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

Coolest thing is the vehicle info screen

 

Purchased and Brought her home today.

 

Congratulations, nice looking color. What mod’s are first on the wish list?

 

Followed by

 

The letters are held on with some sort of adhesive so I taped around them. Titanium silver sounds great, hope to see some pics!

 

Not quite sure. I have to let my wallet get over the shock. Lol. This is the most expensive vehicle I have ever purchased. But I am thinking of putting the bronze 40th edition wheels on it first. Give it that Taco trail edition color combo.

 

After 5 years of owning the 4Runner the battery finally gave up the ghost. It was 7 degrees Friday morning and came out to a dead batter



Decided to go with a AGM because of the winch and the week long camping trips.



For some reason I could not keep the terminal clamps and the battery bracket from getting corrosion. I constantly cleaned them, used felt pads and battery terminal protector spray. Cleaned everything off and paint the bracket since it was down to bare metal


All put together

 

DieHard will fail you. Don't ask how I know. X2, Odysey or North Star are your best options for AGM

 

Too late for that. I guess we will see, it has a 3 years free replacement. If it fails it fails. There was literally nothing in stock for AGM in Colorado Springs and needed a battery. It is what it is at this point.

 

spray some Fluid Film on the battery posts and holdown and it won't corrode

 

That is good to know! I was trying all the common stuff and it kept happening. Getting annoyed over here lol.

 

Did you try peeing on it?

That seems to work for a lot of things.

 

Yeah, I'm not sitting in your 4Runner.

 

Put an Eibach lift on it and took it out in the desert to cycle the suspension. Extremely impressed with the lift and how planted the 4runner feels now. No more nose dive on braking and body roll is almost non existent yet the ride is not harsh at all. Now that the suspension has settled need to adjust the front height tonight before the alignment tomorrow morning.

 

Where do you find a Die Hard battery these days? Sears went out of business. Craftsman tools is at Lowes now. Who has DieHard?

 

Advance auto parts for the Die Hard batteries now

 

That was next on the list

 

^ this

 

The foam wasn't in too bad condition for an almost 10 year old vehicle. Did the mod anyway.

 

Which Garmin model and I'd like your opinion on how you have it hooked up. Battery drain concern?
Thanks

 

Installed a Rago Dash mount

 

I got the 47 but I ordered the 57 few days ago and will either return the 47 or move it to the rear. Have it hooked up with the Garmin constant power cable so the parking guard feature will always work. So far no battery draining issues but it's only been a week.

 

dude! brilliant. never thought of that before. that shit is messy as hell though. does it make a huge mess when sprayed in such little amounts?

 

its not bad if you don't go crazy with it, just spray it real easy

 

Not a performance mod but for those that have RSG sliders with the RSG templates on them. A few month back I noticed some rust on the plates so I pulled them off. I had some paint in the garage along with some primer so I ended up painting them in a Camo pattern and re-installed. I think they came out pretty good. Just an idea for you guys running RSG sliders. For those wondering, I used 1/8 x 1/4 stainless steel rivets to re-install.

 

I got my wicked kit in today. It’s the 5inch LT. I’ve also got a DRT cab mount chop to install. There are some new 35 inch BFG ATs and bronze weld 17x10s waiting at the the tire shop for me

I’m currently running the aftermarket spacer lift on my front strut only with fiber glass fenders (with a spacer for the width diff). I’m ready to get rid of the spacers.

I have no idea what I need to buy shock wise. What is the proper king shock I need here???

 

Dude!!! did you get a build thread going? That way it’s easier for us to learn from your mistakes….I mean, to help you not make mistakes.

As to your question on the shocks, I have no freakin clue…just wanted to establish that.

 

Got the Pro lifted today with the Westcott lift, SPC upper control arms with Method 316’s with 285/70/17 Mickey Thompson Baja Boss A/T’s. Came out great.

 

Finally had time to install the C4 Lo Pro, Baja S8 and Morimoto 4bangers over the weekend.

 

Today I got my 4Runner!