This is Travis' 96 4runner. He's here on the Yotatech forum. (Sweet Trav) Some of you may remember this truck as it's the one I did sliders and the rear bumper on. Now it's time for the front tube winch bumper. It won't be a huge gawdy mess with a billboard for a skid plate, it will flow nice and probably end up having 2 separate smaller sized skid plates with dimple die holes. Strong and tasteful is the plan. Enough said, here are some pics....

Did the weld on sliders a while back



Did the rear bolt - on wrap around bumper a while back





this fugliness needs to go bad!



fugliness gone!



time to make some solid mounting points, the tin foil has to go



sleeved this is for 1 bolt of many more to come




my caps with 1/2" threaded hole for grade 8 bolt




painted and moving onto more sleeving behind the body mounts




project 4runner is starting to take shape....before (sort of)



now...I'll post winch bumper build pics as I go.

 

Nice.

 

Thanks. I got to drive it yesterday and really dig this truck. I can't wait to see it with some armor up front!

 

Now you need to Fab me up a Front bumper when your done with his...

 

i love the color of that 4runner... now i know the color i want to paint mine hahaha. cant wait to see the end result.

 

nice welds, what welder are you using?

 

I LOVE that rear bumper! Nice Job!

 

I'm getting excited!

 

Lookin' good.

Fink

 

Dude that rear bumper is sick! Your own design?

 

yep, brian does great work!

 

Looking forward to getting some more work done on this project. .

 

looks good!

 

Bump for an update. Or are you gonna leave us hanging.

 

Sorry for the delay but "B-FAB" moved into a bigger shop and that set us back a bit...but we're getting back on track! Suspenision arrived today, went with the "ultimate" package from toytec and added the 5150s. The winch plate and skidplate should arrive tuesday from budbuilt (bud is a SUPER nice guy!) and then we'll be working on finishing up the front winch tube bumper and installing the suspension.

 

BTW-I think that I might go with this winch deal.

The deal -
Included are:
The Recon 10,500lbs winch (88' of 7/16 synth line + protector sleeve, wired&wireless remotes, fairlead hawse and 3 yr warranty)

Accessories include
16,000lbs snatch block
2 - 4.75t d-rings
10' tree saver strap
neoprene winch cover

This is the link to the deal: Recon 10,500 lbs Premium Winch Kit | TruckandWinch.com

 

When it comes to my all time favorite color, that orangish-red has to be it (like the text color in my sig). That looks great dude, I'm diggin it!

 

legit!

 

ok, so today was a productive day. installed the toytec ultimate lift with diff drop and budbuilt skid. my fab guy was a HUGE help today and took time away from fabing up my front tube winch bumper to help me get the rear suspension taken care of...whoever designed the top mount for those shocks was not at all concerned with difficulty level during removal.

 

I'll get some better pics later but for now...



now we can get back to that front bumper build!