finally got the Bypass i bought off eBay installed... worked like a charm in case anyone has a pioneer deck!
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in other news i finally got my IROK super swamper's mounted and balanced on my 5 star rims that i FINALLY finished painting after a long arduous battle with sanding and spray can painting.... definitely going to just bite the bullet next time and have them professionally painted or power coated.... just honestly not worth the hassle it is to prep and paint IMO...
also hit a cool mileage recently. . .
had a little playdate with [MENTION=100687]Konkordmusk[/MENTION] at my place and went to his work place to have a little welding action on my Rola roof rack to add a couple more mounting tabs for support.....
got my armor on... some underbelly skids... 3 piece from a group buy on here quite some time ago now...
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also programming my transponder key which i was pretty psyched about..
i had previously programmed the fob. i did a little write up to help others program their chip/transponder key that i got from a youtube video
It's working good! I think! My body is still attached to my frame!
Just gotta attend to my gaps it left me
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this weekend i drove down to LA to visit some salvage yards and pick up random 4runner parts for a vacation of sorts... lol.
i ended up finding some cool stuff but you really have to get to these types of places right when the vehicle gets there otherwise its picked to pieces.
my main goal was to find some OEM glass which i found... got the rear hatch glass and passenger side glass... mine was some gnarly swirls on it from the previous owner where they washed the vehicle's glass with something abrasive, and being that the glass is tempered, you can't polish it out..
$160 for all that glass wasn't bad though.
4runners were hard to come by and only really found a handful...
2nd gen 4runners are much more accessible but also because they are older naturally
took the square ARB steel blocks that are originally intended for a tacoma ARB bumper install (i believe) and re-pourposed them into bump stop extensions (i hope i didn't need these to install with my front ARB bumper). i used the stock bump stops.
With the help of [MENTION=53337]SCRunner12[/MENTION] & [MENTION=100687]Konkordmusk[/MENTION] we meticulously measured and determined that the perfect bolt length was an M8-1.25 x 90MM
yelling at the tire to come off
struggling with the tire with my work boots , safety goggles & sanitary gloves on
Great thread!
I can't believe yelling at the tire failed to pop it right off.
I can however believe that a big a** oil filter is going to make
her bark off a scratch going into second gear at full throttle now. Woo hoo!