Made my first junk yard run the other day with 99 sr5 highlander and ‘Merica1776 (going to refer to them as “The Crew” from now on to save my typing fingers). I had a pretty lengthy list of items I was looking for, which I honestly had hoped to only be able to find some of them.
Wanted to find (in no particular order):
- Taco Whip Mod
- Carpet (both front and back areas, trying to reduce smoker smell)
- Roof rack end caps
- Right kicker panel
- Sunvisors
- Windshield wiper reservoir
- Headliner
- 96-98 grill (for dat sweet satoshi)
- Center console plastic trim
- Replacement 4x4 shifter leather
- Center wheel caps for front wheels (one was cracked, one was missing)
I got everything except:
- Front carpet portion (which I’m going back for on Saturday)
- Driver sunvisor (same as front carpet)
- Grill (which 99 sr5 is hooking me up with one already, but at the time didn’t find it)
- Headliner (which I’m not actually going to get, just going to steam clean it)
I also stumbled upon a sport hood scoop insert for my future sport hood (some day soon hopefully)
Action shot! (totally not staged)
Initial haul
My right side kicker panel had this gross slime on it that I couldn’t get off, so I just replaced it. Before:
After:
New passenger sunvisor installed and I’m holding the old, gross one
The plastic had been all marred by my shifter and the leather for the 4x4 shifter had been burned through
When I removed them to replace it, it was a lot worse than I thought it was. So since I had to suffer cleaning it, you have to suffer looking at it. (I found pasta, cigarette butts, change, and even a cracker!)
After installing new coverings, much better
Installed new wheel caps
99 sr5 highlander was gracious enough to give me an extra ‘98 bumper he had since mine was dangling at the corner from the damage and I think the fat lip doesn’t look pleasant
‘Merica1776 gave me a new bulb for my turn signal and I immediately dropped it, doh!
This is everything I removed that night from my truck that went straight into the trash (not pictured is my running boards I removed later when it got dark)
Finish up this post with a sweet picture of 5(!) 4runner’s, 2 built 3rd gen’s, my humble 3rd gen, a 4th gen, and 99 sr5’s 1st gen he’s restoring in the back