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

CBI full skids for some cat protection.

 

Very nice job! Looks great.

 

I only got jack stands and stock 4runner jacks. Mine sliders from RSG and I'm a little guy with no muscle, did all by myself.. Not very hard..
Planing to post the video soon.

 

I used a motorcycle jack, which was actually super helpful.

 

What Deer did to 4Runner the other night. Pictures don't really show the damage as well as in person. Marked less obvious in orange.

Back tire.

 

Long story short, accidentally purchased these LED lights (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B088F6Y6CZ?ie=UTF8) and missed the opportunity to return them. On top of that, while water-resistant not for outdoors or water-proof, and likely will not last in Arizona's summer. Nonetheless, temporarily installed them under the driver-side roof rail but will permanently install them. While not capable of lighting up the neighborhood, they do provide a subtle light, use little power, stay cool, and have a white-black specific stealth profile (aside from the zip ties) when not in use. Possibly a market available if made for outdoor use.

 

Hair in the wheel. Never seen that before.

 

Deer t boned me last year, had to replace both driver doors and paint whole side. 5800 in damage

 

Finally done, got her primed tonight and gonna topcoat tomorrow

 

Neither had I until now. Only saw a flash almost at the same time heard/felt the impact. I can't figure out how it hit, was it attempting to jump? I was doing about 35mph. Tremendous amount of new home construction close to my house that are driving new patterns for critters. What use to be, 25 years ago, woods, open fields, even hobby farms of good size are now cookie cutter, one size fits all 2-story Drone dwellings.

Time for us to move further out.

 

I figured it was going to be above 4k to fix, prob more as you said. Had we been in Wife's go-cart height Camry I believe it would have maybe come through window.

 

Wow. She hit the tire hard enough push it in around the bead so it pinched fur before she bounced of. Hell of an impact to do that

 

Tell them when they paint it to take your factory roof rack off the body shop that did mine taped around it now you can see where it was now that I have a Gobi rack

 

It would have been fun to have you along. Patriot Mountain is great! I'll be going back sometime. Has me seriously thinking about lifting my 4Runner and definitely getting new tires soon. The stock tires that came with purchase did OK and have a lot of miles left on them but this trip convinced me to make the change.... the training with Morrison Outdoor Adventures was worth every penny too. I found them on the Patriot Mountain web page.

 

Friggin forest rats….

 

Hit me up when you go again. I will work to make it happen.

 

And put it to use elsewhere:

 

Nice gay-rage as my south African buddy pronounces it. Makes me giggle every time. Nice Floor!! Wanted to do that when I first moved in my house but now I have too much shit to do it.

 

Relentless fab bmc with T4R cut in

 

Finally finished my deck and got my fridge fit in better. Time to go camping!

 

NICE!!!

 

Always good to see some jump wings and the CIB! My son is wrapping up infantry basic training now and has a Ranger Contract! I was a paratrooper and HALO - all peacetime fun and games for me!

Thanks for your service!

 

Thanks. I made a career out of it. Your son may know my nephew. He is at about the same place as your son in the pipeline or whatever they call it now lol. He signed up for the Airborne Ranger contract as well. Can’t wait to knock him on his ass when he graduates jump school. Hehe

 

Three years active and four years NG for me. I went to jump school in 07/83 - almost 39 years ago - unbelievable - where did the time go?

I think my son finishes basic this Thursday and starts AIT on Monday. Then RASP! They may be in the same basic training cycle, probably will be in the same RASP class. My son says there are six others in his company with Ranger contracts. I believe the Army now sends them to jump school after they have successfully completed RASP. The recruiter told my son that too many kids were signing Ranger contracts just to guarantee jump school and then would quit RASP immediately. It was called RIP when I was in. Good luck to your nephew!

 

Gave my wife every opportunity to back out from having a huge ass hole in her baby. She didn’t budge so….. she got a snorkel



Then we added on to the gladiator



and finally finished up our recovery and tool storage
Just waiting for her bumper to be picked up from powder and get her winch and light bar installed and then start her suspension work.

 

Great pictures!

 

I had a shop swap the valances and plate bracket .

 

Did a thing

 

Old Red's AMD mod?

 

Just took it out for a drive to calibrate the compass.