nvwiggins 85 5.0 T4R HO
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Nice work, glad to hear you got the clutch fixed and everything's working good! I like the looks of it with the bed liner removed, looks really good! Keep up the good work!
Just curious, are you running a rear sump oil pan? I'm running a front sump pan and thought I had enough clearance, but noticed the other day I have a couple dents from my drag link hitting when the suspension is flexed out.
Just curious, are you running a rear sump oil pan? I'm running a front sump pan and thought I had enough clearance, but noticed the other day I have a couple dents from my drag link hitting when the suspension is flexed out.
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Nice work, glad to hear you got the clutch fixed and everything's working good! I like the looks of it with the bed liner removed, looks really good! Keep up the good work!
Just curious, are you running a rear sump oil pan? I'm running a front sump pan and thought I had enough clearance, but noticed the other day I have a couple dents from my drag link hitting when the suspension is flexed out.
Just curious, are you running a rear sump oil pan? I'm running a front sump pan and thought I had enough clearance, but noticed the other day I have a couple dents from my drag link hitting when the suspension is flexed out.
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Man redoing those knuckles fought me the whole way, mostly because I've never done them before. What a messy job it is. Tomorrow I'll be making the frame plates for the steering box and welding those up along with buttoning the front end up. Then on to installing my new head unit.
I got a Pioneer DVD, Bluetooth head unit from a buddie that should fit perfect after some modifications to the way it mounts. It's also ready for a camera so I'm thinking of doing a rear view camera for after I mount up a spare tire on a swing out. Pretty stoked to have some tunes in it, it's been radio-less until now.
I got a Pioneer DVD, Bluetooth head unit from a buddie that should fit perfect after some modifications to the way it mounts. It's also ready for a camera so I'm thinking of doing a rear view camera for after I mount up a spare tire on a swing out. Pretty stoked to have some tunes in it, it's been radio-less until now.
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Nothing like a little trial by fire, completed the high steer Wednesday night and ran new wires to all the speakers, installed the head unit, buttoned up the interior. We did a quick garage alignment and threw on my Raceline wheels with the 305/70-16 Firestone M/T's. Woke up in the morning and drove 300 miles to Reno without a hiccup, glad I have faith in my welding and mechanic skills haha. To top it off I got around 16 MPG doing 75-85 with the cruise set. Needless to say I'm pretty happy with the results.
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Nothing like a little trial by fire, completed the high steer Wednesday night and ran new wires to all the speakers, installed the head unit, buttoned up the interior. We did a quick garage alignment and threw on my Raceline wheels with the 305/70-16 Firestone M/T's. Woke up in the morning and drove 300 miles to Reno without a hiccup, glad I have faith in my welding and mechanic skills haha. To top it off I got around 16 MPG doing 75-85 with the cruise set. Needless to say I'm pretty happy with the results.
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That's awesome! Is the cruise control from the mustang or did you wire it into toyota's?
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From the mustang haha I need to figure out a better set of cruise buttons. Right now it's just the buttons out of the Mustangs steering wheel and there isn't really any way to mount them.
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Nice pics! And that would be awesome if you could wire it into a factory cruise button
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Well here is where I turn into a photo whore. This will still be a build page but I like to share pictures of adventures either wheelin or camping with the 4Runner or Tacoma.
Went out today from Reno up to Virginia City. It was good to get the 4Runner out and wheel it for more that half an hour. It's a bit rough riding, needs some front wheel spacers because my tires hit the springs and new shocks but here are a couple pictures from the drive and a this awesome place that's set to be tore down this winter called American Flats, it's a great place for photos and there is some awesome graffiti work out there. I understand the reasoning for tearing it down but it sucks to see it go.
Went out today from Reno up to Virginia City. It was good to get the 4Runner out and wheel it for more that half an hour. It's a bit rough riding, needs some front wheel spacers because my tires hit the springs and new shocks but here are a couple pictures from the drive and a this awesome place that's set to be tore down this winter called American Flats, it's a great place for photos and there is some awesome graffiti work out there. I understand the reasoning for tearing it down but it sucks to see it go.
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Pretty funny that the only real issue I had today ended up being the unsecured inertia switch so we hit a rock going up the trail and it set the switch off so I lost fuel in the middle of the trail. Just had to happen at the only place we passed another wheeler all day and he was in a Jeep haha o well I got out and reset the switch and off we went. I'm really loving this rig, my girlfriend thinks I'm retarded because I have a nice Tacoma but would rather drive this, she just doesn't understand haha.