raidernation
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My 99 Limited didn't have really any sag sitting still but it sure let you know the suspension was hurting. Every time I would hit a cattle guard with no weight in the rig it would bottom out. I don't tow with it but when I load it down with all the camping/fishing gear we take up to the mountains, she squats pretty bad and drives even worse.
I had the large conical bumpstop inside the coil so I had to cut that down. I installed everything the same as all the other threads in regards to the bags themselves. However, I did the air lines a little different. I did a 'T' install instead of dual fillers for each bag. I hate zip ties and I hate the thought of exposing those airlines to the elements so I routed the airlines through the frame as much as possible. I used some spare 3/8's rubber tubing to protect the airlines in all the major bends and contact points with the frame as well as any spots where the airlines were exposed to the elements. Probably overkill, but I'm a firm believer in 'build overkill', especially when I'm 20 miles from a road at 10k feet.
I put the airline 'T' right ontop of the rear brake line 'T' that comes down from the crossmember right to the back end of the rear 3rd.
I then routed the airline up into that same square crossmember. The crossmember has large holes in it which allowed me to feed the protecting 3/8 tubing into it. The air line then moves towards the passenger side and the frame junction near the upper panhard mount.
From there I jumped it into the passenger side frame rail, again protecting it with 3/8 tubing not only because it was outside the frame rail but also because it is only about 4" from the exhaust at this point.
Once inside the passenger frame rail, I ran it towards the back hatch until just after a body crossmember under the cargo area. From here it exits the passenger frame rail on the outside and is routed up towards some sort of drainage tubing that exits body in this area right behind the mudflap. I ran out of 3/8 tubing so I used some old garden hose to jump from the passenger frame to the outer body. I cut out a small piece of metal just above that drainage tube, and ran the airline up into the body sealing it with drainage gromet and some good silicone.
The body space above the entry point is actually accessable without removing all the plastic in the rear cargo area. The storage area on the passenger side sits right over the drainage tube. There is a flat piece of plastic on the left side of the storage compartment that is removable (it just pops up exposing the body and drainage tubing below it). I brought the airline up from its body entrance point and mounted the fill nipple to the removable piece of plastic. Its out of the elements and still easily accessable to fill from the back end.
I have no experience with bags but after I put them on and put 6lb.s in them, the ass end came up to an even 36" from 35.5" (center line of wheel, ground to fender flare). It finally feels like a 4runner and not a water bed in the back end.
I had the large conical bumpstop inside the coil so I had to cut that down. I installed everything the same as all the other threads in regards to the bags themselves. However, I did the air lines a little different. I did a 'T' install instead of dual fillers for each bag. I hate zip ties and I hate the thought of exposing those airlines to the elements so I routed the airlines through the frame as much as possible. I used some spare 3/8's rubber tubing to protect the airlines in all the major bends and contact points with the frame as well as any spots where the airlines were exposed to the elements. Probably overkill, but I'm a firm believer in 'build overkill', especially when I'm 20 miles from a road at 10k feet.
I put the airline 'T' right ontop of the rear brake line 'T' that comes down from the crossmember right to the back end of the rear 3rd.
I then routed the airline up into that same square crossmember. The crossmember has large holes in it which allowed me to feed the protecting 3/8 tubing into it. The air line then moves towards the passenger side and the frame junction near the upper panhard mount.
From there I jumped it into the passenger side frame rail, again protecting it with 3/8 tubing not only because it was outside the frame rail but also because it is only about 4" from the exhaust at this point.
Once inside the passenger frame rail, I ran it towards the back hatch until just after a body crossmember under the cargo area. From here it exits the passenger frame rail on the outside and is routed up towards some sort of drainage tubing that exits body in this area right behind the mudflap. I ran out of 3/8 tubing so I used some old garden hose to jump from the passenger frame to the outer body. I cut out a small piece of metal just above that drainage tube, and ran the airline up into the body sealing it with drainage gromet and some good silicone.
The body space above the entry point is actually accessable without removing all the plastic in the rear cargo area. The storage area on the passenger side sits right over the drainage tube. There is a flat piece of plastic on the left side of the storage compartment that is removable (it just pops up exposing the body and drainage tubing below it). I brought the airline up from its body entrance point and mounted the fill nipple to the removable piece of plastic. Its out of the elements and still easily accessable to fill from the back end.
I have no experience with bags but after I put them on and put 6lb.s in them, the ass end came up to an even 36" from 35.5" (center line of wheel, ground to fender flare). It finally feels like a 4runner and not a water bed in the back end.
