Recent content by feza

On the front of the car I was able to free up the front most two bolts. The front-rear bolts would not move and I didnt try the tie rods. Car aligned good enough for me considering all the work I did and I have much more confidence in my driveway alignment skills. The tech said the tie rods...

Put a set of 5 bargain walmart Cooper Discoverer AT 275/60/20 (33") tires on there. Car swallows them right up and they look stock. Should have gone for 35" E load range tires which look like they would fit. Still needs an alignment but I am going to play with the front end and see if I can...

Last part was mounting the fuel tank torquing everything and giving it a driveway alignment. Mounting the fuel tank from the ground sucked bad and impossible to line it up using two floor jacks by yourself. I ended up just stacking scrap wood and tires under it. I am really worried about all the...

While I was in there, the rear bumper and tow hitch area was kind of crusty. I look the cover off, pressure washed, wire wheeled, painted and fluid filmed. Used 3 quarts of FF just behind the rear wheels.

Most of the rear brakes went great... I picked out the 2 best rotors out of the 4 I have, cleaned them up and checked the runout. Funny little tidbit, in maryland when a rotor rusts to the hub it is usually a really horrible job that destroys the rotor. One of the junk yard rotors fell right...

Weather didnt look great the rest of the week so I took off last Tuesday and kocked out most of the rest of the work. The control arms came fully assembled from the junk yard and I really didnt fell like messing with taking it all apart. I took the upper arms off both sides and mounted that...

I was looking over the old subframe and found some more weak spots. Drivers side lower control arm mount was barely holding on. I am very happy that I made the call to do this project.

Installing the subframe went great using my custom wooden transmission jack. The 4 nuts on top did not want to spin when torquing from the bolt heads on the bottom so that made things a lot easier. 239ft lbs is quite a bit and I could not get my trusty CDI wrench to click. For fathers day with...

Pressure washed the rear diff, then went over it with some amazon knock off rotoloc sanding discs. Then painted it with the finest rust primer and semi gloss spray paint walmart has to offer. I installed new seals and new breather. I was able to use my custom 3d printed seal press that I am...

Spending so much time under the car I realized that the boxed frame had a lot of junk for it. Saturday was all ready a damp day so I decided to try washing it out. WOW, I am no longer a toyota box frame elitist. I dont have any pictures from my first pass but I got about 2 quarts of rocks and...

While everything was off I decided to replace the brake lines with OEM for around $100. All the clips along with frame rail were brittle and I snapped a few of them before I resorted to just cutting the old line and sliding it out. Routing the driver side line to the junction under the pass side...

Subscribed to TIS last night. Nothing in the FSM about the torque for the "rear suspension member" as they call it. The older bolts are 18mm with two notches which decodes to m18 class 5t and the new bolts have one notch which are m20 class 6t. Max design torque for these should be around...

"Gen2 Sequoia Solid Axle Swap" was the first search I did when starting this project :). And after this project I dont think I will ever willingly own another IRS AWD. With the subframe removed there is a ton of space under there to fit a tundra axle. I think the issue is going to be that the...

Mystery solved, there was a revision to the subframe bolts. Went over all the parts and only needed to get a few things. Local dealer was friendly and should have the parts I need this week. I have not broken open the brake system yet and I was on the fence about doing the hard lines. I...

Success was short lived however. There is a difference between the junkyard subframe and my rusty one. Mine has 4 16mm bolts holding it on and the junkyard one had 4 18mm bolts holding it on. The mounting holes in the subframes are also 16mm and 18mm respectively., Apparently toyota rev'ed this...