New to me, 2008 200 Series

[CONGESTEDHIPPO]

@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.

 

[CONGESTEDHIPPO]

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...

 

[HectJDM]

Classic color..

 

[tominboise]

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?

 

[CONGESTEDHIPPO]

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.)

 

[open country]

Check this post from @Boston Mangler on the headlight conversion/wiring

Builds - Manglers "Flying Egg" Resto-Build - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/manglers-flying-egg-resto-build.1335165/post-15810882