Recent content by choff1212

Gentlemen, I've come to a crossroads with my beloved '01 4runner. At a point where the 4runner has become the fun vehicle with my growing family. Trailered to more difficult trails with breakage potential or driven to mellower day trips. In it's current form we're on 33's, sliders, front bumper...

Those are some nice control arms! I've been dealing with a rear clunk issue and think it might be a bad rear arm bushing. Are these made by another forum member?

I'm on a set of SL Duratracs 255/75/17. Most of my wheeling is fire or forest service roads to access campsites and trail heads, leave the gnarly stuff for the mountain bike since I still have two good legs. I have never aired them down. For everday duties the SLs have been great. Im not towing...

I love the ride with my setup plus every component of the IVDs are replaceable or serviceable. The 650# coils up front with no swap bar handles nice and tight on-road and off. 90% of my driving in on-road/highway with my latest job and I have not needed to put the front sway bar back, I also...

I'm in Denver so 303 Shock Service is local to me, he did the nitro charge. I threw a Les Schwab tech $20 to take off the springs, pulled the shocks apart, cleaned them, replaced bearings and seals, took the to get charged. I also don't have a vise so I rigged up a wood clamp with t-nuts and...

Shock rebuilds are a little intimidating at first, but are pretty simple when you get into them. If you decide to attempt it yourself just take your time and lay everything out exactly as it came out of the shock body. Use plenty of anti-seize on the bearing cups. I bought an old used set of...

I'm surprised this thing is still around! Another bump.

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I have two rear axle shafts up for grabs and two wheel cylinders. I picked up a locker housing and decided to get a different set of shafts that had better seals, bearings, etc. These shafts will need a full rebuild. I have some old drums for them too, pretty rusty though. Local only on the...

Can sell the shafts separate from the 3rd member? I have a housing and 3rd member just need some better shafts.

I'll be doing some basic maintenance tomorrow morning on my 4runner; oil change, trans fluid drain, grease job, etc. Also have all the tools to swap coils as well. Usually I pull my 4runner into the back yard and wrench in the grass. Shoot me a PM if you're interested, I am just west of the...

When I was in the diesel scene a popular mod for the Fords was to insert surgical tubing in the weather stripping. The theory behind it was that the surgical tubing is a lot stouter and more resiliant than the weather strip so it gives it some backbone. I've been toying around with doing this...

Picked up an elocker housing for my retrofit project. Spent the morning dissasembling the axle to prep it for paint and figuring out what I need to order. I found the parts pictured below and they look pretty beat up. Guessing they are retainers? They came from where the 3rd member drops into...

The itch This thread takes me back to some incredible memories! I grew up surfing wind chop in South Florida with my brother and a couple of other goons and was fortunate enough to surf all over the caribbean, california, and central america. Kinda miss ditching the last class of high school to...