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the finished product after painting it with some spray can bed liner. some light foam on one side just because (not really needed)

I just got back from my second camping trip. The preventative maintenance between my last trip and this trip really set my mind at ease being 20 miles and 2 hours away from a road. The maintenance included: All new coolant hoses All new...

Read the owner's manual and the words printed on the brake fluid reservoir and check your brake fluid in the manner described (pumping the pedal 40x times). You must follow the correct procedure - don't just look at the reservoir and say that...

No, just the seals. It worked great before the rebuild, just leaked really bad.

You don't need a kit - you need 2 left-side 3rd gen wiper arms and the tiny plastic bolt covers... do more reading on Mud and you'll find all the info you need.

And Higgens is off to east Texas ..... Always great when the customer takes it for a test drive and they make it back 🤡

I'm reminded of one of those car ads from the past - No only do we stand behind our product, we will stand in front of it - car braking hard from like 120 mph to a dead stop just feet from the engineer's. The Aero Tank folks are local to me -...

Dog.

It has (apparently) a Colorado emission sticker in the windshield. Looks pretty clean. I would not try to start it until you pull the plugs and put some ATF down the cylinders (and all the other things you do to a long-parked truck).

Threw a new used clutch in it. Finishing the details. It was shuddering and the clutch assembly was cooked.

A complete setup would be 2-3K, but your parts pile (disassembled, without gearbox) seems more like 1K to me. Driveshafts are hard to find, so look for all your parts.

Greetings from Eugene, OR! I just joined mud yesterday but have been perusing the forums for over a year now while shopping for my first LC. I ended up purchasing an '01 LX 470, it has 215K miles on it, all stock except for an AHC lift and I...

Hadn't considered switching to an LC front end... thanks!

$500-700 seems to be the going rate. Check the parting out section here. Most junkyards will negotiate on the price. Here's one on eBay for $500 plus tax, shipped. Also consider an LC hood if you ever wanted to switch it up for an LC front end...

'99 Lexus LX470. I understand OEM hoods are discontinued and there are no aftermarket hoods. I found a used one (junkyard) for a staggering $1600. Another used hood for $550. I presume the junkyard market reflects the scarcity? Anyone had to...

Ok, it’s done and it looks a whole lot better. The shop removed the inner plate for the center arm and the shackle mount to straighten the frame and then welded them back on. They had to do the inner plate twice though because when I went to pick...

I have always wanted an FJ40 after growing up in the 60's in Florida. Our neighbor down the block was a flagger for the Daytona raceway and had an FJ40 and a Cobra in his driveway. I was hooked. The FJ's are a little more affordable, so I chose...

Water was coming into my front floorboard as well. Driver's side in my case. I thought it was the windshield at first, but decided to reseal the gutter seams first because they didn't look great. It solved my water issue. I documented the...

After we lost control on gravel and hit a tree (low speed, no one hurt), I went on the hunt for another 100 within our budget, which was not easy. I bought the one we totaled (a 1998 LX470) 9 years ago with 121,000 miles for $10,500. That rig...

Right after finishing up the left side of the frame, we went straight to the right side — and yep, no surprises there. Pretty familiar picture: rust, thin metal, and questionable past repairs. The frame was in just as bad a shape, so we...

Another month and a half has gone by. Got a little stuff done. I got the square tubing for the spring mount repair, but I didn’t like the fit. It needed to be a little wider to fit center better over the mount, so instead I had some plates made...

Here's the PDF from Toyota in 2002.

Be sure that the wires you cut are not shorted to each other as a result of the cutting. Reach in there with a toothpick and separate the wires so that they clearly cannot touch each other.

I would remove it and cut it without hesitation. A number of non-OEM hoses (like Gates) for older 4Runners say 'cut to fit' - so it's expected.

I've kept pretty quiet on this topic, well, because why beat a dead horse? To my own weakness, I have a hard time with this whole topic to begin with. I consider Matt a friend and have quite a bit of empathy. I've never met him in person, but I...