For less than $2,000 I get a pallet of metal parts? I don't own a welder, will superglue work? :eek:
ps: yeah, I know, you plan to assemble them, but the image of parts on a pallet was irresistable.
Looking at your wheel weights, I'd find another shop to do your tire balancing. Weights on either side of a wheel are doing nothing good for you. It happens when the guy running the balancer can't get the rim plumb to the shaft. Sort of // instead of || ...
Task completed without skin loss.
If anyone ever sees this: note the clips in the side surrounds pull straight out, and not upwards as all the images and manuals suggest. A spudger might help unclip the three across the top of the piece - they look like they are designed to have a spudger...
This particular alternator - after actually reading the details in the test, would never make it to my truck. I'd send it back. 15.24 volts will boil a wet cell battery in no time, and destroy an AGM in months if not weeks.
The 130A alternator with a 14.2 volt output is actually AGM compliant.
Likely a dead battery. Once a battery is fully discharged, they do bad things internally: lead turns into lead sulfide, acid turns into goop. For $99 bucks at Home Depot you can pick up a usable battery. I'm in the market to replace my ultra dead 2 year old AGM - 4 year warranty that no one...
Old thread but worth adding to:
My OEM Panasonic was not dead, but showing a lower than I liked standby voltage a couple years ago (mid 2018), so I purchased a Bosch AGM. Today, went out to start the truck and the 2 year old Bosch AGM has died, shorted cells, all because I left an interior...
I suggest you start off-roading and see what the stock truck can do. You may find a lift and noisy tires aren't needed to get you where you want to go. And, if you think 33's are great - you already have 32's on the rig from the factory. And the guy in the truck ahead of you at that swamp rut...
If mechanics have routinely handled a vehicle, I become quite suspicious of unseen damage. I've had more than one new car of mine ruined by factory trained mechanics doing stupid things - hoses reattached in in the wrong spots, improper torque of head bolts during a recall for warped heads, etc...
Where do you guys live that a 2008 FJ is selling for $27,000? I'll take my truck there when I go to sell it.
Play with the filters, and 2007 to 2009 4x4 FJ's are $18,500 or less. A bit higher mileage, but not $10,000 more...
Another side bar: is it 4WD, an auto or manual, and does it have the off-road kit and upgrade packages (A-Trac, VSC, etc.)??
-- and check around for prices: $27k seem very high.
ps: then there's this listing: $17.5k, 100k miles.
https://www.carfax.com/vehicle/JTEBU11F88K022796
Anything after market generally adds no future value. $10k on an SC adds nothing to NADA/KBB. Nice to have maybe, but value is in the eye of the beholder (or the guy that spent the money in the first place). A dealer, e.g., won't increase trade value for a lift or SC except 'on paper' gains...