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taillights: OEM -- left is broken at the top, right has some cracks in it. $20 corner marker: right side -- OEM, tabs intact. looking good $25 side marker: right side -- OEM, looking good. $5 signal lights: OEM -- collaterally spray painted black a bit. should come off with a bit of solvent...

thanks Dave will keep that in mind. i'm going to try this solution tomorrow and see first

just an update. i tried the coat hanger idea, and moved on to a long nose double jointed pliers from home depot to no avail. the problem is the spark plug is in the way of getting a good bite on the rubber boot. continuing driving with one old plug.

one of my speaker wires was touching the metal in the passenger door panel.

Thanks for the ideas I think I'm about ready to try the less destructive ones (first anyway)

it's been a breeze to change all the plugs except #4: the plunger is stuck down there and won't budge. i reinserted the lead a bunch of times to see if it'll pull out the plunger but no luck. any ideas how to get it out? thanks.

Powered thru meccacopia trail near Joshua tree np. Love this car!

how does the exhaust from manifold down look (and i mean the whole shebang) ?

I'm looking for a reputable muffler shop near the LAX airport. Any advice is much appreciated.

just to wrap up, there was no mystery, i had blown another DOME fuse but it was a fine crack so i didn't see it at first. fixed all speaker ground issues, replaced fuse, works great now.

Spoke too soon it seems. There was another rain day and I had another bare speaker wire touching the wet door panel (now fixed) but this time when the stereo along with the dome lights went out, the short didn't blow the 10 amp dome fuse nor the 10 amp fuse right on the stereo head unit. I...

Previous owner had cut the harness and made his own kenwood harness so I just used the harness as is. The harness wires were matched up correctly with the Toyota wires after all it ended up being a bad door speaker wire.

Just for price check I bought 5 285/75/16s installed and with the insurance at flagstaff az discount tires last weekend for $1300 and change

Figured it out and fixed. One blown fuse and several mysterious fuse taps removed. One mystery device removed from under the drivers seat. I left the stock amp behind the glove box alone. It ended up being exactly what wearsabrowncoat said one of the door speakers negative wire was dangling by...