Recent content by Al Seattle

Email Hewitt and ask them. Excellent service and great response times. If they say this solves your problem you will be be assured you are getting a product that works. I purchased their system and put it in in my 06 GX as a preventive measure.

I was very worried about the plates. I used PB blaster three times over three days and then waited a week. I was not driving the vehhicle. The plates were a piece of cake through the fender with the wheel off. When I sat down to do the plates and wondered if I should do this I had a half...

Thanks. I will be careful and if you hadn't said something I think I would have just let it hang down. Not good.

That would be great if another discount was offered. Getting warm enough to work on the car.

The KDSS piston is it loaded like a spring so there is lots of force when released or does it just need to be retained so it doesn't edge down and create some issue with the hydraulic cylinder when pushed back up? How forceful will it be when unbolting?

I spoke to the local Lexus service department as i was wanted to see if I moved up my second timing belt service whether the cost of installing an alternator would be easier at the same time. Yes it would but only my maybe an hour they felt. Shockingly the labor cost of installing a new...

Thanks for the advice. All this helps. It is tight, this is not a field repair. We spend a month away from home on a stayvacation and it is isolated. So always thinking what could really trip us up. The GX is our only car when we are away and my tools are limited then. So thinking ahead.

I am working through some decision of what to do as respects preventive maintenance on my 2006 GX w/KDSS with 147,000 miles. The timing belt was done at 86,000 miles. I need to think about reliability and preventative maintenance. I am thinking of installing a new alternator as a proactive move...

You know this is a great to know about this. Hopefully I will never have to replace my bearings but one thing I am wondering which is off topic and that is if a CV boot tears, is it as simple as unbolting this bearing carrier and inserting a new axle and boot?

I am wondering what you did to convert the radio.? I have the same non-nav setup as you do. Did you buy one of the double din kits and if so what did you interface the controls. Also, the vinyl looks great. Can you talk about the process you used to apply it. I can imagine you used...