Recent content by ppdd

Hey folks, tl;dr: We were towing our 3000lb travel trailer with our 2002 cruiser in Wyoming and a spark plug came out of the head along with most of the threads. We didn't have great options at that point. Bought a Tundra. Now the cruiser is sitting at a Toyota dealer in Sheridan. Lets...

I'll be damned, you're right. Plug had backed out of its hole after 50K miles. Back on the road!

I've got symptoms that sound similar to what was going on here that showed up this morning. The truck ('02) has ~300K miles on it and received its latest timing belt about 10K miles ago. Fluids are all fresh (changed over the weekend) and topped off. Drove to work this morning, stopped for...

I've got a Borla 14814 that needs to go on my truck tomorrow before a trip on Sunday, and won't have time to get to the parts from Toyota. Based on the Borla install thread, it looks like the Felpro 23591 will work for the gaskets on the two pipes running into the muffler but I'm definitely...

Already have the airlift bags and a bluetooth adapter on the OBD port, so we're good there. How bad are we talking with fuel economy? On the plus side, its egg shaped. On the down side, it's ~9' tall and 6'8" wide...

I've always loved the fiberglass egg campers, and am thinking about pulling the trigger on a 17' Casita. Advertised at 2400lbs, but I'm guessing ~3200lbs loaded up. Main concern is that we put a *lot* of travel miles on (12 hour round trips every couple weeks on mostly flat ground, plus 1-2...

Presumably they loosened it with a torque wrench or something while diagnosing the hum, but who knows. I mean, the preload was definitely higher than the FSM and they caught it so someone was paying attention. No spindle. The hub assembly, though. Not sure how you'd diagnose that without...

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In about 3 weeks and maybe three thosand miles, unfortunately. Not sure how likely a catastrophic failure might be given how fast it came on...I'd hate to get stranded.

So 200 per side? Hah. They want to do the whole hub assembly with the bearings. Adds several hundred but I'm not sure how that part would get damaged. And they haven't even disassembled it yet...

And to be extra clear, that was 50 ft lbs on the big nut and the middle of the 9.5-15lb range with the fish scale. There was no heat buildup on the hub after installation (I checked to be on the safe side).

My LC started to hum from about 20-50 mph on a family road trip, sounding like a bad bearing. Started around 1500 miles back. They were replaced (inner and outer bearings and races) 20k miles ago and preload was set to around 50 ft-lbs to get the right breakaway force with the fish scale (as...

Trying to track down the source of a steering "rattle" over bumps, I've found that I actually have a lot of side to side play in the shaft between the firewall and steering rack. There's no rotational play and the truck drives fine other than the little clunk on rattly bumps, but I can push it...

I would never in a million years think of driving the 100 series at 100 mph. At 85 mph in a straight line it's right at the edge of where I'm comfortable, and I sort of know my way around car control. Having spent a lot of time in fast cars on race tracks running right at the limit, to me it...