Colonal's +Adventure Prescription+ | A Toyota 4Runner 5th Gen Story
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Colonal Angus
Adventurer
I was happy to see it too. The alignment was way out and by the time I got to the shop, it was late and the alignment guy was hesitant to start on it. He did it and did a great job.
Hahaha...I changed it. You're not going crazy
Thanks a lot for the compliment guys. TwoTrack, I'd be up for getting together. Check out the Florida Family 4x4 on FaceBook. Even if you don't get into the whole FB thing. The FF4x4 group is always putting together trail rides right here in your back yard. Great group of guys.
Colonal Angus
Adventurer
Just saw your taco thread...looks amazing, great job!! I will follow it for sure. Thanks for the invite. We have a ton of stuff planned for the weekend including my oldest sons birthday on Saturday. I'll make the next one though!
nice! looking good
Thanks m(a)ce!!!
Thanks man! I'm almost embarrassed to admit how long it took. Between answering works calls, family calls and responding to emails, it took me about 4 hours to do the rear. I did the rear by myself and I'm fanatical (overly cautious) about floor jack and jack stand placement. Everything went smoothly until I went to install the OME springs. I couldn't figure out how to pry them in there. I was concerned with over extending the brake lines and putting to much pressure on the opposite side of the axle with jack. The bottle jack method was a miserable experience and highly recommend not even messing with it. More later...
SDDiver5
Expedition Leader
hahaha I salute you for being honest. Think of it this way, better to take your time and be OCD over the whole think than be on the trail and have something fail. Is a bottle jack all you have? May be time to buy a real jack!
mouse007
Explorer
Perfect, happy early birthday to your son.
Colonal Angus
Adventurer
Moreover, on the lift...
The front went much smoother. I convinced my pop to come and just observe (He has a ton of Toyota/automotive experience. Led technical training for SE Toyota for 25 years. Hence, my Toyota obsession). The observing was just too boring for him...so, ultimately, he caved and started getting dirty. He and I knocked out the front in probably 2 hours...give or take. Not including the time we took for lunch while the struts were being assembled. The front was far easier than the rear (mostly due to my old man).
Oh, I do have a proper floor jack (3 ton), hahahaha. I was refering to the bottle jack method of placing the bottle jack between the axle and frame. Check out Slee's instruction for the lift install...it's what I referred to the most. Clean and simple. I also referred to a thread on the FJ forums: Dummies guide to installing Icon lift (or something like that).
Thanks, man....he's getting big. Got him a Redcat Rockslide RS10XT so he can "wheel" when I can't..hahaha.
Colonal Angus
Adventurer
Unfun Carnage...well, it was a fun weekend but not fun trail damage.
Totally unrelated to the build BUT in short, my truck was backed into and was just left there for dead...
Long story: Headed down to Key West for a week long Bachelor Party. En route to KW, we stayed at a buddies house on Ramrod Key (insert all the Super Trooper jokes) to fish for a couple days. Dude's house is under construction and one of the delivery dudes had to of backed into it. The house/driveway is way too secluded for someone to just come in, crash into my car, then leave. So, we come in off the water and I go to put something in the back. This is what I find....
Untitled by crr1116, on Flickr
All in all, the trip was blast...but still sucks that this deductible will have to come out of my mod budget
Totally unrelated to the build BUT in short, my truck was backed into and was just left there for dead...
Long story: Headed down to Key West for a week long Bachelor Party. En route to KW, we stayed at a buddies house on Ramrod Key (insert all the Super Trooper jokes) to fish for a couple days. Dude's house is under construction and one of the delivery dudes had to of backed into it. The house/driveway is way too secluded for someone to just come in, crash into my car, then leave. So, we come in off the water and I go to put something in the back. This is what I find....
Untitled by crr1116, on Flickr
All in all, the trip was blast...but still sucks that this deductible will have to come out of my mod budget
SDDiver5
Expedition Leader
Some people man. That sucks. I've never understood people that knowingly hit something and go on with their day like nothing happened. I saw someone back into a civic one time and do some pretty decent damage. I lived on the 3rd floor and I had a view of the bay, street, etc. Saw the guy hit the car, get out and look at it, then drove off. I grabbed my binoculars. got the license plate and wrote a note for the civic owner. Ironically, as I was putting the note on the car, someone else came over to do the same thing as I.
Sorry that happened!
Sorry that happened!