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

Did these the other day.... Realized I didn't put them here haha!




(Waiting for suspension to settle before I adjust the panhard)

 

The same goes for wires. Despite the solar panel cable being secured, somehow, not well enough to where the cable was rubbing and tattooed the paint after about 5k miles of being up there, it would not come off. Allowing to continue likely would have rubbed off the paint as well. Nonetheless, removed the rack and covered the full top with vinyl, as you mention. Thanks for the evidence.

 

Installed the Accessorides Remote Start. Pairs well with the CTH Windows Up Module
https://youtu.be/PXDJY-7FNGM

 

Relocated my license plate to my Bajarack ladder with a custom mount. Still need to wire up the lights to it though…

 

How much lift in the rear? Does the panhard look noticeably angled? I have a 1.5 to 2in lift and always wondered when you need to start looking at these…

Is the draglink mount new as well, or is it armor?

Are you replacing any other links?

 

Do any of you guys have cb and gmrs? If I’m on ch 19 gmrs and 21 cb, then key up the cb my gmrs goes crazy

 

The panhard is definitely angled, with a 2.5" lift... Hard to get a picture though. The rear link arms are stock and we haven't replaced them...yet. The eimkeith mounts are armor and reinforcement. They go over top of your stock brackets then you weld them up so they protect and reinforce your stock brackets. I will link two vids. I like these YouTubers seem to have a similar style of use as us so I like a lot of their videos.

https://youtu.be/WJGEb_MPzSo

https://youtu.be/6Aphtx6Q5gI

Stock panhard location angle

 

Bye bye viper cut for now

 

It looks better without the basket. I hate it the Yakima thing and how loud it was.

 

Just ordered, looks like a good value. Thanks for posting

 

Sorry, just saw this. They're Wescott Designs! Ordered them on Black Friday.

 

The instructions suck badly. I got these a while back. I had to use some hardware and spacers that I had on hand to get it on there correctly with no rattling. These are not diff drop friendly, have no oil filter access, lacks adequate protection on the front sides and the hardware is cheap. They are, however, marginally better than the factory skids and provide fair protection until I can save up for something better. Hopefully you will be happier with them than I am.

 

Really? Dang it. I’m planning on installing a gmrs unit this week and Im getting hung up on planning how Im mounting and routing my antennas, since Im keeping my CB for the time being.

Maybe I’m worrying for a good reason? Where are your antennas mounted relative to each other? When you routed them, do they pass over each other, parallel, or seperate?

Have no idea if any of these are the issue, but want to avoid having same problem.

 

I installed the steering wheel blackout emblem and the 2 front grille blackout strips.
Slowly but surely things are coming along.

 

Yea I’m not sure what the deal is. There’s a huge gap in mhz between cb and gmrs. But coax is 3’ at its closest point, cb antenna on bumper swing out and gmrs antenna is at wind fairing. Hoping someone else has both and can key up under that scenario.

EDIT. Tried it with a handheld and it did the same thing. Also tried in another vehicle with cb and gmrs and it also happens. So apparently gmrs 19 and cb 21 has cross interference. Regardless of vehicle. Which isn’t a big deal, the only reason I noticed it was cause I had my gmrs on scan and was using ch 21 on cb and the gmrs keep picking up bad noise

 

Same lol, Also ordered the drain floor, keep water from sitting around the vehicle.

 

Viper cuts are overrated, looks better much better without

 

Ironman Winch and ARB LED Foglights installed

 

I've run into that site a couple times looking for stuff. I got the same feel for it, seems sketchy af.

 

When you’re right next to a radio and key, you’re likely to get at least some interference regardless of the frequency. This is caused by the full power of the radio. If you cut the antenna wire, that can have an effect too.

ideally, you can separate the antenna leads and antennas.

 

The coax and antennas are as far apart as a vehicle allows. Just seems strang a 462 mhz radio would pick up transmission from 27 mhz

 

Why does it seem sketchy? I never bought anything from there but the site seems decent and they have a lot of stuff.

 

Radios are weird. Just wish they were more predictable. My CB is giving me fits lately…last two outings I can’t transmit without everybody getting blasted by screeching. Rx is fine though.

 

I just like mine for road information. Gmrs is way better

 

Have you tried tuning your antenna?

 

Proximity and power.

There's a great book that talks about antennas from the ARRL Called the ARRL Antenna Book.

 

Just seemed off I guess, both times I was on it I clicked the ad in the google results for what I was looking for and went strait to the product, looked ok. Then when using the search on the site itself none of the matches had pictures of the products, and also couldn't find what I originally linked to without going back to Google and searching, then seeing the sponsored ad again.

It might be fine and legit, I just though it seemed weird and considering the amount of matches for 4Runner parts they've got I've never even heard of them.

 

Yeah, got my firestick tuned up real nice on the meter. When it’s working right, I can get a good 4 miles typical suburban terrain. I’m wondering if I got water in my 90degree elbow, even though I thought I waterproofed it good.

 

That’s definitely what I was feeling. There’s lots of those websites that list items for sale and then come to find out that they don’t have it or it’s out of stock. Just felt Morris 4x4 (a well known Jeep online retailer) would be safer and easier to deal with

 

All this radio/antenna talk has me thinking....