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

How long have you had the Stage 6 kit with the Delta joints on the UCAs? Too recent to give any feedback? Pretty interested since I have regular Icon uniballs and while they're fine right now, I think I'll need to replace in the next few years. The Delta joint seems like the happy medium of easy OEM balljoint maintenance but bad for lifts versus excellent uniball adaptability for lifts but (potentially) worse for maintenance. I just havent seen too many people run them to get any real world feedback yet.

 

Climb: Holcomb or Castle Rock?

 

I got her safety shoes

 

Yakima Timberline towers with Core 60" cross bars. Much more versatile then the factory cross bars.

 

Screwed up and had our new bed shipped out to the store instead of home delivery and the realized my straps are in my wife’s truck

 

I want these.

 

Haha! I still love my Eibach's but those Bilsteins are a whole different league. Our Eibach's are a great shock for the money. That Bilstein set-up is approaching $4k, but it's probably the best bolt on set-up you could buy for our vehicles right now.

 

Sandblasted and primed my skids today. Gonna paint them tomorrow or sundsy

 

Took her camping again. The woman too.

 

Sheepskin driver seat cover. Not cheap, took a couple of weeks to get, but I do like. I have Sand Beige interior so I went with the Sand color. If I were to do it over again I would have got their Tan color. It would probably be a closer match. First world problems......

https://www.covercraft.com/us/en/product/sheepskin-custom-seat-covers.CGT-GTSK

 

Wow it's like a Plush Toy!



Need a pic of what yours looks like.

 

Installed Sequential Mirror Lights from 4Runner Lifestyle on our 2021 TRD Venture.

The Venture Model comes all blacked out, except for the mirror lights and rear tail light side, which are chrome.

The Black Out Sequential Mirror Lights on the Venture Black Mirrors looks like it belongs there - No more flashy chrome!

Perfect size, shape and fit with stock mirror light, no extra screw needed to secure it, it just clips in where the stock light was. Foam weather seal was put on correctly and carefully.

Much brighter than the stock, even though these are Blacked Out and not the Smoke Grey. Amber color of the LEDS matches the Lasfit Amber Turn Signal bulbs I put in yesterday.

DOT and SAE on the plastic was a selling point.

Replaced the dim 5W puddle lights with Yorkim White LED bulbs while I had it apart - easy to do. Now I can see them light up (I had no idea they were even there).

Ended up removing the mirrors for the installtion and broke 1/2 of the 4 mirror tabs on one mirror, but still mounts back fine. Watch the top corner heated mirror plug if you remove the mirrors.


My only complaint is that they came with no paper instructions or plastic tool. For the extra price I paid for these ($90) - I had expected much better from this company. They did include a free window sticker!

I'm over 60 and I really hate companies these days that say go watch youtube videos for instructions, when they are too lazy or too cheap to add a piece of paper instruction or even post instructions on their own youtube channel (4Runner Lifestyle does not have instructions for these on their youtube channel).

So you have to watch a bunch of different amateur youtube videos from various people, and then go figure out the best method to install these. Some people on youtube remove the mirror, other's don't. Some people pull the top cover from the outside, others pull the inside, others push the tabs out from behind the mirror. It could be a costly mistake if you break off the tabs on the painted mirror cover or the bottom assembly.

Overall they get a 4/5 for design and style - 1 star for lack of instructions or a youtube instructional video.

 

Nothing to major yet but got this to pull a small off-road camper and small boat. Went with 3 ball as I don’t want to have to change it out.

 

I agree and feel your pain about the lack of good written instructions with these products. As anyone who has written operational, repair, or assembly documents will know, it takes some effort to write, edit, and ring out the steps yourself and with a human test subject. Responsible people do this because of pride in their products and to make happy customers who don’t need to contact them to figure it out.

The lazy thing to do nowadays is to post a link to an amateur youtube video which so dark and compressed you can’t see the detail you need.
BTW, I used the top cover removal method for accessing mirror guts. On a warm day when the plastic and clips are more pliable.

 

Looks good!
Literally

Looks good. Now you just need to do the tails. I just did my wife’s nightshade. Got rid of the last bit of chrome…

 

Get r done

 

Gonna build the frame this coming weekend

 

where did you get your AMD unit?

 

Finished painting up the cbi skids. Pulled off my diff skid and painted it to match. Going to let them dry for a few days before putting them on. I’ve had it in a bunch of deep mud lately so while all the factory skids are off, I’m going to pull off the bumper covers,fender flares, and the rocker panel moldings and clean everything real good and apply a fresh coat of wool wax to everything first. Also painted the pallet black per my wife’s request for some sort of decoration haha

 

Added some color to every panel minus the lift gate. Some pretty deep some will buff out.

contemplating moving forward with the wrap now and just knowing the wrap will get scratched too but at least it will take more of the brunt.

 

Thinking about line-xing The Who thing once mine gets bad enough

 

Just de chromed the tail lights on wife’s ‘21 nightshade.

 

Is it an illusion or is there almost no clearance to park in the garage?

 

Illusion haha… park a tundra in there as well

 

Saved $100 ordering individual parts for the TRD Cold Air System from my local Toyota dealer. Amazon won't ship this kit to California. Installed on my 2021 TRDP. Installation was pretty easy after checking out several YouTube how-to videos. The truck runs great.

 

Has anyone changed the door handles, mine are white and like to change them to a satin black?
I tried the covers but in time they started to fall off.

 

What process did you use to de-chrome?

 

Well, the process was pilling the credit card out and paying for them haha. All joking aside, my wife will not ( nor me to be honest ) for for the aftermarket tail light look. Really wanted to keep the oem look considering the brake is led from factory and I upgraded the entire inside and outside lights with HR. They are kinda of pricey but when I got them, they identical to factory. Made buy Depo and sold by USR out of California. There is a YouTube channel where I saw them being put on a 4Runner. Very pleased with the quality and gave me what we were looking for. Again, pricey but in person, it looks correct on her nightshade. I will say that if someone was to buy them, they gave me a promo code. I assume it’s still good.

 

I've been debating on these for a while. Did you go with straight oem or the module "tail as turn" just thinking out loud, I can't see a reason to do the "tail as turn" other than to annoy the person behind you

 

Yeah, I saw that was an option. For me, I saw no need for it. Hell, I didn’t even know what it was when I heard of it until I looked it up. Not for my wife. I bought the housing with no “add ons/extras” because I knew I was replacing the turn and reverse with HR bulbs. Those bulbs will get plenty of attention if you are behind.