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

My hitch skid does not stick out to far and don't really want to test the impact, anything attached to the hitch will damage something in the rear. I use mine for a step, chair, bottle opener, and small bump protection when someone parks to close to the bumper.

 

nice! my wiper blades have that design.

 

What grille did you go with?

 

What grille did you go with?

 

My favorite little mod. Didn't like the bright silver logo in the steering wheel. Ordered an overlay they said was bronze but came more gold. Found a can of spray paint. 2 squirts and it comes out real close to matching the 40th Bronze.

 

Ordered from cartrimhome.com excellent quality and price. Found a video on Youtube that was promoting them.

 

Thanks! Looking at a few different options, they're about the same price around $230 without lights.

 

Had the afternoon off so decided to tackle the front and rear diffs and transfer case. Drained, new crush washers, filled, torqued to specs! Mobil1 synthetic 75W-90 in the diffs and Ravenol SAE75W (Toyota Equiv) in the transfer case!

 

Added lighting: all interior, LEDs, lighting under hood, LED lighting mod in faux hood air intake. Available in amber or white.

 

How long did this take and do you aftermarket skids?

 

from where?

 

I don't have aftermarket skids......just the OEMs. To do all 3 took me about 3 hours with clean-up! I took a few breaks while letting the diffs and TC drain. Could have done it in less time but was in no hurry!

 

every other day but its worth it

 

HAH!
ditto

 

Nice! if I only had a scoop to light up. If I did I go with a kitt from knight rider type of light.

 

Dude you're blocking all that ram air performance now, what the hell???

 

Dang dude! So new you still got the stock number in the windsheild

 

the light alone adds 30 hp. Hes good!

 

I put the black plastic caps on mine - Bimecc is the brand - they look great

 

Any reason you went with 75W-90 vs 75W-85 as spec'd in the manual? I'm about to do this service myself.

 

So I went to 285s today. So glad I didn't rub on the arms or body mounts. That was the only reason I didn't do it earlier I was paranoid about that. I do have some rubbing on the front bumper at full lock so I will need to do some modifications there.

I'm a bit nervous about that LOL which is weird considering I cut a giant hole in my front bumper to put the steel bumper on haha but I'm sure it'll be fine. I went with Cooper Evo MTs. They only weigh 53lbs in an E load range which I like because I do rock crawling crawling. My Rugged Treks weighed 45lbs so not going up crazy amounts of weight. I honestly noticed zero change driving on the freeway. I will need to bump by 6112s up the rest of my 1 1/2 inches and probably an Eibach 1 inch in the rear.

If anyone is curious my wheels are not actual TRD Pro Wheels they are knockoffs but they are 17x8 with a zero offset. It's kind of bittersweet moving on from the 265s I did a TON of crawling with them. Even with the stock size and a little bit of lift in the front these rigs are amazing. I'm excited that I'll get another half inch of clearance plus another inch and a half from my lift to raise my skids. That all helps when crawling LOL.

 

Were you one of those child marriages I've read goes on out there?

 

Looks great 2inchup front and zero in the rear?

 

Thanks! 2 front 1 back

 

Oooo

 

cool

 

75W-85 is kind if hard to find and 75W-90 will work so went that direction! Plenty of threads here to read on the forum where folks went with the 75W-90 without issue! Had 2 Tacomas before my 4Runner and when I serviced them I used 75W-90 in the diffs and Ravenol SAE 75W in the TC with over a combined 100K miles without any issues!