Recent content by wer1952

If you bring your Cruiser all the way from Gig Harbor, sure....

To all who replied, thank you so much. There was a bad u-joint. It was fixed, and the truck drives perfectly fine again. Thanks again for your help and making diagnosing the problem so much easier. If you are ever in the Palo Alto area, drop me a line, I will buy you a drink.

Thanks for the reply. There are no strange sounds at any time. In fact, the truck drives like a dream, hums along just fine. Transmission fluid was changed about 20K miles ago and looks pristine. The only thing is this vibration, and the fact that it only happens in Drive or Overdrive. Not in...

Wow, thank you all very much. You are clearly all much more mechanically inclined than I am, but I am lucky that there are a few old-school shops around here that work on trucks from before the time they became electronic wonders. No matter what, the drive shafts and u-joints seem worth looking...

I have a 1995 FJ80, mostly stock. 268K miles. When decelerating without using the brakes, basically using engine braking, at speeds over 50 mph the truck vibrates as if running over a rumble strip, until the speed drops below 50 mph. It only happens in Drive and Overdrive, and gets worse at...

I like the rerouting idea. Do you have any pictures of that? Thanks.

That's not a bad idea, especially the scoop..... Not sure it is enough, but it will probably help.

I am glad I found this thread, because I have had this problem for years with a 1995 FJ80. Let me say up front that I 100% agree that the gasoline is boiling. Not to belabor a point, but I am a chemist and I have done more distillations than I can remember. The gasoline is boiling, I can...