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

It would have been fun to have you along. Patriot Mountain is great! I'll be going back sometime. Has me seriously thinking about lifting my 4Runner and definitely getting new tires soon. The stock tires that came with purchase did OK and have a lot of miles left on them but this trip convinced me to make the change.... the training with Morrison Outdoor Adventures was worth every penny too. I found them on the Patriot Mountain web page.

 

Friggin forest rats….

 

Hit me up when you go again. I will work to make it happen.

 

And put it to use elsewhere:

 

Nice gay-rage as my south African buddy pronounces it. Makes me giggle every time. Nice Floor!! Wanted to do that when I first moved in my house but now I have too much shit to do it.

 

Relentless fab bmc with T4R cut in

 

Finally finished my deck and got my fridge fit in better. Time to go camping!

 

NICE!!!

 

Always good to see some jump wings and the CIB! My son is wrapping up infantry basic training now and has a Ranger Contract! I was a paratrooper and HALO - all peacetime fun and games for me!

Thanks for your service!

 

Thanks. I made a career out of it. Your son may know my nephew. He is at about the same place as your son in the pipeline or whatever they call it now lol. He signed up for the Airborne Ranger contract as well. Can’t wait to knock him on his ass when he graduates jump school. Hehe

 

Three years active and four years NG for me. I went to jump school in 07/83 - almost 39 years ago - unbelievable - where did the time go?

I think my son finishes basic this Thursday and starts AIT on Monday. Then RASP! They may be in the same basic training cycle, probably will be in the same RASP class. My son says there are six others in his company with Ranger contracts. I believe the Army now sends them to jump school after they have successfully completed RASP. The recruiter told my son that too many kids were signing Ranger contracts just to guarantee jump school and then would quit RASP immediately. It was called RIP when I was in. Good luck to your nephew!

 

Gave my wife every opportunity to back out from having a huge ass hole in her baby. She didn’t budge so….. she got a snorkel



Then we added on to the gladiator



and finally finished up our recovery and tool storage
Just waiting for her bumper to be picked up from powder and get her winch and light bar installed and then start her suspension work.

 

Great pictures!

 

I had a shop swap the valances and plate bracket .

 

Did a thing

 

Old Red's AMD mod?

 

Just took it out for a drive to calibrate the compass.

 

One of my favorites.

 

New wheels and tires… just in time for Spring!

 

Nice! You go with the -10 or -38s?

 

-10… didn’t want to get into BMC territory

 

SCS Ray 10’s, awesome choice

 

I'm a long time 3rd gen member, and a recent 5th gen convert...

Got my 2019 TRD OR a week ago, and I'm loving it so far. Got a 2"/1.5" spacer lift from Chris at Cornfed, hopefully getting that on this weekend so I can upgrade my tires ASAP. Can't wait to run KO2s in 285s. I'll eventually replace the suspension, but this gets me sitting where I want for the meantime and can't beat the price.

 

damn! you have to rip out all that for the AMD mod?

 

It's really not that bad. The radio has to come out to swap in the new AMD unit, which means removing two trim pieces and the climate controls. The wiring though is behind the instrument cluster, which means removing a few more trim pieces and the cluster itself. The dozen connectors from the radio itself makes it look bad.

 

Yes, and @Old Red provides complete, easy-to-understand directions with photos.

 

I filled it up yesterday. I feel pretty proud about that.

 

Added a couple morale patches

 

suddenly 2 boxes full of red colored bling showed up at the same time today, so had to install.

lost 2HP from the added unsprung weight, but gained 10HP because, well, they're red = fast

 

that's awesome..yeah wish I could've gotten in on that run of his..bleh