Illegal Alien Canadian '99 4runner Build

[rbgerrish]

Got the Addicted Offroad bumper mount primed and painted and installed. I decided to have the bumper powder coated, so hopefully it'll be done by the end of this week! VERY excited to get that bad boy on there.

 

[rbgerrish]

I got my bumper back from the powedercoater. Turned out great! The Smittybuilt 9500 XRC mounted nicely in it, although I had to trim a bit of the bottom of the grill to get it back on.

Skids and sliders are next.

I also ordered a MOLLE seatback military storage thing off Ebay to help organize accessories, and I reinstalled my carpet.

 

[rbgerrish]

Got a full set of 3/16" steel skids from the Rat Products! Group buy. I'm painting them now.

 

[rbgerrish]

This truck was destroyed. See my replacement here:

http://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-gen-t4rs/239916-rbgerrishs-2008-shadow-mica-limited-build.html

 

[the walrus]

Dang dude! Sucks about your 3rd Gen, but the new ride looks super clean. Enjoy!

 

[geocook717]

I just did the B&M Tranny Cooler upgrade. It took about 2 hours, and was very straight forward thanks to the excellent write ups on this forum.

-Removed Grill, removed skids, removed old hoses (hardest part, I cut them off), attached cooler, ran new hoses, topped off ATF.

Next up will be some maintenance things, and LBJ's for my piece of mind.

The more I read through this forum, the more I see about the tranny cooler. Can anyone point me to a thread that provides more information about the tranny cooler? Are they more for situational driving...offroad versus highway? Just curious if it's something I should be looking at for my rig as I am approaching 200k on stock motor and tranny. Anything that will prolong the life of those stock internals is a good investment in my book. If there is not a thread, could anyone provide any insight into the tranny cooler?

Thanks in advance

 

[Road Bull]

The more I read through this forum, the more I see about the tranny cooler. Can anyone point me to a thread that provides more information about the tranny cooler? Are they more for situational driving...offroad versus highway? Just curious if it's something I should be looking at for my rig as I am approaching 200k on stock motor and tranny. Anything that will prolong the life of those stock internals is a good investment in my book. If there is not a thread, could anyone provide any insight into the tranny cooler?

Thanks in advance

Research "Pink Milkshake" and how to avoid it.

Basically, our radiator and transmission fluids are both housed, and cooled in the same radiator. The transmission fluid cools at the bottom of the radiator. Over time, and accelerated by neglect, or corrosion, the partition between these two fluids can deteriorate and fail. When this happens, bad things happen.

Your transmission fluid mixes with radiator fluid and turns into a vomitous Pink Milkshake. In turn this corrupted fluid now cycles into your transmission and will kill it in short order. The damage can be in the thousands of dollars price range.

To avoid this people completely separate the fluids using a separate dedicated tranny cooler.

Or...

You may choose to just replace your radiator every 100K miles as a cheap insurance. This should give you piece of mind and happy operation for quite some time, but only a tranny cooler will guarantee that the fluids never mix.

 

[Scottyboy]

Great build!


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[geocook717]

Research "Pink Milkshake" and how to avoid it.

Basically, our radiator and transmission fluids are both housed, and cooled in the same radiator. The transmission fluid cools at the bottom of the radiator. Over time, and accelerated by neglect, or corrosion, the partition between these two fluids can deteriorate and fail. When this happens, bad things happen.

Your transmission fluid mixes with radiator fluid and turns into a vomitous Pink Milkshake. In turn this corrupted fluid now cycles into your transmission and will kill it in short order. The damage can be in the thousands of dollars price range.

To avoid this people completely separate the fluids using a separate dedicated tranny cooler.

Or...

You may choose to just replace your radiator every 100K miles as a cheap insurance. This should give you piece of mind and happy operation for quite some time, but only a tranny cooler will guarantee that the fluids never mix.

Thank you for the explanation, Road Bull. As you can see, I am quite a novice with regards to T4R and with DIY stuff.

 

[rbgerrish]

My truck completed the IAA auction and is being parted out on craigslist:

https://portland.craigslist.org/clk/pts/d/1999-toyota-4runner-limited/6227920022.html

 

[Mark_BC]

Actually now that you mention it I'm going to be driving through in a couple weeks and I could use the little fender flare on the side of the front bumper, driver side, if you still have that and are willing to part with that, and only that, flare.

Center console?

Maybe the rear hatch too if it is evergreen pearl. Edit: Looks like that colour end in 1998.