What did you do on your 70 series today? (18 Viewers)

[JuanJ]

Hello,

That dreadful time of the year -to me- is about to end. Safety inspection and registration.

Inspectors around here do not really know what they are doing, in my humble opinion. Nevertheless, just in case you have to do some maintenance prior to inspection. There is an extra charge if your truck fails the first inspection.

Chance required an engine tune up to pass, as well as power steering pump seal change. The pump had a small leak. Then the shop took the chance to replace front axle bearings.

Purebred required a new air filter and steering linkage tightening. Linkage and suspension are never tight enough for most inspectors.

Both passed inspection. Then it was time to head up to the DMV for the registration. Thankfully, due to the pandemic, the process is online. Fill a couple forms and wait for processing.

Fingers crossed while the papers arrive.





Juan

 

[LDowney]

View attachment 2768878A few caveats:
This unit is on the low end of cost (~ $30.00). You can spend a lot more.
This photo sucks (what my eyes see and what the camera sees aren’t even close).
The shape of the 70 Series dash seems custom made for a HUD.
This unit auto dims at night and the kit came with a small reflective film for the windshield.View attachment 2768879

Charles,
With the windshield being appearing to be single curvature forward of the driver's design eye, the projection onto the glass realizes minimal distortion. Additionally, the contouring of the dash pad is almost a facet (flat face) and thereby allows for a straightforward attachment of the display unit to the pad.

i.e, Similar to the geometry of an aircraft glareshield and forward transparency of an aircraft cockpit? [your aircraft?]

Thanks for sharing the results of your upgrade.

 

[robmobile73]

Hello,

That dreadful time of the year -to me- is about to end. Safety inspection and registration.

Inspectors around here do not really know what they are doing, in my humble opinion. Nevertheless, just in case you have to do some maintenance prior to inspection. There is an extra charge if your truck fails the first inspection.

Chance required an engine tune up to pass, as well as power steering pump seal change. The pump had a small leak. Then the shop took the chance to replace front axle bearings.

Purebred required a new air filter and steering linkage tightening. Linkage and suspension are never tight enough for most inspectors.

Both passed inspection. Then it was time to head up to the DMV for the registration. Thankfully, due to the pandemic, the process is online. Fill a couple forms and wait for processing.

Fingers crossed while the papers arrive.





Juan

Not sure where you're at I'm on the phone and I can't see your profile now. I was stationed in Japan for about 8 years and had to deal with the notorious JCI every 2 years. This inspection is truly designed to keep people purchasing new vehicles from Toyota and the others as your vehicle gets older it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to pass especially if you don't work on your own car. It sounds like you live somewhere where they inspect cars rigouously as well. A few tricks:. Immediately before the inspection go to the coin operated power spray car wash. Spray everything under the hood and on the underbody of your vehicle with the tire cleaner degreaser and then spray it off clean. Wipe away all will residue or grease residue with rags. Put metal foil tape on any exhaust leaks. Wipe any rubber grease boots rubber brake lines that are cracked or dry rot on your tires with a rag filled with black silicone RTV to fill in the cracks. ...,....... It's cheaper to add oil once a year to a minor oil leak than it is to fix it if you wipe that clean it won't show up on the inspection. Everybody's rubber gets dry rotted at some point it's still going to last a long time before it fails.

 

[JuanJ]

Not sure where you're at I'm on the phone and I can't see your profile now. I was stationed in Japan for about 8 years and had to deal with the notorious JCI every 2 years. This inspection is truly designed to keep people purchasing new vehicles from Toyota and the others as your vehicle gets older it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to pass especially if you don't work on your own car. It sounds like you live somewhere where they inspect cars rigouously as well. A few tricks:. Immediately before the inspection go to the coin operated power spray car wash. Spray everything under the hood and on the underbody of your vehicle with the tire cleaner degreaser and then spray it off clean. Wipe away all will residue or grease residue with rags. Put metal foil tape on any exhaust leaks. Wipe any rubber grease boots rubber brake lines that are cracked or dry rot on your tires with a rag filled with black silicone RTV to fill in the cracks. ...,....... It's cheaper to add oil once a year to a minor oil leak than it is to fix it if you wipe that clean it won't show up on the inspection. Everybody's rubber gets dry rotted at some point it's still going to last a long time before it fails.

Hello,

I am not sure about the true purpose of these inspections. I do know that the inspectors, in my opinion, do not know what they are doing, not really. For instance, I keep getting "oil leak" in the report, and the location is that of the A/C condensation water discharge. Go figure.

After some bad experiences, which including failing the inspection three times, I opted for letting my shop do the inspection. Interestingly, the inspectors know when a mechanic takes a vehicle for inspection and they suddenly become lenient.

This year, and every year before, the shop sprayed both Chance and Purebred just as you say, and applied silicone on some bushings, in order to pass the inspection. Some things are the same everywhere...

Thank you for the advice, it is a very good one and I can tell it works.






Juan

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Charles,
With the windshield being appearing to be single curvature forward of the driver's design eye, the projection onto the glass realizes minimal distortion. Additionally, the contouring of the dash pad is almost a facet (flat face) and thereby allows for a straightforward attachment of the display unit to the pad.

i.e, Similar to the geometry of an aircraft glareshield and forward transparency of an aircraft cockpit? [your aircraft?]

Thanks for sharing the results of your upgrade.

Here is the rural South Georgia version:
My fairly inexpensive do-dad shines an image on the side of the windshield that isn’t splattered with bugs.
This image allows me to avoid speeding (which I can only do in a school zone anyway).
Between the HUD and multiple cup holders, I’ve created the illusion that I’m driving a fancy vehicle.

 

[loeky]

View attachment 2768878A few caveats:
This unit is on the low end of cost (~ $30.00). You can spend a lot more.
This photo sucks (what my eyes see and what the camera sees aren’t even close).
The shape of the 70 Series dash seems custom made for a HUD.
This unit auto dims at night and the kit came with a small reflective film for the windshield.View attachment 2768879

Is there a link to this to review further?

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Is there a link to this to review further?

Sent ….

 

[grey goat]

Sound deadening by lantern.

 

[Beaverdam213]

The image is actually very clear even in bright sunshine and includes a compass. It normally locks on to the satellites before I leave my driveway.

what kind is it?

 

[Gun Runner 5]

what kind is it?

Link sent ….

 

[Billyfj7312ht]

Still no tune yet, but been seating the rings.

 

[coldtaco]

Still no tune yet, but been seating the rings.

I need some instructions as to how to tune the 12HT. We don’t have any tuners here

 

[Billyfj7312ht]

I need some instructions as to how to tune the 12HT. We don’t have any tuners here

All good, I'll try and get him to break down the procedure he uses when I get it done

 

[Beastiethe70]

Knuckles!!! A bit overdo but only one side actually had that nasty birfsoup. But happy to have everything fresh and ready for more!

 

[baroudeur73]

Today is the first days of vacation, like every vacation this morning I took a walk with my old BJ73 to mushrooms

 

[Owyhee Jackass]

Drove to San Diego for a Navy buddy's retirement ceremony on the Midway Saturday. ~2000 mile round trip (940 down, 910 back with some running around down there) 3 other guys that were on the same boat as me flew in and we hung out for the weekend.

Five old Submariners, we used to all be handsome sailors 30 years ago...

'Camped' in the desert on the way there and the way back.

Spotted this from the balcony of the Marriot at the reception.

Some data from the trip, truck ran great, averaged about 65 mph on the way down, pushed it a bit harder and tried 70 mph coming back. looks like the truck went over 200k miles at the last fill-up. I was surprised that prices were higher in California for fuel, I thought Idaho had some of the highest prices in the country. I passed one station near Mammoth that had it listed at $5.79/gal.

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Arranged to add a garage mate for the 79 Series.

 

[solomrus]

i got grille's, they're multiplyin'...

and a nice big box of cool.

 

[grey goat]

I put on some roof rack bars.

 

[Felde]

Did some TLC and noticed slight play in the right front wheel bearing.
I got into it...

The outer lock nut was loose. Could be turned by hand...

And here we have the issue:
The lock washer was bent over the front locking nut only, not over the rear adjusting nut. So it came loose.
Fault by PO.

Man, you can only trust those rigs once you have turned every nut by yourself.