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

She has not decided/found one she loves yet .. that is why I like your idea so much. Very nicely done! I have designed a few bumpers for my wife but we have not committed to anything. I have a metal company here that are good dudes and I can send them anything and they will laser it out. Just haven't committed the time to finish anything yet.

Yeah, that is why I was saying the only potential issue might be that piece. Pulling at an angle might bend the front a little but I was thinking the same thing that a little gusset would cover that. I'd probably try without it and see how it goes.

 

Awesome set up

 

Are those stress fractures on the bottom right around the "hole"?

 

Looks awesome man! It's so much more satisfying to make your own parts.

 

It’s possible. The camera really brings them out compared to seeing them in person.
I noticed the same type of hair line cracks in other places of the Transfer case. I’ll keep an eye on it. Hopefully it’s from the casting process.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Also The TC is full of gear oil.

 

It is part of the casting. All of them look like that so it isn't really something to worry about.

 

Copy that. That’s what I was leaning towards. You also see it on the cylinder heads.
Thanks for the reply.

 

Cool. Good to know

 

New tail lights install

 

Installed XB Evos

 

Changed the oil, rotated the tires (too late to lube the u-joints and driveshaft so I'll do that later). Got to try out the oil filter canister drain tool for the first time. Worked great. That combined with the valvomax really make draining the oil much less messy. Drilling out the hole in my oil container allows me to put the drain tubes straight into the container which saves wiping off the surface oil after it's done draining.

Hard to believe I have 25,000 miles on it already.

 

Decided to let my 6112s settle instead of lowering um from 1.1 to 0.7 since its stupid expensive. Bought some dobinson 323 rear coils and some 5100s.

Wanna pull the trigger on some 255/75 wranglers...but

 

Cleaned throttle body at 107K. 1st time it's been done. Probably should do it more often. It was dirty. Also cleaned the MAF and luckily the screw I dropped fell to the ground and not some hidden abyss. Vacuumed 6 months worth of Brittany and Chocolate lab hair out.

 

Somebody was chasing or stalking you?? LoL

 

Nice, modest and clean build. No winch yet? Cant see it on the pic....

 

Thanks. There is a winch

 

Don't forget to unhook the battery for 20 min. It will relearn using the clean MAF and TB. Made a big difference on my aggressive tip in.

 

Need to clean the TB on mine this weekend when I change the plugs and change the oil. Thanks for the reminder

 

Got the tires rotated and balanced, and had a sensor installed in the spare. Next I need to figure out how to enable 5 tires via techstream.