Figured I make a thread to share my progress of my 88 4Runner, probably more pictures then anything. Been a Toyota fan since I could drive. Have an 2015 Trail 4Runner and been looking for an old one for a while and came across this one, an 1988 with 340,xxx miles V6 and love it!



The night I went pick it up(1.25.16)


Next morning.


First thing was cleaning it. Bring the shine back a little.


Then took the top off. Fell in love even more.

Just pictures:





Start painting underneath:

Before


After


Touched up the front end a little.





Truck didn't come with a spare and didn't want to buy factory parts to put it back under the truck, so came up with this. Working great.







I was going to look for a carpet kit but after cleaning in looks good to me. Used chemical guys fabric cleaner. Soon will be removing carpet and applying some Dynamat dynaliner.

 

Ever since getting the truck i wanted to make the front end look more original. I never understood why someone would cut the grille and put lights where they did. So recently i ordered grille, corner lights, and headlight housing from carports.com. Installed everything, and loving the way it looks now. Heres some pictures with new front end, and other recent pictures just to show.





Now just some pictures from my trip to Mississippi in it. It was the first some what long trip i took it on (around 4 hours one way) and loved every second of it.












Perfect shooting platform!



Sorry, kinda of a picture whore! haha.

More progress to come!!
Thanks for viewing!

 

That is a great looking runner you found and is cleaning up real nice. Welcome to Yotatech.

 

Nice looking truck you have there. Did you remove any of the suspension/axle components before paint? I need to do that too.

Where are you in Louisiana? I'm from Mississippi originally (born on Keesler AFB) and spent time in Baton Rouge and Kenner. My folks still have a house in Kenner.

 

Thanks, glad to be here. Seems like a lot of great info! thanks for the kind words, he's getting there. Next is new suspension, just not sure what to go with yet!! thinking OME.

 

Thanks man! No i did remove anything before painting..
Im south of Lafayette, I go to baton rouge at times, maybe we'll run across each other one day!

 

What did you use to make this???

 

The top part is used for like fencing and gates.. like this https://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplie...;pg105957.html . Been having it on there for about a year now and working fine. plus better then welding on roll bar.

Then just welded some aluminum piping and flat plate.

 

Awesome! Thank you!

 

No problem man... oo and like the username, my name is jake and i had people call me that before and i dont about you but "jake from state farm" all the time!

 

ALLLLLLL THE TIME!!!! Lol.

I've been called Jakey poo by coworkers, family members and friends for as long as I can remember. So if you see a Jakey poo on another forum its probably me

 

Nice truck. Nice comparison of old and new with its younger "brother"

Great start here. 4runners, welders and guns. You're in good company.

 

Thanks man!

 

 

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If I knew this was possible and this easy It would have been one of the first things I did! I guess I have a project for my day off great job

 

If I knew this was possible and this easy It would have been one of the first things I did! I guess I have a project for my day off great job[/QUOTE]


Thanks man! yea not hard at all! I don't know why i waited so long to do it

 

What paint products did you use? Those are some of the nicest that I've seen people restore

 

Thanks man! used Krylon Silver and gold leafing pen and Testors gloss black spray paint.

 

Sweet thanks! Keep up the good work so I can continue to copy your mods lol

 

Haha no problem man.. ill try my best!