rear.
At the rear of the vehicle, I designed a swing out bumper,
steel swing out bumper, made with the same tube
that my front bumper is made out of.
I originally had a full swing out,
full with the vehicle, had my tire and the area
for a Hi-Lift jack and two Nato Jerry can's
to be secured to it.
That went horribly.
I under built it.
It flexed too much.
After getting way to much air on a beach one day
it bent really bad.
I decided to cut it off, and leave it the way
you see it today which also has LED reverse lights in it.
Since the FJ had such a small back window, it's easy to see
when you're backing up at night.
I equip my vehicle with the Gobi Stealth roof rack.
I got a killer deal on Craig's List actually
like most people do.
I decided I wanted to put a roof top tint on it
which I got from Smittybilt.
To go along with the roof top tint,
I custom made an awning, actually out of an old cover.
Use it for when we're cooking in the galley.
Keeps rain off of us.
Keeps the snow off us, whatever the occasion be.
It keeps us dry.
For a lot of the trips that we do, I'm staying out past dark
or wheeling at night, traveling at night.
You need a good lighting system.
Got a sweet deal on a 52 inch light bar.
Works really good for lighting up the entire area
whether you're actually driving, setting up camp,
or what not.
On the front of the truck, I have two LED pods
that point down at the front wheels.
They help with navigating obstacles at night
as well as the two LED pods I have in the rear
that help us setting up camp, cooking,
and for backing up.
For a lot of the trails that we go on,
the terrain is just too rough to stay at 32 psi
so what we do is we air down.
Now it's terrain dependent.
Sometimes we're airing down to 18 say for a gravel trail
or a washed out road.
Now if you're rock crawling, or in the deep snow,
or deep snow and rock crawling you might go down
to 10 or five psi.
Even without B lock wheels, you can get by
going pretty low as you're pretty careful about it.
Once we get back off the trail, we need
to fill our tires back up with air.
To do that I have equipped the vehicle
with an onboard air compressor that runs off
of the 12 volt battery system.
Just this Christmas, I received the very nice gift
from my mother, a snorkel.
I installed that which was absolutely painful
putting a four inch hole through my fender.
That not only helps with water crossings,
but it also helps keep dirt out of the air filter
so the filter lasts a lot longer between intervals.
When I purchased the vehicle the previous owner had
already installed Toyota TRD stage two stainless exhaust.
It is cap back, and is really beat up from getting smashed
on things.
To tie my electrical system together,
I made a very simple relay and fuse panel.
My relay and fuse panel powers a few different things.
Right now it's only about half full.
It powers my light bar.
It powers my front rock lights.
It powers my reverse lights.
It powers the CB radio.
When we're on the trail, we need to communicate
vehicle to vehicle, and the easiest and cheapest way
to do that is with CB radio.
Very short distance, but it's great when you have
a few vehicles in a convoy.
I had a custom made box put in the back of trunk.
In it is recovery tools, physical tools
to repair the vehicles, and my entire kitchen set up.
I get a lot of criticism for the reason I pick Toyota.
Nobody knows apparently, and honestly it comes down
to one thing which is reliability.
I want to be able to go out with my friends, have fun,
and make it home every single time.
I've only been left stranded once.
That was because I blew out my rear differential
and that was a poor choice on my part.
A lot of people question the reasoning
for independent front suspension.
A lot of points are they don't articulate well,
which really isn't that true.
You lose a lot of articulation in the stock form.
Once you start modifying, you can get nearly
as much articulation as a straight axle does.
I will never say as much, but you can definitely
get a substantial amount with long travel.
It's really good for comfortability.
When you're driving to and from the trail,
of course it's more that drives like a lot of vehicles do
that aren't off road or in.
It's very smooth riding.
Once you do get on the trail you can go a lot faster
than straight axles can in general when you have
a comparative set up.
When it comes down to it, dumping money
into something that's never gonna return it back
is a pretty foolish idea; however, this is one
of my very few hobbies I've been passionate about
for a long time.
I've always enjoyed being in the outdoors
and being able to explore the outdoors in areas that
you can't get to without a four wheel drive vehicle.
To me it's worth it in the end being able to see things
that not everybody gets to see.
We travel not to escape life,
but for life not to escape us.
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