Recent content by indridi

@Jstawgn : in your original post, you said Would this mean that the rack is shot, and I need to replace it, or is there a chance that by re-adjusting the preload, I can keep using the old one? And since I'm commenting : flushing the steering fluid in a prado diesel is actually even easier...

Very interesting. Would this match the fact that the stiffness is quite localized, and appears only when warm? I'm not sure I get the mechanical details though. It's an adjuster with a lock nut I assume - when the grease dries out, does the adjuster come lose and sort of get turned inward by the...

Ok, nice to know that it's not more hazzle than that. My mech guy sounded like it would be more. He hasn't changed one in a 120, despite servicing a lot of those cars. So my worst-case scenario isn't quite so bad after all.

Thanks @aztoytec and @Rednexus. I got a reasonable price on a new rack, but a fuzzy estimation of "quite some amount of hours" of replacing it. Used to do this stuff myself, but lost access to the shop where I could do it. Before I buy a new rack and have it replaced, I'll: filter the fluid...

Hello all, I have a 2004 Prado 120 (= GX470 in the mechanics department) with some steering stiffness issues. It has 280k km on the clock (170k miles) Since the lower steering shaft u-joint seems to be by far the most common known source of steering stiffness issues, I sort of blindly assumed...