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

Time to get a tacobox if you want the ability to crawl very slow

 

Viper cut, poor man's high clearance bumper

 

just spent 10 minutes reading about tacobox lol
that's wild

 

I've got a Victory Blitz bumper in aluminum to save weight. That and I do more two tracking and overlanding than dedicated rock crawling. The viper cut is perfectrly suited for my needs and clearly many other as well. IMO, it looks as good as it performs. Dedicated full front bumpers add a lot of weight especially if you've already got a winch.

 

Swapped out my chrome bar upper grille for a matching mesh one. Only downside is the parts aren't exactly the same and now I can't reinstall my radiator support bracket.

 

Can you share a pic of your truck?

 

Sure but I haven't done the viper cut yet. Thinking of getting the aluminum washer fluid resevior/relocation kit before I do.



And Victory now makes these wing extensions for this bumper so I may go this route.

 

Looks great. Road Armor also makes wings for their bumper that I have but I went cheap lol

 

I'm on the fence about the wings which aren't cheap at all BTW. They look clean but I wonder if they wouldn't cause more damage being run into a rock vs the plastic just bending a bit.

 

Try without wings first and see if it works. I got it done for 200 bucks, cash wink wink

 

The plastic is rubbing the powder coat off a couple spots on my Green Lane wings where I didn't cut quite high enough. The complex shape makes trimming a royal pain, so I'll live with it for now.



Using a beefy steel Victory cover on the washer bottle, probably could have just hit it with plastidip.

 

What roof rack crossbars are you running? I have the Rago Fab cross bars but want to go a different route for my mountain bikes. I kind of like the look of the wide bars up top.

 

A brand new blower motor assembly. Mine started making a squeaky sound. Always OEM. After markets are cheap but do not last or have the same airflow.
10 mins is all it takes to swap one of these.

 

Not sure. Just grabbed a pair from a rack shop

 

Remove the lower dash plastic panel. Just pull down and it snaps out.
Once you look down there, carefully remove the fan connector with the black wire. It's a tight snug fit, has to be wiggled out.
Remove three 8mm screws that hold the fan in place. Front, right and behind the fan.
Wiggle the old fan out. Put the new fan in and align screw holes. Reconnect the connector and tighten screws. Everything is plastic so easy on the tightening.
Put the plastic panel back. There is a cut out in the lower left corner where the plastic plate extension fits, adjust and align accordingly and push in the 3 upper clips.
This is the old fan, looked alright. If it's the original that came with the car then I have to commend on it's quality. Lasting over 13 years.

 

I've also historically being worried about the exact same thing regarding wings. I Dremel cut a stage 2 high clearance cut (viper cut), no curve at bottom, and properly black painted the bottom mounting points so they disappear. If I added wings (and a valance winch bumper), I'd have to chop even higher to achieve the same clearance which I enjoy now.
Can't help but think the wings, which look killer, may fall into "damage multiplier" category. I could be wrong, but they are kinda mounted cantilever style, how big of an impact before they bend up, or back.

 

..and leave me alone about this seam, there's a thread about it..plus I've ran over small trees

 

Thanks for posting this DIY. My fan seems to be making a tic-tic sound rather than a squeak noise but also seems to be associated with the cabin filter? I pressed on the front cover to the filter compartment and the ticking sound seemed to go away. Can you tell if the fan blade itself is that close to the filter compartment? Maybe I need to go in there and move things around if the fan itself is touching the filter?

 

After having installed the remote 8-channel DC control I've located the control pad where most everyone does...that flat section to the left of the steering column. But after this last trip I thought about how that location requires me to do a sit-up like maneuver in order to reach it. So I did some thinking and designed a new plate to locate the touchpad up on the overhead console.

Before...


After...


This location placed the control pad within easy reach and without needing to do any shifting in my seat, just an easy reach upwards.

I'm tempted to redesign a complete replacement for the overhead console and integrate the touchpad as a complete unit...

 

A tik tik sound normally points to debris inside the fan. Remove the fan and clean it.
Remove the cabin filter to see if it has any large leaves stuck inside.

 

Wow nice

 

Thanks to your 'easy' instruction on accessing I'll be diving in tomorrow at first light. Thank you!

 

picked up a wood storage shelf off fb marketplace.
playing in 6+" fresh snow since last night

 

I noticed the LED panel for the map lights. So exactly how bright is that panel with all those LED chips?! Do you need to wear sunglasses at night looking at them?!

 

Sunglasses and SPF +20! Seriously though, if I have the doors open there's no need for puddle lights (IMHO) they are that bright. I'm glad these have a red-light mode...

 

This looks so good! I wish Victory 4x4 didn't change the front Blitz bumper (now has a bolt on light cover/bezel and tube is bolt on)

 

Thanks. I had to go look at their site. I wonder why they changed the design.

 

I gave my big red headed girlfriend (that's what I call her, seems fitting, right?) a bath and detailed her:

 

What taillights are those?

 

They are cool tail lights! AKA: Morimoto's: https://www.morimotohid.com/morimoto-10-21-4runner-xb-led-tails?quantity=1