Another link for yotas: http://toyotafiberglass.com/toyotafiberglass.htm - aftermarket fiberglass replacement body parts including hoods, fenders, half doors... seems like reasonable prices. I got the link off the back of a toyota in Prince George this week - I assume it must have had some fiberglass parts, but I couldn't tell the difference.
Mine's nice... it has the winch right in side it so it's much harder for someone to steal it, plus it keeps the winch pretty clean for the most part which will go along way to making sure it works when I need it to. Since my truck is my DD, I don't really bash it into stuff at all, so otherwise my bush bar is pretty much just used to encourage slow people to vacate the fast lane. The stock toyota bumpers look nice as far as stock bumpers go, but I can assure you from past experience they're just about as sturdy as an empty beer can.
My truck is pretty similar to that one, so you might like to know my experiences. I have a 1991 Pickup with 3"/3" IFS lift , with 35" All terrains on J rims. It's basically identical to that one, but it's a pickup, not a 4runner. It sits about 9.5" higher than stock, which is pretty awesome. I have plastic fender flares to cover the extra wheel width and have never been bothered by the cops. I've had this truck for almost 4 years and I'm very happy with it. It does have a few things to consider, a few limitations that further work could overcome.
The 3Z-VE V6 motor sucks. Period. They say compared to the 22RE 4 cylender you get "all the power with half the economy". It does actually do a bit better on hills than the 22RE, but they also say it's famous for head gasket failure and guess what my truck has... head gasket failure. It started about 6 months after I got the truck and has very gradually gotten worse with time over the past 3 years or so - but its *still* servicable (its my daily), it just burns oil and doesn't have as much power as it should. I am researching alternate motors to put in it (leading the way right now is a 1999-2005 1.9L Volkswagen TDI, or barring that maybe a 350 short block).
The IFS is not very flexible relative to the same truck with solid front suspension. The truck gets kinda lousy articulation. It would suck on a ramp test. That said, with all the clearance and the bigger tires I usually get where I want to go with no issues. Unless you're doing crazy rock crawling, its good. I'm hoping to address this with a solid front suspension coversion, but not until the engine is addressed.
When I do crank the wheel over hard I catch the fender flares with the tires, especially in reverse (why it's different than forward I have no idea). At moderate levels of steering if I drop off something or drive over something it often rubs as the truck bounces. It doesnt' seem to damage anything, though one of the flares is cracked, but I think that's from a big chunk of ice from the winter that we had 4' of snow in Nanaimo. If I had no flares I don't think it would ever touch. If and/when I do the SFS conversion I would bump the lift up ~1.5 inches, and wouldn't have any more issues. Alternately, my IFS sits flatter than stock so I've been thinking of restoring it to it's proper position.
I also want to add lockers, probably aussies.
So that's the issues... its a Toyota its a great truck. There's tonnes of them around, parts are easy to get.
Another link for yotas: http://toyotafiberglass.com/toyotafiberglass.htm - aftermarket fiberglass replacement body parts including hoods, fenders, half doors... seems like reasonable prices. I got the link off the back of a toyota in Prince George this week - I assume it must have had some fiberglass parts, but I couldn't tell the difference.
So I gather this engine wouldn't work with a stock manual transmission?
Mine's nice... it has the winch right in side it so it's much harder for someone to steal it, plus it keeps the winch pretty clean for the most part which will go along way to making sure it works when I need it to. Since my truck is my DD, I don't really bash it into stuff at all, so otherwise my bush bar is pretty much just used to encourage slow people to vacate the fast lane. The stock toyota bumpers look nice as far as stock bumpers go, but I can assure you from past experience they're just about as sturdy as an empty beer can.
Note that my profile pic is when it had 33" tires. It's a bit beefier now.
My truck is pretty similar to that one, so you might like to know my experiences. I have a 1991 Pickup with 3"/3" IFS lift , with 35" All terrains on J rims. It's basically identical to that one, but it's a pickup, not a 4runner. It sits about 9.5" higher than stock, which is pretty awesome. I have plastic fender flares to cover the extra wheel width and have never been bothered by the cops. I've had this truck for almost 4 years and I'm very happy with it. It does have a few things to consider, a few limitations that further work could overcome.
The 3Z-VE V6 motor sucks. Period. They say compared to the 22RE 4 cylender you get "all the power with half the economy". It does actually do a bit better on hills than the 22RE, but they also say it's famous for head gasket failure and guess what my truck has... head gasket failure. It started about 6 months after I got the truck and has very gradually gotten worse with time over the past 3 years or so - but its *still* servicable (its my daily), it just burns oil and doesn't have as much power as it should. I am researching alternate motors to put in it (leading the way right now is a 1999-2005 1.9L Volkswagen TDI, or barring that maybe a 350 short block).
The IFS is not very flexible relative to the same truck with solid front suspension. The truck gets kinda lousy articulation. It would suck on a ramp test. That said, with all the clearance and the bigger tires I usually get where I want to go with no issues. Unless you're doing crazy rock crawling, its good. I'm hoping to address this with a solid front suspension coversion, but not until the engine is addressed.
When I do crank the wheel over hard I catch the fender flares with the tires, especially in reverse (why it's different than forward I have no idea). At moderate levels of steering if I drop off something or drive over something it often rubs as the truck bounces. It doesnt' seem to damage anything, though one of the flares is cracked, but I think that's from a big chunk of ice from the winter that we had 4' of snow in Nanaimo. If I had no flares I don't think it would ever touch. If and/when I do the SFS conversion I would bump the lift up ~1.5 inches, and wouldn't have any more issues. Alternately, my IFS sits flatter than stock so I've been thinking of restoring it to it's proper position.
I also want to add lockers, probably aussies.
So that's the issues... its a Toyota its a great truck. There's tonnes of them around, parts are easy to get.