Recent content by TheOtherGuy

Just adding my experience from doing this on a GX. I choose to keep the factory arms, press the old bushings out, and replace with new bushings. Probably will never do that again. The first one took about an hour. Then after I figured out a process, each one took about 20min . What worked...

Nice build! Do you have any pictures of how the sliders mount? They look good.

It's the diverter door for the air conditioning switching for outside air to recirculate and vis-versa. If you pull the glove box out you will see it behind there.

The FJ roof rack has 4 cross bars compared to the GXs 2 and yeah it looks cooler. It also has places to loop straps. I don't need it to carry super heavy loads as heavy loads don't belong on the roof, that's not safe. The most I put on the roof is a big pelican box full of camping gear and...

Great I have been trying to find an FJ to measure but there are none on the dealer lots around me and I don't know anyone that has one.

I don't think mine has a center speaker. I have the no Nav, no mark Levison.

From this tutorial it appears that the wiring is plug and play, but you have to cut a big chunk from your dash to fit it. The Prado display is showing all the same information as our OEM setup just in a different way. This has me thinking that it would be plug and play as the signals are all...

Yeah the GX and the FJ both have factory mounting points in the gutter track that look like this. I wouldn't want to drill holes in my roof either. The question is will the FJ roof rack directly bolt to the factory GX mounting points. It looks like it may work but I don't have access to...

Bringing this one back from the dead. Has anyone seen this done? I am thinking about trying to find an FJ to measure.

The timing belt is the only thing I had someone else do. I got a local shop to do it and frankly I am glad I did. They found a leak in the radiator and were able to get the radiator the same day and have everything done in a day. I think it cost $1,200 for the timing belt kit, water pump...

It doesn't look that much different from the pictures above. With the RadFlos and FJ coils in the rear I am lifted by maybe 1 inch all around if that. I forgot to measure the height before I installed everything so I don't know exactly how much it is lifted but my best guess is about an inch...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I have been driving on the CV for several hundred more miles since my first post and I am pretty confident that the CV is installed correctly and that the play is normal. I have figured out that the noise I am hearing and feeling is most likely a...

SUSPENSION For the suspension I decided to go with Radflo front coilovers and FJ cruiser rear springs with radflo rear shocks. On my old tacoma I had done Bilstien 5100 with a slight lift; 1" in the front I think. Anyway I wasn't super happy with them so I decided to go a different route...

THE LITTLE HITCH Finding information on how to get a trailer hitch on this truck was tough. Some say the FJ cruiser and 4runner hitches fit but I think there are two different bolt patterns ( and many different part numbers) that were made and if you get the wrong one you are kind of screwed...

CB RADIO INSTALL The guy at the radio supply store sold me on this Stryker SR89MC CB radio and 10m combo unit. I haven't used it very much yet and still haven't tuned the antenna but its all installed and it receives OK. I have mostly been using the 2m. 10 Meter Radio SR-89MC - CB Antenna -...