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

Added a Smittybuilt receiver hitch step to help with loading roof rack.

 

Oh I like that one much better than the WeatherTech one's i have seen. Got a link?

 

https://www.4wheelparts.com/p/smittybilt-beaver-step-black-27046b/_/R-DSBP-27046B

It's on Amazon too. Got it little cheaper from 4WP free ship to store.

 

Your fuel pump hates you, too.

 

OK, boomer.

 

most modern fuel tanks have the pump sitting in a low spot on the bottom of the tank so that its always submerged until you are basically running on fumes. The need to fill up at a quarter of a tank to save your fuel pump from overheating are from much older vehicles and really no longer applicable.

Most soccer moms driving 4 runners are running them until the low fuel light comes on, if it was an issue we'd be seeing a lot more folks complaining/suffering fuel pump failures.

There's certainly nothing wrong with filling up at a quarter tank, but your fuel pump doesn't care one way or another.

 

Vancouver, BC: $2.00+ per liter, that's $7.57 per gallon (CAD)

 

I was just going to say. You Americans are posting bush league gas prices. Vancouver is the equivalent of like $5.85US a gallon. Step your game up America!

 

Got it for $2.67 in Horn Lake, MS on Saturday

 

This looks great! Huge improvement. Where did you buy those switches?

 

AOB (Air On board)
https://www.aironboard.com/online/

 

Washington is damn close to this.
We just recently won first place for the highest gas prices in the nation. It's asenine (2nd or 3rd highest gas tax in the nation as well. Heck, we might even be number 1 now).

All my personal rigs are diesel so I'm right there for price, gas is a bit "cheaper"

 

1/4 of the tank is overkill. Anything before the gas light turns on is fairly safe

 

Bought a couple coho pack-n-carry cases for recovery gear and camping equipment from Costco. After spending all day outside in the AZ heat, then brought inside and left overnight, they were sealed shut until I left them outside again. Decided to add some manual pressure release valves and problem solved.

Pretty decent setup for the price and Costco’s undisputed return policy.

 

Had a couple of the cheap Harbor Freight Apache cases I wasn’t using. So left them out to bake in the sun, used a vice clamp to press them out, and reinstalled them into the coho packs.

 

Alien gear holster and Field Craft Survival visor medical pouch set up.

 

Been looking for a dash mount like that for my Ram Attachments

 

Made these for a TRD 4Runners hood scoop. Fun little project.

 

I had looked at dash mounts a while back. Between this one, ICS, and Victory, I was leaning towards ICS but ultimately decided I didn't really need a dash mount considering the price. But, like so many of my other mods I don't really need, when I saw another forum member selling it for a heavy discount I just couldn't help myself. Thanks again @dgrenier15!

Today I used rattle can bedliner to repaint the front bumper. I bought it with PC from Victory 4x4 but powder doesn't stick well to aluminum and it began chipping quite badly within a month. Luckily Victory was nice and refunded the PC charge. It's been on for a couple of years and was looking quite shiny in a lot of spots.

I'm happy with how it turned out. I forgot to tape off the inside edges of the fairlead (i painted it too because it was a silvery color and I had just left it like that until now) and when I felt the texture of the paint I was afraid it would damage my synthetic cable. Luckily I had some 220 grit and I sanded the paint off before it hardened too much so it's smooth again.

 

Had new Michelin Defender LTX M/S stock size installed. I originally ordered 255 75 17 Firestone Destination AT2 and there was an oops at the tire shop and they had the Michelins in stock so thats what she's wearing now.

 

Had this mounted in my Tacoma now its found its new home in my 2023 4Runner!
Thanks to greymantactical.com. I love all of their equipment.. #300blackout. You just never know when Red Dawn is coming!

 

Wolverines!

 

The OG's

 

big George Straight fan, just bought this for the Runner

 

I have heard this said several times here on the forum, but I don't know where the information comes from. Can you tell me where you learned this?

I taught fleet drivers for years to fill at a quarter tank so as not to burn out the fuel pump. I became curious after your post, so I went and looked up the parts diagram for the fuel pump in the 4runner.

As you can see here, the pump (23221) is mounted upright, and though the scale is hard to make out from the technical drawing, Amazon gives us this measurement


I also see that this specific part lists as applicable all the way back to 2003, and the part which preceded it (also 22321-46010) is almost identical, and oriented the same way in the drawings. It fit 4runners from 1991-2002.

So I for one am comfortable putting this one to rest once and for all - the fuel pump does in fact rely on gasoline to cool it, and it does need to be submerged in at least 4.6 inches (about a quarter of a tank?) of gasoline to do that.

 

Finally got around to replacing the rear valance. Was only because my buddy accidently lightly rear ended me with his jeep when he got out if his car while failing to put it in park.

 

I tweaked my garage door to open 4" wider, in a possibly futile effort to fit the 4R with a basket on. I won't know for sure until the mounting HW gets here so I can measure as assembled, but I'm likely to miss by 3/8". I'll only get that much more by shaving down the trim. The danger is that the trim covers whatever is out of square between the door and the frame, so I need to measure carefully to avoid creating a thin triangular gap along the top.

 

Dropped it off to get PPF installed.

 

There’s a mechanic on the other forum who works on Toyotas and he describes how the fuel pump sits in a housing (perhaps that 77131C in your posted diagram) that keeps the pump submerged even if the tank is quite empty. So not to worry about the pump.

“Speaking in very general terms, when the pump is no longer effectively able to suck fuel from the tank, you have about 1/2" to maybe an inch of fuel left in the fuel tank on a level surface. The fuel pump housing (the big plastic bucket that everything sits in) itself will be filled with fuel as that's what it uses as a reservoir to keep the pump cool and it doesn't really drain out fully even when the tank is basically empty.” Lots of discussion over there on this issue.

 

all around or just the front?
I got mine done last month -- hood, lights, door handles, front bumper. I honestly think this is better than having ceramic coating.