Built by a 14 year old (with some help from my dad)

I wish I had that much motivation when I was 14/15.
Your truck is going to serve you well.
Phenomenal job young man!
Keep it up.

 

rebooting and greasing our CV axles:
cut the bands:


Pull off the inner, remove the clip and tap off the roller thing:


pull off the outer boot and clean out the grease:


paint:

 

I don't know if this is the original shifter or not, but one thing to keep in mind is the black portion is rubber injected to help reduce trans noise in the cabin. On my 05 that rubber broke down leaving a lot of slop in the shifter, a new OEM assembly was night and day difference. I only mention it because you replaced the plastic bushing so maybe the goal of that was to help with slop.

 

thanks, yes, shifter was pretty sloppy and the bushing seems to have tightened it up alot, we did look at the rubber filling and it still seemed pretty solid so going with it like this for now

 

Looks like you did a good job. Your welcome to do mine.

 

We got the PS reservoir back in:


and a new DENSO condenser. we got it from rock auto and it says that it doesn't come with a dryer so we bought a dryer also, but there was one in it under the plastic cap:


Looking at the old one, we may have found the leak, one of the fittings was pretty corroded:


Got it in with new seals with some PAG46 oil on each one:




The new compressor had a tag that said it came with 5.6 oz of oil. We put a cup under it and rotated it by hand until we got about 2 oz out of it, then put about 1 oz into the condenser.



We sand blasted and painted the radiator hose clamps:


and got the radiator back in, we reused the original:

 

The secondary filter had some stuff in it that we didn't want to work through over time so we removed it:




put it back on with the washer tank and battery:


Added peak Asian, it took 2 gallons:


And valvoline max life ATF in the PS reservoir. We slowly cycled the steering rack back (engine off) and forth to get the air out


Checked for leaks, crossed our fingers and tried to start it... and it started right up!

 

sounds like a bit of a race car with our home made y-pipe and muffler

 

We decided to go with Elka for front shocks after looking at some of the corrosion issues people have had with everything that is steel bodied. got them through headstrong, they had one pair in stock. They are really nice:

 

Wasn't expecting the lift.

 

We put the CV axles back together last night, black grease into the outer:


then the outer boot:


Then put the inner boot on and tap the roller thing back on, brown grease goes in the inner:


Then do the otiker clamps:


we left the small one on the silicone boot loose because CVJ talks about adjusting this once it is on the truck

 

Wow, most impressive !

 

front suspension is coming along. We broke one of the wheel speed sensors and while searching for replacement recommendations came across an old posting by @zippsub9 that he had some spare oem. We contacted him and he mailed one out for free! Thanks!

 

The Elka's come with really nice reseroir mount brackets, we painted them black:




and we got the 4 runner big brakes on with new crown 1" extended lines from headstrong:

 

and we think we decided on a tire size (295 70 17 ~11.6"x33.25") based on clearance checks with our 3d printed tire gauge. with the spc arms in position F and the rear lower arm cam all the way out and the front cam in the middle, we are just touching the flare at full stuff and are clearing the body mount and pinch weld with 0 offset wheel:

 

and finally got the coilovers in... front suspension is done. just have to find jam nuts for the outer tie rod ends

 

sway bar on with new moog bushings and end links:

 

cleannnnnn

 

We put on the temp wheels and tires and it is back on 4 wheels. Next we will try to get techsteam connected to bleed the brakes

 

Just came across this thread. Awesome build!
What your dad is teaching is invaluable.