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

Gave my BOSS a couple days to settle, and made final adjustments ...haven't driven too much. The Toytec spanner wrench broke and they were great about replacing it, however I didn't want to wait. I took two 1/4" pin/center punches and found that they worked 100x better than the spanner wrench. Alignment on Monday!!

Like a dumb ass, I forgot to take stock measurements ...but threads here have stock ranging from 19" - 19.5" front and 21"- 21.5" rear.


Erring on the high side cause bumpers and in the future. Final measurements hub to fender:

FL - 22.5" (3" gain)
FR - 22.5" (3" gain)

RL - 24" (2.5" gain)
RR - 24.5" (3" gain)


From the ground to fender with LT255/80R17 Cooper S/T MAXX:

FL - 38"
FR - 38"

RL - 39.5"
RR - 40"


I'll get some pics tomorrow ...



Here's how she sits now:









Shots of the angles:



 
Because I can't not tinker with things, and inspired by DEFCONBRIX's Tacoma, I mounted a bottle opener (after painting, drilling, and tapping) on the rear bumper. Because beer reasons!

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Trip to Sycamore Canyon

Friday the weather was just too beautiful for Dec so I played hookie and went exploring. I headed up highway 87 and at the Bush Highway exit headed West to the Sycamore Creek loop. Test shot my old shotgun that I just completed refinishing and then continued along the route into Sycamore Creek. No water at all anywhere, lots of fun little hills and campsites and draws to explore, got myself a bit deep down in one draw and added quite a bit of desert pin striping. Continued back down the route to the part of the loop that is listed as red or difficult in the Arizona Backcountry book, crossed paths with a few wild horses. The difficult part of the loop was very difficult looking with a very steep (I had trouble walking up it without slipping or using my hands) and a large 2-3 ft shelf to climb followed by a sharp turn and more difficult terrain. Not something I was up for that day so I returned back and took the easier route 1851 to continue the loop, the book didn't even list this as any rating but there is one pretty steep and long hill to climb, probably the toughest one of the trip, last hill on the video, there may be another way around but a couple stock trucks turned around and went back there. Continued on and then headed down to Saguaro Lake and did some fishing on the Salt River, caught dinner and saw some bald eagles. All and all a pretty damn good day.

Video here:
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Because I can't not tinker with things, and inspired by DEFCONBRIX's Tacoma, I mounted a bottle opener (after painting, drilling, and tapping) on the rear bumper. Because beer reasons!

Nice. Been looking for them on the 4Runner. I had one on my front bumper of my FJ, came in handy and used it more then I thought I would have.

 
Took Piper up to Gander Mountain to spend some promotional cash on reloading supplies. Got to test for lights on the way back, thick as pea soup out there.
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took my 2015 sr5 premium to the dealer

I have been having oil leak since I bought my 2015 in November last year. Dealership just told me that it was from the cylinder head. engine is completely torn apart and dealership wants to sell me a new one. any advice?
 
I have been having oil leak since I bought my 2015 in November last year. Dealership just told me that it was from the cylinder head. engine is completely torn apart and dealership wants to sell me a new one. any advice?

It isn't supposed to leak oil, Warranty repair!

I had a transfer case leak about 15kmi, they kept the truck 4 days for new seal to come in and install it, all warranty.
 
I was talking about the mineral spirits near the paint. I've plasti dipped plenty!!!

I did not use anything to clean it, I just wiped it good with a micro fiber towel first. Also, look at the photo, I didn't hit any paint, both of the lift gate emblems are mounted on that black plastic. There are no emblems on my truck that are mounted on the actual metal and paint. Except the 'TRD Pro' and that came powder coated gloss black from the factory :)
 

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Finished installing my heated seat kit. turned out the driver side switch had a defect and the connection was cutting in and out. If I pressed my finger down on the switch it would work and then go out when I lifted my finger. Removed the switch opened it up and found one of the pins was bent so it wasn't long enough to make a good connection with the plug that plugged into the switch. Once I bent that straight it was all good. Drove around a little tonight and loved having my back warmed. I have only had heated seats that heated the bottom. I like having my back heated even better than my bottom.

Thought I would be installing my new suspension this weekend but looks like the Bilsteins are on back order... :faint: The struggle is real.
 

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Installed my Bilstein 5150 and AirLift 1000. Bilstein backordered for 4 months. Thank you Total Automotive Performance
 

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Installed my Bilstein 5150 and AirLift 1000. Bilstein backordered for 4 months. Thank you Total Automotive Performance

4 months from now? I order mine last week and they said my bilsteins would ship last Wednesday but they didn't. Then they told me today that the bilsteins are on stock delay. I really hope that doesn't mean 4 months.
 

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