What have you done to your Pickup / 4Runner today? (Old School Edition)

I only put 2 in mine with a HP. It doesn't change between the 2.

 

Cool. I know high pinion has an oil slinger but I want to be sure.

 

So I'm adjusting my torsion bars right now and I'm not seeing any difference in height. I have only turned the nut about one full turn, so that might be it, but I'm not entirely sure what to expect, so I've been going slowly.

Also, when I jacked up the front end to adjust the torsion bars I checked the tire spin to see if there was any binding. The passenger wheel spins great but the driver one gets stuck but you can force it and the differential wiggles a little to let it go. Is that binding or is that a sign that the axle isn't in properly?

 

I set it down and rolled it and didn't see the movement of the differential, so I'm guessing that the reason why the wheel got stuck was because of binding at full droop.
Going to get it aligned tomorrow! Hopefully they can fix my ridiculous camber...

 

finally got dis chit put in

 

Woo!

 

Nice job ajohnson, looks great!
I got my truck aligned and it turned out great! Much less vibrations because the tires had so much camber that the knobs on the tire edge were the main contact with the road.
I also put in some washers to space down the carrier bearing, which reduced the vibrations a little bit. The skid plate covering the bearing is a little too close to the driveshaft so that when the drive line shifts with downshifting the u-joint hits the skid. I have to space it down a bit more, I'll do that tomorrow and I'll get a BPV relocation bracket, too. Almost done!

 

ok n00b question. WTF is that? What is the purpose of the outboard shifters?

 

Dual transfer cases. The front portion (gear box, or crawl box) of a transfer case bolted to the front of a transfer case with an adapter, allowing for a much lower crawl ratio. That is a triple stick setup that brings the twin sticks for the rear case up to the front case shifter. The twin sticks allow it to be shifted into 2wd or 4wd with any gear combination, so it can be in double low 2wd. The front case is stock 2.28 gearing, the rear case is 4.7 gearing. I can be in stock low, crawler low, and stupid turtle low in 2wd or 4wd.

 

Very cool. Sound like a hard core offroader thing, not for us casual trail riders.

 

Finished with my brake proportioning valve extension bracket woot: I have full braking power again!). For any SoCal/San Diego folks, I just had James at the Truck Shop fab one up real quick and he gave it to me free of charge. Of course I have had him do a few other things in the past and my mom had all of her new suspension done there, so that might be it, but he's awesome regardless. I was happy to change out my Off road warehouse (Didn't have a very good experience there) front plate border for an SD truck shop one.
Going out to a trail tomorrow to test everything out!

 

I installed my 4innovations motor mounts and discovered the stock driver side mount is broken



Tomorrow I am putting ALL new fluids in her, including a coolant flush.

 

I'm currently trying to figure out why it won't start? The fuse box in the engine bay is giving me problems. Truck just keeps cutting off while driving. Did a U-turn last night and it shut off. The wire that runs to the starter from the fuse box became loose and it wouldn't start last week but this time its not that. Ready to blow this sucker up! Also losing power when climbing and its not carburated. Seems like the MAF is going out as it is causing a rough idle.

Anyone got a match?

 

Finally time to make a little progress on the to do list. So much for studying for finals this week

 

Those are sweet Buzzard!

I loaded my junk up, heading out in the morning for some 'wheeling

 

wants 4Runner . . .

 

I also did the sweet switch your shift knobs and confuse the crap out of your friends mod the other day and haven't switched em back yet haha don't ask me why, I don't have a valid answer

 

Cleaned up my spare driveshafts and re-greased them. Also cleaned out the garage since my truck is out of there. I found a good spot to mount my 42" Pioneer flat screen. I might do that this week. Kept the labor intensive stuff to a minimum due to a hangover.

 

Being powder coated at this very moment. $50

 

So beautiful