After noticing some of the scratches my cold front did to the inside edge of the grille, i found out that Toyota in the infinite wisdom sprayed a black "primer" type of paint over the chrome grille in areas. Especially around the headlight bezels and the inside edges of the centre grille.

A little scraping with a razor blade netted some quick results but the curves were tougher. I put a bristle brush on my cordless drill and made short work of the "primer"



The front is much brighter now and the look is sharp once I painted some of the backgrounds blue.



The truck looks really sharp comin at ya.



Oh and one other cheap mod is Blue wire loom on your headrest posts. Costs pennies and I think contrasts nicely.



Anyways, whaddaya think??

P.S. don't run the drill at to high of an rpm or "grind" too hard. It will burn and melt. It's only plastic after all.

 

Looks sharp! Nice job!!

 

nice sr5 bro.

 

Great looking 4Runner...love the colour!

I like your idea of the wire loom on the headrests I may have to check that out for mine.

 

is it possible to peal off some of the chrome also? how hard was it not to mess up? i have a palm size obital sander, you know that triangle one that never became too popular. i could use that. it looks REALLY nice

how did you get it so shiney?

need more info

 

Looks pretty damn coooooooooool to me! lurv the colour

 

Awesome look, color and truck. I did the chrome 'de-painting' years ago on my Datsun 510's. I still love chrome...can ya tell? Kool idea on the headrests...I know I have some blue somewhere...

 

Killer, looks awesome man! Love the gaurd as well!

Todd

 

Yeah! Those guards are so cool! I know i wont be able to find one here, so i'm gonna buy an arc welder and fab one up along with some sliders soon. Cant even find a roof rack for my surf here. Pretty ˟˟˟˟ty huh?

 

Hehe, if I remember correctly he has a tacoma. The older tacos and 4Runners looked the same though from the front so no biggie. I do like it though. It's the same thing with newer Toyotas too about the grille. Flat black painted over a few chromed surfaces, and the grille is one of them. I found that out when doing my gutter-guard grill, scratched a little of it off.

Zach

 

I did this mod to my 1992 4Runner grille a few years ago. I'd recommend spraying some clear coat on the new chrome sections. I didn't use any clear coat and now some of my chrome is oxidized pretty bad.

-mangoango

 

Looks real good!

 

for the record. It ain't no Taco.

93 SR5, V6, ext cab 4x4.

 

one more

 

What kind of grille guard is that? It looks like fabtech, but maybe not...? Looks real nice. As you can see, I am also a fan of the prerunner look. And are you running without a skidplate, or does it just look like that because of your lift? Oh and sweet ride!

 

Thanks for the compliments.

It is a smittybuilt pre-runner. And yes I did remove the skidplate. It ended up being a mud scoop and then I hammered all the louvers shut. I snapped off a couple of bolt heads putting it back on. Just haven't got around to removing them so I can bolt the skid plate back up. I am used to the look so I'm, not in a hurry to put it back on.

 

Very nice! I'm trying the same thing with mine, but I'm lazy so it's gonna take a while.

Yes, yes it is. I used a brand new razor blade and managed to take off some chrome in a couple areas so far, but it just takes patience and it'll come off fine.

 

What's that in the lower right hand corner of your seat? it looks like a bag of RICE but that might be a trick of the light....

 

not to come off as dumb, but, huh? RICE? forgive me, i don't get it.
derrr

 

Hey lethal, have you seen fabtech's tube bumper for the rear? It looks nice from the pic on their website, and if you got it in their Blue powder coat it'd probably match up real nice.

http://www.fabtechmotorsports.com/html/guard.html

Its under toyota bumpers. This is the bumper I saw after I declined receiving money from my friend to fix my back bumper when he rear ended me