Hello All!!! I just purchased my first every Toyota and am loving it so far. I purchased a 1988 4 Runner from the original owner who is a friend of mine. I have already started mods and some things have already been done. Hope you like it.

 

Let me know what you think

 

Just got a set of used doors not a bad score at $25 a piece. Took them to a buddies and used his plasma cutter to cut them down to make half doors. I have attached pics of the process so far will have more tomorrow when we weld them back up. We lined it out on the door on the truck and then measured both sides and started cutting. I then measured the openings and sheered of some pieces of mild steel and made templates to make the insert pieces. I will have pics of all that in the afternoon tomorrow and will post them.

 

All cut out

 

good luck

 

nice truck

 

anything new?

 

Sorry to keep you all waiting but between the real world job and everything else have not had time to post these but done a ton of work hope you like it so far.

 

With the help of East Coast Gear Supply and the use of my buddies shop at Victory Services most of the tube work on the truck is done have a couple more things to do and then off to powder coating. bumpers and rock sliders are from trail gear all other tubing was done at Victory Services with the help of Rich Byron the mad scientist.

 

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The next pics are of setting up the roof rack everything has been made so that it can come off very easily but also retain its rigidity.

 

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here are the pics of were it sits right now I used gate spindles from Iron Pig off road (great guys very helpful)

 

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I just realised that I have not put the rest of the pics up of the half doors that are now finished and were on all summer. Please if there are any questions feel free to ask.

 

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I am including pics of how I did the latches this is a style usually used on race car doors. The doors are fully functional and worked great! Just be careful of anything sitting on the seat in a quick turn it will end up out on the road.

 

I got a 6 set of K5 aluminum rims and milled them out to be able to use them on my 4 Runner. Some of them had some corrosion so I bought some duplicolor bed liner paint at the local auto store and painted them up. It has been on almost a year now and holding up well. attacked are before and after shots

 

dude- where are you? iron pig is about an hour away from me...

nice doors! i want to make some like that