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This Florida boy was thrown into snow wheeling when I was stationed in Iceland for four years. I had to learn really quick how to drive in the white stuff. I'm talking driving down roads that had snow as high as the hood type of driving. The first trick I learned was to never go fast. Doing so will send you on top of the snow. You will sink down into the snow once you lose your forward momentum....then you are stuck. The second thing I learned was to stay in 2x4 until you get stuck and then shift down to 4x4. If you cruise in 4x4 and get stuck....then you are stuck. I would drive in 2x4...get stuck and then pull myself out using 4x4. The other thing I learned trying to get myself unstuck onetime when I was in 4x4, and the ice slung me off the roadbed into the snow and I bottomed out. We jacked up the Jeep, dug out the snow from under the Jeep for clearance and dug out the deep divots and put rocks in them for traction. I had an idea......put chains on the front to pull me out. IT WORKED!!!!! I left them on the rest of the day and didn't get stuck again. I ended up putting them on back on the base to pull people out when the Rocky Road Four-Wheelers club was called out during massive snowstorms to pull people out. These are the top snow wheeling tricks I learned and live by during the winter. Thanks for the great video.

Looks like the road I live on 😂...

Snow tyres, Nokian Hakkapeliita is the best of them all. Then get chains, studded chains. Those two and you're good.

Selfish a holes destroying fauna

Love the humor. Sometimes locks and security are overrated 😊

3:43 these tires are lifted due to IFS. Not driver

What trail were you on?. Im definitely looking at doing some snow wheeling this winter

Great tips in this video. Thank you for posting!

sick video, good tips

Glad that was your 4Runner not mine

What is best in snow and ice??? I live in Colorado and have a 2024 TRD off-road Premium. Any vids explaining this?

I have just found your channel and you are so helpful! Thank you so much. Will you continue to make videos?

Just downsized from a 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon to a 2024 CrossTrek Wilderness. First mod will be skid plates. During my research phase, I noticed many popular skid plates are large, restrictive panels with poor ventilation and rather thin aluminum. I feel like skid plates have become more of a cosmetic trend than a form of protection. It’s becoming increasingly more rare to find a solid, functional plate with minimal branding.

Hey brother great video. Hey question, I bought an 2023 sr5 4Runner to the lack of availability of TRD off-road. I’m thinking about putting a rear locker in it. Since you are an expert in, can you tell a which aftermarket lockers works good as a factory rear locker?

Which hitch mount is the silver 4Runner using??

“I hate when he s right” puhahahahhahaha😂😂😂

You can’t laugh and make fun of the sticks idea… but yea I have had to do this and it worked!! My family and I got two vehicles stuck pulling off the off the road, idiotically, into a muddy area while it was raining. Me and my brother stood there in the rain for a bit trying to figure out what to do. We were not in built rigs, had absolutely no gear, or experience, so I came up with a genius idea to gather sticks and brush from the surrounding bushes and plants.. and I do mean sticks not branches or logs. Put them around all the tires and we got two totally unequipped vehicles out of spinning mud. So yes it is possible, could help in a pinch.

This helped alot. I am building my 1st outlanding rig. I was in the edge of do I really need them but then the dude smoked that massive rock trying turn. This just solidified that I need some. Will be going with some Aluminum ones as that's all I can find as of now for the Outback Wilderness. 😅

Checking in and checking up.....hope all is well.

Is your front radar deactivated?

Your biggest problem is those horrible ko2’s. Those things are like skates. Remember a hard compound that lasts a long time is horrible on ice. Softer compounds for the win.

I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and I definitely know what not to do in the snow.

Great video! Thank you I just bought my first Toyota, a 24 TRD OR. The systems are a little confusing. That cleared it all up!

I've never seen a real man slide off a straight road like that before. I would expect it with a female! That's what I think of you!

Great Vid. 30 plus years of repairing these ARB Airleakers has pretty much paid off my house. They also (10 + yrs back?) 'standardised' a lot of the locker centres, leading to (in a lot of cases) a much smaller set of side gears/pins etc than what was in the original and earlier ARB centres. Edit - as clean and meticulous as you do the install.... wont help with any bearing /gear material that will (not a matter of if) end up destroying either the 2 quad O'rings or the bigger actuator seal. If there's an option for fitting a TJM ProLocker , go with one of those instead. No centre 'shrinkage,' no O'rings on moving parts.

GREAT explanation!

A-Trac is great.

Stay out of the salt water especially with a body on frame vehicle.

What is that moulding on Steve's front end where he high clearanced the front fender called?

I've got a 2013 Jeep JK & 2018 Jeep JL, both with Teraflex 60's under them and ARB's F&R, 42" tires, 5:19's and weight about 6000-6200 lbs, I have a 53 Willys CJ3B, 9" rear w/spool, Dana 44 front with Yukon Zip Locker (air), 5:89's, 40" tires, #3400 lbs and a 2000 Toyota 4Runner with rear E-locker and front lunchbox locker. In the last 2 years I've had 4 of the 5 air lockers fail while on the trail and then fail again after repairing them. I carry everything to rebuild one on the trail. The Zip locker is the least reliable of the air lockers. The 3 jeeps have a grand total of maybe 20,000 miles on them. 2 of them are just off road rigs and the JL only has 10K on it. My 2000 4runner is about to pass 330,000 miles, 3.4l, TRD black supercharger on it, URD 7th injector and bunch of mods. I have wheeled the living crap out of this 4 runner, especially the last 3 years or so. It's seen hard abuse for 33" tires. The E-locker in the runner has never failed me, ever. It always works, even after blowing the seal out of the rear axle and running it low on fluid and filled with water on an occasion. It always engages with a little slip of a tire but has never been an issue. A good mechanic can bypass some of the features to get the locker to engage when you want it at any speed in high or low range.

Wow! Hey, enjoy your channel. Take care of each other so we can continue to enjoy more content from BOTH of you.

That's a tough looking track. Those rocks can easily puncture a tire!

Great job in making this video 👍👍👍

doesn't the front one break with a locked differential if you do it right and left?

Hi, you mention in the video the "front" locker"? I thought the 4Runner 5th gen only has a rear locker?

Where did you film this? It’s a beautiful location.

Right on sir 👍I've been there a few times one time i drove over the top of a closed road gate and had no clue it was even there then after driving a few miles I got stuck for 2 days in 5 feet of snow

So if I’m on the beach in 4 hi and put it on mud and sand if I exceed 7 mph it will turn off multi terrain select mud and sand and it will just be in 4hi ?

I keep seeing an orange backboard strapped to 4runners, including your video. What is this for?

These guys have a great sense of humour

Where can you go that this is allowed? Most coastlines I've been on are private or protected.

Late to the party...Stock 4Runner appropriate for this bit of the ORBDR?

14:58 looks a lot to me like he smashed his front end into the road. Lol. Great video. Thanks for posting :-)

ko2 sucks man. They are tough, but in snow, ice and rocks, they are skates. A softer compound is better for offroading. Yes, maybe a little less miles out of them, but its definitely worth it.

You ought to know 1985 was the last year Toyota offered a front live axle. You cannot say you have a front locking axle on any Toyota after that year unless you preformed a solid axle swap.

wait you said you have a live front axle and a locker on the front of that vehicle at 5:00 in?

Pro level overlanders.

I’ve heard good things about the Eaton but I’ve never owned one. If you get one, I’d be interested in your thoughts on it.

Love the banter and pranking, plus fantastic knowledge too. Cheers guys from Oz 🇦🇺👍

Do 4runners offer true front lockers from the factory?