What's the link to that cupholder??
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I hope this works
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=291775690294

not perfect but does the job for coke cans. I have it attached to the bottom of the radio with super sticky 3m double-stick tape.

 

Thanks, it looks great!
i might pick one up
not sure i would trust the 3m tape in the long run though, would suck if it came falling off full of drinks...

 

The drinkholder is supposed to be a universal fit for cars with double din receivers. As such, it doesn't exactly fit the existing hole. A little smaller but not really noticeable. The universal mounting bosses molded into it don't align with the factory radio brackets and i was too lazy to fab new brackets so i went with the 3M tape. That stuff is pretty serious so i think it will last.

 

Today's project, Fire extinguisher mount to roll bar. I found this Kidde metal mounting bracket at West Marine for $9.99.
that's less than i've seen them on ebay.

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The extinguisher i had is a First Alert brand and the neck was a little narrow compared to the bracket so i made a rubber collar out of 3/8 fuel line and attached it to the bracket.

 

Found a multipack of hose clamps at Harbor Freight for about $5.99.

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Slight modification required to the mounting holes in the bracket so the hose clamps would pass through. Now it's held on there very solidly.

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Here's the finished product. I think it adds a nice touch.

 

nice runner, and nice progress.

if the LCE fuel pressure gauge is not liquid filled, don't bother installing it, it will fail sooner than later. i bought one a few years ago, and it worked for a week. LCE warranteed it and sent me a new one, which promptly failed after a week. i ended up using a liquid-filled gauge from northern tool, which has been working for over a year.

 

Thanks for the compliments. I am driving it frequently now. Need new tires before i get up to NH with it though.
I did see your post on that gauge. Glad i didnt pay full price! The seller told me it took him hours to get it to stop leaking, LCE sent him a new elbow and crush washers. but i bought it anyway. Ugh.

 

these make decent daily drivers. took mine on a trip to the southwest US last year; put 8500 miles on it in 31 days.

 

Yes, truck looks good!
Second on liquid-filled Northern Tools gage. I got lost of materials on my thread, too. Very happy with it, but wud like to someday replace with electric sender to gage on dash.

 

Nice find on that for ext mount. I need to do exactly that.

 

i love driving in the southwest more than anywhere. People say it's boring but i say the scenery changes every 10 minutes. So different than green New England where you can't see more than a mile unless you are on a mountain or at sea level. When my wife and i moved to California back in the late '90's and moved back to Boston in the 2000's we took a month to cross the country each time. I would do it again in a second.

 

Took my buddy and his daughter and my son out for ice cream last night in the truck. Getting ready for some major work this weekend:
Ball joint spacers, steering box and front brakes. Probably will change the shocks out also. Possibly change the torsion bars back to stock ones but I like to make one change at a time to assess the difference. stay tuned.

 

I had planned to dig into the front suspension again over the weekend and install the ball joint spacers and Trail Gear steering box, but a Sunday car show/road trip/gearhead reunion to CT got added to the weekend playlist so I had only Sat morning to turn the wrenches. I limited the plan to the steering box install only and then I would assess the change in performance over the road trip of about 140 miles.

The old box came out just fine, only had to rent a pitman arm separator from O'Reilly's and then decided buy a 32 mm socket(Lowe's. Sears and AutoZone didn't have that size.) After looking closely at it, I think I could have used a 1-1/4" socket also. Luckily I didn't have any problems with the lines or fittings and my son helped quite a bit on this project. I swapped the lines to the new box then reinserted the box with the lines attached. It sounded awful when I first fired it up(expected that!) due to all the air in the system but after refilling the reservoir and driving it around the block it was back to normal.

The result: Highway driving is much improved. The Trail Gear box is an exact bolt-in for the factory IFS box. I don't have to make the frequent corrections that I did before at 65-70-mph. Steering wheel is a little off-center but I can correct that easily and adjust a little more free-play out of the box...maybe work on those two items tonight.

The car show was fantastic and I saw many old friends and got to show off the 4Runner. There were a few early Blazers, Broncos and Jeeps but I had the only soft top 4runner out of nearly 2000 cars and people did find it interesting.

Next up, I have a new tailpipe coming from Summit and 4 new Monroe shocks from Rock Auto. Maybe get those install in the evenings this week. Then a weeks' vacation with the family on a cruise... I'll miss my truck!

 

Good stuff!
Curious, why'd you choose the trail gear over the oem?

 

Basically, the deal was too good to pass up. New they are almost $400 but
there was a guy in MA advertising the Trail Gear box used on CL for $150 and claimed to have 10k miles on it. I figured if for some reason I didn't like it, it would still have residual value and I'd just resell it. Seems good, so I don't expect any problems with it.

 

Did the final adjustments tonight. Took alot of free-play out of the steering box and re-centered the steering wheel. I overdid it on the freeplay adjustment and could feel it dragging so had to relax it slightly. Then we did a lap around town to test it out and i am very pleased. Tomorrow morning, back on the highway for the commute.

i have to say, i don't think i can prove this is a trail gear box because it looks like an OEM, does not have a TG logo anywhere or anything that seems different from stock. the only noticeable difference was the pitman arm did not go on as far and the 32mm nut was shorter than the original. but it does feel feel a lot better so i am satisfied that it was worth the money.