The SDM bar is available from Toyota for $9k, and I'm not sure if the wiring is down there
Otherwise, yes you can just remove an endlink. Some ppl take off one side and zip tie the other side to the sway bar itself, but come on, its one more nut to just safely remove it. Don't remove the rear...
1. Especially w a 2" lift, I highly doubt you'll have to do any cutting, since its 1" larger
2. Yes they can be aired down, but its all relative. Here is the Tire and Rim Association of America (the ppl who make the load ranges) load data for 117 load index (which the Falken is) listed in...
Then I would rule out the SL load tires out of hand, start at the minimum of an LT tire. Airing down an SL tire is a recipe for disaster because the sidewalls are not designed to carry that much load
Those sizes are pretty varied, too. The 285/70 is 33.7", 285/65 is 32.6" and 275/70 is 33.2"...
I would also say that if you're looking at the
1. $64k Platinum 4R
2. $68k Premium LC
then you should also be looking at the
3. $66k GX550 Premium
The styling is a choice, and the biggest complaint ppl have about the lower trim GXs is that they don't have the sway bar disconnects available...
I have an Off Road Premium, and I waffled back and forth on the Land Cruiser a lot. The way I looked at:
1. The ORP is $60k, has part time 4wd, the big screen, air conditioned seats, yadda yadda
2. The LC 1958 is $57k, but is cloth and has the small screen, but is full time 4wd. I really don't...
https://www.backtrackmaps.com/links/map/203050447139368220
Not gonna be any rock crawling on the east coast ones, but for true overlanding its a huge resource. The sections in Maryland up to Carlisle (going north) are much more road biased but at least its country ass roads through Amish...
Surely you've seen "the spreadsheet", and it doesn't look good for the Pro or Trailhunter anywhere. When I was looking at it I was seeing $8k in lead over the MSRP across the country for the top trims
Looking into it further, Toyo publishes load charts for their regular tires (as a single cohort), their LT tires (again, singularly) and the Open Country MT 2.
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P265/65R18 112S
2116
2238
2348
2469
LT265/65R18 122 e-rated
1830
2180
2510
2835
3120...
And before someone is like, well dang, I'm getting 14-ply F-rated tires then, keep in mind that the load rating for ALL tires is measured at max pressure. Toyo makes a "regular" Open Country A/T III and an LT version. The regular support up to 11,024lbs between all four, and the LT support...
Hey! Heritage Blue brothers!
If you look at the sidewall there at 3 o'clock you see the important stuff (in small text closer to the sidewall.) 265/70R18 means the tread is 265mm wide, the sidewall is 70% of that (ie 185.5mm), its radial construction, and the hole is 18". From there is says...
1. I wouldn't be quick to go right to 10-ply because of one blowout. I would check what size those OEM tires were, because if they don't start with "LT" they're SL rated. Going from SL to E rated (10-ply equivalent) tires is more than doubling the structure. The Toyo LT 265/70/18 has more than...
Ah, I was thinking it was the tube that's broken. If it's just the tree that goes into the body, I would look for something like this https://a.co/d/45GLkML where there is a plastic tree w a zip tie on it