I am running out of ideas. I have added sound deadening noico mat to the rear cargo area, paint corrected, changed most all of the interior lights to LED, and took care of rust/under coated most of the under carriage. What else can I do while I am bored? Any and all ideas help! Thanks

I am considering running a dash cam cable underneath the panels but I am not sure my current dashcam is worth the effort.

Removing skid plates, cleaning, chasing the thread of the skid plate bolts is tedious enough to take time...

Replacing all the liquids if it is roughly about time....

What do you mean chasing the thread? What would the benefit be? And I just purchased my 4runner 3k miles ago from a dealer which had almost everything serviced, only thing I could think of that would need the replacing is probably the diff fluid? I have never replaced that though... How difficult is that?

The threads get filled with crap when offroading regularly. Don't ask me how but the stuff gets everywhere. So that's a way to kill some time when servicing the skid plates anyway. Aftermarket skids trap lots of crap. Maybe you don't need anything though.

I have not done the 4R fluids on my own, but the rear diff should be straightforward.

Do all your maintenance/mods you got in your backlog.

Wipe down the interior with disinfectant wipes.

@zu13 Rear diff is indeed very straightforward - as long as you don't turn the drain bolt the wrong direction. Not that I would have any experience with that...

But seriously, use a ratchet that you know is set to lefty-loosey on that bolt to at least to double check and maybe even physically mark the direction before you go to town in the wrong direction.

I needed to use quite a bit of force to break loose the bolt with a breaker bar. I ended up rolling over to my side/stomach for more leverage and lost my bearings, which led me to turn the bolt tighter and tighter until I stripped the threads from the axle housing.

I pretty much have done all the free ones or cheap ones I can think of 0.o Only other one I have is removing the stock running boards buttttt my wife claims she needs to use them tog et in my stock ride height 4runner... in her defense she is 5 foot nothing though! haha

I did that yesterday, it seems to have an excellently preserved non dry rotted original spare. I cleaned off a pound of dirt and sand that was built up inside it and on top of it. All lowering and raising bits worked properly!

tempting.... but that seems like it might be just a little bit above my comfort zone. I assume its not as easy as unbolt whats there and place new ones in...

What all do you have on yours? I would be interested to see so I can steal some ideas

Ok awesome, I might actually do this. It definitely would not hurt.

I've been thinking about removing my factory skid plate and sanding it down/repainting it. I'm thinking I will sand it down with a wire brush and then some scotchbrite or something, and use enamel spray paint on it

I only ever installed one of two skid plates months ago when I bought them. I need to install the T-case one I've had sitting on my shelf already painted for a while.

Install new outer tie rods.

I also have some spindle gussets to get done. I just could never find the time to take the entire front end apart to do the spindles, but now........

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