4Runner

If you haven't figured it out, I drive a '97 4Runner. It's the vehicle I have poured the most blood, sweat and tears into and it has always come thru afterwards. Coming from the world of VW, it's been a glimmer in the dark waters of vehicle ownership for me. I've spent more on maintenance than fun parts on this vehicle, so it's a little bit of a basic/boring build, but I like how simple/capable it is. 

Decided I'll blog about it here document what I've done or am doing to it.

Suspension/Chassis

• Fronts: 
• Bilstein Shocks with Eibach coils (very firm ride, will rattle your teeth out on the right surface)
• Rears: 
• OEM Land Cruiser Tokico shocks with 8 wrap LC coils
• Misc:
• JBA upper control arms
• Sonoran Steel - Adjustable panhard bar (a must) one of those didnt know you need it til you have it mods.
• 2nd Gen 4Runner swaybar endlinks for the front, moved my stock rears to front (they're longer to accomodate the lift)
• 4Wheeler Parts diff drop
• Spidertrax spacers (not currently on until I replace my lower balljoints again)

Tires/Wheels

• Stock split 6 wheels
• Falken Wildpeak M/Ts 285/75/16

Maintenance

• Well since owning it, I've replaced the motor once already and that was a huge learning experience for me as it was my first motor swap. HUGE confidence booster in terms of wrenching. but ever since the swap it's been slowly replacing wires and hoses as they go bad or look bad.

I've owned the Runner since 2015, but most of its current look happened this past year. Since extra money didn't need to go to repairs/maintenance.

Here're some pics of it's slow progression:

I should figure out a better blogging platform because the image alignment and text formatting options are driving me crazy. But hopefully you get the gist.