hood strut/shock
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They have them on Lexus, I wouldn't see why it couldn't be done, you could just order the Lexus struts, or find one and take some measurements and see if they would work, the hood weight might be the only down side of the equation. Wish I had more insight for ya. BUMP and good luck.
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I am sure you could do it....best way would be to steal from current designs:
http://www.drivewire.com/toyotaparts...handstrut.html
They even have places that sell retrofit kits for doing stuff like that:
http://www.redlinetuning.com/products_quicklift.html
http://www.drivewire.com/toyotaparts...handstrut.html
They even have places that sell retrofit kits for doing stuff like that:
http://www.redlinetuning.com/products_quicklift.html
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Originally Posted by dibble9012
do you think the tundra kit would work for a 4runner?
Make sure you don't get a strut that is so strong it bends the hood though.
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Ive never seen where the Trundra shocks mount up. I am sure this can be fabbed up fairly easily. Go for it Amir, then pm me with part #s when you have everything installed and working right
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yea i can picture it now, all set up, you close the hood. Next time you need to jump someones jeep, you pull the latch, and the hood flies off in the air 20 feet behind the truck
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Originally Posted by Amir904
anyone add hood struts/shocks? seems like a good mod for convenience, but is it possible?
Rancho used to make these and then stopped. I honestly think they were bending hoods. The 4Runner hood is very thin on the sides, unlike most.
There is a lot on engineering that goes into this (I've already spent hours), and I'm not going to sell anything until I'm 100% sure it will work and 100% happy with the design. I'm trying to dedicate more time to this project as I have more free time at the moment. When I have the final design, I will let you all know.
The Tundra and 4Runner hoods are completely different.
Last edited by Jason B; 02-17-2005 at 09:41 AM.
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Originally Posted by Jason B
I've started working on this mod again, and will have a kit available.
Rancho used to make these and then stopped. I honestly think they were bending hoods. The 4Runner hood is very thin on the sides, unlike most.
There is a lot on engineering that goes into this (I've already spent hours), and I'm not going to sell anything until I'm 100% sure it will work and 100% happy with the design. I'm trying to dedicate more time to this project as I have more free time at the moment. When I have the final design, I will let you all know.
The Tundra and 4Runner hoods are completely different.
Rancho used to make these and then stopped. I honestly think they were bending hoods. The 4Runner hood is very thin on the sides, unlike most.
There is a lot on engineering that goes into this (I've already spent hours), and I'm not going to sell anything until I'm 100% sure it will work and 100% happy with the design. I'm trying to dedicate more time to this project as I have more free time at the moment. When I have the final design, I will let you all know.
The Tundra and 4Runner hoods are completely different.
Last edited by MTL_4runner; 02-17-2005 at 10:40 AM.
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A person on IS300.NET developed a kit for the IS300.
http://www.figsprops.com/
This guy also owns a 4Runner with Chevy 350 in it. Im going to talk to him about possibly developing a 4Runner kit..
http://www.figsprops.com/
This guy also owns a 4Runner with Chevy 350 in it. Im going to talk to him about possibly developing a 4Runner kit..
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