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I love how toyota engineered the belt molding. It's like they knew these rigs would run forever so they designed the molding to disintegrate after 20 years and leave behind nice tarnish proof chrome
I just peel all the black crap off and run with the chrome.
That was an OEM zip tie my friend! Glad you’re picking up where I left off and taking it to the finish line.
I think I have that same radio... wireless Android Auto and Carplay? $125? How are you liking it? So far (if it's the same) it's been great!
thanks dawg! Boy what a difference the part time kit made in drivability for me. It was near silent now. It was such a change, even the wife and dog noticed! I got the kit from valley hybrids, they supply the terrain tamer kit with the AVM hubs with the 8mm spacer. Onur said they were s***ty hubs but otherwise I’d need to swap birfs or machine a new snap ring groove. So, AVM will do for now. Turns out they do suck, on the way home I noticed grease coming from the driver hub and an occasional grinding noise. I got home and ordered the aisin hubs because OEM. Well, the spring inside the AVM hub holding the locking gear to the dial came undone and must have kept the driver side axle spinning even though the dial was unlocked. Luckily I swapped to the aisin hubs and noticed all of this before it got worse. I decided to take an angle grinder to my birf and make a new snap ring groove for the aisin hubs. Easy job. The Aisin hubs with the gold dial look money. 
I am curious why you decided a part-time kit was the remedy for your vibrating driveline. Did you do some diagnosis before that? Sounded it like it might have been a U-joint maybe?Recently I went on a road trip out to southern Arizona and northern New Mexico. Drove a total of 5500 miles in a little over two weeks. On the way out to AZ my driveline started vibrating and grinding like crazy, from 50-80 on and off throttle it was constant which was making me crazy which made the wife angry and the dog wild. So I ordered up a part-time kit and had it sent to @OGBeno at OLC4x4. 2700 miles of vibrating/grinding later we made it to OLC. Made Onur help me wrench on a Sunday
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There were definitely a few things at play, OG driveshafts and angles being the main culprits. Part-time kit was always in the plan for me, I just ended up pulling the trigger sooner than later. Before the road trip I had just put new 4.88 gears and lockers in, managed to get the 500 mile break in done and the oil changed the day before I hit the road. All good there and no issues with the new gears. I was taking it very easy on the break in and did not go above 55-60mph so was not sure what noises would happen once I hit the road and the speed limit goes from 55 to 75. The gears were not making noise, the original 235K mile driveshafts though were not happy, by the time I got to TN I had significant play in both front and rear slip yokes, not much in the u-joints. I had a spare OEM rear driveshaft with me that only had maybe 5K miles on it. I also had a double cardon front shaft that I left at home which needs to be rebuilt. When I went 37s I added a spacer to the front, I already had the Delta 3L arms, this increased the front noise due to caster angle. Plus the 3L arms extend the driveshaft slip yoke by an inch. I wasn't going to get new radius arms again to adjust caster, drives fine. I wasn't going to get another DC front shaft built, I had a spare OEM rear with me. Solution, part-time kit lol. Between the new rear driveshaft and the front end not spinning at all, it drives incredibly smooth now. Night and day difference. 2700 miles out with a grinding full-time 80. 2800 miles home with a part-time near silent 80. No wear and tear on my new front end so it will stay new forever, lighter front end feeling, lighter steering in parking lots, BURNOUTS! lol Win win for me, I know it is not for everyone.
