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

Amsoil is good stuff, ran it in my Shelby Mustang. Regardless, I still use Toyota oil in my 4Runner. Toyota oils is made by ExxonMobil I believe and is similar to Mobil1 but is made to Toyota specs.

 

Best performance mod I have made, makes the 4Runner drivable.

 

Funable lol

 

I've never used it before, either. Everything I've been reading and hearing about it makes it seem like it'll definitely be worth it, though.

Thanks! I'll look into a set of those as well. I'll run on the stock suspension for a while, but, down the road I'm thinking about putting some Bilstein 5100s or Eibach Pro Truck Sport shocks on it to either level it out, or maybe even go up another inch or so.

 

Had my 21 OFRD Premium 3 weeks, so far LED interior lights, full tint, ordered the Billstein 5100 to raise the front 1.5 (should be in next month), small mods inside as well with a cool (IMO) rubber red inserts for cup holders, door cut outs etc. keeping my Nitto RG 265/70/17 for now. Hit 1000 miles today! Happy Holidays all!

 

i second that statement not so much a snail anymore

 

Normal evap system behavior.

 

I had the same question @ about 5k miles. Posted here & got the same response. It is that (EPA) vacuum behind passengers headlight "cleaning" any evaporated fuel etc.

 

Hey Kevin, Heard that noise on my 17 Pro and my 20 Pro. I believe I read it in the manual about the noise.

 

Same here, read about it but never understood until I went out to the garage one day and heard it

 

Just an FYI your full size spare does fit in the OEM location under the truck. No need to keep it in the cargo area.

 

I’d rather not though; spare takes a beating under there. Especially now that it’s salt season here.

If I was going on a trip right now where I needed the cargo space (between now and bumper/swing out arriving), I’d throw it back under there just for the trip at least though.

 

Gave it battle scars.

 

Ouch!

 

It's fine. The bumper is being replaced in a few. And it was a tough trail. Very rocky going in and out of the canyon

 

So when I got my truck I intended on getting legit rock sliders but I needed something ASAP so I grabbed these Tyger brand steps in the meantime. I gotta say they are decent for the price but one major flaw. The shape of them literally slings road grime and dirt right into the door handle You can see the pattern starts and goes directly for the handle. Not cool.

 

^ I think expensive slider have same result.

 

hmmm. Yeah but at least those would actually protect me from rocks. Certainly will have me looking at the design of them though when I’m back in the market for them.

 

for sure Tyger won't do good job off road big rocks.

 

yeah. My wife is 5’ and my mother in law is 4’8” so I needed something since I got my truck from the dealer with no add ons I think the stock running boards id like more for function though these look better. Since neither one really works for protection from wheeling.

 

Yeah that is odd that it took that long to here it. I think it hard to here if your vehicle sits outside. I have mine in a garage so it is easy to here.

 

Ouch again!!

 

; paint correction from trail run from last weekend...

 

That’s good!!

 

This

Tacoma did it all the time and sometimes sounded like a purge

all perfectly normal bleeding out the extra gas fumes in the system kinda like an air bleed system.

 

Finally got the UCA's put on! It took about 4 hrs.(phone kept ringing) Just took it nice and slow, now for the alignment in the morning, and that job is done! Next come the Elka shocks!

 

Victory 4x4 basket arrived today to go with the molle panels. Also found that over a bit of rough terrain the new sub box would pop out, so incorporated a little L bracket off the molle to sub box to keep it in place.

Then made a couple DIY traction board mounts to keep them from flopping around in the basket. Just a couple 2” x 1” 1/8th steel pieces, center drilled out with a nut welded in place. Then hand knobs with a rod threaded in (this almost sounds like a dirty joke all of a sudden?), with some large flat washers. Had some spare insulation sitting around, so added a couple strips to each one to help from scuffing up the powder coat. I plan to make something better down the road; just quickly threw these together with some spare junk sitting around.

 

How is it getting the UCA bolt out? On the Tacoma it's a bit of a pain. I'm hoping a little easier on the 4Runner.

 

Its about the same, based on my experience anyways. When I did my 4Runner not long ago, I just caved and cut them out; put new bolts in from the rear. Didn’t want to deal with the bending , scrapping, contortioning, and what not, like I did on my taco.