My intention is to document my experience with buying and owning a 1st gen ('04) Sequoia. This thread might be incomplete, as my truck is a 2x4. And that's no accident. It's hard enough to feed this tank without the 2-3 m.p.g. that is wasted by 4x4. It is not possible (for me) to justify that money. This truck, to me, is not a mud toy. Your thoughts may, of course, differ. And that's OK by me, just as long as you buy your gas 
Hopefully, many issues will come to mind, be discussed and solved in this thread. Which would make those issues, and their solutions, hard to find, I suppose. And so when a major issue comes up I will begin another thread to contain it. I will apply a fitting name to that thread but I will still include it in this one, by linking to it in here.
As an example, many of you may not like the concept of oil, which has the viscosity of water, and you may be verrrrrrry leery of putting anything like that into your motor. I'm with you, there! So I have "broken this issue out" into it's own thread, here: what would happen IF...
I bought my truck in Naples, Floroda on 01/01/2020. She's a beauty. I call her "goldy."
Goldy has been maintained by a stealership, since birth. Apparently she lost her pinion seal and the rich but car stupid 1st owner failed to notice it. As a result, the differential now has a grumble though the leak, if ever there was one, is no more. Or, maybe during a routine change of the fluid in the dif, Joe Joe stealership "mechanic" ran out of oil in his pressure-fed rig. Maybe he intended to finish the fill when more fluid arrived, but forgot. Or maybe they just plain engineered some work for themselves. Who knows? Who cares?
And so the second break-out issue - the differential, and how best to deal with that. Find it here: How best to deal with noisy differental ?
I'll continue my story in the next post....
Hopefully, many issues will come to mind, be discussed and solved in this thread. Which would make those issues, and their solutions, hard to find, I suppose. And so when a major issue comes up I will begin another thread to contain it. I will apply a fitting name to that thread but I will still include it in this one, by linking to it in here.
As an example, many of you may not like the concept of oil, which has the viscosity of water, and you may be verrrrrrry leery of putting anything like that into your motor. I'm with you, there! So I have "broken this issue out" into it's own thread, here: what would happen IF...
I bought my truck in Naples, Floroda on 01/01/2020. She's a beauty. I call her "goldy."
Goldy has been maintained by a stealership, since birth. Apparently she lost her pinion seal and the rich but car stupid 1st owner failed to notice it. As a result, the differential now has a grumble though the leak, if ever there was one, is no more. Or, maybe during a routine change of the fluid in the dif, Joe Joe stealership "mechanic" ran out of oil in his pressure-fed rig. Maybe he intended to finish the fill when more fluid arrived, but forgot. Or maybe they just plain engineered some work for themselves. Who knows? Who cares?
And so the second break-out issue - the differential, and how best to deal with that. Find it here: How best to deal with noisy differental ?
I'll continue my story in the next post....
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