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

Like it, I got one from Etsy awhile back

 

I am cutting more designs this weekend and going to be putting up more "pieces of flare" this week hahaha

 

Played a little in the woods yesterday while taking care of my food plots and trimming apple trees

 

100k oil change. Been using the MV7300 fluid extractor, which works fantastic. I also have a Baxter Performance spin-on filter adapter. No cartridge filters for me.

 

strip them all off, keep them guessing!

 

Fender mount valance cap removal did not stop the noise I'm assuming is rubbing. There's no evidence of pinch weld or body mount rub.
Tie rods were replaced this spring, and balljoints assessed 6 months to live.
I gotta YouTube a video of the noise caught real time. But until then, before I'm able to jack it up, anyone think worn SPC balljoint socket can make loud noise only when turning fast left and right up a ramp ?

 

In that turn, are you getting some joint motion that might bring a different part of that ball and socket into play? If so, that's a definite maybe.

 

Great to have your own property to do that! Mostly public land for me!

 

yep pretty lucky, 41 acres and has been in the family since 1973.

 

installed ironman lift, 2.5/20 stage one on Saturday. not worked on a car in ages. was a considerable challenge with a few roadblocks I had to figure out.

 

Finally got everything for the remaining parts for the gf's bday present. I rebuilt her CV's and installed the ECGS bushing as one present (bought the bushing) and the second part was getting rid of the crummy, not working reverse LED pods and replacing them with some side-throwing LED pods that were a bit more slim:



Also, the push buttons that the PO put in this rig were garbage. They didn't stay locked into place at all. You'd have to hold them in for the accessory to work and they wouldn't "catch" like a momentary switch should. Here's the spread of the buttons that were in there:



Now, I was happy to see that when I got behind there, the wiring was actually clean, how I would wire things to make it look OEM. The only thing the PO didn't do was wire the lower "description" part of the button to come on with the headlights. She wanted this feature.

The pink with the yellow tracers wrapped around the other wiring is the 12v input to the switches from the headlight power or something similar.



I opted to tap cleanly into the OEM defrost plug to the left. I probed for 12V when the headlight switch was on and found the green wire was the one I needed (2016). I daisy chained a 12V waterproof connection to the 3x pink/yellow tracer wires to complete the wiring. It was nice I didn't have to start from scratch, but I had pre-wired the harnesses from the switches I purchased just in case.

Popped the old switches out and the new ones in. The new switches I purchased from AOB after doing some research. They all functioned as should when installed into the factory spots without modification to the trim. Obviously with nothing turned on:



Headlight/running lights on (it's daylight so the light color doesn't really do any justice at this point):



With the respective accessories turned on with headlight/running lights:



Happy with how everything turned out and she'll be stoked to have some functional switches for everything now.

 

i love my oil extractor been using it on my audis for years. if only the oil filter was on top on the 4runner like audi does it i could do an oil change in 15 minutes.

 

Rad, nice work! If dash switches are sticking and malfunctioning, install thin rubber O rings on them

 

That all looks good too!
I think the original switches were similar to that post, same deeper color blue. The AOB switches are a color match to the OEM ones which is nice. Something about clean wiring and waterproof plugs just makes me happy

 

Didn't do anything, per se, but plotted a bunch of fossil digging sites onto my PNW map for the future!

 

@Patwashere looks slick ! new profile avatar

 

Looking good. Let us know what you think of the ride after you have some time with the lift.

 

@glwood54 I have the Elka 2.5 DC's all around and they are a game changer- such an awesome suspension set up.

 

That many? You mean 1?

 

nice. ive been doing some light r&d for this. did you manage to retain use of the factory microphone?

 

Custom Pro grille

 

How does that kit ride so far?

 

only drove it 10 miles or so. seems really nice. need to get an alignment Monday.

 

jetspd, the unit came with a mic that was installed by the gauge cluster. I never used the Mic before : )

 

From their install video there’s a bolt that’s very close to the cv boot.
is it the same on yours? I’m interested in these but I’d want to make sure the bolt doesnt cause damages during articulation

 

Mine is not even close...



What is strange however is the spacers. The kit comes with two 3/4" spacers per side. I installed with the spacers and the bolts weren't long enough, and the skids hung down about 3/4" too low, and didn't line up with the factory skid. I ditched the spacers and everything installed and looked like how it should be. Weird as every install video uses the spacers but my install definitely did not need them.

I emailed runnin 4 tacos out of curiosity so we'll see what they say. I like em' though!

 

thanks for the pic. It looks much better on yours. Maybes the one in the video was a prototype?

let us know what they say about the spacers when they reply

 

May be @semprenissart got the wrong bolt? My Rago ones came with a shorter bolt out side.

Personally I don't like the longer bolts in side. Is there a easy way to cut them of with cheap hand tools? For now I have them painted black so its not ugly.

 

New Husky's and changed oil.

 

@raimieb @kmeeg
If your going to take it apart to do the bolt trimming, perfect tool I use is little 12V Milwaukee Bandsaw. Electricians use cordless bandsaws a lot, clean cuts no sparks. Not a cheap hand tool but iunno if there is a cheap hand tool that cuts that