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

Iffy week for mods. Got my compressor installed


got my rigd armor swing out carrier installed, but they forgot some bolts for the tire carrier. Good customer service. Should be here in a few days.



Ordered a backup camera relocation kit from an unrelated company, rigid industries. For $125 bucks, they must have great profits for this Chinese camera. Glue coming out of the lens, cheap ass thread felt like plastic and snapped when I barely tightened it. Thankfully a 30 second phone call a d they had a new one shipped same day.




And to top it off, that rotopax is brand new. My other one exploded. Whoops. Great customer service from them as well. Warrantied it.

 

Strange, I'm running Sport +1 after running City +3. I do a lot of highway driving and found Sport or Sport +1 was just what I needed it's completely night and day over a stock pedal

 

Thanks for sharing your experience. It will no doubt help a lot of people looking at doing the same thing. In the end your grill looks great.

 

I had the same issues, fitment was off a bit in some places. Made some minor modifications myself now it looks great. Chose the white toyota letters across to match my white truck. One thing I really liked about this grill is that the toyota letters are actually screwed into the grill (arrived pre screwed in and were very straight looks good) vs just stuck on with some 3m tape like others. Don't have to worry about them flying off lol

 

WHAT?!?!?
Did it split along the seams? I had a Kolpin brand plastic tank (similar to rotopacs) and it lasted about a year storing fuel in my garage. Apparently I didnt burp it enough and started to split at the plastic weld seam. Led to a slow leak, not an explosion.

Makes me even more sceptical of carrying extra fuel on a roof rack or bumper. I guess if I needed to, I would dump the contents into the truck as soon as I used 5 gallons.

 

It sure did.

To be fair, I’ve had it on, full of gas (changed out monthly) for the last 2 years and rarely ever let the air out lol

 

Continuing the blackout with Morimoto XB tails. Diggin’ the sequential turn signals.

 

Found these 10 Gallon Craftsman stackable storage bins at Lowes for $15 each. They fit perfectly in the back, 2x2 or 3 across. Model CMXXPBP10GT. We are using these for Camping Storage.

 

I recommend you bungee or ratchet strap them down if carrying heavy things in them. They will lift up on bumps and could hit you in the back of the head in an accident.

 

Thanks for that good suggestion. I will bungie these to the backs of the seats or the 2 hooks behind the rear seats.

The camping road we are going on is 8 miles of twists and turns and drops 2000' from the Blue Ridge Parkway at MP 308 into the Globe Valley at Mortimer, NC. Most of the road is wash board but in good shape, all Service Roads in the Pisgah National Forest, but fun to drive on in 4 Low. We scouted out this road yesterday heading up towards the Blue Ridge Parkway and only saw one other vehicle (White 4 Runner TRD Pro) coming down the other direction. No Cell Service (no Google Maps or Apple Maps) but the Sat Nav worked OK, until it started to take us onto closed sections of the road. We ended up buying a paper map.

 

I would go diagonal across the tops using the 4 tie downs.
I pay for the Gaia app on my cell phone that works without cell service / data.

You want to use the following layers. The MVUM map will show you all the legal trails in the National Forest.


A free version is Avenza Maps. You have to pay for each map but the Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM) are free.
They are not as detailed as Gaia but will do the job.



Here's a general link for MVUM:
https://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv/ohv_maps.shtml

This shows all the legal Forest Service trails in every state.

 

Trying a new set of LEDs. Looks like they have extra $25 coupon now. I bet the price is good for 2 sets (low beam + high beam).

https://youtu.be/bGmUQcZ-4K4

 

Painted the valance... again...again.

 

I like your skid plate!

 

Thanks, just black rattle can.

 

On the weekend of our Independence Day I would like to ask this one question. What exactly is political in this forum? Is this...
Everything from the price of gas or lumber to the shadowing of the gun thread is political.
My only point is freedom of speech! If we cannot talk about current events or guns; what have we done? This is America with a freedom of speech; I understand that there are "terms of use" but where does that stop?
Anything & everything could be political. Including the current value of the 5th gen 4runner.
May my fate land in the hands of the moderators.
Ryan.

 

I don’t see any mention of “political” speech in the Terms of Service.
https://www.4runners.com/help/terms

But you’re supposed to agree to
“… not use the Service to submit or link to any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, contains adult or objectionable content…”

Also, in these forums there really is no freedom of speech. It’s a private business with the freedom to set its own rules. In fact:
“…We reserve the rights to remove or modify any Content submitted for any reason without explanation.”

Supposed to be civil and maybe helpful on the forum. Post whatever you will, and accept any consequences, let your conscience be your guide.

However things may seem to suck at times, we have it pretty damn good here.
Happy Independence Day!

 

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― George Orwell, 1984

 

We have multiple gun threads on this forum. This post would be best stuck in one of them instead of here.
https://www.4runners.com/threads/gun-bs-thread.723/

Now if you want to post a pic of your gun and your 4Runner go for it. Example here's my way of transporting one of my AR15's in my 4Runner:

 

Always thought would work, never got around to.checking. will it work with a soft case? Not that my trophy seats are ever up.

 

I got banned for a few days on TW for "politics". I posted a picture of an ex-political person in a completely non-political context. The picture was up for a day until sometime quoted my picture with a blatantly policial meme. I got banned for it

 

Finally cleaned the residual blue stuff off of the tires.

 

What rims are you running?

 

Fuel Shok D665

 

trd pro roof rack, upper rail delete mod..
bought a used rack off a 2020 trd pro, and put it on my 4R..

 

nice, I think that could be my next mod lol

 

The gun thread is "ghosted" it doesn't show up on the main page. My question wasn't merely about guns, rather what is acceptable here & what isn't. "If you think it is political, it is"... very muddy water.
Again, the used car market is political. The lumber prices are political. Everything can be seen from a political standpoint if you try.
I digress as I would like to remain here (even without my freedom of speech).
Ryan
Edit- you cannot even post more than one picture of a gun. What?

 

It will work with a soft case too. Seats will lock down as long as it's just a rifle (pistol in my pic) and a soft case. If you have mags on the side of your soft case the seats wont lock down.