1996 snow runner

took off for the mountains today to get out of town for my birthday, went to south pass city, atlantic city, louie lake and lander. got 18MPG in the 4runner mixed highway and climbing through the mountains.









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started working on my roof rack and didnt like how it was going so i went to plan B. i just built some mounts to mount the awning for now and ill revisted the roof rack later.



the mounts bolt into the factory "roof rack" mounting holes







 
we headed to utah today around spirit lake, sheep creek, and headed over the flaming gorge dam and took the upper sage creek trail. ended up pulling a duramax out of the mud at one of the lakes, toyota 1 duramax 0.

a little bit of elevation


stopped for lunch


 
this weekend i was going to do my front brakes and rotors, (i love how easy it is to pull the brake pads on a toyota, you dont even pull the caliper off) till i noticed my caliper on the passenger side needs replaced, so ill wait till this weekend when my cailpers show up.

But i did get my E-locker wiring kit installed





all thanks to this guy

 
i had my small compressor/tank in a wood box i built when i had my XJ, well the compressor finally started to die (what can ya say about a $7 compressor), it would build pressure over 30#. i was looking at getting a CO2 tank setup but all the store bought ones have nice tanks and nobody around here will fill them, they just exchange them, so i wasnt going to buy a $500 powertank to turn in the nice tank. called around and nobody had a 10# tank only 5 or 15, im not planning on running air tools so i figured a 5# would work fine for me and take up less space.

went to airgas here in town and picked up a 5# tank for about $100, ordered a 150PSI fixed hi-flow regulator with quick disconnect air chuck and a mounting bracket for $105 shipped, i already had the hose and fittings so no cost there. i now have a CO2 tank setup that cost me about $205. this also gave me more room in the back of the 4runner.

old setup


new setup (i need to shorten my wires now on my inverter since i had to relocate it)




also picked this up and mounted it




 
i already knew my hatch struts were getting weak so i had planned on buying some new ones before winter (when they really wont work) but ended up ordering some today cause it wants to close with the weight of the shotgun in there.
 
did some exploring friday after work and got the runner a little muddy so today i pulled it into the wash bay at work and proceeded to take a strip of clear coat off AND pearl paint under it (thanks previous owner).

changed the brakes on the front since my rotors were warped and my driver side caliper was froze (likely cause of warped rotor). was waiting for the wife to show up so i could have her help me bleed the brakes. while i was waiting i decided to do something about the clear coat.



 
ordered two spindle hinges from atozfab this weekend, gonna build a rear bumper with dual swing outs. also ordered two 7" HID lights.
 
Oh, right on.. Did you use a sprayer or was it aerosol can? I might use something like that instead of bed lining for my bumpers and flares/cladding. I already did my rear bumper with the duplicolor bed liner and it was ok, nothing special and already peeled up in one small spot
 
its an aresol can, the stuff i used before was a better quality than what i used this time and already see a spot im gonna have to re-do. the stuff before i got from an actually auto body paint shop and was $12 a can.
 
friday after work i pulled the rear bumper off ( already have the stock bumpers sold)

had to drill a hole in the floor to be able to get a bolt out that the captured nut broke loose


spent saturday building the new rear bumper, not alot of pics of building it. built my own nut strip to put in the frame rails


before i pulled the bumper and hitch off this was my ground clearance


and after
 
worked on it more today, its not finished but its about 75% done, i have to run a license plate light, 2 more braces on the receiver tube, and im going to build a basket for the driver side to carry gas cans/ ice chest/ firewood/ etc.

also gave it a second coat of undercoating






checking for any rubbing issues, it can flex pretty decent for mostly stock.








now that the spare is out from under it, i can start looking for an auxillary fuel tank from a mid 90's ford to install in the place of the spare and double my mileage.
 
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