My Rusty Runner

Maritimer said:
Awesome thread.

I like the rig, John. These things look nice fast with a bit of TLC. Reminds me of mine--enough rest to bother my obsessive personality, but too nice of a baby to not love it to death. The best thing is that most of the metal is so thick that the rust doesn't do much. The height keeps body rust at bay, too, since it's not belly scraping like crap cars.

How about that electrical outlet stuff? What can you run off of that with the engine on to power the battery? Don't suppose you could plug in an angle grinder, do you? The only way for me to do work on mine at the apartment is to run 200ft of extension cord to the back of the parking lot. A plug in the truck would be great for other stuff like a laptop, too.
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Thanks!!! next week there will be a pretty good update. :D i just put it in to run my laptop or friends laptops or phone chargers and whatnot considering the early 3rd gens have a lack of power outlets. This model i have probably wouldnt run an angle grinder the 700 might, and the 1000 im almost certainly would, but i run it off a single battery so i wouldnt want too much draw, but even if i do run out i can just bump start it. Theres not as much rust as i tend to say there is, and the pictures make it look much worse, and yeah the metal is very thick, if i were to wire brush it and then POR-15 it you would barely see a difference in metal thickness.
 
4Runner8 said:
so is that what your doing to the frame? por-15?

p.s. i like your signature quote haha
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Yeah, when i get the time, i need a weekend im not doing anything and i can just sit under the car for a few hours with a wire wheel and wire brush and clean it up pretty good, then coat it the next day or something, then it should stop all the bullsh*t.
 
How's the POR-15 working for you? Are you going to bare metal and then using the cleaner then the black stuff? Or putting on a bit of rust? It's amazing how a flash under a truck will make rust stick out like a sore thumb.

I want to work a bit more on things underneath since all I did recently was attack the nether places I could see with the running boards off and paint them with a bit of bed liner quick just so it looks nice under there from the sides.
 
Maritimer said:
How's the POR-15 working for you? Are you going to bare metal and then using the cleaner then the black stuff? Or putting on a bit of rust? It's amazing how a flash under a truck will make rust stick out like a sore thumb.

I want to work a bit more on things underneath since all I did recently was attack the nether places I could see with the running boards off and paint them with a bit of bed liner quick just so it looks nice under there from the sides.
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I would get as much off as possible with taking a ton of time, the POR-15 is supposed to absorb surface rust, so if i can't get some off for some reason i will let the POR-15 do it for me...
 
Here is just a teaser, it is all installed but its too late for pictures.

:D

OME 906's

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Got them from Toytec, thanks Sn0wRunner for all the help through it!!!!
 
Here is some nore pics, none of the full truck yet:

OME 906 vs 10 year old spring for 1997 4Runner

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Installed:

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Driver side height tank 7/8's FULL: (265/70/R16, Cooper ATR 40% life left)

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Oh very nice! Looks so much better than that sag.

How does it ride?


Just noticed that devil horn Toyota decal too, thats neat.
 
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4-Ripcord said:
Oh very nice! Looks so much better than that sag.

How does it ride?


Just noticed that devil horn Toyota decal too, thats neat.
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Rides great, its even more tail happy in rain cause its so stiff, i like the firm ride, its nice to have reduced body roll. And the Toyota Devil sticker i saw on a fellow members truck, googled it, photoshopped a google image of it, then described to my friend with my fingers how big i wanted him to make my sticker. :D
 
Looks nice leveled! I like the ride with my OME coils too since the truck feels much more stable on the road. Any other mods/upgrades planned for Rusty?
 
Beautiful. I regret not lifting mine when I got my new shocks and springs, now.

These things hold their age and grace very well.
 
96743runner said:
Looks nice leveled! I like the ride with my OME coils too since the truck feels much more stable on the road. Any other mods/upgrades planned for Rusty?
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Maybe some 32's or atleast some new 31's, 99+ headlights, 5 star rims, I'd throw a snorkel or ARB on there if i get it for the right price :D But there will always be stuff changing on it.
 
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