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

Took it down to the beach for 5 days. Sitting by the railway station. Getting ready to do the railway cars.

 

New Battery, Project Farm highly recommended EverStart. Vast improvement on CCA’s 530 vs 710

 

Who sells those ?

 

Walmart… Costco was a week to 10days backordered on the Interstate AGM’s… so looked into these..same price 179.99 w/4yr warranty

 

Yes. I switched to Walmart 7 or 8 years ago and get that platinum level battery. I've yet to have a bad one amongst 5 various vehicles.

I used to do Sears Diehard with the thinking that if you ever do have a problem, there was is always a Sears around. But not so much anymore. Walmart has become more ubiquitous than Sears. I like Costco, but they are not in every little town everywhere.

 

Took off predator steps. Lightly sanded and spray painted. Listed for sale

 

Looks good. What did you get?

 

Been looking at that one or the Costco Interstate..

 

I've always had good luck with everstart batteries

 

My Toyota dealer installed a Toyota 7 year battery for $198.

 

Was it the Panasonic battery, or something else?

 

A 7 year battery? What black magic is this?

That's a deal then. Dayum

 

In addition to it making the cabin cooler, is it also quieter? It would have been great to do a before/after sound test. I'm sure it's not SUPER quiet, but I bet it's better than before.

How long did it take you to take off all the interior panels?

 

@wildgoose you and thacrow certainly have some courage, and skill pulling panels and liners. I can’t help but feel like I’d have new rattles after disturbing everything, driving me mad.

 

This is quite impressive, sir.

 

Not as quiet as I had hoped, outside noises are a bit more muffled while parked and driving noise is a bit quieter. I haven't done much driving since the install so time will tell.

If I were to do it again I would want to install hushmat then the insulation. Hushmat would have added a lot of time & cost though.

 

The paneling is pretty simple to pull it is made to come apart and go back together you just have to know what order to take the panels off in. The hardest part was getting the headliner out and back in without creasing it, going that deep and taking the headliner out isn't for the faint of heart.

No new rattles so far, I have pulled the rear paneling a number of times and never had rattles but now with the added fluff behind them I doubt it will be an issue.

 

The rear/ side paneling is pretty easy stuff, keep in mind the rear seats, seat belts, and trunk carpet were already removed which probably speeds things up and I was using an electric impact to zip all of the bolts/ screws out.

Hard to give an exact time, maybe 1-1.5 hours to get the paneling & headliner out.

 

For me puting the b pillars back was the "hardest". No really difficult per se but I initially installed them incorrectly not realizing the seatbelt needed to be lined up correctly before going on. Then each time taking them off to re-align the yellow clips would fall off and into the frame, lost forever. Good thing I had bought a bag on Amazon.

Made sure to have a couple helpers for the headliner so as to avoid folding.

No rattles either.

 

Changed my oil.


I am not a wrencher, I do stupid stuff like this a lot. Drain pan plug is plastic, so it got lifted up by oil and sucked into the drain, plugging it up again. I walked away for a couple minutes....

 

A mental reset is often the most critical bacon-saving step of any process.

 

Pedal commander showed up in the mail, so I installed it this afternoon and took it for a test drive. Very happy with the throttle response.

 

I especially love the ghetto-chicken wire string you have holding your FRONT PLATE on. That's awesome man.

 

How were the rail cars? We just got them in OKC and we are trying to get a scheduled time to go.

 

The wife and I had fun. 2 miles of tracks both ways and site seeing. We thought it was worth doing them. Also these are in Cape May NJ. Which the tracks have been in since the 1800’s.

 

A man of culture. I have no doubt. Would have a beer with this fella

 

bet that sounds nice driving down the road

 

Do you use the Platinums?