Recent content by nismopowered

Might want to also add blue loktite. These coming loose is common on toyotas. Sienna's trucks. Heck my brothers 2011 sequoia has had both front doors need tighting.

From what I remember you key on the rear and the pump will bleed the rears. Then the fronts get pedal bleed. Drive and make sure to engage the abs a couple of times and rebleed. I know the first time I bleed a 100 got nothing out the rears till I did the key on thing.

It's the same as not having power brakes. And on a 6000lbs truck that's very bad. Once the lights come on you have maybe 1-3 stops before you loose the pressure assist. After that the pedal will go to the floor and not have much power to stop the truck.

I agree. Both my brothers and my 99's had a lot of small cracks in the upper tank. I changed his when I did his tbelt and I'll do the same on mine. Not leaking but not worth the chance

So my brother flat ties his lx maybe 1000 miles a year or more. Have not noticed anything but his rack does leak. Your post has me wondering if flat towing has maybe sped up the rack failure.

According to the EPC the change to the new manifolds was the 2002 and up.

Exhaust manifolds were a known issue. For those the hose method mentioned is better. The flanges on the manifolds would warp. First it would make noise only when cold. After time it would be all the time.

Dealer #1 didn't give you part numbers. Those are PNC part number codes. It's what's in the EPC diagram. You click on that to get the list of part numbers for that PNC. Very common in my area to not give out part numbers. As policy at me dealer we do not give out part numbers. Some will give the...

Well if you decide its your tcase I have a spare sitting!

Toyodiy is nice. Shame you have to pay to get pictures. We use it to look up Lexus stuff. FYI the mechanics don't look up part numbers. They tell parts what they want and parts has a picture database with most things in it.

I'll I'll be honest. I have spent the last 17 years at a very busy sf bay Toyota dealership. I can count on one hand how many of our alternators have had a failure. Yes they do cost more but are still a better choice. One thing to keep in mind. A week old Toyota has an alternator fail. A reman...

I would find out what the take in was. I know my dealer wouldn't pay that much. Problem is used cars are not replaceable. Meaning, if you buy a new car for $300 over they just order a replacement. On the used cars even if they paid $50 you won't get it for much less then retail unless it has...

When I bought my 99lx it didn't have overdrive at all. For the price I paid I didn't care. I work at a dealer so our trans tech and i looked into it. His best guess was either a valve body issue or a failure of the trans. All the solenoids ohmed perfect. I opted to swap trans and didn't bother...

I'll one up you. Mine has been about 120k miles and 9 years from the last change. Have the money to do it with out a problem. The real issues is I am fully capable and the icing on top is I'm a parts guy at a Toyota dealer! Oh well. I'll get to it some day!:D

I would buy it! I use the "bang" from reverse to drive as a reminder I need to grease the driveshafts. Goes away for a while after that. Tacomas had a problem with the same issue and the fix was to slide them apart and clean it off then apply a very expensive grease to the splines. Seems a...