What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?

[Crazy09sage]

Put another 25 miles on it driving in to work this morning. 70 on the cruise control the entire way! Sometimes it’s nice being “essential”, haha.

 

[itskohler]

Washed Land Between the Lakes MUD off Roscoe, replaced a bent roof rack crossbar & installed my kayak rack.

Hey, I know that place. Howdy from Paducah!

 

[itskohler]

I've been pretty busy taking care of maintenance stuff the past few weeks. Steering rack bushings, fuel filter, valve cover gaskets, rear diff fluid change, new sparkplugs, seafoamed, and throttle body and IAC cleaning. Also got in a radiator I don't need to install since it was replaced 20k ago. Found the receipt after I already placed my order.

Still have a jerky steering wheel when going over small bumps, was hoping it was the rack bushings. I guess I'll be swapping inner and outer tie rods when I do the LBJs and see if that fixes it.

 

[Chicago3rdgen]

Ripped out the interior. Deep cleaned the carpet. Cleaned the interior panels to sound deaden. Installed 01-02 exterior mirror (by accident, didn't realize they were different from a 99). Both original mirrors were damaged when I bought the truck.

 

[5 Speed Dave]

Y'all have been hard at it!

It's great to see all the projects Y'all are doing while life is not normal.
Keep up the great work!

Yesterday, ROSCOE helped me, my Son and a couple neighbors pull out 19 large rose of Sharon bushes that were planted along my driveway by previous owner.

For a 22 year old DD with 281K on the clock, Roscoe performed admirably!

 

[VincentGsrq]

I finished the last phase of my AC repairs and got to drive home "with" AC for the 1st time

 

[bodean123]

Got it back on all 4 after finishing up the manual hub swap, new wheels bearings, CVs, UBJs, all control arm bushings and new clutch master and slave.

Also got started in my sliders.

 

[3bears]

Got it back on all 4 after finishing up the manual hub swap, new wheels bearings, CVs, UBJs, all control arm bushings and new clutch master and slave.

Also got started in my sliders.

Nice, and looks like you have a hidden winch behind your fat lip bumper...something im trying to do....well just started brainstorming for it. If true tell me more on the hidden winch....how...what ...pics ?

and how much lift are you running....looks good

 

[bodean123]

Nice, and looks like you have a hidden winch behind your fat lip bumper...something im trying to do....well just started brainstorming for it. If true tell me more on the hidden winch....how...what ...pics ?

and how much lift are you running....looks good

I’ll have to dig up the invoice for the lift, 5100’s with OME coils ( 881 and 890 perhaps) tires are a 265/75

Hidden winch is just a winch plate with brackets fabbed to mount between the frame rails.

 

[Gohang]

Just sitting in the garage and waiting pandemic over.
kontraktor pameran

 

[3bears]

I’ll have to dig up the invoice for the lift, 5100’s with OME coils ( 881 and 890 perhaps) tires are a 265/75

Hidden winch is just a winch plate with brackets fabbed to mount between the frame rails.

thanks, will prob do something similar, have looked at other peoples ideas too for the 4runner. Good to see more pictures for ideas
the most common mounting plates are 1/5 inch....seems thin
thanks

 

[bodean123]

thanks, will prob do something similar, have looked at other peoples ideas too for the 4runner. Good to see more pictures for ideas
the most common mounting plates are 1/5 inch....seems thin
thanks

I cut off the stock mounting plate and capped it, then just fabbed brackets to bolt to the frame in several spots. Once you get in there it’s pretty straight forward. I mounted the control box to the side.

 

[808T4R_]

I decided to start the process of making a spare satoshi grille. Gonna be similar to the one I got now but with a slotted mesh and I'm gonna add some raptor lights.

Update: Finally finished, here's the final product! A little time consuming since I wanted it to be perfect, and it was my first time making my own. Worth it, in my opinion, saved a lot of $$$.

 

[HiLife]

Not a big fan of Satoshi grills but, that came out great looking!

Bought a set of Denso spark plugs and was going to change them out until I realized I forgot to buy a new insert also. The OP for my rig stripped #4 plug 95K miles ago. Not ideal but so far so good with the insert on there.

 

[Devbot]

new looms for me - how it should've been originally.

 

[Devbot]

On that note, does anybody know where these wires are supposed to connect? They lead from the diagnostics box on the intake plenum. Found it tucked away while taking apart my intake and throttle body

 

[808T4R_]

Not a big fan of Satoshi grills but, that came out great looking!

Bought a set of Denso spark plugs and was going to change them out until I realized I forgot to buy a new insert also. The OP for my rig stripped #4 plug 95K miles ago. Not ideal but so far so good with the insert on there.

Thanks man, yeah wanted to go a different route and make a custom "tacoma trd pro grille" for the 4runner but that looked like a pain, so went with the less time consuming one.

 

[ToyHou1]

2001 SR5 2WD Welll I replaced my lower OEM ball joints, 281,001 mi, with MOOG parts and read here that it was a mistake to use MOOG. OMG, I don’t do any off road or pull anything but mostly city driving and a dirt road sometimes. How long are these aftermarket parts going to last? Is the ball joint recall still valid?
Kind of upset dude..

 

[ToyHou1]

Just a pup..

I’m the new guy here, mine is on 281,000 and change. V nice seats, where did you find those?

 

[Brian.]

2001 SR5 2WD Welll I replaced my lower OEM ball joints, 281,001 mi, with MOOG parts and read here that it was a mistake to use MOOG. OMG, I don’t do any off road or pull anything but mostly city driving and a dirt road sometimes. How long are these aftermarket parts going to last? Is the ball joint recall still valid?
Kind of upset dude..

30~40k will be realistically "safe" based on prior posts detailing time to failure (you can search on that for more info). I doubt you'll have any luck with any recalls on a 19 year old vehicle... but you can try.