Climbers build thread(slow and steady)

[Climber]

A little backround on me, I'm 19 and live in Mesa Arizona, when I first got my 4runner I didn't know much about them other than they are extremely reliable and make very offroad capable vehicles. The goal for this build is to put together a truck for daily driving that can still hang off road.

A little about the truck, it's a 1999 5 speed with rear elocker (exactly what I wanted) with the tall coils and currently on 225/75r 16s after one of my 265/70r16 rugged trails blew out but I have 265/75r16 treadwright wardens that should come today

future mods:
Plate bumpers front and rear(possible homemade)
eibach front coils with bilstein 5100
Rear toytec 3 in coil with boss shocks
Savage skids
Cb radio
Tundra brakes
285/75r16s
Satoshi mod
5star rims or tundra 17sa

the week I brought it home


Then took a roadtrip to CO with and took the running boards off

 

[Brian757]

Your not kiddin' about the slow part...

 

[Climber]

Your not kiddin' about the slow part...

Hey im working part time and just got home from 6 weeks in Thailand so funds are a bit short

 

[Brian757]

Hey im working part time and just got home from 6 weeks in Thailand so funds are a bit short

Haha! Do your thing man. You have the truck don't you?! That's progress in my eyes.

 

[Climber]

Haha! Do your thing man. You have the truck don't you?! That's progress in my eyes.

yeah I have to work with what ive got... hey maybe you can help me out real quick, what am I doing wrong with my pics cause I tried to put one up but its just showing the link, ho do you put pics up without them being at the bottom? sorry im not exactly tech savy...

 

[Brian757]

yeah I have to work with what ive got... hey maybe you can help me out real quick, what am I doing wrong with my pics cause I tried to put one up but its just showing the link, ho do you put pics up without them being at the bottom? sorry im not exactly tech savy...

Submit your images in this HTML format. The info between the " is what is changed to your photo URL. Delete the " when your done, those aren't included in the HTML.

 

[Climber]

So my treadwright wardens came in and I so far love them, I love the look but only time will tell to see how they stand up. I took them to walmart(mistake I know) to get them balanced and I gave them the instructions on how to balance statically and the fool just looked at them and knodded his head and proceeded to balance them dynamically with each tire requiring around 15 oz of weight... needless to say I didn't pay for the balance just the mount and im gonna find a shop that will balance them the correct way.

how they arrived, yokohama side walls


mounting at walmart, looks good lifted








I had to move my front bumper around because the front right(where a snowbird gave me a nice tap) was rubbing as I turned, gonna try to take it off and straighten everything out in the next couple days

 

[Climber]

Oh and I used some plastic restore on my fender flares and so far its turned out great. you can see the different in the pics.

 

[audiness]

lookin good!

 

[Climber]

lookin good!

Thanks! I have a long way to go but I'm getting there!

 

[Hepar]

Looking good! And you in to climbing rocks with your hand or with your rig?

 

[Climber]

Looking good! And you in to climbing rocks with your hand or with your rig?

Little of both my dads a hardcore jeeper so he got me into wheeling and being right at the base of the superstitions gives me an opportunity to do a lot of backpacking and climbing.

 

[Climber]

Well I'm back! After being out of the country for 6 months Im back And have been itching to work on my 4Runner.

its time for some matenience and long needed upgrades.

With my somewhat tight budget I pulled the trigger on a lift!

I ordered:

Toyota LBJs
Complete lift from toytec with eibachs and bilsteins for the front with a diff drop and toytec 3in coils in the rear with boss shocks
SS adjustable panhandle bar and steel brake lines
1.25 in spidertrax wheel spacers
Tundra 17in rims
And planning on 285/70r17 duratracs unless I can otherwise be convinced

I have the week off next week while my boss is in Moab(I wasn't worthy yet I guess...) so I plan for the transformation to happen then when all my parts arrive!

 

[JeepKiller]

You weren't kidding about the slow and steady thing.. It's been nearly 2 years

 

[Climber]

You weren't kidding about the slow and steady thing.. It's been nearly 2 years

Hey I had to be honest. I bought it when I was almost 19 and had no money so all my money went to matenience (timing belt, water pump, axle seals, and other stuff) but now I'm in a much better situation so here we go!

 

[meRockboost]

At least you are smart and did the maintenance first

 

[Climber]

At least you are smart and did the maintenance first

it was my main priority. I didn't want to bore people so I didn't bother posting that stuff. haha

 

[Climber]

A nice man in a brown uniform dropped this off for me today! Just waiting on panhard bar and brake lines now!

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I do have one concern tho. I had toytec assemble the coils and shocks so I didn't have to deal with spring compressors and I wanted new tophats anyway but I'm not sure if its right. The rubber part of the top hat isn't even and the shock doesn't seem to be perfectly straight with the coil kinda pushing out to one side. Is that normal or is there to much pressure on the spring? I also added a pic of the exposed threads

 

[Climber]

So I got around to installing my lift a couple weeks ago and finally have time to post the progress! Overall I'm happy with the look but the performance side of this I'm kinda torn. I love how it drives on the road, firm and planted, I go 70 on merging ramps on the freeway and feel extremely stable even without a front swaybar but off road its very rough like I'm driving our diesel f250 but we will see how it is after more drive time. Now onto pics, I didn't take as many pics of the install as I would have liked but everything went really smooth.


Before install


The lift kit itself, I also have sway bar bushing kit and a diff drop that I haven't installed yet


after install


lower ball joint compared to OEM replacement, definitely was time


now with spidertrax 1.25 spacers, 17in tundra rims and 285 duratracs!






I'm working out some rubbing issues on my front bumper but no rubing anywhere else but I haven't reinstalled my rear mudsflaps yet but we will see! The new parts, tires and rims have eliminated most of my terrible vibrations I had before but I still get some in the cab and in the steering wheel but they seem to come and go from about 60-75 so I'm gonna do the bushings and new CV joints and see what that does for me.
My inner CV boots are torn and I think ive decided I'm gonna do the boot slide as opposed to the diff drop and keep the stock front driveline angle. Let me know what you think so far!

 

[infamousRNR]

my goodness... just love those tundra rims to death.... that might explain why i have 2 sets!!!!!!