Merry New Year! It's beef jerky time...
With some much appreciated financial contributions from
@greynolds,
@grinchy,
@CharlieS,
@bloc,
@Dunbar,
@i4c4lo,
@bemerritt,
@clearmysix, and especially
@Leelanau, I've been able to get a new TIS subscription and do an FSM update this holiday season. The updated FSM includes all US docs through 2021, as well as non-US models through ~2015. Specifically:
- 200-series LC/LX US models 2008 through 2021, and non-US (EMEA, GCC, AUS) from ~2007-2015
- All 100-series LC models (US and non-US) and all US LX models 1998-2007
- All 80-series USA LC/LX models 1991-1997
- Official USA FJ62 1990 docs
- All the unofficial and semi-official PDF docs for the 40-series and 60-series that I know of that are floating out there.
As with the old version that many of you have, the new one includes both the online web-browsable docs as well as some massive PDF files with the same data. And just like the last version, I generally recommend using the web-browsable version whenever possible - the PDF files are thousands of pages and not indexed, but I suggest saving a copy of the PDFs to your phone or tablet so that if you break down on a trail and don't have internet service you can still view them and do text searches.
To get the updated FSM, this time I'm going to ask everyone in the mud community to help provide it. I've made the FSM available as a .torrent file, which will allow people to download from the pool of available members, and will allow anyone who downloads to help the rest of the community by optionally being part of the pool of members providing copies to others.
To get started, just add the following link to any bittorrent client. If you don't have a bittorrent client, I recommend using
Transmission as it's free, light weight, and doesn't include any spyware.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cf1ba674b5796aade66d13a51e7f4c56b8fb9195&dn=TheCompleteTLCFSM2021.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%
2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%
2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce
Once you've downloaded if you want to help "seed" the pool for other downloaders, just leave your client running in the background. Transmission has some nice features so you can limit the number of clients and the upload speed or available time windows (in case you want to minimize the impact during the day but let people download at full speed while you're asleep). Just remember to make sure you select "Seed Forever" in the settings, otherwise you'll stop helping the community once two people have downloaded it from you.
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Once you have downloaded the FSM .ISO file, you will need to set up a local web server in order to make the docs viewable. (Don't bother trying to just browse the ISO file, the website using Javascript and won't work locally in most modern browsers due to their security features). For most people I recommend using the Abyss webserver to do this. You can follow the instructions posted here:
Download a copy of the Toyota/Lexus/Scion electronic factory service manual - rootflags/tis-clone
github.com
Finally, since the 200-series is complete, this will likely be the last FSM update that I do. If you want an FSM for your future LX 600, GX, 4Runner, Tacoma, Supra, etc what I've done is posted the source code used to download and create the FSM, along with some rough instructions on how to do so in the following link. Feel free to use this to build your own custom FSM with any Toyota/Lexus/Scion vehicle you'd like.
[Note: I have an FSM update forthcoming which will cover all the way through the 2021 model year. A few others on the forum are downloading and testing to help me make sure it works as expected and isn't missing any docs. For those just looking for the FSM .ISO file, I hope to publish info on...
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