So I heard my truck was being discussed so I thought I would stop in and give my 1.5 cents
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There was no re-gear on the LR4.
Motor was swapped due to the original being a large awkward paperweight.
There was some minor trimming to the flares, body seams were rolled over in the fender well and the swap of the front bumper helped a ton. Really not much more than we do on the LR3 to fit the bigger tires.
There was some rubbing but nothing severe.
33’s are the minimum I would have recommended for this event I would not have done as well or gone as far on my daily driver tires of 32.6”. I think the narrower tire 275/65 would have sank a lot more than the wider tire did. It was amazing how much better the truck felt with the larger contact patch. My truck did fantastic for the most part but as some of have said I drug my tail on an obstacle and popped my cover. I did bury the truck in mud heavily and killed something in my Warn Winch on the last day.
That being said it was a hell of a trip. I had to winch a few times the LR4 only had to winch once, that I recall and that was the mud hole that claimed my Warn winch as it’s *****.
I will happily answer anything I know about the LR3/4/RRS that y’all want to know.
Other that that, Rover has now finished and I think we impressed a few folks along the way outside of the our community
