Recent content by 4xFoorOffroad

Learned recently that soaking aluminum that’s oxidized in vinegar really gets a lot of the oxidation off if you have any more parts that need some love.

Motor is like a burger, just add mustard and ketchup and it is instantly more tasty and powerful

Axle isn't the complicated part - locating your leaf mounts, spring perch / pinion angle, and cycling the main leaf would be. With the sequoia axle, removing the buckets for the coils on your 4 runner axle and moving them over would help make the coils still work and the FGP kit has all the...

Thats not his truck - they were just pictures of a 62 sua. They’re linked from the factory with a 4+ panhard. The FGP link kit is paint by numbers where putting a deaver sua is a lot of cutting and custom measuring, cycling, and fab. The FGP kit reuses the coil springs and everything indexes...

I think leaf springs require more skills than the Freelgood LT3 3 link kit and get less overall performance out of the setup.

Man I have one in LA I probably won’t need again.

Oh man, regarding that, I’m visiting my folks on the east coast and my father told me my uncle on my mother’s side went to one of those rallies downtown in the city my folks are in. To go to the event, he used my father’s relatively conservative (as business owners) family’s apartment...

@sdecurti had to rebuild the whole mount previously: https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/threads/the-4-lives-of-a-1997-4runner.3/#post-13065

My friend has an 06 LJ manual trans thats only got a 3-4” lift and 35’s and he’s done a bunch of what look like solid trails up in big bear in it. LJ seems like a good mix of old and modern platform / drivetrain options with the wheelbase and coil suspension with the 4.0 and manual trans.

Walmart has a better warranty on AGM’s than Costco - I just bought an AGM for my wife’s truck from Costco not realizing the warranty is prorated and the Walmart warranty is a year longer and not prorated I think.

Old SUV’s had like nothing for crash protection. Someone turned in front of my wife’s 4runner and I built a frame behind another stock bumper with a removeable / bolt on push bar out in front. There’s a tube structure behind it that an eBay sheet metal bumper can bolt to directly after...

Copy that. Would you consider front halfing the truck with all new drivetrain and suspension going in?

Just zip tie some wood to the bumper. Should be cool at that point.

Gotcha - sounds like you decided and challenge is accepted. Right on. Idk how familiar you are with j arm kits made by @basikbiker or quixotic, and I’m sure you’re going to want to start with a blank slate, but might be worth using for brainstorming during the design process.

Some might say the first part to buy when doing a V8 swap on a Tacoma is a fullsize cab & frame.