Project 96 4runner

This is Travis' 96 4runner. He's on the Yotatech forum. (Sweet Trav) Some of you may remember this truck as it's the one I did sliders and the rear bumper on. Now it's time for the front tube winch bumper. It won't be a huge gawdy mess with a billboard for a skid plate, it will flow nice and probably end up having 2 separate smaller sized skid plates with dimple die holes. Strong and tasteful is the plan. Enough said, here are some pics....

Did the weld on sliders a while back



Did the rear bolt - on wrap around bumper a while back




this fugliness needs to go bad!



fugliness gone!



time to make some solid mounting points, the tin foil has to go



sleeved this is for 1 bolt of many more to come




my caps with 1/2" threaded hole for grade 8 bolt




painted and moving onto more sleeving behind the body mounts




project 4runner is starting to take shape....before (sort of)



now...I'll post winch bumper build pics as I go.

 

Looks killer, love that rear bumper

 

Thanks Troy.

 

Damn that thing is sick.

 

that thing is in absolutly great shape for a 96, repainted i presume. Also this is soo sick

 

pimp shit. how much for a similar rear bumper? what suspension is he using?

 

sweet rig

 

Alright....finally doing the front winch bumper. He bought Bud Built skid plates so I don't have to worry about underneath, but this bumper will have it''s own little steel & tube skid plate with dimple die holes in the plate of course, right under the winch plate. This is a 10,500 lb Recon winch that's similar to a Warn from what he says.

The bumper will have the main area you see here, then it'll have tubes that wrap around the side a little with the little handle things on the ends, 2 shackles, 2 brackets for a removable tow bar, (if it were mine, a receiver hitch for pushing trailers into tight spots....and a beer opener, but I don't think it's going to for him) and probably a couple light mounts, but his current plans are to run 2 lights on a roof rack.

This is where I'm at so far, the tubes and mini skid plate will be next week.

 

lookin good!

lol i thought the third pic was a lightbar....i was trippin pretty hard lol

 

That 4Runner looks familiar...think I've seen it on another forum but yeah, pretty sick rig!

 

Probably either Yotatech or Expedition Portal or whatever it's called.

Pics.

 

A few more pics...the area behind the bumper that's still a bit fugly will get a pair of off smaller off road lights that will shine down onto the corners of the ground in front for night wheelin'. The reason I didn't trim the visible sheet metal on the core support yet is because I wasn't sure if there were going to be turn signals mounted there or not. He chose to eliminate OEM front signals and incorporate them into the side markers by drilling a little hole and mounting them inside with the running lights.. There may end up being a pair of lights hanging from the main tube in the center, he's not sure yet since he plans on having a roof rack with a pair there.

The winch wasn't wired up yet in these pics which is why the rope is all over the place in front. Also pictured is a thick 1/4" removable skid plate I made that covers 2 of the winch bolts to help to deter loser thieves, and fills the open area that sticks and rocks could find there way through. I was originally going to do a little tube skid plate with a removable aluminum plate with the infamous dimple die holes to match the rear bumper, but at that point he was putting the pressure on due to a camping trip, and this plate was the quicker answer.

btw...this front bumper is attached using 10 grade 8 bolts, and the 4 main ones are sleeved through the frame, it isn't going anywhere. This isn't your run of the mill aftermarket winch bumper that bolts on using grade 5 bolts & washers, it's the real deal. What trips me out is the winch is held on with 4 smallish grade 5 metric bolts, pretty crazy.

 

More pics...he got his Baja Rack on. This truck will be featured in a magazine shoot soon. His friend writes for the magazine and he'll be giving props to 2 people...Beefed Off Road Armor and Baja Roof Racks. I made the sliders and the front & rear bumper. I'll post better pics when his friend & him take some in the dirt where it belongs.

 

That is one hell of a bad ass 4Runner. I love it man.

 

How's the Recon Winch? I was thinking about getting one.

 

Looks great! My buddy has a "95". I'm tryin to sell him those rims that were on my 1st gen tacoma, I think he'll like the way it turned out.

 

Thanks for the compliments guys. For the winch....it was definitely a good deal compared to the big name manufacturers', but I don't think the poor thing has even been used and last I heard Travis was selling the 4R since he picked up a new ride that I did sliders on a while ago.

I'll never understand why peoole choose to dump a bunch of $ into their rig only to sell it..?