Chim's 99

[FrankieJoe14]

Man you guys get some clean 3rd gen's out west.

I think my next one is going to be a west coast fly out and drive home.

Seriously - look at the shine on that blue

Good luck with the (re)build!

 

[Chim]

Man you guys get some clean 3rd gen's out west.

I think my next one is going to be a west coast fly out and drive home.

Seriously - look at the shine on that blue

Good luck with the (re)build!

You fly out here to buy one and I will pick you up at the airport to help out

 

[Chim]

Finally got some work done this weekend

First off was getting the field monitor installed. It would have gone faster had I not wasted time running wires to the passenger side kick panel only to find that on the 2002 the abs computer is on the drivers side!

Passenger side:

Drivers side:

Found the appropriate wire:

and up and running! (Goes way faster the second time around!)

 

[Chim]

Then I got over a major hurdle in stripping the 99!

I didn't want to pull any suspension off until I had the motor and trans out so now that its out I can get the suspension all ripped out and get this thing scrapped.

I'm still sad about losing my 99... I like my 02 but I would really just rather have my 99 back. Hopefully that changes when I get parts swapped over.

 

[Chim]

I got my suspension pulled on Saturday. It went super easy so I am planning on putting it back on the 02 this Friday

I got my shocks ordered and another new set of lower ball joints. Although I think the new ball joints I put on my 99 are still perfect. I was trying to be safe.

I'm going to pull some more suspension parts off the 99 before I scrap it. Then I figure if I spend one good day pulling leftover odds and ends and then it will be ready to haul off.

 

[Chim]

I was doing some cleaning in prep for my lift this weekend. Here is a before and after cleaning pic. I have no idea how they got this dirty and how I would have even let that happen!!

Before:

After:

 

[Chim]

The runner when through some changes this weekend

Installed my BOSS front coil overs and the front diff drop. In the rear I installed the OME 861 springs, new BOSS shocks, sonoran steel adjustable panhard bar and then the toytech bumpstop extensions. So lift is complete

Feels good to get some big milestones done on this!

 

[Chim]

To keep up with the motivation I went ahead and installed the rear bumper so get some weight in the back

Putting in the necessary Sonoran steel rear body mounts.

Then bumper mounted. I still need to bolt on the gas can holder and license plate mount though. And I can't believe how bad my neoprene jack cover faded from one summer!

 

[Eredden7]

love it man! looks good., both of em

 

[Chim]

After looking at my ARB bumper in the factory wrapping for several months I finally got it on this last Friday

While I was at it I put on my smoked Japanese corner lights and my 99 grill. I think the 99 grill is only temporary though. I bought some color match paint and I'm going to paint the original chrome part of the grill body color and repaint the black and try that grill.

Bumper will have to come back off again soon though so I can get my winch installed.

And a cool reflection this morning in the garage with the bull bars

 

[Brabbit]

Looks perfect!!

 

[TeamLord]

That looks great! Sweet ride!

 

[Tyler James Inc]

Beautiful 4Runner!
Sent you a PM as well [emoji12]

 

[GSPRunner]

Those RCI's are going to look nice peeking out from under that front end!:nod:

 

[Chim]

Those RCI's are going to look nice peeking out from under that front end!:nod:

Looking forward to it!

 

[GSPRunner]

Looking forward to it!

Are you going to paint them? With my silver truck anyway, I really liked the way the un-finished aluminum looked.

 

[Chim]

Are you going to paint them? With my silver truck anyway, I really liked the way the un-finished aluminum looked.

Yeah I will probably paint them black only cause everything else will be dark... well, once I paint my limited trim.

 

[Chim]

We had a snow day yesterday so I decided to use my little heater buddy in the garage.. Got it up to 54 degrees and did some work

I got my PIAA's all wired up and working.

Also got my hood led kit cleaned up and re-installed in this runner.

 

[Chim]

Rolled over to 160k last night.... Don't know why my pic came out showing me dash leds all whack.. they don't look like that in person..

 

[Chim]

Minor update. I pulled the plugs and they looked really good but I changed them anyway since I had the parts and was pulling them anyway. Also did a set of NGK wires and cleaned the dirty throttle body.