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Current Mod List:
Sonoran Steel 1.2 Suspension
BCC custom swing-arm rear bumper (currently adding AT Scepter mil jerry can holder)
Full Budbuilt skids
Home welded gas tank armour (done after crushing gas tank, d'oh)
285/75R16 Load E Goodyear Duratracs
Extended diff breather
Red LED cluster, console
Wabfab front discos (after breaking one stock unit and bending the other)
Warn M8000 winch with Viking Dyneema line and black safety thimble
Shrockworks full hoop front bumper
Shrockworks black hawse fairlead
PIAA 520s and 510s in front bumper
Stubbs HD-SKO Sliders
External tran coolerw/bypass
Tundra brakes (199 calipers)
5.29s and ARB double locked
Removed the rear sway bar (doesn't seem to do much but get in the way)
Stainless flex brake lines
Yaesu FT-2900R VHF
Uniden CB
Sony Digital Music Receiver
Procomp 16x8 Black Alloys with 4in backspacing
Full size spare in rotation

Coming up:
Back up lights
Jerry can holder
Integral air tank in rear bumper HSS


New to me in February 2008:






Put a SS 1.2 in May 2009, then had a custom rear swing-away bumper made by Big Country Customs in July. Here is the bumper being welded up. Added a lot of clearance and the swing arm bends nicely with the main tube. Their standard swing arms had been C channels before, but I asked them to do a fully boxed tube design.

Still with the 265/70R16s:

Sporting the 285/75R16 Wrangler Duratracs:

My intention is to build a good expedition vehicle. I decided to take the following route (in chronological order): Lift, Bumper, Tires, Winch/Front Armour, Sliders, Lockers/Re-gear. My reasoning for that order is that I need the lift to stuff the tires, I need the bumper to fit the bigger spare, and the tires determine gearing that I need. So I might as well do the diff work all at once. I tossed the Budbuilts in early because someone made me an offer on the stockers that I couldn't refuse! My Shrockworks bumper is out for powdercoating and my Warn M8000 awaits. I'll slap that on, along with a pair of Stubbs sliders within the month (get all the welding done at once). Following that, lockers, gears, and onboard air then I can step back and take a breather.
Or so I think, right?

turboboost

Nice truck, but you'll never be able to step back and take a breather, you'll find something else that "needs" to be done first. It's an addiction.

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Update with the new goodies and some trail action.





Shrockworks and M8000 installed. Now where are those lights and sliders?

Wheelingnoob

That looks like a good start! Do you have an E-locker? That will make the winch a very lightly used tool. How do you like those tires? Thinking about getting a set when my Truxus are done.

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The tires are awesome. Just used them in deep snow up some forest service roads in baker and through ridiculously deep water and storms the past few days.

No lockers yet. Going to do double ARBs.

Wheelingnoob

That's good to hear I need my truck to get me up the ski hills so the tires being good in the snow is a big thing.

Lockers are the best mod ever!! You will be blown away with the difference.

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Locker and light switches


Snorkel Install. I discovered that I didn't need a Taco intake tube as my 4Runner had the same long intake tube from the factory as the Taco.


Tip to tail armour. Well, almost.


Snorkel done!

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I've got new black alloys with 4in backspacing and put on a full size spare. So these are already out of date.

75W Mobile VHF and a CB are also now installed.

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Up on the Whipsaw trail by Kettle Mountain.