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Avatar? Joe, If you're worried about the gap that you're having between your hitch and your bumper, you could have your hitch modified so that it fits flush againsts your bumper even though you have a 2" BL. I ended up doing that with my 1.5" body lift so that my hitch fits up against my rear...

Tire Balance There could be a myriad of problems causing your vibration. Most will agree the first and most possible issues is a wheel balance issue. Many shops have a problem balancing large tires and our 4runner's wheels. For example, I own two 2001 4unners with identicle suspension...

Time It took me around 3 hours to complete. If I did it again it would take about 1.5 hours. I spent a considerable amount of time fighting one issue: The "center bushing" as it is called in most of the writeups fits between two pieces of metal tabs. These metal tabs are like the bread of...

Plating frame rails? Good looking bumper Brian! What is the consensus on plating (reinforcing) the rear frame rails if you put on a steel rear bumper, tire carrier, gas cans, etc. I remember discussions long ago (not sure if it was on this forum or another) where people were telling some kid...

Ideas I've had vibration problems in my wifes 2001 4runner (145K miles). Her truck looks almost identical to my truck in my signature. I replaced the all the sway bar bushings on my front sway bar (Toyota calls it a "Stablizer Bar" from here: Anti-Sway Kit for Toyota 4Runner from Wheeler's...

265/75/r16 I ran 265/75/r16 on my 2001 4runner 4x4 with no rubbing. I know yours is a 2002 but just thought I'd give you my experience. Now I have a suspension lift, body lift, 285/75/r16s, steel bumper... etc. The guys are right, once you start doing stuff to your truck it can become...

Vibration Issue Here is a great site with information on balancing the wheels and tires on our 4runner properly: Vibration Problems Here is the thread I pulled the above site from, he refers to the above website in hub centric or Lug centric - YotaTech Forums

LUG Centric FYI, our 4runner wheels are LUG centric not HUB centric. The rest of your post was full of great info though.

Sonoran Steel On both of my 2001 4runners (mine is 4x4, my wife's is 4x2) I have the Sonoran Steel 7.2 system. For more of a mild lift you could go with the SS 3.0 system which uses the 99 stock springs that were the tallest for our 3rd Generation 4runners. Run through SonoranSteel.com and...

MPGs with Larger Tires Just answered my above question by doing some more research. Here is what I found... My 285/75/r16 tires are 7" more in circumference than my stock 265/70/r16s. This means my 285s have 7.27% more circumference than my stock tires. So when calculating my MPG on a tank...

MPG Math Question Anyone know the math behind putting on larger tires while not getting the spedometer updated. Basically, when we put larger tires on our trucks most don't correct the spedometer to factor in the larger tires. On my truck I went from stock 265/70/r16 to 285/75/r16. For each...

7.2 ss I had indepth conversations with Steve at Sonoran Steel about this. I went with the SS 7.2 lift since I wasn't planning on adding an aftermarket rear bumper anytime soon and I wanted to the truck to sit as level as possible. I also didn't install the yellow spacers that Steve sells...

HID vs Silverstars I have HIDs in my 2001 4runner, I put aftermarket Silverstar bulbs (that can be picked up at any Autozone, Checker, Pep Boys, etc in my wife's 2001 4runner. Here is my experience with both, you can draw your own conclusion on what you'd like to use. 1. On my truck the HID...

Discount Tire (American Tire) wouldn't mount 285/75/r16 Goodyear MTRs on my stock rims due to Goodyear saying that the minimum rim width should be 8" for the 285s. You can look at Goodyears site and they give a breakdown of the recommended rim width for each size of their tires. That being...

FYI, our 2001 4runners don't have a locking rear diff unless it is an aftermarket add on (an ARB air locker, etc). Toyota discountinued the locking rear diff in 00 or 99 I believe. Our 2001 4runners have a locking center differential, described as (taken from another post): ##############...