Recent content by rexington14

2GR ftw

Cleaned up a leaky driver's side valve cover, then re-torqued both valve covers' bolts to 53 in/lb per the great advice on this forum. Had to buy a 1/4" torque wrench. Man, some of those valve cover bolts were really loose. I got all of them except the lower passenger side rear bolt which...

That one's in better shape than the one I in-store pickup'd from my local dealer!

In my experience most body / paint shops won't touch a car to do a full body repaint. They won't even quote it. I've run into this on even my Corolla, which is a small car so the prep wouldn't be as bad as something like a Land Cruiser. There's so much panel and bumper insurance work that the...

Almost certainly worth more than $6k. Though if you want to let it go for $6k, PM me ;)

How does it look under the covers? Varnish, etc. Will be curious when I pull mine. The PO (original owner) of my truck had the oil changed like clockwork every 5k, but it didn't get anything special as far as premium synthetics. My corolla looked pretty good after having mostly conventionals...

If you just re-torque is there also risk of breaking the bolt head off? Almost seems like these valve cover gaskets should be a preventative maintenance item after X years if the bolts are deteriorating like this due to age, and the fact that access is poor. Makes me want to replace mine ASAP...

3UR blow head gaskets. though not as bad as the one in the video you linked.

Replace anything it needs with OEM and keep driving it. Owning land cruiser is a commitment. If you weren't planning on keeping it forever you shouldn't have bought it. That's what Hyundai's are for. The only way out is passing it down to a child or family member.

This job is on my radar with an accelerated timeline because I recently found out the technician who last did this on my truck stripped a flange stud and didn't bother replacing the stud, just ignored it and buttoned up the other 5. So I've been running with 1 flange stud completely missing...

Yeah it must vary. Westboro didn't charge me sales tax ordering from and shipping to NC. Also, from looking at the tracking details of my first Westboro order (which I've already received btw, it was super fast) it appears the parts in my order were shipped directly to me from the Toyota...

I noticed this as well. Front rotors for example jumped about $8 compared to last week.

Reason I ask is I had minor clunk/thud from the rear when I released the brake pedal. I did a full rear brake job (DIY with all OEM parts) and it solved it completely.

Did you inspect rear brakes, calipers, and rotors?

FYI to those searching for dealers participating in the Boston area sale that these guys have the best base pricing in the region - actually matches lowest southeast region pricing. No sales tax either. I called them up after having an ordering issue and they were more than willing to help me...