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

Stupid question.... Are they installed backwards? The "R" and "L" on the top brackets are wigging my OCD out.

 

Sick! Following you

 

Ok then. I will relocate it when the supercharger gets installed. I did not know that. Thank you.

 

Great to see posts like yours. I will definitely follow you for more info and stuff. Have fun!

 

The goal of the catch is to catch the excess oil and filter it before it recirculates, to prevent the so called blow-by, which is the loss of compression and it prevents oil residue from reaching the crankcase. That is what I learned from other users. Like I had mentioned in my post, I have yet to see how it works. Many owners of various brands of cars and suvs recommend it. We will see. I am just an end user and rely on some other knowledgeable drives. So no, you dont need to feel like you have poor knowledge. Most likely mine is poorer than yours.

 

Yeah, something seems not right.....I wonder what...

 

Please report when you check it. Love to see how much oil it has and how much dirt it has. Will definitely help someone like me who like to take extra care of mine too.

 

catch cans are good for special applications like forced induction or high compression builds where in you'd like to keep things like compressor wheels/rotors clean or blowby gasses out of sensitive AF tuned engines.

the factory pcv system is more than adequate to handle the harmless amounts of blowby which contains minute amounts of oil and fuel. you won't find anything else coming out of the crankcase of a mass produced consumer class engine. if anything else is passing through the pcv system or being caught in a catch can, you're already in trouble and signs of that trouble would have been apparent before any discovery is made in the pcv or catch can.

 

Thanks, but the little bit I know has mostly come from watching videos of a handful of subject matter experts on YouTube. A couple I'd highly recommend are The Car Care Nut (a lot of people on this forum follow him) and Toyota Maintenance (the German mechanic I referenced). The Car Car Nut did a whole series of videos on the 4Runner with topics like Brakes, Engine, Suspension and Transmission, and one called something like "How to Make Your Toyota Last to 300K Miles", which is where that long term maintenance stuff primarily came from.

 

Yeah, I watch them too.

 

Yeah, someone earlier told me that it will be good with a supercharger that I am going to install, so maybe that is what it will be good for in this case.

Is it going to hurt my engine while I have it on, before I do my supercharger?

 

Nice, these cover way more than the OEM. Need to get me those.

 

Odometer hit 30,000 on my '22.

 

nahh there's no harm in having a catch can in there.i probably should have mentioned that.

i just got on a soapbox to help those out there considering one and what they can expect if they do install one.

 

wow! if a majority of those miles are fun miles good job!

 

@JETSPD1477 They sure are! We are trying to visit it all the National Parks. I have visited Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Zion, Olympic, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon. We will be visiting Badlands this summer, so more fun miles to come

 

Runner Down!








Will it rub out ??

 

No!

Everyone ok?

 

Thanks for asking!


Somebody pulled out in front my nephew, surprisingly everybody walked away with minor injuries.

He might have some stuff to sell in a few days

 

How do you like the Gobi? It seems to be a polarizing brand, but I love the basket/safari look and I don't have a RTT...thinking about pulling the trigger on one soon.

 

That's good.

Sad to see a good runner totaled.

 

Yes those Chinese knock offs did that intentionally. I think so it could avoid lawsuits from Rago since these are very similar to theirs. And I agree about the OCD kicking in @Branden967. Mine did too. But as the old saying goes: You get what you pay for. I paid for cheaper Chinese knockoffs. And this is what happened.

 

I wanted a spare tire to match my 285 BFG’s so I bought a TRD wheel and a single BFG 285x70R17 and TPMS. I thought I was going to need to shop for a hitch mount spare tire carrier and was set on getting one from Westcott Designs until I searched on YouTube for anyone mounting a 285 in the original spare tire space underneath their 5th gen T4R. It turns out there were several that successfully did it. So, after I got my spare mounted and balanced I swapped out my original spare and it fits. Barely. I just want to keep the tailgate obstruction free and I didn’t want to relocate the backup camera and license. Here’s some pics.

 

I was curious if a 285/70R17 would fit because I didn't want to spend the bucks right now for a swing out (even if they look badass).

Thanks for the pictures of proof!

 

Welp FINALLY got around to blacking out my rear valence. I did my front quite awhile ago with vinyl wrap. I decided I liked it so much that for the rear I just painted it with SEM plastic trim paint.
Removing the rear bumper is actually a breeze so anyone intimidated by it don’t be. A couple cautions I have that Ive not seen before. 1) there are rubber bumpers in back side of tabs along too edge. Most stick but two fell off and if I wasn’t paying attention could have missed it. 2) the very center of bumper at the hatch latch strike there is a 1ish inch wide strip of plastic that cracked right in half on me and I was handling this bumper with kid gloves and ultra cautious on support and the whole nine yards.
This entire process took me only 2-1/2 hours from start to finished installation. The paint obviously isn’t fully cured hard yet but used some light heat to help it along enough I could handle it without issue.

here’s a few pics of the process and my repair of the crack…

 

Lots of help with this on TW. Just watch it to make sure the exhaust isn't melting the tire! Nice!!

 

looks good. how do you like SEM vs vinyl so far?

 

Was your last set P rated too?

 

I LOVE the SEM paint.
I did my front grille cross bar in it and has been flawless in all sorts of nasty stuff.

the vinyl has done very very well up front. But it at some point it’ll start to peel bi do see some puckers at the edge ends from when I stretched it.

Vinyl is nice cause it’s temporary.
Paint is nice cause it’s application is so so so much easier than vinyl…

SEM paints very well super even and self leveling. I mean you can’t paint like an idiot but if you do light layers to build up like you should with any paint it’s swell…