Recent content by bemerritt

Anyone delete or trim their brake shields? Mine are bent to s***, rubbing on rotors and making terrible noises.

Those aren't terribly hard to remove if you would rather save some money. I just hit mine with a flatheadon one side and it went pretty well. This is the tool most would recommend for the job You probably already know this, but be sure to replace those with the allen head variant, I think...

Personally, I did the kdss relocation, although you may have a Lexus so it wouldn’t be applicable

you will definitely want the roof sealed in some manner. I did not do my install, Dissent did, but if it is like other ones i have worked on, I would want to use some sort of sealed washer mounted with bolts into the factory mounts. I would cut and drill some covers and use butyl tape to keep it...

Well, still waiting on the oil analysis, but going to happily report all seems well. Did a trip up to the Eastern Sierra area this past weekend and it went off without a hitch. Drove through 100F weather up the 395 and then drove 17 slow miles in 4lo up to 10,500 feet. Great way to gain...

Bummed we didn't see you up there, sounds like we had the same Baker plan foiled by weather. After spending Thursday and Friday nights at Funnel lake we headed down Saturday around noon. For others looking to go up, road was rather easy imo. Id take a stock 4x4 with 31" tires and a good driver...

Coincidentally I'll be heading up with some buddies. Current plan is funnel lake on Thursday and the rest will be tbd. I'll be in my black 200 and accompanied with a 100, 4runner and a tacoma. If you see us say hi! We will be the ones struggling to catch fish.

So drove it about 200 miles and for the most part everything seems ok. Last drive during our so cal heat wave (80F) the AC was struggling to keep up. Cold air was still being blown, but I had it maxed out and it was not as cold as it can get. Soooooo, place your bets: 1. Somehow it got affected...

Well, its all back together somewhat drama free. One code related to coolant temp/voltage, so cleared that and started it up. Took it for a test drive and all seems well. Still need to check the oil, but tomorrow taking it to get the trans flushed. What did cause drama was that damn driverside...

Just doing this. All mount bolts seemed to have some kind of either gasket or thread sealer on the tip. Did you guys put anything on the bolts before torquing them down?

What is the thought process on changing some of the bypass hoses? Have to pull them off for the water pump install so might as well change them? Mine seem absolutely fine, but figured I'd ask.

Well, $1000 of parts loaded into a cart to be ordered tomorrow. This was staring at me today, not happy that it will now take a brief back seat to my wrenching time/$$$ Plan is to do the full radiator/water pump/tensioner/idler/fan bracket treatment Need to pull codes with a reader and make...

I am worried that it somehow didn't ever get changed. 112k on the clock. Bought it CPO @ 55k miles from a Toyota dealer, and have had it serviced there up until about 10k miles ago.

Not bad for a days work. Not exactly what I thought I’d do today. Had to loosen up the dissent bumper to gain access to the lower rad bolts.

Still quite a bit of coolant in the radiator. Nothing looks suspicious from the bottom. All pulleys spinning. Think the belt just went out. Boiled coolant out of the overflow. Fingers crossed it didn’t get too hot.