La Puerca Plata - 2004 Toyota Sequoia Limited

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muttsinapig said:
Awesome, thanks again. Been to Rocky Point a few times, but dream about hitting Baja or driving from RP up to San Luis Rio Colorado up the coast, etc. Cheers, man...
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I've only driven by El Golfo going to San Luis from RP but yea for up that way pry better to have tools and a few spare parts. San Luis itself there's no worries. Bigger city than RP and they have car dealerships and parts stores, Autozone... For Baja though, it's nomans land so better to be prepared. Our first trip will include a stop in San Felipe for one night just to say that I've seen it with concentrated stops in Gonzaga Bay and BOLA. Pry won't get past Bay of LA though or at least we don't plan on it at this time but you never know. We hope to be able to take 7 days and do it right. Mainly want to fish as much as possible. We're looking at October right now. We'll see what happens.
 
3 Year Bump!

I've been absent for a while now apparently. Since joining the forum in 21' The Sequoia has been on a journey. I kind of stopped posting to forums for a while but I've recently done some tube work to the Sequoia and wanted to share my work. Life has changed a little since last post. No more jet ski. I bought a center console fishing boat shortly after the last post on this thread. That took up a good deal of time and money over the last few years as well as finishing my Tacoma roll cage. No more girlfriend but picked up another GSP. Finally getting too old for the pre-runner lifestyle and I've decided to sell the truck soon and focus my attention to this Sequoia and set it up for moderate off road use. So hopefully I will be posting more in the near future.

Here's a 3 year recap...
 
Memorial Day Weekend 21 I sold the jet ski and drove down to MEXICO and bought this center console fishing boat. It needed TLC badly but was a pretty good starting point. I spent 3 months getting it ready for lake tests before we towed it back down to the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) and took it out in the Sea fishing.



 
About 1 week later, the first week of June 21' we towed a CanAm dealer car from my now ex's work in Phoenix to meet her family in Hurricane UT. They were there to visit Zion National Park but we decided to take a dealer car from her work and explore the Sand Hollow area and Toquerville Falls.

The trip to Hurricane from Phoenix takes you up to 7,000 ft twice in the 7 hour drive. The Sequoia did great.

 
Stopping by to check out Lee's Ferry for the first time in my life after growing up in Phoenix... 39 years and counting. THE MIGHTY COLORADO









 
A few months later I resumed work on my Tacoma roll cage project. I finally finished in the Spring of 22 after about a year of work.









 
Then for the last year and half or so the truck became a street queen and the only thing I want to do is be on the Sea with the wind at my back like JIMMY BUFFETT.

The Sequoia has about 15 trips to Mexico now. She's a workhorse. I tow the boat from Phoenix to Mexico every trip. I can't afford to dry dock it there and pry wouldn't because I use it here at the lake in the summer months so it's the nature of the beast but the Sequoia has performed flawlessly like I knew a Toyota would.

Last 2 years approximately.

Lot's of this.











 
I recently did the timing belt and water pump but no pictures and really, would it even matter?! I remember the day when I thought I was a GOD for doing a timing belt and water pump by myself in 2015... man. Look how far we've come.

The only other thing worth mentioning that has happened to the Sequoia in the last few years was about a year ago the transfer case actuator starting acting up. It had the typical water intrusion/corrosion going on. I looked in the factory service manual for the wiring diagram and created a jumper harness that you can run off of a 12v battery right at the T-Case while you're laying there. I bought a connector on Amazon so you just plug it in to the T-Case and you can manually operate the actuator to get it to move into "place" when you pop that cap off everything has to get clocked correct for the button in the cab to continue to function. After jacking up the truck on stands and playing with it for a an hour or two I was able to figure out what does what and took the thing apart and cleaned it and re-greased the s*** out of it. The contacts have pretty bad pitting from rust so not sure how long it will make it but a year later so far so good. I did snip the breather hose and reconnect with zip tie.

Does anyone know why the actuator needs a breather line? I was thinking about it. I don't believe there should be any kind of pressure created by the transfer case or at least on that side of the shift shaft.
 
So now after life changes and deep reflection I decided to start doing as much to the Sequoia as I can while I still have two vehicles. Then at some point I'm going to have to sell the truck and then I'll do the last step of my plan and make upper control arms and buy coilovers. I also plan on re-making the pan hard bar for correct geometry and making my own rear trailing arms.

The Sequoia list includes:
Roof Rack
Sliders
Rear Hatch Ladder
Rear Tire Carrier/Swing
Front Bumper
Rear Bumper
180 Awning
Solar Power
Fridge
Front Suspension - Uppers and Coilover, spindle gusset
Rear Suspension - Spring/Shocks and Panhard/lower arms











 
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