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

Agreed, the low profile has it’s pluses and minuses.

 

If you are honest with holding a level horizon, cameras have a habit of turning mountains into mole hills. I’m not honest with level horizons now lol. Just tell everyone the trees were leaning where you took that picture (and the clouds were going downhill haha).

Regarding your wish about a front locker…Im curious if you turned on a-trac along with your rear locker. If you did, do you feel it gave you an edge? Theoretically, a-trac should get you close to front locker performance (maybe half way there, anyway)

 

Got some MESO door handle covers from another forum member for $35. Don’t think I would pay $50, but for $35 it was a way to get rid of some blinding chrome. Just wish MESO and others could still produce the black steering wheel emblems. Stupid Toyota and their perceived safety issues. Or maybe it’s just because they can’t profit from it.

 

Spent most of Saturday looking for the perfect spot to for a shake down run. It did not disappoint.

 

My understanding is that you can't use A-Trac at the same time as the rear locker. I could be wrong.

 

I bought the AJT Designs one before they got the C&D from Toyota. CTH has one they are still selling, I bought one for my fathers Tacoma. It didn't seem quite as nice as mine but it still covers it up and sticks well

 

Yes you can.
Here’s a handy 4WD guide to print out at this link.

 

I run Atrac all day wheeling Blue trails. Engage locker for rocky climbs or when stuck. I aired down to 14 psi when I got to the park, which is lower than I typically go but results were great. Made it up two sections of trails on the first attempt that usually take a few tries.

 

Not that I have had the chance to research yet, but im sure there is some hardware out there to make it work. Ram has all kinds of goodies on their site. You might even be able to find something different out there. I just like that the ICS leaves you plenty of space both laterally and depth-wise to add more accessories without blocking the AC vents.

 

eeeyyyyyyyyy thats out by 75 and George Bush, I live down the street

 

LED DRL/HI-BEAM SWAP.

 

Post em up!!!

 

Thank you.

 

Just get front and rear ARB lockers and activate them whenever you want.

 

Had the gunmetal TRD wheels installed

 

Got some rustolium self etching primer on. I wish they would take painting into consideration when coming up with there gusset designs. Some spots you can’t even see. Also Wonder if there’s any benefit to these coolers other than not being in the way?

 

Installed the Gobi ladder. Love how the tubular style matches the TRD Pro rack with the delete.

 

got the same bumper on the way. What are you doing paint wise, exactly?

 

Well it took 4 wipe downs with mineral spirits to get the oils off and clean. Steel was in good same with zero surface rust, just had to go over the welds to get some slag and splatter off. And put a profile on the hoops, the plate on the bumper appeared to be mostly sandblasted with fine grit beads aside from a couple spots. Put about 3 light coats on with rattle can self etching primer (well that’s what I I ted to do, ended up using 5.5 cans) and I’m going to top coat with rattle can rustolium bed coating pro. Simple cheap and most importantly easy to touch up. I’ve used the same bed liner and it’s fairly tough and the spots you touch up don’t stand out like with a smooth finish paint. I will also be spraying the whole backside with wool wax like I do everything else to keep the rust away. If I was putting it on to look cool at the mall I would have went powder coat all the way, but this one will be drug on the rocks and dirt and be running down -3” trees. So it should do pretty good for what I’m after lol

 

I can see it now… 15 years from now…”remember dads truck, how tall it was? It felt like we were climbing a mountain…”

Memories man…you are making them. Take them places!

 

Tempting to do instead of $400 for powder coat but sounds like a pain in the ass lol.

 

That’s the plan! Love this car more and more each day.

 

Not really hard work just time consuming lol.

 

First thing I did today was have the 1" cornfed front spacer installed. Definitely a subtle amount of change, but it looks great in person.

Before:



After:

 

Second thing I did was found some black roof rails and crossbars. I think I'm going to add the 2 crossbars to my current 2 crossbars just for the "F" of it.

 

Cool. It’s almost broken in now.

 

Can we see more pictures with the delete? Side angles would be great

 

Here you go! I really really like the “quarter” rack system after the delete. It’s different but fits my current needs.

 

Awesome! Thanks

did you have to remove the rack to do the delete kit or no?

 

I would totally buy the Pro rack if it came like that (and was cheaper than it is now).