wadle5
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The time has come for me to finally start putting together my build thread and what I have done to my truck thus far.
As she sits now
When I first brought her home in July of 2012 from Minnesota.
The first thing I did with the vehicle was driving it back up to Minnesota for a family vacation. But that wasnt before I found a little mud in it
Almost to the canadian border and this was a great vehicle to roadtrip in.
Getting Lost in the woods.
Next before hunting season was to get some A/T tires. While doing this I ended up going with some 265/70's
Then I had to test them in some snow
Following this after helping my brother in law a couple weeks earlier I jumped on the plasti-dip wagon and started with my rear chrome. I then moved on to my front grille and lastly door handles and wheels.
After owning my car for less then 4 months I was involved in an accident as an elderly man hit me head on at 5mph and dented my front bumper drivers side.
With this excuse I then ordered my Shrockworks bumper in January so that I would have it in time for my vacation to Colorado, and also give me time to purchase and install the Adjustable Toytec Ultimate Lift kit. Speaking of which, after much research I pulled the trigger on a set of Toytec front and rear components. They were backordered on the front springs and for a discounted price I could upgrade to the adjustable coil-over package. Naturally I pulled out the credit card and ordered these bad boys. Since I upgraded and wanted to save some money I figured I should finally get to wrenching on my car. And decided to tackle the job on my own. And yes those are all the documents on torque specs and breaking down the front end suspension components all over the hood of my car. All be honest I was nervous and OVER RESEARCHING this.
Was interesting to say the least and with the amount of corrosion I can say that PB blaster was my friend. After several seized bolts(2 busted) and 7 hours I had the front suspension installed.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/27/uqadurem.jpg[/IMG
]Which I will note one of the hardest parts was uninstalling the factory bolts on the top hat. Smallest area wedged in between the engine bay and top of the wheel well(insanely small hands came in handy here).
[IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/27/u2u9ureh.jpg
After all of this and taking longer then imagined we called it a weekend and left the rear stock to tackle the following week. So for a week I drove my rig looking like this with its rear dragging
The following weekend we installed the rear lift kit shocks and springs. Went with Billies and the stiffer Toytec rear Springs. Went a lot quicker and boy did I love the stance this made.
Following this in April I finally installed my Christmas present as it was nice enough outside and put on my 3M WADE window visors
Thanks for the great looking T4R logos [MENTION=165]momo.75[/MENTION]. Loved the color choice and how they worked with my car!
Upon completing my vehicle components and everything I had available I received a very large pallet from an 18 wheeler in my driveway
Shrockworks packaged and shipped this great product and I must say I struggeled to get it off the Semi and in the back of my Dads truck. .and while doing this one of the support beams I was using to move and lift it came loose and ended up dropping this beast on my foot.
.
So one swollen toe and broken toe nail later I called up my buddies and that weekend, pretty simply we got it installed.
Dont worry the guy in the yellow shirt knows what he is doing...he drives a Heep?!
Lunch break wondering what the T4R would look like with no bumper and the hood down, eh I would still drive it
What I dont have pictures of but is one of my favorite mods would be the $20 LED interior cabin lights package off of Amazon. Easy and quick install and haven't had troubles since I did it.
Also I did the TPMS bypass(http://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-gen-t4rs/108176-write-up-how-disable-bypass-tpms.html). Worked like a charm and haven't looked back. The light was on when I bought it and the dealership said they already had all the sensors checked and replaced them all. Thanks [MENTION=19387]txt4r[/MENTION] for this easy to follow write up to this idiot light. Without it I now just check my tires regularly(you know like the good old days before we had all these computer nannies and warning lights.
As she sits now
When I first brought her home in July of 2012 from Minnesota.
The first thing I did with the vehicle was driving it back up to Minnesota for a family vacation. But that wasnt before I found a little mud in it
Almost to the canadian border and this was a great vehicle to roadtrip in.
Getting Lost in the woods.
Next before hunting season was to get some A/T tires. While doing this I ended up going with some 265/70's
Then I had to test them in some snow
Following this after helping my brother in law a couple weeks earlier I jumped on the plasti-dip wagon and started with my rear chrome. I then moved on to my front grille and lastly door handles and wheels.
After owning my car for less then 4 months I was involved in an accident as an elderly man hit me head on at 5mph and dented my front bumper drivers side.
With this excuse I then ordered my Shrockworks bumper in January so that I would have it in time for my vacation to Colorado, and also give me time to purchase and install the Adjustable Toytec Ultimate Lift kit. Speaking of which, after much research I pulled the trigger on a set of Toytec front and rear components. They were backordered on the front springs and for a discounted price I could upgrade to the adjustable coil-over package. Naturally I pulled out the credit card and ordered these bad boys. Since I upgraded and wanted to save some money I figured I should finally get to wrenching on my car. And decided to tackle the job on my own. And yes those are all the documents on torque specs and breaking down the front end suspension components all over the hood of my car. All be honest I was nervous and OVER RESEARCHING this.
Was interesting to say the least and with the amount of corrosion I can say that PB blaster was my friend. After several seized bolts(2 busted) and 7 hours I had the front suspension installed.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/27/uqadurem.jpg[/IMG
]Which I will note one of the hardest parts was uninstalling the factory bolts on the top hat. Smallest area wedged in between the engine bay and top of the wheel well(insanely small hands came in handy here).
[IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/27/u2u9ureh.jpg
After all of this and taking longer then imagined we called it a weekend and left the rear stock to tackle the following week. So for a week I drove my rig looking like this with its rear dragging
The following weekend we installed the rear lift kit shocks and springs. Went with Billies and the stiffer Toytec rear Springs. Went a lot quicker and boy did I love the stance this made.
Following this in April I finally installed my Christmas present as it was nice enough outside and put on my 3M WADE window visors
Thanks for the great looking T4R logos [MENTION=165]momo.75[/MENTION]. Loved the color choice and how they worked with my car!
Upon completing my vehicle components and everything I had available I received a very large pallet from an 18 wheeler in my driveway
Shrockworks packaged and shipped this great product and I must say I struggeled to get it off the Semi and in the back of my Dads truck. .and while doing this one of the support beams I was using to move and lift it came loose and ended up dropping this beast on my foot.
So one swollen toe and broken toe nail later I called up my buddies and that weekend, pretty simply we got it installed.
Dont worry the guy in the yellow shirt knows what he is doing...he drives a Heep?!
Lunch break wondering what the T4R would look like with no bumper and the hood down, eh I would still drive it
What I dont have pictures of but is one of my favorite mods would be the $20 LED interior cabin lights package off of Amazon. Easy and quick install and haven't had troubles since I did it.
Also I did the TPMS bypass(http://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-gen-t4rs/108176-write-up-how-disable-bypass-tpms.html). Worked like a charm and haven't looked back. The light was on when I bought it and the dealership said they already had all the sensors checked and replaced them all. Thanks [MENTION=19387]txt4r[/MENTION] for this easy to follow write up to this idiot light. Without it I now just check my tires regularly(you know like the good old days before we had all these computer nannies and warning lights.
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