New member in ATL

Hello everyone, just picked up my new TRD ORP!
Here's a pic of it right after I had new tires installed but before the lift that I just finished putting on this afternoon.

 

Welcome

 

Welcome from Cincinnati

 

Thanks guys. Like i said, I just wrapped up the lift and I'm surprised to have netted 2-7/8" front where I expected 2" from Bilstein 5100s and a leveling shim, and 1-1/4" in the rear using a Cornfed 3/4" spacer kit. Weird. Hope it aligns ok.

 

Welcome from Texas.

 

Welcome.

 

Welcome

 

Welcome. Looks sweet. What kind of tires are those?

 

Thank you! Ridge grappler 285/70r17. Only 49lb each.

 

Welcome

 

Welcome from Arizona!

 

Welcome from the center of the bourbon universe.

 

Welcome from Columbus OH

 

Welcome from Tampa! Rocking the MGM as well. Have any pics after the lift?

 

Welcome from Wisconsin!

 

Welcome!

 

Thank you! Yes but not a great one. I'm on the road this week, so here's the only picture I have handy. Following the lift, I hyperdipped the wheels and bumper valance in shadow black.

 

looks sick!

 

Thank you!

 

Welcome to the family.

 

Welcome from Illinois.

 

Looks great! New T4R owner myself. I'm planning on doing the wheel dip as well - trying to decide on a black or the stealth gray for wheels (I have an SR5P in nauty blue). Blacking out emblems, but love the grey TRD wheel look on the blue.

 

Welcome from North East GA

 

That's sharp. Welcome.

 

Thank you, I'm very pleased with how it's turning out.
I think either color will look great on your blue truck. Hyperdip also offers a color called Brass Monkey that you might check into. It's a very dark bronze. I have a slate gray pathfinder that I might use it on.
I'm really impressed with the product. It's much thinner that plasti-dip, lays smoother, resists runs better, and seems tougher. Also feels more paint-like than the rubbery texture of plasti-dip which always ended up with fuzzy stuff on it from my wash mitts. Sucks that it costs so much but you do get what you pay for.

 

Maybe you guys can help me with this:
I bought black badge overlays (non-oem, mistake #1, idiot cheapskate) for the badges but they did not fit the c-pillars at all. Some of the the tailgate letters were too tight and cracked upon installation. So the company sent replacements which did not fit any better.
The tape used was much better quality than the overlays themselves because they were a tremendous pain to get off. I used heat but they were literally trying to take the underlying chrome letters with them! During the course of removing them (with plastic non-scratch pry tools, mistake #2) I still managed to scratch the plastic all up.
Less than 500 miles on the truck, my wife was LIVID.
So I'm not screwing around with any repair or re-paint attempts, I'm replacing the whole thing, including Toyota and "4runner" emblems. But instead of going stock black, I'm taking this opportunity to put SR5P (arrow buttons like my ORP) MGM painted panel on there.
I've got part #76811 35370 B1 for the panel, 75431 35050 for the letters, and 75432 06030 for the toyota logo.
Anybody see a mistake here, or have an idea for a better solution that I'm missing or unaware of?
Finally, the exploded diagram shows a seal piece behind the panel. Any of you guys disassemble this thing to know of the gasket is reusable on a new piece, or if it's adhesive backed and i need one of those too? It's only $5.
Thanks in advance.