ok the rear bumper is off today, going to clean it up tomorrow (hopefully), and then on to EBay it goes next week.

I also put the stock rear bumper back on there, as well as the towing hitch.

going to try and get the front bumper/winch off tomorrow as well if time allows.

I'm off to hang with the very impatiently awaiting woman

 

Wow it took almost a year fo rme to get this done. But I dropped the truck off at the body shop on Monday to get the fender flares repaired and repainted. So now the truck is finally back to full street queen status. The only upgrades on the outside that I left were 17" tundra/sequia wheels, and the JAOS rear spoiler.

I'll have the black fender with the hole cut out and the Safari snorkel in the classified section by next week.

I kept wavering on wether or not I would sell her. But I've decided to keep her. A rockcrawling 4runner is an awesome thing. But for now a clean stock height runner more suits my needs. I'll have pics up this weekend once I clean her up a bit.

 

Just got it back from the body shop today ... she's all nice and black now. I have to bolt on the running boards this weekend, cut of the Sonoran pan hard bracket and give her a good clay bar, poish and wax, and then drop her off to get an alignment first thing next week.

 

let me know about the snorkel. I already have a dented fender....

 

I have the fender with the hole cut out already and I need to pull the snorkel out of storage .... I'll let everyone know next week.

 

be gentle w/ the grinder on that panhard bracket and i might take it off your hands.

 

I'll try, but the guy that welded it, ran a bead down the side of the whole thing. I'll pick up some batteries for the camera and post pics

 

yeah, that may be a little tough to salvage. all i gotta do is get some 2 or 2.5" square tubing and make one, but i've been too lazy to do it.

 

update on this: The running boards are on there. I still haven't cut the bracket off. Or gotten an alignment.

I'm going to probably get tokico trekmaster shocks installed before I get the alinment. The only thing I'm thinking about right now is if I can get 1" lowering springs to go with it. I know PP makes them, but I'm almost positive that the 02 runner was shorter to began with, as compared to 96-00 4runners. So I don't think they wouldn't make much of a difference. If anyone knows where I can get some, I'd appreciate the input.

I'm also looking into getting new nav/entertainment components for the truck. The alpine nav no longer works properly, and I' like to get a couple of tv monitors put in.