Oh man, I hadn't thought about it but this reminds me of when I did this same thing to the civics dash... Did you notice improved air flow through the vents? Did you loose that GD rattle? Did you feel empowered after it was all done? Was beer involved?

Air flows the same but smells better for sure.

Rattle is gone!!

Lots of beer, yes.

Any particular culprit? Or just a thousand little things?

"Let me give you some 4-wheeling tips, noob"

Cool pic. Glad you didn't sell it.

hahahahaha love this pic dude.... I didn't know your 4runner's liked to kiss...




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Lots of love in the Yota family. You know this!

When I did my manual hubster swap back in Spring 2017 I never took the time to rebuild the Aisin hubs. They were greased and working fine but I decided to give them some attention. Took out all the snap rings and greased everything up. While I had the hubs out I snuck a grease needle past the end of the outer CV shaft and pumped some grease into the spindle. Everything is nice and smooth now!

I never loved the pleather shifter boot material these trucks come with. After installing my short shifter and my custom knobs the boot wasn't really the right size either. A dude in Portland who is a vintage Toyota nut made a nice custom one for me out of garment leather. It's got kind of a different loose t-shirt baggy look and I really like it.

Finally pulled the trigger on the rear window interior switch mod. I followed inspiration from this thread and followed @papabeach great idea to just tap into the wiring at the ECU rather than back in the guts of the door.

I opted for a 1st gen 4Runner window switch because 1) I had an extra 2) it's small and 3) still OEM

Trimmed a hole for it above the highest clip post. This switch body has a little alignment tab on either side so I had to trim that out too. Patience and a box knife worked best.



Test fitting, looks good. This one has 5 wires because it has a little interior lightbulb. I decided not to use it since I don't need this functionality.



The switch fits well higher up on the panel. This part of the panel is slightly curved so I clearanced the mounting face of the switch with a dremel to fit up snug so it can't wiggle around.

I like the fact that the switch body has two little rails on either side so an errand box would not easily hit it. It also takes a decent actuation force and has a solid "click" when pressed.



Fitted into the panel with a little wiring harness. I used some loctite plastic adhesive activator on the panel itself since it is PE or PP and hard to get normal glues to stick to it. Rather than using the loctite glue (which is basically superglue and is very rigid) I used some E6000 epoxy so it would stay tough and rubbery. After curing for a day the switch is in there very solid.



Snapping the panel back on. The corner of the switch body closest to the snap had like 1/32" of interference. I used a grease test to see where it was hitting and just pounded the sheet metal back a teeny bit -- all good. Wiring harness is zip tied to the snap boss as a strain relief. I did not need to trim a hole in the sheet metal.



Will take a better interior shot when I have some better light but here it is!

Storage / Sleeping / Camping platform build!

Writeup

Wanted to try out a PCV catch can to see what all the hype was about. Commence bracket fabbing. Used some basic 5/16" ID fuel hose. Will drive around for a while and see if anything shows up in there.

The only bummer is I had to take out my little basket to fit the can. I mostly just had a quart of oil in there that followed me around and I never used anyway. Never ended up cooking any meals in it

Great, now I want to label everything in the engine bay!!

PCV can does seem to catch some stuff! After only about 150 miles of highway driving there's a fraction of a teaspoon of oil in it. Doesn't seem to be anything other than that though which is good!

Also installed some Wade in-channel window visors. I tried the AVS ones also and these are much superior and priced the same. Nice to be able to crack the windows in the rain and it helps with some sun glare.