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

Lost a expanding bracket

Bought a hood/Bug deflector from Toyota. Installing it dropped a plastic expanding bracket in the engine somewhere. Cant find it anywhere. Called Toyota, they want 100 for a new hardware kit. LOL Went to Autozone, they didn't have one so I bought a 700 lumen flashlight. Still couldnt find it. Now trying to figure out how to find an expanding bracket for the last bracket. Thats been my day. lol
 
Bought a hood/Bug deflector from Toyota. Installing it dropped a plastic expanding bracket in the engine somewhere. Cant find it anywhere. Called Toyota, they want 100 for a new hardware kit. LOL Went to Autozone, they didn't have one so I bought a 700 lumen flashlight. Still couldnt find it. Now trying to figure out how to find an expanding bracket for the last bracket. Thats been my day. lol

I've had this happen before...some days, nothing is easy, lol.
 
I've only had the 4Runner for 2 weeks, but being that the family and I are vertically challenged, the OEM rock rails were not cutting it. Replaced them with OEM predator ones. They feel nowhere near as robust, but it is nice being able to climb in a little more gracefully!
 
Bought a hood/Bug deflector from Toyota. Installing it dropped a plastic expanding bracket in the engine somewhere. Cant find it anywhere. Called Toyota, they want 100 for a new hardware kit. LOL Went to Autozone, they didn't have one so I bought a 700 lumen flashlight. Still couldnt find it. Now trying to figure out how to find an expanding bracket for the last bracket. Thats been my day. lol
Did the same thing this week (Weather Tec)h . I pulled front 2 skid plates and found the screw and washer. PITA but worth it.
 
Added 275 70 17 K02 to the wifeys 4runner. Does anyone know the biggest wheel spacer I can run without rubbing? 1.25 ? 1.50?

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Added 275 70 17 K02 to the wifeys 4runner. Does anyone know the biggest wheel spacer I can run without rubbing? 1.25 ? 1.50?

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Wheel spacers increase your scrub radius, so you will definitely rub your bumper and outer fender guards. Any particular reason you need the spacers?
 
Picked up some 285/70/17 Falken Wildpeaks for super cheap and ordered some new Vision wheels! Should have them on the rig within a week.
 

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Had some time yesterday between "working from home" to get my voltmeter and on/off switch (black one) in and prep the wiring for today. My OCD would of liked the meter over a tad but it fit perfect here without cutting any brackets behind the panel. OEM battery going on 3 years and just want to start monitoring...


Any reason you went with the toggle switches instead of the aftermarket mictuning that fit the dash? I've used them before on my 4th gen. Fits the dash nicely.
 
Wheel spacers increase your scrub radius, so you will definitely rub your bumper and outer fender guards. Any particular reason you need the spacers?

I added 1.5 inch wheel spacers to my tacoma pro on slightly bigger K02s (265 75 16) and it looks killer. There was a slight big of rub which I was able to eliminate with a heat up and some fender liner molding.

Neither, both will cause quite a bit of rubbing.

How bad will the rub be? Anything a heat gun could fix?
 
I added 1.5 inch wheel spacers to my tacoma pro on slightly bigger K02s (265 75 16) and it looks killer. There was a slight big of rub which I was able to eliminate with a heat up and some fender liner molding.



How bad will the rub be? Anything a heat gun could fix?
Front bumper cut after moving the liner out of the way and likely a body mount chop.
 
Any reason you went with the toggle switches instead of the aftermarket mictuning that fit the dash? I've used them before on my 4th gen. Fits the dash nicely.

I was wondering that myself. AOB Switches or MICTUNING would look soooooo much better!
 
Partial Bud Build skid install(trans skid needs to go on):

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RSG KDSS skid installed:

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Stahlbus drain valve Installed:

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[emoji2959] scratched and dented - from basic simple outdoor use. Loading kayak slipped and the plastic scratched the crap out of the pain.

Then I had to kneel on the roof at the windshield to connect the strap (like I’ve done a thousand tones in my Chevy and it wrinkled the heck out of the metal! Furious

Can it be fixed!?!?

PS - Kayak trip was awesome [emoji41][emoji3]


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