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So the suspension upgrades go underway… i ordered the Chevy 63” kit from low range off-road and was definitely worth it and a great kit, highly recommended. And found a set of nice springs in the wrecking yard off a 98 gmc sierra I believe it was and got a new set of energy suspension bushings for them. Ordered some fresh Bilstein shocks, stainless extended brake lines, ball joints, and odds and ends to make it all happen. Started with the rear end.
Also you can see the bumpers hiding in the background from trail gear. They were 15% off on Black Friday so again…my weakness of “finding a deal/sale” kicked in and ordered them!
Then my weakness kicked in… found a great deal and got waaayy ahead of myself and found a set of Toyota axles and 2 gear drive tcases!! The axles were under a suzuki samurai witch was built big so it was setup for 4-link and it had a spool locker in the rear axle and 5.71 gears front and rear. Front axle was trussed and already and had the high steer components and hydro assist on it!
The cases are in good shape, and gave me high hopes of making a double case setup, would just need an adapter to go to the r150 tranny to a gear drive case since mine has the chain drive tcase 👎🏻
Here’s the turd with 33s and no lift, and a super hurting rear sunspension. I drove it like this for a while and the tires came closer to rubbing fenders everytime I drove it lol rubbins racing!
Wanted to replace all that I could so it was less body work to do so I found a door and fenders from a local Toyota hoarder. He also had a what I believe was a skyjacker 4” suspension lift so I grabbed that of course. Also I scored a set of wheels from a buddy at work that we’re wider and a little more offset.. perfect. And bought some used 33” pro comp tires from my buddy who upgraded to 38s on his ranger
Started off by trying to get rid of some of the rusty body.. it was really bad… the frame was surprisingly in good shape! The spray foam fenders were the first to go, the back fenders were pretty much gone past the wheel well. And the drivers door was really bad along the bottom and the bottom of the inside of the tailgate was non-exsistant along with the back half of the rockers.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Well at least somebody was happy about the rain today… bumper looks amazing!! Nice fuel can too..</p>
Thanks! I’m dying to get out on some trials and see what she can do!
Right on thanks finn, where abouts are you located? I’m in st.catharines
Finally made it threw the whole thread! Kudos for all the hard work man.. especially all the dash and hvac stuff. Makes you feel so good driving the truck you’ve been busting your ass on for so long!
Redee is a sweek looking 4runner! Loving the roof basket, might do one as well.
I found some on Toyotafiberglass.com but it says it’s for the wrong year… 89-95 ? not sure if I can make them work or not.
Ill keep you posted if I decide to sell, I might do a seperte build page for the brown truck since that was my first one and don’t want I have two builds on one page lol
Also I have the first wheeling trip with my new truck planned for November 15th weekend at rays place in Minden if anyone is intested! More the merrier! Already have about 4 guys guys going
The barn find will continue to get robbed of its 22re as a backup/parts motor, solid front axle and the tcase. Then our buddy Jeff is dieing for the interior Cause it’s actually really good shape and it matches his Texas truck.
The brown truck I’m still undecided what to do, realistically I don’t need two trucks, going to at least keep it until spring and finish up a couple more things on it. Sell it.. make it a mud truck… or a winter beater… I don’t know… the Ifs is pretty beat so it would need a lot of front end work to sell it in somewhat good order… or a SAS
As far as my new truck goes I haven’t done much to it yet, brought it home and got it on the road finally. Few little details here and there by nothing crazy. I robbed the barn find(white/gold 4runner) of the rear mudflaps and cleaned them up, thought they looked nice. I need to fix the tailgate, it’s missing the window channels that connect the window to the regulator, it’s common for them to rot off.. so if anyone knows where to find some that would be kickass.
Her new home next to the tow rig.
Hi, my names Tommy and I have an addiction… I’m the one who bought Evans pride and joy, I just couldn’t resist lol He had asked me to continue on the forum for the truck build and I was iffy about it but I think I’ll give it a whirl.
This is my third first gen 4runner, i got into rock crawling and off-roading and when it was time for me to start building a truck it was a no brainer I needed a Toyota. Found an ad for an 88 4runner and as soon as I seen a picture with the top off… bam I was sold, coolest truck I ever did see…. I’ve built that truck over the last few years but still needed all the real expensive stuff ( solid axle swap, gear drive tcase, gearing) and it has the 3.0 V6 witch I’m not to crazy about. Evans had all that done turn key ready to go, so I decided to buy that instead of wasting more time workin and more time wheeling!
Here’s the crew
