I'm mounting 285/75 R16s and hoping not to need spacers... The rims are approx -1 cm backspaced (22.8 cm total -11 CM (wheel mounting surface from rim))
BTW, did you have to cut the wheel studs for 1" spacers?
Did you have to clearance your fenders to fit the 285s?
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I carry a spare cap, plus, the factory/OEM cap is "supposed" to fit the champion... supposed to.

 

If you've still got the oe upper a-arm you'll probably need adapter. I did not have to cut the studs, I bolt the adapter on in a star pattern just like the wheel, then bolt the wheel to the adapter. 1" is the thinnest I could find- they aren't hub-centric.
I had to have a bfh talk with the pinch weld, the 1" body lift helps a lot.

These days I carry a whole spare truck! (don't tell my husband it's his)
The champion looks nice in your truck, but I can't fit it into mine. There was the Koyo racing and I forget the other one, both had specially sized $40 caps you had to purchase separately.

 

I've got SPCs and and 1" BL, so I guess we will see. Tires arrive Wednesday.
I found a few sets of hub centric 1" spacers but I wonder if they will clear manual hubs bases...

 

IIRC it's pretty tight, there's not a lot of extra space.
It's dark...this was the best I could get. You can see the wheel, then the inner ring of the spacer/adapter, and though it's hard to tell- the base of the manual hub fits just inside the adapter with a few millimeters to spare. These are Trail Gear Adapters, iirc. Bought them from WabFab back when.

 

Oh hi!

 

Yes indeed! I realize now that the proper spelling is "Ye Olde Goop Method"

 

96 4Runner 325,094 miles

Happy Holidays and New Year and all that a wee bit late.

Thought my start battery was having troubles (manufactured 6/2015), but it was my house battery (9/2020).
An optima under 3 years old meant free replacement (12/2022) so that's what happened.
Will try to find some time to install it today though I can just keep driving it with only the start battery until I can get around to it.

So really not much is going on, unless you count tiling a bathroom.
Glad to be running out of things that need tiling.
In denial about eventually having to do the kitchen!

 

96 4Runner 325,094 miles

4 months ago I emailed Toyota_Social@toyota.com and asked what to do to receive some mileage clings. They replied, saying they were making changes, would keep track of my email, and respond as soon as they could.
Today they did!
200,000 for the green truck and 300,000 for the blue truck

 

dang!! thats cool!

 

96 4Runner 325,160 miles

It was a nice day so I finally got around to installing the house battery and changing the front dif oil.
The oil that came out looked good. Arb says regular oil with their locker, so regular 75w90 went in.

Also dagnabit mousies!!
acorn bits by the left rear seat on the floor and next to the jack


Not cool mouses, not cool.

 

The 99 got 5 new pizza cutter size KM3 installed yesterday. 255/85/16 KM3's, going on in place of the old mostly worn out and somewhat aged out (very slippery on wet pavement at this point) 285/75/16 KO2's.



Skinner, a little taller, apparently per the specs about the same weight. They have a lot deeper tread than KO2's, and very chunky tread blocks.

 

96 4Runner 325,281 miles

Nothing exciting. Just over 500 miles since filling so I checked the oil levels in the transmission, taco box, and rear transfer case. All seems well with no leaks and good levels. I did top off the tacobox with a little extra, but that could easily be because it finished migrating to the transmission tailhousing (some is supposed to go there) after the initial fill. Both magnetic fill plugs on the transmission and tacobox looked pretty clean.
Also greased the rear driveshaft. If it ever warms up maybe I'll finally get those skids back on!
We did a junkyard run on Saturday, missed out on a manual hub taco- someone got those- but did get another spare driveshaft, the brass bushings, and the cone washers, washers and nuts. The husband also grabbed the non-add leg of the front transfer case for future fun. A little playtime after a trailbuild on a rainy day.

I've got a bad rear sway bar link, not broken, just loose and damaged so it won't tighten. Another round tuit will be needed for that.
Hope everything is going well for you all, we're just over here waiting for warmer weather and longer days.

 

I was left unattended next to a computer for too long and ordered some parts from ECGS.

4.88 geared front diff with a Harrop e-locker
4.88 geared rear e-locker diff

I have the old 4.10 front and (slightly whiny) rear diffs sitting in the basement, so I can get my $1300 in core charges back right away, then swap out the 4.30 diffs in the car whenever the weather is nice.

 

I was at work!
Front Harrop e-locker vs Arb air...which will prove more reliable? E-locker relies on fewer components to make it work- no OBA needed anyway. I've been happy with the Arb with the limited use it has gotten so far.
I'll still be rolling on 4.30s, so there's that vs 4.88s as well.

It's been wet wet wet wet out, and cold, so nothing fun happening other than I've learned I'll have to hide the computer power cords and take the router with me when I'm leaving home! Work from home days may become more challenging for him, but a woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do.

 

Took the skids off the '99 yesterday in prep for the diffs (arriving soon-ish? Haven't heard back from them yet, said to be a 2 week lead time).

And saw that they've been hiding a little oil leakage here and there.
- Looks like the typical oil pan leaks around the perimeter. Good timing at least, since you need to remove the front diff to R&r the oil pan to reseal it
- Also a little drippage from the oil cooler - hardened o-rings holding in pressurized oil

It hasn't been using much oil, it's at it's 5K oil chang einterval and it's only now approaching the quart-low mark on the dipstick. But it doesn't take much oil under there to make a mess.

Also, the rear transfer case was wet with oil, looked like it's coming off the top somewhere. Presumably around the twin-stick shifter? I checked the oil in it and it was perhaps slightly overfull - oil started coming out when I removed the fill plug, but just barely.

And the center NWF doubler case was perhaps a little bit low, I put a couple of ounces of oil in it before it started coming back out. Possibly a little bit of transfer from one to the other? But it's been a solid year of drivingo n the doubler setup, so it's pretty minimal. I'm not going to worry too much about it.

Tightened the A/C belt while the front skid was off. And I also took off the front sway bar. I'm going to drive it round like that for a while and see if it's acceptable on-road. The intent is to equalize the roll resistance a bit more for off roading. With both sway bars in place, the rear axle does 90% of the articulation, and the truck mostly does what the front wheels are doing. Which isn't always a good thing. Removing the front and leaving the rear should get front to do a little more. Like... 70/30? An improvement at least.

 

99's getting cranky that the 96 had been getting all the attention.

 

The skids do a great job of preventing little drips on the driveway where I park. Thus keeping me in blissful ignorance.

 

96 4Runner 325,5xx miles

Went to the Diode Dynamics show last weekend, lots of cool off-roady toyotas showed up. The off-road course was MUCKY so the little blue truck stayed parked...
I really hate working under a muddy truck.
There were spendy cars, flashy cars, oddball cars, rally cars...and Toyotas. It was a fun show. A few of the ones that caught my attention...
















Someone else (who'd already removed their skid plates in anticipation of a new front dif) could not resist the mud...


Bwahahahaha...he did have fun though...probably even easier to clean without having to remove skids with mud caked on and in them.

 

Thanks for sharing your experience at our Open House and Car Show! We hope you had an absolute blast!

 

It's been an awesome time both years, this even better than the last. Thank you so much for feeding us Sugarfire too, it was the icing on an already very tasty open house cake!