FWIW - this truck was my daily driver for many years. I was the second owner. It was leased in the Durham area prior to my purchase in Charleston. It had 70,000 miles on it when we got it. I swapped all the fluids for synthetics and then kept up...
I use Rivera Toyota in Mt Kisco. They give me a fair labor rate and the head tech used to work at Lexus so he knows my LX well. Kathy is the service
rep, tell her Eric referred you. They will work with you if you tell them what you need in...
Hey there! A link to a google drive folder should be back up toward the top (fourth line of the post), but let me know if it's not working anymore. Should be a decent bit of photos and a couple video files in there. Once you're able to check...
I was having issues losing power steering fluid with no apparent leak. White smoke from the exhaust suggested a bad air control valve, so I bought a replacement. I'm trying to get the old one off, it's proving difficult. I tried a basin wrench...
I've seen it mentioned for sure,not common but it does happen
Some folks would see smoke on startup and led to being power steering fluid being sucked back into intake like you mentioned...nice find and fix
Have a fun one, did the heater t's as a new to me 100 this weekend. PS Pump valve was broken and one of the vac lines was not attached. Picked up one on Amazon, and it was not closed. All the fluid pumped into the intake and/or drained on the...