Recent content by DrHess

Techstream did that to me too, but I kept repeating it and it worked. Also, my 98 only has ABS on the front, so that's why techstream would only do the ABS on the front. I'm two hundred miles east and north of you.

I live in the woods. Keeping rodents out: 1. Kill them. This is the best way for mice/rats: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1O458?tag=ihco-20 I have found a bullet works best on tree rats. 2. Spray your engine and engine bay down with "serious" hot sauce, which I mix up with rubbing...

When it fails, you have no brakes. It's not like when a vacuum assist system fails and you can stand on it and get some braking. Standing on the pedal when one of these fails will, at most, slow you down some if you're going under 2 MPH.

Those would be going back to the ebay seller if it was me.

The ABS air bleed thing only does the front lines. You bleed the back ones like any other brake system.

They are at the top of the motor. You won't lose much coolant. I 3D printed some plugs so I could pull the T and quickly plug the lines while I went about sticking the new T in place. I would make sure I had some coolant when I did this job.

The wiring diagram book is a more than a half inch thick.

As my friend PapaDoc says, "I out-cheaped myself." Buy once, cry once.

Start disconnecting stuff one at a time. The stuff you have circled. With an ammeter in line with the battery negative, disconnect the plug going to the various computers or parts listed. Find the circuits in the wiring diagrams, the locations, etc., in the parts manual(s). For example...

What is the Toyota part number? 7853A doesn't cut it. LX470, power column. Or is this: at a bill, the only option we really have? I only ask because I've already had to replace the heater T's and the brake MC/pump. So, thought I would get ahead of the next one in line.

With the 213K miles and it starting to flake out on you, just do it. You don't want the consequences of not doing it.

Pretty sure he means the whole system. I dunno about 15 minutes, but it's not that big of a job compared to, say, a timing belt. I didn't take the dash apart either. Just some quality time in the Lotus Position (upside down under the dash.) Biggest time sink is bleeding the brakes, although...

My relay was fried.

Ours failed at 234K. I'm kinda thinking this should be a "scheduled maintenance item."

I don't see that you ever answered the question: What's the current draw?