What did you do to/in your 5th Gen today?!

Managed to get down to the desert this weekend. My girlfriend had a 25 mile trail race (ouch) and then we spent some time camping and on the mountain bikes on Sunday (with a quick, although expensive, stop by Cabela's on the way home).


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Some hiney hole (it keeps editing what I want to write) knocked over my mailbox, so I yanked the 2' metal spike out of the ground with the virgin tow-strap. Sure beats digging, any day. Thank You 4Runner.

New mailbox in. Done.
 
in the past few days...

after learning that I don't have quite as much space in this rig as the old pick-up, I upgraded to a BajaRack thanks to a local T4R member.
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Also had to check out the factory tires/4wd system/flex for the first time.
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I made a bracket for my ARB twin compressor this past weekend. I hope I gave enough room for the quick disconnect. Got to get everything wired up soon!

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after learning that I don't have quite as much space in this rig as the old pick-up, I upgraded to a BajaRack thanks to a local T4R member.
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Also had to check out the factory tires/4wd system/flex for the first time.
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Man, every time a see a salsa red trail, I think "I wish I went with that color" Great looking rig!
 
I made a bracket for my ARB twin compressor this past weekend. I hope I gave enough room for the quick disconnect. Got to get everything wired up soon!

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Very nice work!
It looks like you might have come up with the simple-lest,cheapest and best idea yet for the 2nd battery in front of the air box.

From your pics ,it looks like you just made a simple bracket to relocate the power steering reservoir over,factory bracket and all. Then there's room to just put any old group 34 battery tray in there. They sell cheap plastic ones at pep boys for like $5.The battery tray doesn't have to be bolted down as the factory one is just sitting there not bolted down as long as the battery has tie downs.

So all we really need is power steering reservoir relocator bracket , not fancy special battery trays.

Why didn't I think of that. DOH! Oh well, I already made my special one.
 
Took her in for an oil change (coupon for $35 synthetic, couldn't do it myself for that price) and found out my battery couldn't hold a load. Got a free battery replacement courtesy of Toyota, glad I went in rather than the battery dieing and leaving me stranded!
 
Gary, you are right! I made a simple bracket to relocate the power steering reservoir. But it wasn't as simple as that. I had to make a mount that lifted the battery an inch or so above to avoid one of the pipes on the right so I could properly mount the powersteering. I might make a build thread for some of the brackets I made, even though most of my ideas were a run on most of your mods.
 
Went to the Outdoor Academy tradeshow event. Got some cool free swag and learned a lot!

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Goal Zero is there giving demonstrations. I didn't have a chance to attend their class today, but I plan on checking it out tomorrow.

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Snow Peak had some really great stuff on display. Their stuff is just so well designed. I love all of it, and most of their products are geared for overlanding and such.

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Gore-Tex was the main sponsor of the event and brought out their "storm truck". In the back of the truck there is a room with a simulated rain storm inside complete with wind, rain, and lightning!

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Free Panera Bread lunch!

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Went to the Outdoor Academy tradeshow event. Got some cool free swag and learned a lot!

img3038a.jpg


Goal Zero is there giving demonstrations. I didn't have a chance to attend their class today, but I plan on checking it out tomorrow.

img3034cd.jpg


Snow Peak had some really great stuff on display. Their stuff is just so well designed. I love all of it, and most of their products are geared for overlanding and such.

img3032eu.jpg

img3037w.jpg


Gore-Tex was the main sponsor of the event and brought out their "storm truck". In the back of the truck there is a room with a simulated rain storm inside complete with wind, rain, and lightning!

img3030zt.jpg


Free Panera Bread lunch!

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Who was at the snow peak stall? Love their products and they're a great bunch of people!
 
Guess I can begin my TE face lift...

So I was driving home from work, right. I work in an business park...so you can imagine that around the 4-5 o'clock hour, parking lots are clearing out and herds of traffic are hitting the road generally around the same time. Well today, apparently MA-DOT decided to chuck up the road as I would imagine they are going to repave the street (they were pretty bad). Of course the road is going to have some scrap chunks that aren't collected. So yea...driving down the road of course crap is shuffled around the road. So a chunk got kicked up and hit the front end of the truck (Headlight/Hood/Windshield). At that point I was doing about 25mph. Truck survived but got a little bruised. This only give me all the more reason to begin the TE transformation and HID projector headlights.
 

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