habanero
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Wow...I do NOT want to know what the (still on-going) total for all the...ummm...maintenance of and for my 96!
The spreadsheet is a good idea, and the truck looks great.
What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?
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Wow...I do NOT want to know what the (still on-going) total for all the...ummm...maintenance of and for my 96!
The spreadsheet is a good idea, and the truck looks great.
spartacus
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This is a great build. Back to new 4runner. Spread sheet details shows immensity of material and labor. Neice work.
2TH4IST
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Finally had time to cut the metal brackets for the lc80 rear calipers. It's wild, seeing it transform from wood template to an actual metal part. Crazy! My 3 mistakes were I didn't put on sun block, chipped my 1/2 inch drill, and I should have put my drill press on my table.
Just got to prep them for paint and cut out the pad spacers for the parking brake. Then install time! Whoot!
Just got to prep them for paint and cut out the pad spacers for the parking brake. Then install time! Whoot!
DavidH.
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A few days ago, I replaced the brushes in my alternator to fix my intermittent lack of charging issue. I used this one for my 1997, other models have a different part number. Toyota Alternator Holder - 27370-35060.
Yesterday I pulled the front seats from an E90 (2006 BMW 325i) for a future swap project. All manual adjustments, so hopefully it should be only figuring out mounting and not all the wiring that others have done in the E90 seat swap thread.
Yesterday I pulled the front seats from an E90 (2006 BMW 325i) for a future swap project. All manual adjustments, so hopefully it should be only figuring out mounting and not all the wiring that others have done in the E90 seat swap thread.
DixonYamada
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Light upgrade
Bought LED cluster lights
Interior Music Sync lights
Satisfying upgrade !
Bought LED cluster lights
Interior Music Sync lights
Satisfying upgrade !
JoeT4R
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You're gonna thank yourself! I did this over a year ago and love them.
Gizmo McGee
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Put off getting my camping gear out of it from this weekend
2TH4IST
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On my days off today and yesterday I finished the rear disc conversion. It's lc80 calipers and wilwood mc4 parking brakes, lc80 booster and lc80 master cylinder.
Everything went smoothly. The brackets I made came out fantastic! Only had to file down a small corner as it was hitting the axle housing. The booster was interesting. It seems the stud spacing is reversed compared to the 4runners oem booster. Simple solution was to flip the booster 180 degrees. Now I have a 4 bolt booster! Bench bleed the master, made a new line for the rear line.
Today was the finishing of the parking brake. Ran the new cables and adjusted the caliper. I will need to shorten the oem cable a bit. But I want the new cables to stretch then I'll adjust again.
Then I had a bit of spare time so I threw on some 1.25" spidertrax wheel spacers. News flash, they don't fit manual locking hubs, wop wop (sad piano music). But I needed them on, so I trimmed the aisin hub studs flush to the nut and had to grind the nuts a bit to clear. 30 bucks of hardware if I want to replace it vs modding a 150 buck spacer. Even more expensive fix would be new rims at around 1,300 bucks plus tax I'll pass for now.
Had to get this done so only pics I got were the bracket installed. I'll get some pics another time.
Yes, I have some perry parts bumps to replace my janky stock stuff.
Everything went smoothly. The brackets I made came out fantastic! Only had to file down a small corner as it was hitting the axle housing. The booster was interesting. It seems the stud spacing is reversed compared to the 4runners oem booster. Simple solution was to flip the booster 180 degrees. Now I have a 4 bolt booster! Bench bleed the master, made a new line for the rear line.
Today was the finishing of the parking brake. Ran the new cables and adjusted the caliper. I will need to shorten the oem cable a bit. But I want the new cables to stretch then I'll adjust again.
Then I had a bit of spare time so I threw on some 1.25" spidertrax wheel spacers. News flash, they don't fit manual locking hubs, wop wop (sad piano music). But I needed them on, so I trimmed the aisin hub studs flush to the nut and had to grind the nuts a bit to clear. 30 bucks of hardware if I want to replace it vs modding a 150 buck spacer. Even more expensive fix would be new rims at around 1,300 bucks plus tax I'll pass for now.
Had to get this done so only pics I got were the bracket installed. I'll get some pics another time.
Yes, I have some perry parts bumps to replace my janky stock stuff.
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Finally finished filling all the limited flare holes and some other dents over the weekend, then wrapped all but the rear hatch in blue. Unfortunately my terrible body work is somewhat visible when you look at it closely, but I'm happy with how clean it looks now that it's all one color.
I should've taken her outside for a good picture but I have already taken off the rear hatch and started cutting it apart for the next super cool yet stressful project.
Before(silver/primer) vs After(blue!)
I should've taken her outside for a good picture but I have already taken off the rear hatch and started cutting it apart for the next super cool yet stressful project.
Before(silver/primer) vs After(blue!)
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GhostRing
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Whatcha got planned?
Split hatch a la FJ80?
Side-swing??
Gut it/pin glass/bob it 6"???
Can you tell I've been itching to mess with mine?
Nothing quite that drastic, but it's still very involved. I'm adding some 1.5" tubing to the hatch so I can mount my spare tire. What's your plan?
I helped build a slightly different hatch tire carrier with my buddy on his 4th gen, and the hinges ended up being the weak point. With stronger gas struts it would bend the hinge/top of the hatch trying to shut it.
My solution is to make new beefy hinges and weld some 1/8" plate around the removed sections. I went a little crazy with the grinder cleaning it up as you can see
Just finished the hinges tonight and now the hatch opens and closes perfectly. If the rest of it goes as planned it should be crazy sturdy and look super cool.
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GhostRing
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Nice!! Looking forward to the progress. Very novel approach indeed.
I probably won't do anything too soon (I do have a spare hatch tho),
but it would be fun to tuck/lighten it. I don't actually use 2 of the 6
moving glass assemblies that often - if at all, but anything beyond
deleting them I can tell is asking for trouble...
Made some progress on my hatch-mounted tire carrier.
Drilled a hole where the strut bracket bolts to, then fitted a tube through and bent a piece to tie it all together. Welding it all up will finish off the upper half of the exoskeleton. The tight spots under the tubing are too difficult to weld, so I will run a bead of silicone around every tube to keep it weatherproof( and to hide some of my ugly welds.)
The next step is to reinforce around the latch, then make the tubing that connects the top and bottom to give the tire a place to mount.
Also widened the hole for the rear windshield sprayer, then ran my wires for the new brake light, license plate light, and rear camera.
Drilled a hole where the strut bracket bolts to, then fitted a tube through and bent a piece to tie it all together. Welding it all up will finish off the upper half of the exoskeleton. The tight spots under the tubing are too difficult to weld, so I will run a bead of silicone around every tube to keep it weatherproof( and to hide some of my ugly welds.)
The next step is to reinforce around the latch, then make the tubing that connects the top and bottom to give the tire a place to mount.
Also widened the hole for the rear windshield sprayer, then ran my wires for the new brake light, license plate light, and rear camera.
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2TH4IST
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Gave the old boy a wash! He looks much better now. Then after that went to bed in the new brake components. Everything went smoothly! Man it's nice to have stock feeling brakes again! And damn do they feel balanced too!
Then too cool everything off I drove for about 30 mins or so on the freeway.
Ran some errands and scored on 2 six packs of souix city sarsparilla! Heck yeah!
Came back home and tested the parking brake, holds just like the stock one did! Whoot! I'm super stoked with this set up! Just need to readjust and trim the parking brake cable and I'm set.
Then too cool everything off I drove for about 30 mins or so on the freeway.
Ran some errands and scored on 2 six packs of souix city sarsparilla! Heck yeah!
Came back home and tested the parking brake, holds just like the stock one did! Whoot! I'm super stoked with this set up! Just need to readjust and trim the parking brake cable and I'm set.
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wangissimo
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fixed my cylinder misfires
Instead of paying $2k for the local shop to swap out spark plug wires & spark plugs (plus some other things), I did it myself. I'm not good at this kinda stuff at all, so it took me a whole day (I know, go ahead and laugh). Afterwards, I realized I applied dielectric grease all wrong AND, I messed up my wire ordering, so I had to redo it. At least the second time only took like 1.5 hours. In the end, it runs great again, and it's super satisfying to unbreak something
Instead of paying $2k for the local shop to swap out spark plug wires & spark plugs (plus some other things), I did it myself. I'm not good at this kinda stuff at all, so it took me a whole day (I know, go ahead and laugh). Afterwards, I realized I applied dielectric grease all wrong AND, I messed up my wire ordering, so I had to redo it. At least the second time only took like 1.5 hours. In the end, it runs great again, and it's super satisfying to unbreak something
2TH4IST
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Everyone has to start somewhere. That is awesome that you did the job yourself! Don't worry about messing up, that's how we learn. Hell, I make mistakes all the time too. Keep learning something new and never give up! Glade your 4runner is back up to running tip top again!
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