October 2019

Four Wheeler

Four Wheeler Magazine Addresses the Technical and Lifestyle Interests of Four-Wheelers and Their Vehicles.

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Four- and Six-Cylinder Engines in Fullsize Pickups: Yes or No?
“Why would I buy a pickup truck with anything but a V-8?” This was recently said to me by a reader who was incredulous at the proliferation of 1⁄2-ton pickup trucks with an array of non-V-8 options. His opinion of anything other than a V-8 was clearl
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Inbox
I enjoyed reading the Trail’s End article at the end of the May 2019 issue of Four Wheeler. I decided I should write to you about my family’s Scout, a trusty companion of 38 years. It started one cold and wet day in 1981 when at the age of 10 I flew
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Rpm Automotive News
You might already know the performance Ford Mustang RTR, and now there’s an F-150 RTR with off-road aggressiveness built into its looks. It has Fox Performance Series 2.0 suspension components, custom 20-inch RTR Tech 6 off-road wheels with Nitto Rid
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Parts Rack
ARB has given its current Classic Fridge Freezer an update and now offers the Classic Fridge Freezer Series II, which incorporates a new color scheme along with added features. The Classic Fridge Freezer Series II has a dimmable, backlit touchpad for
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Red Rock Revelry
THOUGH MANY EYES OF THE OFF-ROAD COMMUNITY WERE FOCUSED ON THE seven-slotted inhabitants of Moab, Utah, during the 2019 Easter Jeep Safari, it was hard to avoid the fullsize machines chugging through the trails. What started eight years ago as a clos
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The Doughnut Truck
SCOTT NORBRYHN HAD WHEELED THE TRAILS around Big Bear, California, with various rigs, including an ’88 Toyota pickup and a Jeep Cherokee on 37s, but he wanted something different. His search led him to a warehouse in Long Beach, California, where he
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OFF-ROADING & OVERLANDING LIGHTING PRODUCTS
A WORD YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE reading this story: lumen. Our faux-technical definition is: It’s a unit of measurement regarding the light you see. The higher the lumen number, the more light output. You probably already know LED stands for light-emit
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Doubling down with a 4 Speed Atlas Transfer Case
A HARSH REALITY WE KNEW COMING INTO OUR ’01 CHEVY S-10 BUILD WAS THAT MOST OF THE upgrades we would perform would essentially rob the vehicle of power in some way. While gearing our Dana 60 front and 14-bolt rear axleset with 5.38 Nitro Gears helped
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2019 Four Wheeler Overland Adventure
THEY CAME FROM ACROSS the United States with unique and well-equipped machines—these are the friends and four-bys of the first-ever Four Wheeler Overland Adventure. Our exciting, first-ever, three-day overlanding trip began with registration in Wicke
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PROTECT & SERVE
BUILDING OFF-ROAD VEHICLES IS OFTEN ABOUT sacrifice. We trade paychecks and fuel economy for bigger tires, weight at the scales for winches and armor, and we might even give up highway privileges just to run that sought-after engine swap. When crafti
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Backward Glances
THE JEEP STORY HAS BEEN TOLD A THOUSAND times. If you included every detail in a book, it would be as long as Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Fortunately, it can be divided into chapters, and we’ll call this one: “When Willys Overland Got the Brass Ring.” W
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2018 Land Rover Discovery HSE Luxury
WE CAN’T RECALL A TIME when we had more of a love/hate relationship with a long-term test vehicle. Let’s address the elephant in the room. This particular ’18 Land Rover Discovery was not without problems. In fact, it spent several weeks of our evalu
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Techline
Q I’m 42 and all I’ve ever been into is cars. I moved to Pennsylvania about 12 years ago, 30 minutes from Paragon before they closed it. I never ever heard of a front axle being called a “front rear” before moving here. Have you ever heard of such a
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Mobile Mansion Built for Iceland Exploration
Just before writing this story, we had recently been in Moab, Utah, where we wheeled with Tiger LeBrun. Tiger’s 4x4 ’65 Chevy van graced Trail’s End earlier in the year, and he was piloting yet another lifted Chevy van through the Moab trails. Shortl

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