Recent content by Robinson13

Beads or BBS will work best with narrower tires, especially when driving involves lots of turns like high speed mountain driving. That has been my experience anyway, experimenting with beads for many years with off road, on road vehicle tires, also street bike and dirt bike tires.

The PID downloads are an “extra” that are purchased within the Fusion app. So you never actually see what the PID codes are. I figured $20.00 was cheap compared to my time spent messing around with getting codes entered and read correctly for all that I wanted to monitor on two vehicles.

OBD Fusion has specific PIDs for the years/models you specifically want. Makes it super easy. In my case I’ve downloaded for 2004 Land Cruiser and 2015 Sienna. Has everything and more that I want to monitor on both vehicles, on the same device. But I do like to keep things easy:)

Speedometer cable. (Maybe I just dated myself!)

Keep your 16” wheels. Off road the taller sidewall of the 16” wheel tire combo is much better as stated above and in my opinion. It took some searching for me to find 16” LC wheels to replace my stock 2004 18” wheels, which I’m keeping for on highway use.

I think you answered your own guestion. You’ll never get 446K out of Polly bushings. I tried Polly in my 75 and 80 series, lasted about 1/2 as long as oem. But that was on East African roads.

We have the 9 scattered all over the US. Normally a rotation is three weeks on, three weeks off. I just recently transitioned into the hangar and mainly rebuild components now. I do take road trips with a set of blades, transmissions, and other heavy/bulky parts though, and fill in for field...

The one in the hangar right now is a D model with an R engine, going back to a round nose, new belly skins, and complete re wireing. We have a fleet of 9 mainly D and E with two 530 models. We use them to build and maintain power lines.

Stat comes with a new O ring seal. I’d start off making sure there is good air flow through the radiator. No bugs, dirt, grass seeds, or too many bent over fins. Pull off the fan shroud and flush with garden hose pressure from engine side, a pressure washer will easily destroy the fins if not...

It’s the spare, some vehicles don’t even come with a spare. I don’t know your useage of the vehicle, but if it were mine, I’d use up the tires on there and then get 5 matching. I wouldn’t run different size tires on a full time AWD.

I love your “work shop”! We've got an MD500 in ours, complete rebuild job. Did you measure spline/flange clearance of the C-clip? I like to get mine as close to 0 as possible. If I remember correctly the FSM call for less than 0.020 in.

I looked into both the Torque app and OBD Fusion app. I chose OBD Fusion as it gives me the ability to down load my specific year and model of Toyota PIDs, we’re a multi Toyota family. Maybe I just didn’t see that feature with Torque. I’ve been running it for a couple of months on an old iPhone...

Do you have access to a press? Maybe take the bumper off and press the hitch out from the back side.

I’m beginning to feel your pain!

Can you back it into something solid? Jack it up, pound it down? Just thinking if you can get any sort of movement, you can work it from there.