Agent_Outside: Adventures in a 4Runner Limited

[Agent_Outside]

Nice thread :thumb3: we’ve got the same pack...love it!

I’m a big fan of Osprey packs

 

[Agent_Outside]

My Wisconsin buddy came to Colorado to visit...

 

[Agent_Outside]

Family hike on Thanksgiving before turkey

 

[calcrc]

Hi man, you have so many nice pictures, your nickname fits you perfect

Family hike on Thanksgiving before turkey

 

[Agent_Outside]

Hi man, you have so many nice pictures, your nickname fits you perfect

Thanks, I appreciate it. The name is actually what I go by on Instagram.

 

[Agent_Outside]

Some more from this past winter ('17/'18)

Those Baja Design lights are amazing in the snow

 

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Late winter national park trip

 

[Agent_Outside]

Our March 2018 ski weekend with friends

great timing let me catch Kevin eating it

Kevin again.... I swear hes a good skier

 

[Agent_Outside]

Ski weekend continued

Can you spot my wife?

 

[Agent_Outside]

He really wanted to get the trailer out and load it up so we did lol

We put the bump seat in the RZR with his 4 point harness

 

[Agent_Outside]

Next up was replacing the taillight assemblies. On the drivers side the plastic on the housing was starting to deform a little where the socket snaps into place so it would't hold a consistent connection. I’d lose the brake light operation on that side sporadically so I just swapped them out the to the newer style that uses a wiring harness to each bulb instead of the old design. OEM housings, harnesses, and body to light housing gaskets made for a quick easy direct swap. No TYC junk here.

 

[Agent_Outside]

14' long piece of concrete siding fits just fine, dash, front headrest, rear headrest, hatch window glass kept it stable and supported. Worked out pretty well.

 

[Agent_Outside]

The roll down rear window is great for when you need to coral the kiddo. This was leaving the zoo, changed his diaper, left him back, ran over to the garbage can real quick.

it as just dumb luck I parked next to another 5th gen, old style taillights vs new style taillights.

 

[Agent_Outside]

Putting the bump seat to use with grandpa. Side note, we usually wear helmets but with him in there its like 15mph tops

 

[sigepbiker]

Can you elaborate on your fob light mod? Are you using the factory switch and how is this all wired up? If you followed Antman's build, then I already know what you did.

So, the first mod was finding a wiring diagram and figuring out what wires I needed to rewire the fog light to work independently of the high beams. Normally you can have low beams and fog lights or low beams and high beams. I wired in a relay to so anytime the ignition is on and the OEM fog light switch is turned on the lights work. Now I could run high beams, low beams, and fogs all at the same time. It’s a simple and practical, although technically illegal modification.

 

[Agent_Outside]

Can you elaborate on your fob light mod? Are you using the factory switch and how is this all wired up? If you followed Antman's build, then I already know what you did.

Looking at a wiring diagram for the system the relay is internal to the body control module so I added an external one. Key on power to the factory switch wiring, other side of the factory switch wiring cut and connected to the control side of the relay, other control terminal on the relay to ground. This way when the ignition is on, and factory switch is on it powers the control side of the relay. The load side of the relay is fused power on one side and the power wire for the fogs connected to the other side. It’s a simple mod if you have a wiring diagram. That was the first mod I did, I didn’t document specifically which wires in the vehicle I used.

 

[Agent_Outside]

I finally sorted through pictures from our Memorial Day road trip and weekend. Thursday afternoon we headed out, we stopped in Leadville for dinner on our way to Salida for the night. Friday we went to Great Sand Dunes National Park, hiked up the dunes, drove part of the Medano Pass, and had a picnic in the truck for lunch. The Sand Dunes were kinda cool, but after a dry winter there was no water at the bottom, usually it’s a little lake you can swim in for a couple months at the beginning of summer. When we got back to Salida we had dinner overlooking the river and the kayak park, then to a party in the park and some ice cream for desert. Saturday we drove from Salida to the Royal Gorge Bridge and then headed back home from there. I can’t say I’d recommend the Royal Gorge Bridge, it’s in my son’s Goodnight Colorado book so thought we would take him to see it in person. Once was enough. Sunday was breakfast and to the Boulder Creek fest, while we were there my wife signed up to run the Bolder Boulder. So in the morning on Memorial Day we went to the Bolder Boulder (one of the largest 10K races anywhere, international competition, 45,000 people racing, party atmosphere, its pretty awesome). Then Tuesday we got in a nice hike.

Packing up the truck getting ready to head out.

Almost up the Continental Divide.

 

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Dinner was right there on that balcony

 

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