Yeah, i've always heard it's bad for a vehicle to just sit and not have things move around and lubricated regularly. I'm imagining some little old lady that bought it new and then just drove it a mile or two down to the market once a week, took it in for regular oil changes, and otherwise left...
I will look into that, but not sure that I'm competent enough to pull the distributor. I'll look for some tutorial/guide stuff on it and see if I feel like I could do it. Years ago, when i was replacing a bunch of parts on my FJ40, I replaced the distributor on it, and tried to follow the...
Some photos of the area around the alternator, what looks like maybe oil is leaking through the distributor? , and unfortunately i broke the clip on the plug when trying to unplug it. Any ideas about what is leaking and how hard it would be to fix? If the leaking oil could ruin the new...
ok, so after removing the battery and box, and removing the power steering reservoir bolts so i could move it out of the way some, I finally got the alternator removed without too much trouble. Now, just as I feared, and considering how things usually go for me, I'm trying to figure out how many...
I get what you're saying, and it does make sense to take a look at other things and possible go ahead and replace them "while you're in there", with everything taken apart. I bought my '97 in 2014 after a teenage girl on her phone "totaled" my '93. The guy I bought it from had just had the...
Thanks. I'll take all the help i can get. I still consider myself an amateur wrencher and haven't replaced one of these on my 80 before. I replaced the one on my FJ40 years ago, but there's a lot more room to work with under the hood of it. I just remember my biggest concern there was...
Thanks for the info. That's kinda what I was thinking, but didn't know if people actually did that kind of thing as PM. I already bought all new belts a while back when i bought new plugs and wires and stuff to do a tune up and some other PM that i haven't had time to get around to doing.
I don't mean to hijack this post, but i found it doing a search here. and I think i'm going to have to replace my alternator too. The red light above the alternator gauge came on a couple of days ago, then the ABS light came on a little while later. I checked my battery when I got home and it...
thanks for the replies. i had not heard about the weeping and silicone actually being permeable/porous and causing coolant loss... i had just read about how much better/heat resistant/resilient silicone hoses are and how you would probably never have to replace them so it seemed like a great...
i know this is a older thread, but i'm looking into doing the PHH on my 1997 FZJ80, so was looking over the info again since it's been almost 10 years since i did it for my 1993 (which was sadly totaled by a idiot teenage girl on her cell phone that turned in front of me while i was going...
yeah, i have a replacement flasher i bought for LED bulbs. It looks like it should be straightforward and just pull out, but the original flasher is attached to some kind of adapter from what I've read in other similar posts. The adapter has retainer clips on it where the flasher snaps down onto...
ok, dumb question of the day... I'm trying to replace my flasher relay, and it doesn't seem like it wants to come out/unplug. I can see the whole board flexing as I'm trying to unplug it, and I've pulled and pulled as much as I feel like i can without risking breaking anything. Is it just...
1st off, I want to say that I'm not a professional mechanic and am no expert on this stuff but , for one thing, you're talking about a "stealership". Now, I have no doubt there are some really good mechanics and very knowledgeable people that work at stealerships, but I've talked to some real...
Well, yes and no. Changing out the solenoids is very easy. After you get the pan off, they are literally right there. Unplug one connector and take out one bolt and pull it out and replace.
The hard part, for me anyway, was getting the pan off. It was glued on there with the Toyota orange...
I know this was not my thread but I had posted here asking about this issue then I got a email about your post so I figured I would throw my 2 cents in here to give you more to go on hopefully...
After doing a lot of reading on here I finally bit the bullet and bought the new solenoids and...
What do you mean by 'evidence of fluid contamination'? I did notice that there was a little bit of a sort of milky looking substance in the bottom of the pan after I got it off and I was wondering about it but thought it might just be something to do with the Lucas transmission stuff I had put...
FZJ80 Transmission pan removal update
Well, I hope that my experience with this might at least help some other poor soul out at some point if they have to do this ...
I spent practically the whole day on my back dealing with this mess.. went out there and whacked the piss out of the pan with...
OMFG - any secret tricks for transmission pan removal?
This might sound really dumb to some of you pros out there but I'm reviving this old thread after doing searches on here and not really coming up with anything about the actual process of removing the pan. Everything says 'remove the pan'...
I found this old thread when I searched on rear brake pads and grinding noise. I recently started having a scrubbing or grinding noise on my 1993 FZJ80's U.S. passenger side rear wheel and upon inspection found that the pad on the piston side of the caliper had worn down to the metal on the top...