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

Understand your POV, when you are born in an area hot or cold…. One’s body gets acclimated to that.
I grew up in the heat and humidity….
But I like the cold too, just have to have enough on to deal.

 

I never said it didn't have it's draw back. But given my choices, well, you already know.

 

Finally got my LFD roof bar kit installed. I have no need for a full rack but wanted to make the roof rails more useful for Home Depot runs, traction boards, beach stuff .





Edit: notice the light pole in the last pic . That’s from a hurricane.

 

Got Fluid Filmed

 

Wife (we) own 2 restaurants so we took a "road test" drive to see about opening tomorrow. Got in a little bind with some ice and snow, so popped it into 4Lo and it was easy peasy lemon squeezy!

 

you're a 911 dispatcher? Bless you!!! I don't have the patience....both sides, the ridiculous and the sad/heart tuggers.

And i hate winter also! But in MS (i know from living in Gulfport as a kid, i know the opposite side of the state) the summer humidity is killer too. But give me that any day over a blizzard.

 

I like those a lot.
Can I trouble you for a measurement? How far above the factory rail is the top edge of the mounting bracket?

 

They look different from the ones on my rig.

 

Hahaha! I have family in Texas. It's okay. But they do have tornadoes. In any case, either option is better than Cali at this point in time.

 

7/8”.

 

Few things done, wolfbox G900 Pro installed and wired up clean through headliner gasket and behind the spoiler. Cleaned up the roof rack wiring with the Blaze Off-Road Backbone harness to run 1 wire from the rack to control the BD s8 light bar/backlit function and both white/amber modes of the scene lights. Also added an AMPs A-Pillar Grab handle mount for GoPro or whatever else

 

Very interesting. Wondering how the functionality if it is better than the T-10 unit which is pretty popular. Would love for you to test things out and give an update.

 

Thank you.

 

Thanks! Appreciate the support.

It's always funny when I was in band at Ole Miss, we had a lot of folks from the Coast. And I mean a LOT. And what was so funny, people up this way think ANYTHING south of Jackson is "near the coast." Which while it is, it's like NO! One of my friends from the Coast always said you could tell a person from the Coast by the glow in their smile. Never fully understood that (even to this day).

 

I can relate. Whenever we go to South Florida (not Biloxi or Gulfport), I find I always have a smile on my face!

just sayin’

 

I like those a lot. Seem to be much more useful than the stock cross bars. Questions:

Aluminum extrusion version?
Do you have a measurement of the gap between the bottom of the fairing and the roof?
Wind noise at speed?

Thanks.

 

temperature rose to a balmy 7° C, so I washed the runner and rinsed frame.

 

Is that a claymore on the side of your roof rack?

 

Finally got my Raingler net today... Tired of this cold already. I have list of projects that I'm been waiting to do already (Remote Start, Anytime Camera, Raingler Net Install, some stereo upgrades). Spring is around the corner.

 

Same. I got a roof light bar and an auxbeam switch panel I wanna get put in. But damn! Mother Nature keeps leaving the room and coming back in saying, "Oh! And one more thing..."

 

I need to do this too. It's supposed to be about 7°C here this weekend, but it's barely above 7°F currently.

 

the black rectangular thing? that's a RacksBrax quick release mount, i use them for my awning on passenger side and shower enclosure on the driver side

 

It's 7* here, too. I said 9uck it and ran it through the touchless wash anyway. Glad I did it. I hate having a salty vehicle.

 

yeah that, oh I see, very cool!

 

Yes aluminum extrusion. Gap as I have it now is around 3/8” to 7/16”. Its adjustable. Probably be about half that at its low setting.
No wind noise that I can tell but my ears are pretty shot out . Wife didn’t notice any .

 

Playing around with the 3D printer (again…)

Left OEM, right modified prototype to fit water bottle

 

Used the 5th gen to go to the dealership to test drive the 6th gen TRD Off-road and TRD Sport Premium. Not that impressed and have no interest to buy. However very impressed that the TRD Sport was equipped with JBL sound.

 

Rumor has it that if you buy a 6th gen, you have to start wearing a fanny pack.


...don't be that guy.

 

The wife decided white wheels would look good on it…