T-Revv's T-Runner

Got it mostly done. Enough to make it Clovisfest and be a little show piece for our local 4 wheel drive club this weekend.

 

Got my sliders put on. I was a little particular about how I wanted them to come out so it took longer than I expected on a Friday night. But they came out good, and was ready for the trail the next day.

 

Went in with another member of the Four Wheel Drive Club of Fresno and closed down the Swamp Lake Trail for the season. Good first wheeling for the T-Runner. Had a good trip, I was very happy with the way it wheeled. and was super pumped about finally getting to wheel this rig. It was long awaited.

 

After that, got ready for Panamint Valley Days . So the shakedown run on swamp was good since now Ill be 6 hours from home and in the middle of the desert with this

 

Panamint went good. Did a lot of fun things in the truck that most others did not even want to try. Between the swamp lake run and the panamint valley run I realized how badly I really needed to trim my fenders. Also had some power steering issues, with a new power steering pump I had installed from Napa, rebuilt and put the factory pump back on, still more problems, so I bit the bullet and went with the PSC pimp kit. That was a great difference. Unfortunately I'm really bad at taking pictures, so the only picture of that I have is when we were in the process of mounting the new reservoir and the factory pump is still there. (will try to get a finished product pic for you later.) When I went to order the kit from PSC found out that Trail Gear undercut PSC on their own bracket for this application so much that PSC stopped making it so I had to buy the bracket from TG. Good Ol' TG... the hardware they send with their kit didn't even fit their bracket, so had to figure out my own hardware. But got it on there and was more than pleased with the outcome.

 

Now to address the fender rubbing issue as I was getting ready to go to Rubicon. Cut the fenders in the back as much as I could without getting into the fender wells, and cut the front fenders and had to cut out a small section of the firewall and weld a flat plate back in to have the room to clear the 37's.

 

Then it was Rubicon ready. Again, not good at taking pictures, especially of my own rig. I just dont get out and take pictures, while on the trail. But here is what I got.

 

Video of me going up Soup Bowl with Nathan from the Gear Shop spotting me. Took awhile and made a couple of mistakes, but got up.
https://youtu.be/vUqDkVt--v0

 

Some more pictures from Rubicon MCR18

 

That pretty much catches it up to now. I haven't done much more modifying since my trip to Rubicon last year, I have gone on a couple more trips, and Ill try to get some of those pics up

 

Great thread and great build up. Hats off to you.

 

I checked this morning, doing 65mp I was at 2600 RPM, 70 was about 2750.

 

Ok that’s perfect. I need 37’s.

Thank you.

 

Bad ass build Trevor!
Picking up a 91 5spd V6 runner early next month. Putting together my SAS list. Looking to go a fairly same route as this build.

 

Awesome. Let me know when you start it, Id love to follow the build on it. If you need any help or have any questions let me know.

 

Will do! Thanks!

 

Been trying to get it smogged lately. God What a headache. They all question my headers, even after I show them the paperwork on them, One guy traced my elocker harness from the engine bay to the diffs to make sure that I was telling the truth that all those wires are for diff lockers. Some shops wont do a smog on anything bigger than 33" tires. Each time they find a reason to not put my 4runner on their smog machine. Im like "run it, it will pass with flying colors" "well im just not sure about...(insert part name), so I dont want to do it." "trust me, I did everything by the book" "no I don't want to test this". So far 4 smog shops have turned me down.

 

Man, beautiful ! Very well done brother. She looks fun as all get out !

Get a P.O. Box in Pahrump and you’ll never deal with that smog again. Of course you’d have to run Nevada plates.