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I can already see it in the comment section, people. How dare you compare a fifth generation Toyota forerunner to the legendary Straight Front Axle Land Cruiser 80 series. Well, unlike most people, I'm in a very unique position because I can almost guarantee that in the last ten years, I have put more miles on an incredibly heavily modified 80 series and an incredibly heavily modified fifth gen than most people will ever. 

I can say that pretty safely. There's not too many people that put 300K on an 80 series and then did every trail in the United States. I have. So there's that. But as time went by, I had pretty much lived out of that truck for years and have done every single trail. And she did every trail I ever pointed her at. No problem. My 80 series was like a Canon DSL. 

All I had to do was point and shoot, and that truck would get me there and get me back. Every time. Every time. In that footage, you just saw the truck's covered with red dirt on the side. Because earlier on Cane Creek in Moab, I tipped her over. We stood her back up and kept on going. But time doesn't wait for anybody. And as the years went by, there wasn't really much else I could possibly do with the 80 series. 

And it was time for a new platform. So I jumped over to a fifth gen forerunner. And I knew absolutely nothing about forerunners, except I had to build this into an absolute beast. I had to. Something had to fill the footprints of the green monster. So it began. And oddly enough, this video isn't actually the final build of my truck. This video is about a guy that inspired me to take what I thought was already a completely hands down Monster fifth gen, One of a kind build to the next level. 

One day, while doing research after finishing up my truck, everything is possibly done. And somebody posts a video called the Ultimate Forerunner. Hey, guys. Welcome back to Sandy Cats. So today we're going to talk about my 2019 TRD Premium Forerunner. This is the first foreigner platform I had. I overbuilt it like crazy. Wheeled it pretty hard. I broke a lot of parts, which you guys probably know from my other videos. 

And instead of doing the smart thing and removing weight, like, for example, I had a 400 pound rear bumper, which I'm still going to put a really, really heavy rear bumper on this, I decided to do my thing and overbuild it even more. So I'm on the East coast building a truck. Just to make it a one of a kind, bulletproof monster truck, it has to stand up and fill the shoes of the green monster. 

And I discover another guy on the exact opposite. He couldn't be any further away in California doing the exact same thing. But the strange thing about this is neither one of us are mechanics by trade at all. Neither one of us knew each other, and we were both building the identical truck. The only difference was, he's a rock crawler. Overlander. I'm an overlander. Rock crawler. So this video is going to get really in depth on his build. 

And when this video series on his build is done, I'm going to bring out the final one on my truck. So it'll be out in the next week or so. And if you want to see how to build a fifth gen that can actually hang with the big boys on the serious trails, you're going to want to listen close, because he goes in depth on this build, and there's a lot of subtle things that you won't see anyplace else. 

So I'm going to hand it over to Oleg. Here you go, brother. All right, I'm here with Oleg from Sandy Cats out in California once again. And last time we were here, you were working on the truck. But since I've seen you last, the truck has come along exponentially because last time she was sitting over here, you were still working on it. This timE, she just ran the Rubicon with a bunch of 80 series. 

No problem, bro. That's insane, dude. That is insane. So I'm stoked to see this. I'm glad I was able to make it back, and I'm glad you guys could spare the time. Let's start with the s end of the truck, because you tried to, what was it, two or three bumpers that you literally had built and designed? Is that accurate to say? I rebuilt redesigned aftermarket bumpers that were available and kept breaking them. 

What do you mean they kept breaking? What didn't you like about them? So my favorite bumper was the southern style of road bumper. It was like a tailgate on it, like this, which made it really usable. I broke the tire carrier on it. I want to say every 500 to 1000 off road miles was that with a 37 or just. That was with a 34? 34. 34. All right. 

And then eventually, I completely rebuilt that thing from scratch. Made it super heavy duty, super heavy weight. And the only way I was able to make it work is when I turned it into a 500 pound bumper. So that wasn't working for me. All right, so you showed this to me. And the first thing I saw. When you saw the C four bumper that I had on mine. 

You were impressed. And I was impressed that you were impressed. I was like, nice. Because almost 100,000 miles. It's still holding. The 37. No problem. Granted, I haven't done the Rubicon. But I've done a ton of off roads washboards. The stuff that usually shakes it loose. So far, so good. But it ain't this. I didn't even know this is what you had in mind. Can you explain this as deep as you want to go or whatever? Sure. 

And let me ask you one thing before I forget. You said the other bumpers failed. Did your wife's truck, the Lexus, get you damaged? Forerunner? The wife, forerunner. So she had expedition one bumper, which I loved. It was so usable, so user friendly. I'd say after maybe 2000 off road miles. Tire carrier started cracking. I re welded it, put on new gussets. And that transferred it to crack of the hinge another thousand miles later. 

Basically, I bent to the whole tailgate area of my wife's vehicle. And I can't fix it, or I don't want to fix it. I don't know, but I'm not going to fix it. And your wife's not happy. Your wife's vehicle is on 34s? Yes. Everyone else that was on a 34. The rest of the world will call them 35s. Because it's five and a half inches. No, it's six, I'm telling you. 

Is that the same vehicle that you actually did that race over at the king of the Hammers? I did a race on it with it, yes. And one. And one. That is gangster. That's the truck that you, myself and the 80 series did. Big Bear in white. Foreigner. Yes. All right. Cool. All right. At any rate, enough of that. Let's talk about this rear bumper and have at it. 

Sure. I love the C four. Just to be clear out of all the plug and play bumpers I've seen. I think C Four is fantastic. It's going to be the strongest. Holds the most amount of weight. I just didn't want something that heavy. And I wanted something super custom for my use. This bumper is like a pre runner style bumper that's tubular. Outgear solutions made the bottom end of it, and I loved it. 

And outgear solutions also made the top end. We just had it a little bit customized for me, and I'll kind of show you how it works. So, this handle, it's one of the biggest things for me, dude, is that titanium? That is titanium, yes. No way. More importantly, if you look over here. Take a look over here. You see that the entire weight of the vehicle fell on this section, this little section. 

Like, I popped off a rock over here. Popped off a rock over here. I see it popped off a rock, and I hit my entire weight. The guy behind me said he saw sparks flying everywhere, and it didn't break. It didn't break, and it still functions. No problem. And, I mean, come on, man. I mean, the evidence, the proof is in the pudding. Standby. So, you bounce off a rock, you catch it right here, and you finished up right here. 

All the weight and throwing sparks, and it still works. Yes. That is one hell of a wow. Right? So, I'll show you how it kind of works. Very simple. You just pull the pin up, and that's a safety pin. But that's it. You just open it up. It's smooth as hell. And that's the bumper. My biggest thing that I wanted, and I don't recommend this for everybody, is a single swing out. 

A single swing out is very difficult to deal with for a daily driver. Hard to open this up in a parking lot. And I think I got, like, 400 pounds of weight on this, and it's handling a no problem. But I wanted that because I wanted a really big trade ship. So now with the single swing out, I have a full size table to work with, and that's important for me. 

I got to open this up really fast. Cool. Just to grab something. All right, so, while you're getting that ready, when you say that this setup is exactly what you wanted, you just did a two truck, whole family, two weeks off the beaten path. Three weeks, three weeks total in Idaho. Yes. And proved all this. So, not only did you do the Rubicon in this, doing a little bit of test proof. 

I mean, doing the Rubicon in a forerunner, when you're running with 80s is usually a bad day. It's a bad day, especially when you're built out like an overlander. Right. So, this is going to be in another video. Our trucks are just about identical. That's how I met you. I'm sitting there. I saw the video, the ultimate forerunner. I'm like, who says things like that? And I went, hey, that's what I'm doing. 

You know what I mean? But yours is crawling, offroading, overlanding. Mine's overlanding, offroading, crawling. Exactly the slight differences. But this bumper I couldn't pull off in overlanding. I couldn't get away with this because I'd be too limited in too many places. But for what you do, it's mint. Now, this is just poetry in motion. This is the smartest setup I've seen. And the only good thing about my nomadic lifestyle is I meet a lot of people with ridiculous amounts of build. 

So go ahead, brother. For me, it was getting a fast kitchen, because I have a wife, and I have at the time, two and four year old, now three and five. Yeah, you lost one of those on the trail. If anybody sees his kid, we're just kidding. And I need it fast. I need it super fast. And this is what I built out. Basically, I popped this open, and my wife desperately wanted hot water, instant. 

So, bam, that's all I got to do. And it's always is connected to a propane tank in the back. Just give it a second, let it heat up. You can see a fire going, and that's it. I mean, it's hundred. You could touch that. Richie, tell me if it's hot. I'm a plumber, so I know what an instant hot is. Super hot. It's instantly hot. So now we can wash dishes, do everything we need as far as cooking. 

On the other side, I have another button over here for more water. So on the other side, I have another water system that we get instant drinking water. You could control the water flow as well. So you can conserve water as little as you want. So we use that side for cooking, this side for washing ourselves, and so on, and for drinking water. That's kind of how we roll. 

And this is the same setup that you were selling to the military. These things have been flying off the shelves. Yes. That is a killer setup. A motorized jerry can. I mean, you can't ask for better than that. We will leave a link in the description below, if that's cool with you. Yeah. You don't mind for a little bit of self from promotion? Yeah, we sell the cap. 

Everything's built in the cap. So the whole point of this is you have this water system. You also have shower attachments and whatever. We're not going to probably show that, but there's a lot of attachments. And you just switch the cap. So if you have five tanks like this. You keep switching the cap, you don't have to deal with pouring water. That's what makes it really cool. That is smart. 

While we're back here, you know what I mean? While we're back here, I'll show you really fast. The trash bag. I don't know why, but the trash bag for me was such a headache because every single system was either too small, too big, and I kept having to take out the trash bag every night to deal with bears and throw it in the car. Then I found this one. 

I will give you the name because I don't remember what it is. And all you do is unhook it here. Unhook it here. And now I could take this, throw it in the car, and not worry about bears and stuff. Plus, it seals, like, a waterproof bag, right? So it's super functional. And I prefer this over anything now. I mean, it took me a while to figure this out, but I love it back here. 

I also have. This is for my hot water heater. This is my diesel. I basically have a diesel heater. And I keep my diesel on the outside. I could extend it. I clip it in. Bam. Diesel. So everything is on the outside now. Did all of this work as planned on the road? Everything worked as planned on the road, 100%, except for on the Rubicon. One night, the diesel line froze. 

So I'm probably going to find a way to insulate this a little bit. But this line actually froze on the Rubicon. There's got to be an additive that goes in there, too. I don't know. Something like that. I wouldn't have imagined diesel fuel would have froze. I didn't either. But it has plugs. I guess that's what that means. This is a very functional and worst case scenario if you've got to pull this apart because you got to get your spare, it's not a big deal. 

These straps, everything is just strapped. I love these. Beautiful. I forgot the company that makes them. Roller cam or something. These straps are like, they're solid. I trust them. You put them on once, and they just hold. I don't know why. I also have a high lift here hidden pretty well. I know high lifts are, dude, I love high lift. My high lift, I have no issue with it. 

A high lift is like an ex girlfriend. Treat it correctly, or it'll kill you 100%. And I've been hitting the head over the high lift once. Yeah. And I've been hitting with an ex once. It's all good. So going back here. Let's just take a minute to just drink this all in. Dude, that is a beautiful setup, man. Wow. Because, I mean, I was here last year at this exact time. 

I had just finished up with some company. I think it was stellar. Belt. Well, it took me from last year till now to get the truck squared away. But now that I'm back, this is the third iteration. This is eight months of work. Just as for getting it dialed in, building it, and, like, powder coating it, powder coating took two days. This is eight months of work and blood, sweat and tears, and, I don't know, at least 1000 pounds of metal to get to this point. 

But I'm stoked. I'm happy. So is this all your design, or is this their design with you modifying on top of it? Both. Yeah. So outgear, in my opinion, there's other companies out there, right, that do tubular bumpers? I'll tell you right now. Like Wenworks, I wouldn't promote them because they're beautiful, but they shake like crazy. That's what you had on the white truck when I didn't. I never had that one. 

Was it on this one? No, I never had that bumper. I just know very well I would say that's the one that people decide when works or out gear. Wenworks is a little bit lighter. It's a little bit prettier. It sucks here, but it shakes. When I saw this bumper, I'm like, okay, this may actually work. And when I went out to the guy's factory, I paid him full price online because I didn't want to ask for any discounts. 

And then after I paid him full price, I went to him and I'm like, hey, can I actually see this in person before I commit to waiting eight months on a design? And this thing is rock solid. It's insane. And I realized it's not going to shake at all. And therefore, that's why I got it. And then we modified the table to it. We did a little bit of modifications. 

The handle came out. We were kind of like working on a handle thing. And I'm happy. I'm stoked. So how about this? Let me say this a different way. If somebody sees this setup and wants to buy it, can you make that happen? Because I know you, this is just a small part of the shop, but notice the new plasma table. Clearly you guys are not messing around. 

I'm not messing around, but I'm not going to take anything away from outgear. Right now with outgear, I think you could buy this whole setup. I don't think you could get this table yet, though. But I know that they're going to be working on an option to sell this type of table to the masses very soon. COOL. We'll leave a link to them as well. AND YOU'RE HAPPY WITH THEM? Everything's worked out well. 

This is insanely happy. ALL RIGHT. So much like myself, I think that was one of the reasons we decided to actually meet in person, is that you refused to let anybody work in your truck. Because every time, no matter the dollar amount, no matter the time, no matter the promises, no matter the reviews, they fucked you pretty well. OKAY, SO I'LL TELL YOU THIS. I've been jeep. I got a jeep behind you on Forty S and back in 2012, I had zero problems with shops. 

When 2016 rolls around, 2017 rolls around, everybody's getting a lot of work. They don't have time to do custom jobs. Every shop that I went to with my Jeep initially, I think Huntington Beach Jeep had, like, a shop in the back, too. Charged me crazy amount of money and just band Aids everything. No actual time into thought into how to fix a problem, they just band aid it. 

AND THaT'S WHAT I HAD WITH THE JeEPS. THEN I GOT THE ToYota. And when I wanted to do plug and play stuff, there's a great shop, and I love this shop. And I'll say, this shop is the only shop I still go to for, like, alignment stuff. RPM garage, they did great stuff. But when it comes down to doing a heavy modification, things that require a lot of parameters, where your suspension, you got to think about how one part is going to flow with another part. 

I just haven't found, and I tried and I haven't found a shop that will do that for you other than just bolting things up, hoping everything works, and sending you out the door. RIGHT. And you go to a real reputable shop like RPM, they'll tell you straight up, like, we'll do some of this work for you, but we're not going to do it all for you. BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH THOUGHT. 

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MONTHS and years of thought to go into building a rig like this. In reality, a real solid forerunner, fifth generation forerunner, a soccer mom car that can literally hang with 80 series on the Rubicon, rolling 37s with a Dana 60. So that led to the shop. I mean, honestly, I had no plans on having a shop. I was hoping to just give my job. I was hoping to give my forerunner to a shop and get it back like this. 

And once I realized that's just not a reality, unless at least from every single shop I know it's not a reality. I got this shop and I spent about a year building it. I don't know. And in that year's time or more, I don't know how much More research you've done on other things like rooftop tents, but you've developed your own products, not just the Shower tent. You've also got probably one of the Sickest. 

Tow rope. Yeah, kinetic recovery ropes. Kinetic recovery rope. Advertisement I've ever seen. You took that giant Escalade out front, tied it to a tree and then sent it. I did that like 40 times, by the way. And I did that on the Jeep too. And I actually broke some ropes too. But it was just a fun time. Yeah. I mean, this whole Sandy CaPS Adventure thing has started about two and a half years ago from me, just like telling people the truth about stuff. 

And then I did the Showers and I tried to tell people how to build themselves. Eventually that turned into a business, Ropes. I was just trying to test ropes and show the market the people difference in quality on ropes. And that turned into a small little business. And the biggest project that we're working on is rooftop tents. And that's always been my idea for two and A half Years. 

Rooftop tents. And I wanted a rooftop ten design. It's hard to explain this. Don't explain it yet, but I'll say this, nobody's done this yet. You're going to make it so that people can customize these themselves to fit their particular vehicle Easily. Leave it at that. More to come. Okay. Don't put it out there because someone's going to hear it. They're going to try to steal it. I Hate to see that happen. 

All right, so let's take a look. This isn't strictly an overlander. He does not have the rooftop tent strapped to the top, but otherwise he has everything else. So really fast overlanding stuff. More this fridge slide. To get this to work, I had to cut up my fridge. I had to cut up the slide to get it all to fit, but it fit. This came after my big trip with my family because we had the tilt and slide fridge, which I've used for three years and I loved it, but my wife wasn't happy because you got to lift the whole fridge up and it's like 80 pounds of weight plus and ten times a day when you got kids. 

So finally installed this. This works on a shock, so it just goes right up and goes because the other ones, the ones that tilt out, you actually have to bear the weight to pull it up for only a quarter second. Right. But still, with kids and a wife, it's not great. You want to make this whole process as enjoyable as possible so you can get out in the dirt. 

Exactly. Period. Exactly. Well said. Yeah. Like exactly what Richard said before I did this build. My wife said she'd go with me for three, four days. Now she goes with me for three weeks and she's happy. So that's what matters to me. Over here. I got extra batteries back there. Actually, I should probably show the electric. So these are front runner straps. Took me a while to figure it out, but I love them. 

The stratchets. Yeah. They're awesome. They're awesome. I didn't want to spend $40 a strap. They are awesome. They're holding everything in my truck down. This is my diesel heater. Nice. Mine's at my house. I wish it was here. And you love the front runner wolf patch, right? Yeah. Backup battery. These are the fire pit thingies that you do. Propane fires. Honestly, I never use these. I don't know what it is. 

It makes a campfire. You connect it for painting. It makes a campfire. It's good for places in California where it's illegal to have campfires. It's everywhere, brother. It's not just Idaho. Idaho was legal everywhere. Everywhere. Idaho, Colorado. Most of the places I went through so far this year, there was a fire ban. But what I like to use this for is when I need to make a fire and I have. 

All my wood is wet, I just throw it on top and I dry it out really fast. There you go. There you go. And then I got about 120 pounds of tools here, so don't I. It's a habit. Yes, it's a habit. I'd rather deal with that and then have one less person in the truck. And then I have a full electrical system over here, which includes a battleborn, a red arc, and just a full electrical build out. 

I've been carrying a spare red Arc 1250 since I was here last time. I almost literally just gave it away. The next day it failed and I had to swap it out in the parking lot. My entire electrical system went down two years in the back. All conditions, elevations. I'm not complaining. Yeah, no, I get it. But, yeah, you know, electrical is important. No matter. So I do carry this guy as a backup. 

And the only time I ever use this is if I take my Starlink. So I could go away and plug the Starlink in this. Otherwise, I never use this. But I carry it as a backup because I don't want to kill a three week trip and go home early. I believe almost all of us have an ecoflow. It's a good form factor, and they hold it charge forever. 

And then I have my goose gear drawer system. I love goose gear. I have my goose gear drawer systems here with all my camping stuff. Pretty much always running like this. Yes. This jet boil. Yeah, I got one, too. I love it, man. I bought that partner steel one, $400 partner steel stove, and I hated it. Me, too. I love this because the adjuster, you could adjust the flame. 

You can cook two pots for real, like, in real life. You know what I mean? So, yes, it takes up a lot of room in the drawer, but it's worth it, I think. And then I have a bunch of these MSRs because one for coffee, one for tea, one for milk for the kids. Now, when you're not offroading or thinking about offroading or thinking about thinking about offroading, I'm dead. 

You do crazy Things like ice climbing and mountaineering, right? Yes, I've been mountaineering. I've been rock climbing since I was a kid. Then I started mountaineering last year. We've done, like, the biggest one I did, I guess, was Pico de Rozaba in Mexico. It's like 18,000 a couple of months ago, I'd say. But, yeah, I do all that stuff, and I do search and rescue for La County Mountain Search and Rescue. 

So I'm the guy that usually goes up in the snow and ice, try to rescue the idiots that went up there without. Right. So is that the. That's the overlanding setup. That's the rear end. Okay. Yep. It looks the way you set it up, too. It's very SEMA friendly. SEMA friendly. And I was supposed to be at SEMA this year, but then were you. How come you didn't go? I got invited for, like, a top ten builder vote thing on this truck, and last minute, my budy said they want to do the Rubicon. 

And I'm like, do I want to sit five, six days in a Vegas hotel waiting to get my truck back from SEMA, or do I want to spend three or four days on the Rubicon? And I just went on the Rubicon instead. It's awesome that your truck got picked, because that means if my truck was up there, chances are it would have been close by. Maybe I wouldn't have watched me. 

Like, I sold all the trucks after the event, I would have got, like, 7th place. I just learned this recently. A lot of the truck at SeMA come on a flatbed, 100%. There are trucks with things bolted on, but you can't actually drive. So I was on the phone. Kind of lame to me. I was on a zoom call with the other competitors, and they're all talking about bringing their trucks on and enclosed trailers, $5,000 car washes, and so on. 

And I'm like, I'm just going to drive my truck out there. And that's when I realized it's probably not the right competition for me. I'd rather be at the Rubicon. I got to change back. So this side has all my recovery gear, which is a lot of stuff, actually. Okay. These are for my lights. Shovels. Love this shovel. They don't make them anymore, but this is the smartest design for a shovel ever. 

Axe saw with a backup blade. Very important, because you never know when you're cutting trees to get to the trail. Another backup saw. But somewhere in here, all my recovery ropes. But my newest addition, which I'm so stoked to have, is my welder. Bun trail welders. Wow. And when we were on the Rubicon, one of the 80 series broke their Panhard bar, which is common. Did it rush right off the axle, by chance? No, it broke in the middle. 

Okay. And what we did is we used this, and we used four wrenches, welded the wrenches around, and that's how we got off the trail. It worked the whole time, and it welds to dense metal, no problem. This welder is insane. All right, I got to get. Send me the link. I didn't know that was it. I thought it was a totally different super. It plugs right into your batteries. 

I'm talking about the box. No, that mounts in the truck, then you bring the leads off it. But I've seen Rory use that. I think. I think I saw. But that just goes right into your batteries. You just clamp it onto your batteries, and that's it. That is sweet. Don't forget the gear on top of your truck, because I'm going to have you pull the truck out in a minute. 

Okay. Due to my location, I'm going to limit this video to 30 minutes. But part two and the final chapter to this, where we cover the engine, suspension, interior, and everything else will be out within the next three or four days. And then after that, the final walk around of my entire build will be out as well. So make sure you hit that subscribe button. Hit that thumbs up and leave a comment below and I will return the favor. 

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