Recent content by andrewab

you're spot on - I need to start doing this. seems a bit intimidating with no background in working on vehicles. but I've got to start giving this a shot and learning little by little. Good news on this issue is that after having another shop take a look it doesn't seem as severe. Slight crack...

Appreciate that info - I was pretty surprised by the analysis as well and hope I don't need to go that route. The Toyota dealership I brought it to has been good so far but it didn't seem like they really definitively knew there was metal in the system, which makes it even more frustrating to...

Really appreciate this advice, thanks Scott. Will definitely utilize these sites to review some pricing through this process. Any experience with these types of issues before? Just trying to understand if it should be expected that these parts would be end of life at this point.

Hi All - been an owner of a 1997 FZJ80 for about 3 years and finally getting on the forum. Cruiser has around 175k miles on it and has been running solid. Recently, towards the end of the cold winter here, the steering started getting really tight and it's groaning when it happens, which is...