I have now my fourth Toyota, a 1997 4Runner with the 3.4 and an auto for my wife to drive around. What I cannot figure out is why the speedo and odo are dead on when it originally came with the smaller 15" wheels but currently has 265/70R16s on it. It has 4.10 gears which, as I understand, are what you got with the smaller wheels. Weird.
The second "weirdness" is the Energy Suspension sway bar kit. It was a chore, (I did the steering rack bushings at the same time) but the improvement is quite noticeable. The part that baffled me is why they put bushings in the kit for the ends of the stabilzer bar that are too tall. There is no freakin way to mash them down enought to get the nut back on the end link. I can say this; a cutting wheel on an angle grinder cuts polyurethane quite nicely. I shaved each one of the fat little buggars about 1/16" which was the absolute minimum required to get the nut started on the end link. Even when tightened down properly, there are just a couple of threads portruding above the nut. This is just poor design.
The second "weirdness" is the Energy Suspension sway bar kit. It was a chore, (I did the steering rack bushings at the same time) but the improvement is quite noticeable. The part that baffled me is why they put bushings in the kit for the ends of the stabilzer bar that are too tall. There is no freakin way to mash them down enought to get the nut back on the end link. I can say this; a cutting wheel on an angle grinder cuts polyurethane quite nicely. I shaved each one of the fat little buggars about 1/16" which was the absolute minimum required to get the nut started on the end link. Even when tightened down properly, there are just a couple of threads portruding above the nut. This is just poor design.
