New lift, bumper, winch, brakes plus simple shelving

[Cdnexplr]

I'm getting ready to explore utah once I have the time to leave work.

So I've already built this bed a while ago. I just pulled it apart again to router the edges nice and smooth and figured I'd take a few detailed pictures of how I did it. It fits a double futon mattress perfectly.
You can easily just make it out of one 8' piece of plywood. I wanted two pieces to make moving larger items more possible without pulling a big sheet out and wanted it a little wider than 4' to close the gaps.

I just used one inch lag bolts and L brackets from home Depot. Had some longer 10 mm bolts and managed to hide the rear brackets under the carpet nicely.

 

[Cdnexplr]

Also just installed a new ARB bumper, M8000 winch, Tundra front brakes, bilstein 5100's, ome rear coils and Tundra front coils.

 

[RDC76]

any plans for a rear locker? looks good so far

 

[Cdnexplr]

Has factory rear locker. That's good enough for me. Did the wire mod so I can engage anytime.

Also did the Tundra brakes this past week.

Contemplating poly sway bar bushings and rack bushings next.

 

[vapilotda]

I've read may of articles on the tundra brakes. Looks like you have the 6 spoke wheels but everyone says they dont fit with the tundra caliper. Can you confirm?

 

[jynx]

I've read may of articles on the tundra brakes. Looks like you have the 6 spoke wheels but everyone says they dont fit with the tundra caliper. Can you confirm?

The 231 calipers will not clear the split 3's without grinding or a spacer. Some folks are ok with grinding, but I would not recommend it. You can fit the 199 calipers under the split 3's. They use the same rotors and as far I am concerned the 199s are just fine for our application, if you want the larger tundra rotors and calipers but don't want to change the wheels or use spacers, then just get the 199s and roll on happy.

 

[vapilotda]

Sounds like a plan, I'll start researching that part number for the 199 calipers. Thanks

 

[LoneRanger]

I'm getting ready to explore utah once I have the time to leave work.

So I've already built this bed a while ago. I just pulled it apart again to router the edges nice and smooth and figured I'd take a few detailed pictures of how I did it. It fits a double futon mattress perfectly.
You can easily just make it out of one 8' piece of plywood. I wanted two pieces to make moving larger items more possible without pulling a big sheet out and wanted it a little wider than 4' to close the gaps.

I just used one inch lag bolts and L brackets from home Depot. Had some longer 10 mm bolts and managed to hide the rear brackets under the carpet nicely.

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Looks real good. I am planning to do this soon in my ''98. What are your thoughts on using a somewhat thinner side support. I am wanting to minimize the weight as much as possible. What is the thickness of your top/bed board?

 

[White Stripe]

Sounds like a plan, I'll start researching that part number for the 199 calipers. Thanks

Just a FYI, all the 199 brakes do is give you a thicker rotor so their is less chance of a warped rotor. The 231 brakes have physically larger pads along with the thicker Rotors and should give more braking power and less chance of warping.

 

[Cdnexplr]

I've read may of articles on the tundra brakes. Looks like you have the 6 spoke wheels but everyone says they dont fit with the tundra caliper. Can you confirm?

I just took the grinder the back of the rim. It's so minimal that it's not a big deal.

If you have a choice, go as big as you can get. Peddle feels good still. No lag. Just good brakes.

 

[Cdnexplr]

Looks real good. I am planning to do this soon in my ''98. What are your thoughts on using a somewhat thinner side support. I am wanting to minimize the weight as much as possible. What is the thickness of your top/bed board?

If you want to go light weight, use aluminum. I would have too but didn't have a proper welder at the time. It's something I wanted to modify in the future but the 2x6 with a 1/4 inch strapping worked perfect. The boards are not overly long and weight savings would be minimal.

The wood is 3/4" thick. I wouldnt go thinner with wood. I'm always hauling junk in the back and having some strength is nice. You can cheap out and maybe save 6lb.

 

[Cdnexplr]

Here's some pictures of my may long trip. Had to lock er up a couple times during the week. Slept next to the river and drive around plenty in the back country of western Alberta. This was the head waters of the old man river and the Livingston mountain range gap.

I did the whip antenna mod before this trip. Glad I did. I had great am reception and lots of trees were smashing it all weekend.

 

[Cdnexplr]

A week and a half ago I drive all around south western Alberta and up into the crows nest pass. Did a little wheeling up an old logging road. Was actually pretty epic but forgot to take wheeling pictures as usual. I came down from the mtn and took this picture in the mcglivery staging area with a nice shot of the crowsnest mountain in the back. Plan to hike the back side with some friends this year.

Before that, I checked out lundbreck falls. It's the crowsnest river flowing over an ancient in land sea shore.

And the last photo is the east side of Waterton. Mt vimmy's back side to the left. I spent some time camping along the belly river that's just below this vantage point.

 

[LoneRanger]

If you want to go light weight, use aluminum. I would have too but didn't have a proper welder at the time. It's something I wanted to modify in the future but the 2x6 with a 1/4 inch strapping worked perfect. The boards are not overly long and weight savings would be minimal.

The wood is 3/4" thick. I wouldnt go thinner with wood. I'm always hauling junk in the back and having some strength is nice. You can cheap out and maybe save 6lb.

Thanks

 

[White Stripe]

Sweet pics man

 

[Living in the Past]

I really like what you have done to your rig. I'm about to install a bull bar and winch on my 99. Struts and stocks are worn on mine (160K miles) and figure do it all at once. Question, what Tundra springs did you use and did it give any lift? Pretty new to the world of 3rd gen 4Runners. I would like to do a small lift and figure with the extra weight of bull bar and winch need to beef up the front suspension to handle the extra weight. But I don't want a stuff ride. I assume the rear doesn't need to be beefed up just match the lift in the front? I really like the five spoke wheels used on the limited and sport versions in 99, while it took a long time I managed to find some that didn't break the bank. Now I'm wondering if I would have been better to have gone with 17" to use the 231 Tundra brakes. Or is it the back spacing the reason the wheels need to be ground out a little for clearance and the 1/2 inch wider wouldn't help?

I was lucky to find used ARB bull bars for my 99 as well as my wife's 04 4Runner on the same day. So I have all the same questions for the 4th gen but the 120 section seems to be geared towards the GX crowd. Mud is the only off road site I'm on. Eleven years and never felt the need to join another site but probably time to join a good 4Runner site. Any recommendations which is the best?

 

[Cdnexplr]

I really like what you have done to your rig. I'm about to install a bull bar and winch on my 99. Struts and stocks are worn on mine (160K miles) and figure do it all at once. Question, what Tundra springs did you use and did it give any lift? Pretty new to the world of 3rd gen 4Runners. I would like to do a small lift and figure with the extra weight of bull bar and winch need to beef up the front suspension to handle the extra weight. But I don't want a stuff ride. I assume the rear doesn't need to be beefed up just match the lift in the front? I really like the five spoke wheels used on the limited and sport versions in 99, while it took a long time I managed to find some that didn't break the bank. Now I'm wondering if I would have been better to have gone with 17" to use the 231 Tundra brakes. Or is it the back spacing the reason the wheels need to be ground out a little for clearance and the 1/2 inch wider wouldn't help?

I was lucky to find used ARB bull bars for my 99 as well as my wife's 04 4Runner on the same day. So I have all the same questions for the 4th gen but the 120 section seems to be geared towards the GX crowd. Mud is the only off road site I'm on. Eleven years and never felt the need to join another site but probably time to join a good 4Runner site. Any recommendations which is the best?

Good on ya for finding the used bumper. I looked a little but couldn't find one anywhere.

I like the 5 spoke wheels much better than the 6 spokes. The 5 spokes apparently clear with no grinding. So you should be good there with the 231's.

If you go on YouTube and type 3rd gen 4runner lift install, you will come up with a full video of everything involved. The Tundra coils lift about 2 inches. I put mine on the second lowest perch. The 5100s are 5 way adjustable for the front. The spring is still progressive and rides like a factory truck. I did some cheap old man emu coils in the rear. But pretty much everything I got was on amazon. Look at the video on YouTube because the guy is really good at explaining the parts needed and what you will run into.

Let me know if you can't find the video. I'll post a link if you have troubles. It was like a 30 or 40 min clip.

 

[Living in the Past]

Good on ya for finding the used bumper. I looked a little but couldn't find one anywhere.

I like the 5 spoke wheels much better than the 6 spokes. The 5 spokes apparently clear with no grinding. So you should be good there with the 231's.

If you go on YouTube and type 3rd gen 4runner lift install, you will come up with a full video of everything involved. The Tundra coils lift about 2 inches. I put mine on the second lowest perch. The 5100s are 5 way adjustable for the front. The spring is still progressive and rides like a factory truck. I did some cheap old man emu coils in the rear. But pretty much everything I got was on amazon. Look at the video on YouTube because the guy is really good at explaining the parts needed and what you will run into.

Let me know if you can't find the video. I'll post a link if you have troubles. It was like a 30 or 40 min clip.

I have the correct five spokes wheels for my 99 which are different five spokes wheels used in 2002, at least I think so. Do you know if the early five spokes work? Did your ARB bull bar come with the splash guard? The turn signal lights are easy to find. The splash guard and bumper pads not so much. Not sure the age of my bumper. Looks to have the correct holes for the pad. No fixed nuts for the splash guard but there are three holes along the lower edge which I assume are for the splash guard. Finding replacement parts directly from ARB seems to be hard. ARB also doesn't market these a 4Runner bull bar but rather just for the 1st gen Tacoma. Lights and pads wouldn't matter but splash guard might. The 4th gen bull bar has the light inserts, pads and the splash guard. Cost more but still was a better deal since the 3rd gen cost quite a bit more than 1st gen Tacoma. Plenty of info on installing the 3rd gen bull bar but not 4th gen. It has two brackets I can't figure out as well and two special fixed nuts on a long piece of metal to fish it in I assume.

I was unable to find your youtube video. Everything I found was short under ten minutes. With the two inch lift did you use spacers on the front struts? Longer shocks on the back?

 

[Cdnexplr]

Some more pix

All in the crowsnest pass alberta Canada.