What have you done to your 5th Gen 4Runner today?

Good deal!
Reminds me of a few years ago with my old Pathfinder when TLG (The Lovely Girlfriend) asked, "Did you get new tires? This rides SO much better!"

 

Yeah, the tires already got that reply, the suspension when we hit the speed bumps and potholes today got the wtf, and was quite happy to hear it. You always see it yourself but it’s a whole nother thing when you hear it from another person.

 

Working on winter projects.

Drilled holes in an extra set of crossbars for Maxtrax pins. Next up is to drill holes to mount up the Pelican case. I plan to run 3 or 4 crossbars when I have these on the roof and the nice thing with the '10 to '13 4R Trail crossbars is that they can be removed without having to slide them out the rear of the roof rails.


2nd is testing the EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus I picked up Black Friday. Running my Engel fridge for the last 3.5 days via DC which draws about 30-36W while the compressor is running. They're sitting on the platform that goes in the cargo area that I built a couple years ago. Added the carpeting on it recently.

 

So...I have this kit which happens to be quite similar to what you're looking to do SS5 Stealth


Another optional bracket, meant for lightbars but can be easily modified by adding a crossbar member between the two mounting brackets. Attaches a bit differently than the SS5 kit (which I couldn't re-use as the crashbar was removed for my winch install.)

Stealth Lightbar Kit For 2014-2019 Toyota 4Runner



Another method for behind the grill mounting, with a little modification for non-light bar lights... HIDDEN GRILLE LED LIGHT BAR MOUNTING BRACKETS FOR 2014-2024 TOYOTA 4RUNNER

 

Drove the SR5P to church this morning!

 

New shoes finally rid of those crappy dunlops!

BFG Trail Terrains 265 70s

 

Looks slick. I couldn't convince myself to take the front end apart, so I went about it differently. I'll have some pics to post tomorrow.

 

If it’s of any assurance, pulling the front bumper assembly really is not that difficult, Diode Dynamics has a really good installation tutorial for the second ‘Lightbar’ kit that I linked above. First time it took me about 10 mins, subsequent work less than 5 (honest!). The only tricky part is bearing down on how much tugging it takes to separate the clips along the front of the wheel wells…it’s all gravy after that. And oh, disconnect the fog lights (connector is behind the bumper’s drivers side) before you start tugging!

 

Thanks dude, the process had me frustrated a couple times but I know how it’s done now!
I followed what YouTube buddy said and sprayed the microfiber, not directly into throttle body because it can go through engine and could damage cat converter apparently. Went well besides me unknowingly breaking a plastic clip on the electrical harness connector, realized when I put it back on..might need e-tape haha

 

I envy those who invested in grille lighting mounting brackets, I straight up tie strapped to the inside of the grille itself and called it a day LOL. Mine are small cheap lights tho

 

Got into some snow with the new shoes tonight. It was only a couple inches but I really had to try to spin the wheels in 2 hi. The couple times I got her going sideways traction control ruined my fun. Really impressed by these tires so far. So much better than the AT20s they replaced.

 

Circled in red is the remaining grime I didn’t get off, but the whole ring looked black like that

 

My rig is fast approaching 50K, I better get on this and check the MAF sensor too!

 

Ya man probably not a bad idea, I’m at 65k miles! The two sprays costs less than 15 Canadian pesos each at auto parts stores (including a discount)

 

Filled up with gas at 2.97 today lol imagine paying more that 3 dollars for gas in 2025

 

It's $3.35 here

 

Filled up for $2.34 a gallon.

 

Dipped the rims while I search for some used semas on marketplace.

 

clear cool night so I uploaded a short video just now to the youtubes showing direction of chopped exhaust pipe fumes. pretty happy with this mod

https://youtube.com/shorts/qfYQRnOaLrM?si=KrXnQ5l72R2NKj4F

 

Finally got some snow in our area. It’s been a while but happy I was able to enjoy some 4wd drifts tonight

 

Nice and Smooth. I have to redo mine after the new tires.

 

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

Two words: Absolutely. Not.

 

Added these

 

I can beat that. Gas at the Kroger near me was at $2.75/gallon (for 87). I used my Kroger gas points and got it knocked down to $1.50/gallon for 87 Octane. I got 20 gallons of gas for $30!

 

Snow

 

One time I used my work credit card to buy gas for my truck and it ended up costing me ZERO DOLLARS for a full tank because I never got caught!