Heck, if your 1st gen is in as good a shape as it seems from your avitar etc. then I'll bet you're a nice road trip shy of ownership of a 2nd gen to cut up! I got my 2nd gen in Los Angeles (the anti-rust belt ) with BJ spacers, OME coils, rancho shocks, exhaust and american racing wheels for a whopping $1800. Please please please please please don't cut that runner. Remove the cap and ride around topless for a while, or even get a bikini top like as been suggested earlier for greater versatility. Save the 1st gen from a fate worse than death - rusting apart with no roof because you couldnt finish the project before your interest or money ran out... It'd break a lotta hearts

 

honestly, where did bobbint it come from? i never once heard him mention anything about bobbing it.

 

Sorry I was thinking of a dirt bike (motorcycle type thing), not BMX or mountain bike stuff... Sorry my bad.


What ever happened to that thing, the thread just kinda dies???

 

I think AZkid may have said something about it... I don't know if you can really call it bobbing the rear because you're not talking about shortening it, but I'm talking about any kind of choppy molestation to a 1st gen 4runner that hadnt been preceded by a whole ton of hard earned trail damage. I in fact then suggested (if chopping and welding fall inside of your list of skills ) that it be considered that you may actually bob the rear of a 2nd gen 'runner and adding a shortened pickup bed to the rear, a-la hilux surf 'over there' style (+/- machine guns depending on your local laws and regulations of course ) like this one:

 

Dunno, thread died and the kid stopped contacting me. He may have sold it, scrapped it, clunkered it... it's been a while. A shame too. I probably would have done a lot of that differently, so if and when I do decide to hiluxify a 2nd gen 4runner I'd take those side windows all the way out and cut the back off in order to put on a real pickup bed instead of an empty trunk of a 'runner.

 

well im not gonna cut up my runner. i did some measurements and i don't think it will be worth it as far as a bed. its gonna be tiny. i def want to get a second gen to cut up for sure and if first gens keep poppin up around dayton for under a thousand like they are now i will probably get one that needs work and experiment with it.

i know kinda disappointing for those who wanna see it sorry

 

did i say bob? no i dont think so

 

upon further inspection, maybe I just said bob... but that bed looked shortened to me because of the enlarged wheelwells. what then would you call that type of conversion that you posted a pic of in that case?

 

a chop top.
the picture was for the top.

 

so now that im no longer gonna chop the top on the runner.

anyone have any suggestions of what i should do next, something in the cheap fabrication area? im really in the mood to weld lol

 

you could make me some bumpers and sliders

 

How bad do you want to chop? I have a 2nd gen with 106K on it.

 

hey if u wanna throw some money in u got it. my buddy and i make bumpers and sliders all day. we made my sliders which i still have to put on, were makin a rear bumper for mine. we made bumpers front and rear for his jeep, we made bumpers front and rear for his dads jeep too.

 

3.0 auto. no thanks

 

Kinda what I figured...Someday she'll be a 5spd.

 

toyota should just have a recall to replace all autos behind 3.0s with 5-speeds. lol

 

im like $150 in. you could do it for prolly $120. just dont over buy materials
and dont bother buying snaps, just by some velcro and snap clips. my avatar
is small but it has the pic of the snap clips, 4 on each side with velcro underneath. frame was constructed out of conduit so ultra cheap an basically top out of a painters tarp. If you wanna make a half top just build that, Im actually gonna cut my full top frame in half to do the same thing but im gonna make it bolt back on so i can have full or half. I dont have a back window on it, i know your looking for that, easy to make i have one made i just didnt get it sewn on cause i moved out from home. you could do this, its easy.

Conduit- $15
1" flat steel for bow/L's-$20
painters tarp-$20
velcro-$20
Plastic snap clips&strap-$25
Clear vinyl for window-$5

not even $120. basically the frame is a 30 min job. just dont underestimate the sewing portion. i did. mistake. i was a bit cocky just because i made a pillow once upon a time haha.

 

that looks really good. id have to put in windows. that may be an option. my friend put a canvas top on his 4runner and i kinda liked it.
i do wanna get an old top and cut it in half for a half top to throw on in good weather.

 

Choppppppp it! That's what I'll be doing soon as I pick up my newest victim to make a true to original SwampThing3.0 this weekend.