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

Yeah, I hear you. It's bad enough for my back to be lifting 60lb sacks of concrete all over the place, the last thing I want is to heft a 70 lb donut on a trail somewhere. Yet, I need to as I have plans for the spare tire space. I do have a second swing arm and deciding if/when to install should I need to carry a jerry can (or two) but honestly I've never been deep enough into the backcountry to have a need to carry extra fuel.

 

Got the trim pieces painted. Will get that headliner recovered when i find a fabric i like.

 

I did a double take when I looked at your pic., "wait, whaat?" I like where you're going with this!

 

Bilstein shocks, bump stops and Eibach springs in the rear.

 

This is something I have thought about doing. I've thought about it a lot, actually. I want to "Black Out" the interior - which means doing the headliner and plastic parts.

How much time/effort/money did you spend on painting the plastic parts?

 

Man, I’d love to have the headliner and upper trim be black instead of that light tan or whatever it is.

 

Yeah the 2 tone interior is the fugliest thing toyota coulda done.

Cost not much so far just 4 cans of the trim paint so far. I haven't picked a headliner fabric yet. Just takes time to disassemble everything so doing it. I did it over 3 days due to time restraints a couple hours for each section, a pillar then b pillar then finally cargo. 4 coats each piece in 95 degrees dried quick.

$59 Dupli-Color HVP110-6 PK Vinyl and Fabric Coating Spray Paint - Burgundy - 11 oz Aerosol Can Pack of 6

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B3UZEX4

I figure the headliner is gonna be the bitch. Having to remove all the glue and foam etc.

 

Hmm, I think I'll air on the side of caution and see what an upholstry shop would charge to do this for me. I'm not lazy, I'm just smart enough to know when I should pay someone to do something for me - so it gets done right the first time.

 

It’s not just back country needs for the extra fuel, on road travel can benefit if you go into/through high gas cost areas (Cali) and don’t want to refuel there. I have a LRA (long range America) aux gas tank, 24 g where the spare sits for both of these reasons. Just a thought for the day.

 

I've done it a couple times on other cars. It's definitely something to take your time on and not rush. That's why i didn't want to do the headliner when i had limited time.

And i also want to get the roof sound deadened while it's down too