Mauzer's 2002 4Runner Build-Up Thread

Mauzer · 10-01-2010, 01:28 PM

Ok so I guess its time to start a build thread now that I've actually started "building" my runner...

The goal is a DD 4Runner that can handle "moderate" wheeling and camping on the weekends

Specs:
-2002 SR5 4x4
-Auto
-3.4l V6

I searched for 8 months and had to drive 5 hours to pick it up, yes I am that picky! Here is the only pic I have of it after I brought it home, I pulled into the driveway and got straight to work removing the running boards and inspecting the undercarriage...

I added some TRD stickers for some extra horsepower

I bought it in October of 09 so that Christmas I had a LoadWarrior under the tree, opened and "installed" in under an hour (had to wait for the rest of the family to finish opening presents)

Picked up the spare tire carrier a bit later but no need to show that pic...

Installed a new HU:

I replaced the radiator with a new KOYO to prevent milkshake and b/c I had a very small coolant leak:

Then after I decided on Tundra coils in the front and LC coils in the rear I slowly started buying parts and eventually had everything I needed for the lift:

Parts used:
• Rear Bilsteins (F4-BE5-A014-H7)
• LC Coils
• Front Tundra TRD coils (48131-AF090,48131-AF100)
• Front adj Bilsteins (BE5-6929-H0)
• Tundra coil isolator
• Toytec panhard drop bracket
• Toytec Diff Drop
• Toytec SS Ext brakelines
• Ext bumpstops (fabbed)
• 2nd gen rear stabilizer links

I scored 3 285 Cooper STT's and a full size spare:

Installed my Cobra 19DX iii w/ PA speaker under the hood

48" Firestik is currently mounted using a Firestik hood channel mount (probably going to move to the rear or mag mount, not sure yet)

Had a local Toyota obsessed friend help me install the front but we didn't have time to do the rear so I drove around for 2 days with a mean bro rake:

I installed the rear lifted and got an alignment and here is how it sits today:

Oh yeah and sometime along the way I installed a 1.5" 4crawler lift but I didn't take pics

I'm working on the 4th STT (found one used on ih8mud, just need to get it shipped to me) and then I will get them all mounted.

P.S. Yes that is my old 85 CJ-7 in the background of some of the pics, I use to have the Jeep thing but my Yota has cured it

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prerunning4x4 · 10-07-2010, 08:22 PM

Get those tires on there man! cool build!!!

CRafferty · 10-07-2010, 08:30 PM

Great look BRO!

Mauzer · 10-08-2010, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by prerunning4x4

Get those tires on there man! cool build!!!

Still waiting for the 4th tire to get shipped, but no worries they will be on as soon as I get it

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Originally Posted by CRafferty

Great look BRO!

Thanks brah!

yotarob2005 · 10-08-2010, 07:28 AM

Nice man. Needs some tires tho. LOL

mirabile4runner · 10-14-2010, 10:30 AM

Looks good. +1 on tires!

Mauzer · 10-25-2010, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by yotarob2005

Nice man. Needs some tires tho. LOL

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Originally Posted by mirabile4runner

Looks good. +1 on tires!

Tires are now mounted! Diff breather extended and catch can also added. I'll get pics up as soon as I can...Thanks for all the help Rob!

okie81 · 10-25-2010, 08:56 AM

Looks great, it'll look even better when you fill those wheel wells up with rubber. Are those last pic's w/the body lift? It looks suprisingly high for just tundra/LC coils...or maybe it's just the small tires.

irab88 · 10-25-2010, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Mauzer

...The goal is a DD 4Runner that can handle "moderate" wheeling and camping on the weekends...

what you're doing with your rig is what i want to do with my pickup

yotarob2005 · 10-25-2010, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Mauzer

...Thanks for all the help Rob!

Anytime Brian! Had fun and got some stuff done, it was a good day.

Mauzer · 10-25-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by okie81

Looks great, it'll look even better when you fill those wheel wells up with rubber. Are those last pic's w/the body lift? It looks suprisingly high for just tundra/LC coils...or maybe it's just the small tires.

Yeah thats w/ the body lift, I think its a combo of the small tires and the bl, now I'm running 285's and it makes them look small too...need to step up to 315's

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Originally Posted by irab88

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what you're doing with your rig is what i want to do with my pickup

Thanks, GL with your build

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Originally Posted by yotarob2005

Anytime Brian! Had fun and got some stuff done, it was a good day.

Heck yeah, 4 yoters "modded" (you bet I'm counting the sticker we put on your wife's Runner) and lots of cold beer, definitely a good day

Mauzer · 10-29-2010, 07:54 AM

Finally took a pic! No I didn't wash it I was just hosed it off

yotarob2005 · 10-29-2010, 08:00 AM

Looks great Brian!

Mauzer · 10-29-2010, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by yotarob2005

Looks great Brian!

Thanks Rob, hopefully I can do a shake down this weekend and get a lil mud on the tires

yotarob2005 · 10-29-2010, 08:25 AM

Dirty pics would be nice, you need to update your avatar!

Mauzer · 10-29-2010, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by yotarob2005

Dirty pics would be nice, you need to update your avatar!

<---Done!

turbolover · 10-31-2010, 09:09 AM

That looks like one mean truck. Well Done

Differentials Drops? CV grease seeps?

aa1911 · 10-31-2010, 09:48 AM

dude, those were some sweet runnin' boards, can't believe you took them off!!

just kidding, mine are STILL on and I despise them but my kid uses them to get in and out so I've left 'em for now. I went over to my buddy's house for dinner a few weeks ago and he said "pull that thing in the shop and we'll drop those running boards" hahaha

you've got a perfect "TAV" - Trail Aproach Vehicle - which is really about 95% of what mine are anyway. some light wheeling and finding an awesome campsite or getting to the trailhead.... of course still capable offroad though.

sweet rig, now turbo or SC it!!

Mauzer · 11-01-2010, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by turbolover

That looks like one mean truck. Well Done

Differentials Drops? CV grease seeps?

I have a toytec diff drop installed, I tore the inner cv boot wheeling on the beach when after I first lifted it but I have since replaced it but besides that no grease seepage.

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Originally Posted by aa1911

dude, those were some sweet runnin' boards, can't believe you took them off!!

just kidding, mine are STILL on and I despise them but my kid uses them to get in and out so I've left 'em for now. I went over to my buddy's house for dinner a few weeks ago and he said "pull that thing in the shop and we'll drop those running boards" hahaha

you've got a perfect "TAV" - Trail Aproach Vehicle - which is really about 95% of what mine are anyway. some light wheeling and finding an awesome campsite or getting to the trailhead.... of course still capable offroad though.

sweet rig, now turbo or SC it!!

Thanks!

Mauzer · 11-01-2010, 06:22 AM

This is why you need to use a relocation bracket or longer end links with LC coils

"Busted" a rear end link on a fun run this weekend (somehow just lost the top bushing?)

So I ghetto fab'd it with an old shock bushing till I can put the 2nd Gen endlinks on there.

10-07-2010, 08:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
prerunning4x4 Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Escondidos local trails. Posts: 166	Get those tires on there man! cool build!!! __________________ '91 3VZE cab.5

10-08-2010, 07:28 AM	#5 (permalink)
yotarob2005 Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Bryan Tx, Posts: 1,811	Nice man. Needs some tires tho. LOL __________________ 05 Tacoma D-cab TRD Sport Longbed -DD, lots-o-mods. 02 4runner Sport Edition - Wife's kid hauler 86 4runner - 22re, automatic, 5.29 gears, Aussie locker, 35x12.5" Goodyear MTR's, BJ spacers, Doetsch Tech 8000's, Downey T-bars & idler arm brace, custom heim joint TRE's. All-Pro leaf springs w/ Billy 5100's, 2" 4crawler BL, 2" drive train lift w/ Budbuilt crossmember, 4x Innovations DOM sliders, 130 amp alt. Custom gauges, Cobra CB, Firestick. *My Build*

10-14-2010, 10:30 AM	#6 (permalink)
mirabile4runner Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: PHILLY Posts: 23	Looks good. +1 on tires! __________________ Shrockworks Bumper, Sonoran 7.2 Lift, Budbuilt Skids, BFG ATs, Stereo Upgrades.

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okie81 Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Nor, CAL Posts: 1,808	Looks great, it'll look even better when you fill those wheel wells up with rubber. Are those last pic's w/the body lift? It looks suprisingly high for just tundra/LC coils...or maybe it's just the small tires. __________________ 2001 Toyota 4Runner SR5 4WD TRD supercharger, Toytec Coilovers, OME 890's, 285 Duratracs, baseball card in spokes

10-29-2010, 08:00 AM	#13 (permalink)
yotarob2005 Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Bryan Tx, Posts: 1,811	Looks great Brian! __________________ 05 Tacoma D-cab TRD Sport Longbed -DD, lots-o-mods. 02 4runner Sport Edition - Wife's kid hauler 86 4runner - 22re, automatic, 5.29 gears, Aussie locker, 35x12.5" Goodyear MTR's, BJ spacers, Doetsch Tech 8000's, Downey T-bars & idler arm brace, custom heim joint TRE's. All-Pro leaf springs w/ Billy 5100's, 2" 4crawler BL, 2" drive train lift w/ Budbuilt crossmember, 4x Innovations DOM sliders, 130 amp alt. Custom gauges, Cobra CB, Firestick. *My Build*

10-29-2010, 08:25 AM	#15 (permalink)
yotarob2005 Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Bryan Tx, Posts: 1,811	Dirty pics would be nice, you need to update your avatar! __________________ 05 Tacoma D-cab TRD Sport Longbed -DD, lots-o-mods. 02 4runner Sport Edition - Wife's kid hauler 86 4runner - 22re, automatic, 5.29 gears, Aussie locker, 35x12.5" Goodyear MTR's, BJ spacers, Doetsch Tech 8000's, Downey T-bars & idler arm brace, custom heim joint TRE's. All-Pro leaf springs w/ Billy 5100's, 2" 4crawler BL, 2" drive train lift w/ Budbuilt crossmember, 4x Innovations DOM sliders, 130 amp alt. Custom gauges, Cobra CB, Firestick. *My Build*

10-31-2010, 09:09 AM	#17 (permalink)
turbolover Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (0) Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2	That looks like one mean truck. Well Done Differentials Drops? CV grease seeps?

10-31-2010, 09:48 AM	#18 (permalink)
aa1911 Registered User Personal Sales Rating: (1) Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Western Washington Posts: 1,228	dude, those were some sweet runnin' boards, can't believe you took them off!! just kidding, mine are STILL on and I despise them but my kid uses them to get in and out so I've left 'em for now. I went over to my buddy's house for dinner a few weeks ago and he said "pull that thing in the shop and we'll drop those running boards" hahaha you've got a perfect "TAV" - Trail Aproach Vehicle - which is really about 95% of what mine are anyway. some light wheeling and finding an awesome campsite or getting to the trailhead.... of course still capable offroad though. sweet rig, now turbo or SC it!! __________________ '00 Tacoma XC SR5 3.4 Supercharger, DT Headers, Jardine exhaust, Devil's Own Alcohol injection, URD Fuel/Timing upgrade kit, 2.2" pulley, ARB bumper, IPF lights, OME 882/AAL and Nitro shocks, BFG A/T 265/75/R16 on Soft 8's, custom intake '93 4Runner 3.Slow D.O. Alcohol injection, ISR Mod, 'big 3' mod, Yakima rack, HID's, mostly stock until time/$$ makes it a beast. picked up a SFA from an '83 - ready to SAS!! '08 Sequoia SR5 4WD, ARB bumper, BFG A/T KO's 275/65 R18- 381hp grocery getter!

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