Huge thanks to our family, wheeling family including Dave's Off Road Supply, WFO Concepts, Off Road Design, East Coast Gear Supply, and Bill Griiffith - Verb Precision Machine for helping to make this dream project happen. This is pretty surreal. In ways it seems like just yesterday, other ways a life-time ago, that I was dreaming about building our '89 early body style 4Runner when my oldest son who was just a few months old and the youngest was still about 2 years out. They're now 16 and 14. Their Mom and I bought the 4Runner in '04 from the original owner with 303K on it. I drove it daily for about 5 years, documented the 22RE rebuild on the old PBB site, retired it in '10 to build it, but had to back burner it. Unitil now.
Plan - Full bodied wheeler on 40s capable of street driving. Front and back halfed stock frame, one ton solid axle swap, drvie train swap, simple suspension, full hydro, cage, seats, re-paint, and body protection.
Stock piled: KP Dodge D60 front axle we narrowed to ~ 64" WMS-WMS, Cab and Chassis 14 bolt, 4.56 gear sets, WFO 14 bolt truss, Total Metal Inoovations 14 bolt shave kit, 2014 Chevy LV3 4.3L V6, NV4500 trans w/6.34:1 first gear, ORD Magnum & NP205, Champion aluminum radiator, Trail Gear leaf springs, shackles, Bilstein 5100s, and the front spring hanger / 8274 winch mount I built early this year. Dave hooked us with a set of Raceline Avenger beadlocks which are on the way and we have a set of 6x 40" MTRs on stand-by. Once money allows, we'll order another ORD Magnum underdrive, call Dave Williamson for steering, seats, harnesses, axle setup kits, lockers, etc, get the LV3 harness worked over, ECU flashed, have Bill machine the 205 case, shave the 14 bolt housing, shave the R&P, and round up all the odds and ends.
Summer 2020 Noah and I dragged home a pretty beat down and rotten '93 W250 for the 60 front and 205 transfercase. We gutted it and scrapped the left overs.In between projects on my FJ45, Noah and I built the leaf spring hanger / 8274 winch mount.
Plan - Full bodied wheeler on 40s capable of street driving. Front and back halfed stock frame, one ton solid axle swap, drvie train swap, simple suspension, full hydro, cage, seats, re-paint, and body protection.
Stock piled: KP Dodge D60 front axle we narrowed to ~ 64" WMS-WMS, Cab and Chassis 14 bolt, 4.56 gear sets, WFO 14 bolt truss, Total Metal Inoovations 14 bolt shave kit, 2014 Chevy LV3 4.3L V6, NV4500 trans w/6.34:1 first gear, ORD Magnum & NP205, Champion aluminum radiator, Trail Gear leaf springs, shackles, Bilstein 5100s, and the front spring hanger / 8274 winch mount I built early this year. Dave hooked us with a set of Raceline Avenger beadlocks which are on the way and we have a set of 6x 40" MTRs on stand-by. Once money allows, we'll order another ORD Magnum underdrive, call Dave Williamson for steering, seats, harnesses, axle setup kits, lockers, etc, get the LV3 harness worked over, ECU flashed, have Bill machine the 205 case, shave the 14 bolt housing, shave the R&P, and round up all the odds and ends.
Summer 2020 Noah and I dragged home a pretty beat down and rotten '93 W250 for the 60 front and 205 transfercase. We gutted it and scrapped the left overs.In between projects on my FJ45, Noah and I built the leaf spring hanger / 8274 winch mount.
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