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

I put new shoes on her. The mall crawlers are in the dump. Just a little more aggressive and hopefully maintain my current mileage.

 

Springs will probably settle a little bit, but it looks good to me.

 

Just hit a small doe about a 100’ from turning into my driveway at about 20 mph. Hit her square in the middle of the plate bumper and pushed her into the ditch. She took off and only left me with a bunch if hair on the shackles. No damage!

 

What did she do to you that warranted being hit with a truck?

 

didnt yield to cross traffic. Haha

 

It is physically impossible to not get pro-seal on your clothes. Anyone within 10 ft of it being applied will end up with some on them. Ask me how I know!

 

Good to hear no damage!

 

thanks and thanks SSO!!!

 

Best I can do at present...


All I can say is damn, it's almost too much light without needing to switch on high beams! I'll try tomorrow night to get a forward view.

 

Greased the drive shafts today. A first for me. Not a terrible job, and the only tool needed was the grease gun, and some paper shop towels if you consider those a tool. Used Lucas Red N Tacky NLGI-2. The first zerk caused one small issue - the grease was not going in, just spewing out the fitting on the zerk. Grease gun fitting was pretty old. Luckily I had purchased a Lube and Lock, so I switched grease gun hose ends, and voila - success! The L&L makes it so much easier.

Some advice from a rookie, which a lot of you will already know, but to those trying this for the first time - some things I didn't do, should have, and hope to remember to do in 5 years when it's time to do this again, which would have made the job so much easier:

- without access to a lift, use ramps for the front, and jack stands for the rear. This was doable without, but the extra room would have made it so much easier, rather than having to contort one's 70-year old self under the vehicle trying to get a purchase on the grease zerks, especially the front of the transfer case, which already has limited access points available.

- having the vehicle wheels off the ground makes it possible to put the vehicle in neutral, in order to rotate the rear drive shaft, which will, of course, end up with the grease zerks facing straight up otherwise; which necessitates having to move the vehicle backward or forward to rotate the rear drive shaft. The front drive shaft turns with the wheels on the ground. The ramps just afford more room to work.

All in all, not too bad. I just had to know it could be done.

 

True. I always put a tiny dab on my skid plate bolts and it ends up everywhere.

 

Put Sylvania Zevo P/N 1156ALED.BP2 bulbs in the front turn signal lamps. The only good thing I can say, is they're relatively cheap (for LEDs). And coming from the Sylvania brand, they'll probably be reliable. However, they are less bright than the basic filament bulbs in there before.

 

got rid of all the silver

 

Good job. The piano black will look so much worse with the scratches and fingerprints.

 

Ha

Silver is yuck
But to each his own

 

I hate silver too, but that fit looks so bad it would drive me nuts. Not to mention the finger prints .

 

What fit

 

That's oem

 

Filled up the gas tank for the first time ever, after bringing it home from the dealer 2.5 months ago.

$101 to fill it up.

I don’t drive it much. Barely 300+ miles.

 

Alpharex Mk2 Nova and OEM LED fogs installed. The driver side high beam doesn’t engage so I’ll be contacting them. Luckily they only sat in storage for a year so they still have warranty.

 

Just did my first black Friday purchase, a double jerry can holder. When we had to evacuate from Milton it was hard to find gas on the way back and I would rather not keep tanks in the vehicle. It was on sale for $127.20 still too much for what it is, but it will do the job for me.

 

Just averaged 14.0 mpg on my last tank due to the shitty commute. It's about what my Tacoma gets rock crawling in 4lo (and going about as fast). Has anyone done a Crawl Control Anytime mod?

 

$101 to fill up

 

Changed front, rear difs and transfer case fluids.

 

I really need this and a rack to mount.

 

and thats the 87 octane, $5.09 per gallon. California gas prices are insane.

 

Installed yota twins paracord handles and meso door lights.

 

4.59 at 95425

 

Actually, we're not that bad now, at least for non-premium stations....but yeah, vs nationally we are sooo expensive.

Costco Gas prices are currently ranging between $3.59 to $4.59 in the larger metropolitan areas.

 

2.69 in CT at Costco.