Small potatoes first. I never posted the fixed spare tire stud.



Pretty straight forward. Looks almost stock unless you look out back where you can see the new welds and paint.

Thanks to @kingofthehill I bought a positive terminal cover from a 5th gen to replace my positive cover. I actually installed this back on 7/18/20 but forgot to put it in the update. Part number is 82821-60270 and costs around $10-15 depending on where you source it from. Also bought a negative terminal cover to "match". It was only $3 dollars on eBay but took about 3 weeks to get here.



I got an aFe intake and they used to make TRD intakes pre-2010 before TRD decided to just reuse the OEM box with a drop in filter / intake tube. If I knew about it I would have passed on the volant setup for the aFe. I know intakes don't do much but I like the induction noise.




I do have to say that the plastic is nice but it doesn't feel like the price the intake retails at. I didn't pay retail but I did get a brand new one.

This gasket for the "cold air" access is pretty stout. Took me about 30 minutes to get it onto the intake box.


The person that had this car before may have did light off roading or lived on a dirt road because there was a lot of caked dirt under the engine cover and deeper into the engine bay. I noticed it weeks ago when I was working under the car as well. I did clean all of this but didn't take a picture of the aftermath.


Nothing special here. Just the final engine bay pics for now.



The TRD cover I got from a guy that used to custom make them on TacomaWorld. He stopped making them unfortunately. Maybe a cease and desist after 5+ years of making them. I wanted the clear window variant he made prior the the powder coated aluminized version, but he ran out of them so I settled for this version. It's a nice look over the aFe cover and makes it look more OEM+.

Parts Installed
- aFe 54-81932 intake with TRD plate cover
- positive 5th gen 4Runner oem terminal cover (installed 7/18/20)
- negative terminal cover