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

Ordered stealth no-rise Gobi roof rack

Now the wait begins!

 

No offense but if you get your stealth no-rise before me, I am going to be pissed! LOL. My order was confirmed in the queue on Monday. Person that called me said current lead time was 16-20 weeks (not going to hold my breathe).

 

Got the storage box, jack and traction boards mounted last night but it was too dark to get a pic.

 

Those Pelican Vault cases are awesome huh? I mounted one to my rack a few months ago, and I love how low-profile it is.

 

Yeah it's perfect. I'll be taking it out next week up the the Rockies so we'll see how well it holds up. I stuffed it pretty full.

 

Vault is the cheaper pelican or the car specific? Having a brain fart.
If it's the cheaper, don't put anything you need dry in it...
Friend is running one on top and it leaks in from the top. He hit up pelican and they said the "cheaper (forgot if vault)" are not water proof and only weatherproof. To which he said, the weather was raining.
They didn't care.

 

There are specs for weather proof cases. Most of those say the case can handle some type of immersion for a period of time. A weather proof case on a rack is subject to pressure (penetration) and driving rain. Which is not the same as immersion.

 

I certainly wouldn't call it cheap. But I think you are right in that it is not water proof.

 

Well, it has happened to every single one of my vehicles to date...and it has finally happened to my 4Runner: Took a rock or something to the windshield and got a nasty chip in it.

 

Lifted my 2019 TRD off road with Icon Stage 6 kit, Vision wheels, and AT3W Falken tires. Rides beautifully, now just need new running boards and couple other add ons.

 

Ordered it the second week of February

 

Holy that's a long time!

 

Finally got to test out the 8112/8110 BILS set up in Holcomb Valley. We got the 4Runner for our rock climbing trips, and this was the first time we got to put it to good use. Really impressed with these. Off road manners for a bolt in style coil over were incredible, and the digressive valving on the mountain roads going up to Big Bear put the OEM stuff to shame!

 

How long have you had the Stage 6 kit with the Delta joints on the UCAs? Too recent to give any feedback? Pretty interested since I have regular Icon uniballs and while they're fine right now, I think I'll need to replace in the next few years. The Delta joint seems like the happy medium of easy OEM balljoint maintenance but bad for lifts versus excellent uniball adaptability for lifts but (potentially) worse for maintenance. I just havent seen too many people run them to get any real world feedback yet.

 

Climb: Holcomb or Castle Rock?

 

I got her safety shoes

 

Yakima Timberline towers with Core 60" cross bars. Much more versatile then the factory cross bars.

 

Screwed up and had our new bed shipped out to the store instead of home delivery and the realized my straps are in my wife’s truck

 

I want these.

 

Haha! I still love my Eibach's but those Bilsteins are a whole different league. Our Eibach's are a great shock for the money. That Bilstein set-up is approaching $4k, but it's probably the best bolt on set-up you could buy for our vehicles right now.

 

Sandblasted and primed my skids today. Gonna paint them tomorrow or sundsy

 

Took her camping again. The woman too.

 

Sheepskin driver seat cover. Not cheap, took a couple of weeks to get, but I do like. I have Sand Beige interior so I went with the Sand color. If I were to do it over again I would have got their Tan color. It would probably be a closer match. First world problems......

https://www.covercraft.com/us/en/product/sheepskin-custom-seat-covers.CGT-GTSK

 

Wow it's like a Plush Toy!



Need a pic of what yours looks like.

 

Installed Sequential Mirror Lights from 4Runner Lifestyle on our 2021 TRD Venture.

The Venture Model comes all blacked out, except for the mirror lights and rear tail light side, which are chrome.

The Black Out Sequential Mirror Lights on the Venture Black Mirrors looks like it belongs there - No more flashy chrome!

Perfect size, shape and fit with stock mirror light, no extra screw needed to secure it, it just clips in where the stock light was. Foam weather seal was put on correctly and carefully.

Much brighter than the stock, even though these are Blacked Out and not the Smoke Grey. Amber color of the LEDS matches the Lasfit Amber Turn Signal bulbs I put in yesterday.

DOT and SAE on the plastic was a selling point.

Replaced the dim 5W puddle lights with Yorkim White LED bulbs while I had it apart - easy to do. Now I can see them light up (I had no idea they were even there).

Ended up removing the mirrors for the installtion and broke 1/2 of the 4 mirror tabs on one mirror, but still mounts back fine. Watch the top corner heated mirror plug if you remove the mirrors.


My only complaint is that they came with no paper instructions or plastic tool. For the extra price I paid for these ($90) - I had expected much better from this company. They did include a free window sticker!

I'm over 60 and I really hate companies these days that say go watch youtube videos for instructions, when they are too lazy or too cheap to add a piece of paper instruction or even post instructions on their own youtube channel (4Runner Lifestyle does not have instructions for these on their youtube channel).

So you have to watch a bunch of different amateur youtube videos from various people, and then go figure out the best method to install these. Some people on youtube remove the mirror, other's don't. Some people pull the top cover from the outside, others pull the inside, others push the tabs out from behind the mirror. It could be a costly mistake if you break off the tabs on the painted mirror cover or the bottom assembly.

Overall they get a 4/5 for design and style - 1 star for lack of instructions or a youtube instructional video.

 

Nothing to major yet but got this to pull a small off-road camper and small boat. Went with 3 ball as I don’t want to have to change it out.

 

I agree and feel your pain about the lack of good written instructions with these products. As anyone who has written operational, repair, or assembly documents will know, it takes some effort to write, edit, and ring out the steps yourself and with a human test subject. Responsible people do this because of pride in their products and to make happy customers who don’t need to contact them to figure it out.

The lazy thing to do nowadays is to post a link to an amateur youtube video which so dark and compressed you can’t see the detail you need.
BTW, I used the top cover removal method for accessing mirror guts. On a warm day when the plastic and clips are more pliable.

 

Looks good!
Literally

Looks good. Now you just need to do the tails. I just did my wife’s nightshade. Got rid of the last bit of chrome…

 

Get r done

 

Gonna build the frame this coming weekend