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All at the same location? Could be as simple as the shop repeatedly not torquing the bolts to spec which will allow the alignment to drift. My alignment shop was surprised how high the value is when I asked to verify they were going to spec.

The front brakes don’t have guide pins in the traditional sense, and the rear brakes do have boots for the pins. I don’t live in an area with road salt but I just change the fluid every few years and drive it. The rest of the maintenance gets...

I'd like to see one of these cowl intake cover flaps that doesn't restrict airflow at all.. so far, none accomplish that objective. Meanwhile when the cowl and its seal to the windshield is new, the leak doesn't seem to be a problem. Many...

What does the owner's manual say about towing? In the US all 200s came with a hitch receiver and chain loops integrated into the rear crossmember under the plastic cover. This is part of why the cover bulges out on those vehicles. What's under...

Md gray interior, from right side of vehicle to left, these should include the white clips. 71695-60280-B0 71696-60150-B0 71696-60160-B0 For the record this stuff is buried in the last couple of pages of Body -> Seat & Seat track section of the...

Please post in a thread I started for part number lookups.. (and include your build year and whether LC/LX, or stick that in your signature) Trying to keep this one on topic...

Gasoline black hole warning.

Looking forward to seeing what they do, given how nice these parts appear.

Thanks for the details.. a few follow-up questions though. How about heavy use cases like extended towing near the GVWR limits of the platform? With the hub centerline moving further away from the stock position, I was more thinking about...

Should be in here somewhere https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/stuff-to-keep-on-the-shelf.1321469/

What is the little banjo fitting on the top for? What is the maintenance schedule like on these? Any restrictions on ground speed, towing, or other aspects of driving the rig like stock? Are other mods needed to help offset the significant...

Interesting to hear it’s not just 200s. I remember the process of diagnosing the couple that popped up on here being quite a challenge. Any correlation with corrosion on the module replacements?

Also look into shock adjusters sticking, spherical bearings getting noisy, and proprietary rebuild parts and procedures meaning rebuilds are effectively not going to happen. At the level of performance of BP51s there are much better options out...

Can you speak to the prevalence of the fuel pump controller failing on 200s and maybe other Toyota products? I know we’ve seen at least two in this section.

Yeah, the first adapter was most likely not PD, only selected to make wiring all of this easier, but the second was. Name brand 30W on the second, IIRC. The first would charge the phone via cable but on magsafe wouldn’t show charging at all...

I tried wiring up a magsafe puck with a pretty basic 12v to USBC adapter on the cig lighter circuit and it turns out it didn’t make enough power to actually charge the phone. I believe the inductive nature of the magnetic chargers means they are...

I’d want to get that fuel out of there and reassess on a fresh tank.

Shouldn't matter. If it didn't like the key it wouldn't allow it to start at all. And to be clear all of these long cranks have been since you last filled up?

Yes spring clamps are quicker and that's a major reason OEM's use them, but over the long term they simply apply their clamping force much more evenly around the circumference of the hose. The worm-gear clamps inevitably have some deviation from...

You don’t need UV dye in the coolant. There are a handful of places that commonly have issues on these rigs., do your research and watch those places methodically and you’ll figure it out. Most likely it’s the valley plate. What year is your...

Nearly every one of the vehicle’s systems has circuits that run through the wire harnesses to the sides of the driver and passenger floorboard. Even if water didn’t impact the power supplies for these things many of the systems communicate over a...

Edit: I had the math wrong. Online calculators suggest ~4000 rpm for 3.90s, .881 overdrive, 285/65R17 31.6" diameter. Redline is 4600. We should also keep in mind these engines only make 268hp, and that's probably way below 4k.

I know we haven't seen one of these confirmed yet, but thoughts on the possibility of one of the relief gas chambers in the above diagram failing? I believe they use the stainless steel bellows construction like in the KDSS accumulators so...

@TeCKis300 does sport mode only alter damping or does that change spring rates as well?

I did the pump with the first radiator around 105k, both pulleys around 150.