RelentlessRunner 2.0 build up. Long Travel, dual locked!

A little background to start things off.....
We bought this 'runner for my wife back in 2012 straight from Reno Toyota after someone had traded it in on a Highlander. It's a 2005 Limited 4x4, 4.7 V8, 78k miles on it and quite clean. Within a week of owning it I had hacked off the stock exhaust and welded in a Magnaflow 14" with a forward axle dump under the rig, now we could hear the V8. Next came a lift, Bilstein 5100's all around and OME 885 front/ 895 rear coils. Added Raceline Raptor black wheels in 17x9 with 315/70/17 Duratrac's. I also built front, rear bumpers, and rock sliders for it. Sat this way for nearly the next 4 years as the Wife's DD rig and the rig we took on trips in the winter through the mountains.



Fast forward....
I also owned a 98 4Runner at the same time(it's what made the wife want a 4runner of her own!). It was a 3.4L v6, 5 speed manual, 4x4 SR5. Bought it for $4400 with 200K miles from the 2nd owner who had it since 2000 when it had 20xxx miles as a trade in at the local Toyota dealer. He had a 2" stack of service records from the whole time he owned it!

I built it up with a variety of mods over the years including:
3" lift with OME heavy coils and Bilstein 5100's, front and rear.
4.30 gear swap with E locker rear end.
295/70/18 (34x12") Nitto trail grapplers on Procomp Helldorado wheels
Fully Relentless armored: front and rear bumpers, skids, sliders, as well as a roof rack.
Plenty of LED lights: Rigid Dually's in the front bumper, Rampage 22" LED on top of the bumper, 42" radius bar on the roof, as well as rock lights.

This was the original "Relentless Runner"







After deciding that the 3rd gen wasnt quite cutting it for me, and that I didnt want to dump even more money into a 18 year old vehicle, I decided that selling the 3rd gen and building up the 4th gen V8 would be best, then get the wife a new rig. So planning and parts ordering began, and RelentlessRunner 2.0 was born!

The pile of parts:


And so it began......

 

OK, parts list:

Armor/exterior:

Relentless Predator front bumper
Relentless Rear bumper (updated design with tire carrier coming soon)
Relentless rock sliders "running rails"
Relentless IFS and trans/tcase skids
Relentless roof rack w/ fairing, rotopax mount, hilift mount

Suspension/drivetrain/performance:

Total Chaos +2" RACE Long travel kit with +2 CV axles. Gusseted EVERYTHING (coil tower/UCA dual shear, Cam tab gussets, spindle gussets)
King coilovers w/ resi's
Metal Tech 4x4 rear long travel setup
Icon 2.5's with resi's
Motorsport Tech 1.25" wheel spacers on rear
ARB Airlockers and 4.56 gears front and rear setup from ECGS
Doug Thorley shorty headers (need to install)
Custom Magnaflow exhaust (14" muffler, forward axle dump)
AFE Magnum force ProDry-S CAI
Method Race Wheel 'Double Standard' wheels, 17x9
Cooper STT PRO tires in 315/70R17 (35x12.50)

Lighting:

Aftermarket blacked out headlights w/ Halo/projectors
Rigid Dually SAE driving lights in front bumper
Rigid Dually D2 Hyperspot lights in front bumper
Coming soon: 40" Baja designs LED bar on roof rack, rock light setup TBD, backup lighting TBD

Recovery gear:

Warn Zeon 10S Platinum winch (badass winch!) w/ relocate kit
Factor 55 ProLink E on winch line
Various 3/4 D rings, recovery straps, snatch block, etc.

Miscellaneous:

ARB CKMTA12 'dual' compressor w/ 2gal Viair tank
Switchpro's accessory power distribution/switch panel



Probably more that I'm forgetting, will keep updating!



A few pics of the build process and parts:










CV axle rebuild onto +2" axles... fun

 

So, fresh out of the shop being built (I did a week long marathon build! 14hr days working on this thing to get it ready) I loaded it up and headed to Moab UT for Rock Therapy 2016.
My wife is still editing photos, but here are a few to start. I'll add more as I get them uploaded.

Behind the Rocks




Ran 'Trifecta': Poison spider mesa, Golden spike, Gold Bar Rim all linked in one day.

Group shot on Gold Bar trail (left to right, back) @MJonaGS32 @Mademan925 @RelentlessFab @JLee (hidden behind) and @jberry813 coming down the trail



Took a bit longer than expected when I snapped the driver inner tie rod randomly on this obstacle called 'Body Snatcher' on Golden Spike. Thankfully Jason @jberry813 and Jerry @JLee ran out for parts for us and @Wishbone Runner had a spare back at camp(thanks!). Apparently the 4runner/FJC have different inner tie rods than the Tacoma, weird. Will be keeping a couple spares in the rig all the time now



Wife ran the trail "Fins 'n' Things"


I then moved on to Hell's Revenge. Ran up Hells Gate and also conquered Escalator on the trail.

Pics to come!

 

one more

 

Mine.

 

Definitely have to hold my spot in this build!

 

Looks expensive... I'll sub

 

Very nice!!!!

 

Yo yo

 

Looks great. Sub'd.

 

Some Moab pics from the wife's DSLR for you guys: Clicky

 

Hells Gate....

Going down:






And then ya gotta come back up....

 

The optional "Escalator" on Hells Revenge






Looking back down at it. Waaaay steeper than it looks in photos

 

I'll go against the grain here and say it looks like a pile of shit since it's not a 3rd gen. and sub'd

 

V8 though

I still need to order some steel.

 

Yep! Pretty much the reason we got this 4th gen in the first place. lol. V8 in this thing makes it drive totally different than the v6's. In a good way

 

Subbed for the awesomeness

 

Subd sick build