Never mind plastic and fiberglass, THIS is a body kit! I installed a new front bumper on the 4Rocker, made by TJM from Australia. This thing was only $600 (probably another $150 for shipping) compared to twice that for the stocker! I had LineX truck bed coating applied with Kevlar coating to keep it from turning gray and because I was sick of having a tank front end, but have to worry about the powdercoating getting scratched on tree branches.

Here is the stock bumper removed, you can see the tranny cooler and the wiring and solenoid pack for the winch:



The bumper brackets. A winch puts side loads on the bumper during sidepulls using the winch, so they are a little on the big/dorky sie for a reason:


Naturally, the 4Rocker being of really small stature, the winch wouldn't fit between the front crossbrace and the TJM bumper and the clutch lever would have been unreachable. I had to remote mount the solenoid pack and build a harness with stainless steel brackets, clock the clutch, and then color code the wiring because I will forget how everything goes together when I remove and reinstall everything 6 months down the road. Here is the stripping and prep of the winch:



The bumper didn't have provisions to mount the stock fog lights, so once again I needed to fab up some brackets. The front turn signal holes in the bumper was of legal DOT size so instead I installed side marker lights as turn signals which are exactly half the width leaving room for the fog lights. I fabbed out of aluminum some brackets to hold both the fog and turn signal lights, painted, and installed. No wires were cut/spliced as I reused the stock turn signal bulbs and made out of aluminum receptacles for the stock turn signal bulb holders. Whew. Go to a 4wd shop and get a bumper installed and it takes them 2 hours. After all the LineX harnesses, brackets, and relocating, it takes me a couple weeks:



Front bumper finished off with some shackle hangers I fabbed up and painted using polyurethane. On off road trips with the Suncoast Flatlanders they require a drivers license, insurance, and yes, front and rear tow hooks. No, attaching a tow strap to your grill or through a hole in a plastic bumper doesn't count. "Back in these parts we use Steel":


Sonoran Steel made and shipped me a rear bumper to match the front, while they still shipped them from AZ. This thing it awful heavy, probably 150 lbs, takes 3 people to install, and is one solid piece. I feel sorry for the bloke with front crumple zones who rear-ends me. I also had LineX applied with the kevlar coating. I fabbed up a stainless steel antenna mount to go with it:

 

NICE!

Can you open the rear hatch?

 

That is why Toyota trucks are popular with the 4wd crowd and are all over the foreign news. Beefy suspensions, fully boxed frames, big axles, thicker sheetmetal body, and little underpowered engines. This is why a Landcruiser costs over $60k new and weighs almost three tones! Of course for poor folks like me, I get the Landcruisers little brother. But after all the mods, I probably could have afforded one...

 

The rear hatch? This Tampa Racing, surprised you didn't ask to open the hood. I am going to do a little work to it so it may not stay this way for long. Here is a preview:

 

Due to the milage, the supercharger started to leak out of the nosecone input shaft seal. Rebuilt nosecones are about $300 with the core, and the whole supercharger rebuild is twice that. I found the seals online and repaired the leaks for $30. While I was at it I added some paint:


Supercharger bolted back on:



Alternator upgrade: Can-Am Motors built a custom alternator for me, 200 amps, two internal cooling fans, and was machined to fit the stock alternator brackets on the block. I had heat issues effecting the performance of the regulator so I removed the alternator and installed a adaptor in place of the stock regulator and mounted an external regulator on the firewall to help with the heat. I fabbed a stainless bracket for the regulator, which also has a potentiometer to adjust alternator voltage and even has diagnostic LED's. Also I had a smaller pulley installed on it, the original being for a GM vehicle drive belt system, so now it spins faster at idle to maintain 14.5 volts. Lastly I built a heat shield mounted between the back of the alternator and drivers side header. 1/0 wiring was used between the battery and alternator, and also between the battery and the stereo system in the back. You can also see the MAP sensor for my boost/vac gauge:




External power receptacle to play the stereo with the engine off. I used a type of towtruck connector mounted on a stainless bracket located below the front bumper on the drivers side:


To tune the motor for the supercharger, I needed a wideband AFR sensor. I installed a bung in the exhaust before the cat for the sensor. This is where a wideband sensor should be mounted as after the cat or at the exhaust tip like you see the guys at the dyno shop do will give false readings.


Autometer boost/vac gauge mounted to drivers a-pillar. This is an electronic gauge, the boost line is attached to the MAP sensor under the hood from the boost port on the supercharger instead of the boost line routed through the firewall and attached to the gauge itself. I know the gauge pod looks a little cheezy mounted like that, I may fix that with body filler and paint later:

 

Very Nice, I Love the Build Pics and glad to see another Toyota Build!!!.... How much offroading does it see?...It looks as if your building it for some serious wheeling with the Belly Armor and regearing and winch and bumpers what not,..So do you go to Tennesse or somwhere out of state since we know we don't have any "Real" wheeling around here lol!

 

I used to wheel it when I lived in Washington/Oregon. But here in Florida there are practically no trails except up in Ocala. So I am turning it into a show truck that can still kick ass.

Right now I just rewired a lot of the interior wiring such as parts of the stereo in preparation for the JBL MS-8, redoing the gauges and the a-pillar, the switches, and installed a custom auxiliary fuse block with relay under the dash. A viper alarm was installed with remote start and has the ability to turn the auxiliary lights on with the remote. A new aluminum processor rack was installed behind the seats too.

I need to take more pictures.