It's been a while since I was active on these boards, the 4Runner had just reached a point that I needed to take it off the roads and only trail ride it or sell it. Since I am not willing to sell the 4Runner at any price, it just took me a year and a half to decide to restore it to its old glory.
Currently she has 180k miles, the rear driveshaft spun out and I had been searching for a used one at LKQ for awhile, until I decided to try Tatton DS. She is lifted with a 2.5" OME (needs to be replaced), a potentially blown front differential with 4.56 gears (going to have to tear that apart to see what the actual damage is) the rear axle has disc brakes from All Pro which seem to continually have leaky seals so I am considering going back to drums, and my ARB air locker doesnt always want to engage or disengage properly. The sound system needs to be re-amped and wired. The snorkel needs a new intake piece ( a tree branch hit it pretty hard and now it looks like a stove pipe) and both plastic pieces on my ARB front bumper need to be replaced. Last I checked the Warn 9.5XP still worked and the alternator was charging properly. Since the tires (nitto terragrapplers 285/75/16) havent been spun in over a year they are probably toast, and I am missing a center piece to my TRD Ivan Stewart Wheels (screw in, not snap in) that I cant find anywhere so I will need atleast one new one of them. There are multiple other issues like window motors and some engine gremlins that will also need to be addressed, I plan on redoing the interior and if at all possible recoating the undercarriage (dependent on cost).
My plan as it stands now for this truck is to get a new 3" suspension lift (still researching which to get) fix the rear ARB locker and install an ARB locker in the front, finish my half doors that are 90% done, fix the stereo, fix the windows, fix the body parts that have been ripped off by rocks or hyundai's, put more armor on her and fix the body up as much as my budget will allow. I also want to add more attention to detail than I ever did before, now that I am older I believe I can do it better than I did when I was younger and perhaps even fix some of the mistakes I made (plenty of those, to be sure) Anyways, I will update this thread as I get the parts and diagnose the gremlins, and hopefully by years end she will be back to tearing up the trails all around the south east!
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Originally Posted by 04 Rocko Taco
I was showing vipergrhd what I see as a well built rig to gain inspiration from on his new to him '99.
