Recent content by mdcoa

Sorry guys--one of the rims was trashed in an accident, and they've stopped making that exact model, so the other three went to the scrapyard, which makes me feel kind of sad now.

I’ve looked at techstream a fair amount trying to diagnose this, but my techstream only refreshes the data every five seconds or so, which makes it tough to eyeball responses of S2 to changes at S1…I haven’t thus far been able to get a pretty graph like the one in that post you linked.

Well, the code returned—I think I got about 600 miles. So I dropped the cats, cleaned them with lye solution followed by vinegar solution, and removed the O2 sensor studs and sanded the mating surface perfectly flat to ensure I hadn’t introduced a leak by trying to hand-sand some rust off that...

Greetings! Moved to Ben Avon in 2023 and just discovered this group exists. We’ve got two UZJ100s—an 04 US model and a 99 JDM. Would love to connect, but it looks like this page is kind of a dinosaur, so would love to get looped into the group text or whatever. Here’s our 04, just to spice...

Good thinking! I ignored reports of elevated Si (I don’t even have a good excuse) and ended up with years of P0430/0420 codes before I realized (after finally getting a smoke test) there was a tiny leak on the clean side of the air filter box…that dirty air was apparently enough to blind my MAF...

Wait, do you have nav? Do your plugs look like this? Wondering if my email reached a lazy guy…

They didn’t say; just “Unfortunately, your Land Cruiser is not compatible with any of our products.” but yeah, it’s probably the nav that makes it unlike anything they produce kits for. I’m a little relieved, because this means all the research and purchasing I did wasn’t for nothing🤣

I just reached out to GTA Car Kits with photos of all my ports/plugs, and they said they can't help me, so I'm back to my original plan, which I should really get around to installing . . .

Any update on this? I'm thinking about reversing course and just buying one of the adapters @GAbuildit mentioned--I'm not sure I have the time or the inclination to run a power wire through the bulkhead, cut all my speaker wires, put connectors on said wires, find a place to mount the headless...

As promised, more info. Since my last post I have: Checked all sparkplugs for tightness. Freaking number 6 was in fact finger tight, but tightening it and putting my new spare coil on that plug didn’t clear up the issue. Replaced all four O2 sensors (the newest of them had around 15k miles...

Well, that was fun while it lasted. After about 300 miles it threw 0430 and 0420–I cleared those and 10 miles later it threw another (can’t even remember which it was.) Im going to check all my spark plug torque and run an eye over the coils this weekend and then take it to a shop next week...

New MAF sensor on our ‘04. After about 8 O2 sensor changes this, along with replacing the leaky air filter housing, appears to have fixed our p0430/0420 codes. Also finally got the (already damaged by a couple incidents) trim a car wash tore off in February painted and remounted.

Didn't want to start a whole new thread, and this seemed like one of the better P0430/0420 threads, so I'll just share my experience here: Executive Summary: Fooled around with O2 sensors for a long long time then discovered an intake leak just before the MAF. Replaced air box, filter, and MAF...

Awesome. Sounds like it just might work. And like we’ll end up with pretty similar setups, both cutting the factory system out of the loop and going direct to speakers. Your dash and mine are identical. And here’s what Google lens says those buttons down the right mean: I’m amazed you...

Wish I’d known that before I ordered everything to convert my system to a hidden head unit—I guess if this approach doesn’t work maybe I can do that—thanks!