New to me, 2008 200 Series (3 Viewers)

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@CONGESTEDHIPPO congrats on the 1st gen of the 200 series, the best in my biased opinion. ;)

FYI - the rear drive shaft, or propeller shaft as Toyota calls it was under a replacement campaign in years past. I had mine replaced within months of purchasing the truck free of charge. Worth looking into as Toyota might still honor the campaign. HTH.
Thank you!

I actually just stumbled upon some old threads talking about a replacement from Toyota so I may look into that here soon.

I did pull the rear driveshaft and cleaned it out and regressed and the clunk has mostly subsided but we’ll see if it lasts.
 
Congrats on your 200. Here's my 2008 that I bought in 2017 with 65k. Now has about 135k. Sounds like you've got most of the bases covered. I did replace my starter proactively this last winter. Which I would consider doing if I was you. I also have replaced the serpentine belt and idlers/tensioners.
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Tom, welp, your pic convinced me I needed a set. Grabbed some at the tail end of a 2000-mile road trip. Also grabbed a set of facelift headlights...

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Looks good. Where did the headlights come from?
I got them from an LC200 Facebook group! Found an old post of a guy selling his, and someone else commented with a set for sale. They were a pretty good deal but didn't come with bulbs or balasts. OEM ballasts were super expensive so I went with Amazon specials and I honestly may convert them to leds or rip them apart and put in a different projector from morimoto, etc. The lenses are a starting to yellow internally but I really do love the look. The DRLs are also dim due to the way the US lights are wired. This thread helped sort the wiring, though I ended up testing everything with a multimeter and building up my own harness. Happy to do a write up on them if there is interest. The headlight washers also needed to be trimmed to get them to fit (I'll most likely delete them if I ever get an aftermarket front bumper anyways so I didn't mind shaving them down.)
 

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