2021 Limited to TRD Pro front bumper swap

100% thanks to this group for all the resources, but here is my 2021 limited with the TRD pro front bumper swap. It was a little tricky with all the sensors. Roughly 6 hours of work and I am no mechanic. Next step is the skid plate.

 

Nice work

I did the complete transformation on my limited too.

 

Nice rigs!! I’m in the process of getting mine done, need to get parts painted.

 

do you mind measuring hub to fender .. I like your lift. It’s very leveled

 

Lookin' good!

 

Thanks, 22 1/2 front and 23 3/4 rear from center hub

 

Awesome

 

I see you have the TRD roof rack too. Do you plan on changing the tires and wheels too?

 

If that's a Limited it shouldn't have KDSS.

 

Yes I think he meant xreas

 

Your limited has kdss ?

 

I can’t believe how much difference a bumper swap makes. Its like turning a lexus into a Toyota with one change.

 

The way Toyota should of made it

 

Yeah it’s weird, but i see there marketing strategy, it makes it look all grown up. You get to choose, truck or lexus.

 

Yes but why not offer the limited with the same Sr5 or TRD bumpers ? Why reuse the older style rockers, rear bumper from 2010 ? Why make a new bumper and add chrome ?

 

Well, if he did then he shouldn't have to notch out his skid plate.

 

once he realizes he don’t have one, he won’t be notching anything

 

If you want it to look like a Pro, why not just save your pennies and buy a Pro?

 

Pro doesn't have ventilated seats, which is the one reason I'd pick a Limited.

 

it’s not that limited guys want to look like a pro, most just want to get rid of the ugly chrome bumper. Other then 2021 pros, limited have extra features that the pro didn’t have. Has nothing to do with saving extra pennies

 

Not sure what I want to do with it after, leaning hard on new wheels. But yeah the skid plate won’t fit on it now not sure if it’s KDSS or xreas. All I k ow is it doesn’t fit lol

 

it’s a limited so it has xreas. But xreas has no effect on the skid plate. What does not fit ?

do you have spacers and longer bolts ?

 

Hmm that’s odd. The holes were not lining up, thought I would have to do what they did here https://trail4runner.com/2017/09/20/5th-gen-4runner-trd-skid-plate-install-kdss/

It looks a lot like the photos in that link

 

can you take a picture of the skid plate area under the front of your truck.

 

Look behind the front driver side wheel. If your sway bar is not attached to a piston like this picture, you do not have KDSS.

 

This is with the factory skid installed

 

you don’t have kdss. I circled the sway bar solid brackets. For what kind of skid plate are you trying to install. I have a trd pro skid plate on my limited. Unless you did a diff droop, radiator support drop or sway bar drop, the trd pro skid plate bolts right up with the standard skid hardware

 

Awesome!! Thanks y’all, turned out I needed to remove the support braces.

 

Done!

 

Strange.. I never removed the radiator support brackets when installing my trd pro skid plate