John in Utah
SILVER Star
Back in July I picked up a LN106 Hilux from a fellow Mud member:
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My goal is baseline the truck for daily driving plus longer excursions around Utah - and of course document it as much as possible here. Aside from being a filing cabinet of my own personal rambling and mechanical failures it would be nice if this thread could one day help some other North American lux owner.
Things I’ve ticked off so far:
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My goal is baseline the truck for daily driving plus longer excursions around Utah - and of course document it as much as possible here. Aside from being a filing cabinet of my own personal rambling and mechanical failures it would be nice if this thread could one day help some other North American lux owner.
Things I’ve ticked off so far:
- BeBs replaced (as PM)
- Harmonic balancer (as PM)
- 52mm aluminum radiator
- 5LE Hilux 10 blade fan and 3.0 4Runner clutch w/10k oil
- Dorkel
- 3rzfe 82 deg tstat, ground to fit
- LJ78 “3 bolt” oil cooler for the bigger filter and turbo supply
- 30001 (Wix 51368) oil filter required to clear solid axle trucks
- 5/8” Turbo drain to the pan
- 2lte exhaust manifold, ported
- CT20 turbo housing & outlet elbow, ported
- NOS Toyota CHRA
- Auto meter boost, egt, and coolant gauges
- Egt gauge in the manifold directly before the turbine
- Custom 2.25” Exhaust downpipe, heat wrapped
- Stock exhaust under the truck firewall back
- Stock fuel pump, turned up less than 1/2 turn. Timing set at .84mm (bottom of spec)
- Ebay special air to water intercooler, Bosch pump, 9x11 cooler, 24x6 heat exchanger
- Ebay special manual boost controller, bleed off style
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