Figured I’d do a short build thread on my 1986 4Runner. I’ve had it now for about 5 months and a lot has changed on it already. It went through a lot of revisions before I owned it so there’s some pretty janky shit still on the truck, for now. It’s basically a 22re propane, 5 speed, dual cases with 2.28 and 4.7, tons (Chevy d60) with Yukon chromos, grizzly locker and 5.13s and rear is 14 bolt shaved grizzly locker as well. Full hydro PSC, front was 4linkwd when I got it (very, very poorly) and 63s in back. 4xinnovations full cage. Dovenosed in the front. This is how it looked when I got it. I bought it with no wheels/tires as it had red labels before and I hate BFG so I threw on my old race wheels with 37 treps on temporarily to get it home.
Had a bad R&P in the front so I had my buddy redo the front with a new set from Yukon and slapped it back in. I also had a set of Mickey Thompson Baja Boss X off the TMR 4400 Ultra4 we raced a couple years ago so I put those on my Method 105 Beadlocks.
Also added some cheap Amazon lp6 knockoffs and cut down/painted the hard top since it had a ton of damage to the passenger side anyway.
Wheeled it like this for a couple months while tidying up some janky electrical stuff. Found some doors and painted them white to match. Realized my 2dr JK mesh Spiderwhatever top fit absolutely perfectly on the 4xinnovations cage. Sweet. Put a mesh sunroof cover from Amazon over the sunroof hole
By this point I was really getting annoyed by the absolute lack of flex out of the back with the 63” springs, I thought maybe the anti wrap bar was binding it up so I took it off. Zero difference. Literally maybe 2-3” up/down travel.
Ton of body roll, just felt like trash in general on big articulation stuff. Put my 14” 2.5” Kings from one of my race cars on the front. Way more better. Went to Great American Crawl and the Runna did great but that was the last straw with the lack of rear suspension travel.
Also finally got rid of all the gay SEMA mermaid green
Had a bad R&P in the front so I had my buddy redo the front with a new set from Yukon and slapped it back in. I also had a set of Mickey Thompson Baja Boss X off the TMR 4400 Ultra4 we raced a couple years ago so I put those on my Method 105 Beadlocks.
Also added some cheap Amazon lp6 knockoffs and cut down/painted the hard top since it had a ton of damage to the passenger side anyway.
Wheeled it like this for a couple months while tidying up some janky electrical stuff. Found some doors and painted them white to match. Realized my 2dr JK mesh Spiderwhatever top fit absolutely perfectly on the 4xinnovations cage. Sweet. Put a mesh sunroof cover from Amazon over the sunroof hole
By this point I was really getting annoyed by the absolute lack of flex out of the back with the 63” springs, I thought maybe the anti wrap bar was binding it up so I took it off. Zero difference. Literally maybe 2-3” up/down travel.
Ton of body roll, just felt like trash in general on big articulation stuff. Put my 14” 2.5” Kings from one of my race cars on the front. Way more better. Went to Great American Crawl and the Runna did great but that was the last straw with the lack of rear suspension travel.
Also finally got rid of all the gay SEMA mermaid green
