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Hi all, just purchased a 2nd gen from my mom, shes been trying to sell it for a while and the money she got from it is being used to rebuild my late uncles 89 E30 BMW and I figured we've had the 4runner in the family for quite sometime so I decided to purchase it and keep it in the family. I used to have a 3rd gen and it was nice had no issues with it, this has been pretty modified suspension wise, little by little I'll be doing a bit of maintenance on it. I do plan on keeping the lift, had the front and rear end rebuilt. I plan on doing some interior upgrades to add some modern features.

 

Welcome......I dig the rig. Looks sweet as is to me.

 

Welcome. Nice 4Runner. Those look like 40” tires. She a pavement princess or do you plan on wheeling with it?

 

Thanks, yeah I plan on it eventually but once I get some much need maintenance sorted out on her. Mainly all coolant lines and a couple of leaks that need to be resealed. Haha don't want something to break while i'm wheelin

 

Wow..!! That's a 4Runner I wish I have for some of the trails here in CO. Is it solid axle converted?

 

Haha thanks, I know its definitely 4wd with rear axle lockers. As far as I'm aware all of the suspension mods were done about 15 years ago, so to my knowledge I wouldn't honestly know.

 

Congrats.. That is some serious build. You better get used to people like me watch that thing crawl over boulders with wide open mouth..

 

Welcome from Wisconsin! Nice lookin' ride! I know exactly how much fun those tires can give you.... maybe some headaches, but more fun than the headaches.

 

welcome, nice

 

Official welcome. Nice Rig

 

Sweet!

 

Welcome from Arizona, nice rig!

 

Welcome! …so it would be fair to say you dont even know what you have? Lol

Thing looks awesome!

 

looking at that pic a bit more carefully, I would agree you’ll be keeping that lift. It looks like the drag link bracket in the rear has been redone. That to me tells me this thing was not just modded with a lift kit, it’s been pretty much re-built into a monster. And that front end has to be solid axle conversion, I cant imagine how they could get those tires could be where they are with the puny little wishbones (relatively speaking) a stocker has. It would be cool to see more pictures!

 

Double post

 

Welcome from Maryland

monster runner - you got a long road ahead especially if you don’t know the difference between a solid axle and stock IFS- but hey live and LEARN

 

You trying to tell us your mom drove that??

 

Welcome from Florida

 

"It's the little old lady from..." Fill in the blank

Welcome!
Pat☺

 

Welcome

 

Haha I know some of the mods it has but no completely. As far what I doing right now with it is trying to get maintenance done on it. Just resealing a couple of oil leaks and changing out any coolant lines. Then after that it'll be some suspension work haha.

 

Haha indeed she did. She wasn't the best at maintenance but she did love the hell out of the rig. Its funny watching people climb into it for the first time haha

 

I sure would love to drool over some more pictures! Especially the underside, if you happen to find yourself underneath it sometime soon.

So, how exactly do you get in that thing? The door sill looks like would come up to waist level on most people.