Beautiful work. Sorry to hear about your brother in law.
What did you work on tonight? (2 Viewers)
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Mauser
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Thank you
Geez man is there anything you can't do!?! Those look amazing! Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.
Mauser
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Yeah, I really suck at math. Thank you!
alia176
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Time to replace the OEM bushings and ball joints on the front lower control arm in the 4runner. I went with Super Pro offset bushings for a large amount of camber and caster addition, and 555 LBJs.
I learned something interesting about these bushings, and that is that the actual bushings don't twist as the LCAs rotate up and down since the inner sleeve isn't bonded to the poly. This means that the polyurethane material will not get ripped or torn because the metal sleeves are what the arms are rotating on. But get this, the bushings are not rotating around the metal sleeves either. The metal sleeves are rotating around the bolts instead. It's a pretty nice setup. What this means is that the metal sleeves will not wear out the ID of the polyurethane bushings.
They have a decent feedback after a year or two of in service from other 4th gen owners.
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I learned something interesting about these bushings, and that is that the actual bushings don't twist as the LCAs rotate up and down since the inner sleeve isn't bonded to the poly. This means that the polyurethane material will not get ripped or torn because the metal sleeves are what the arms are rotating on. But get this, the bushings are not rotating around the metal sleeves either. The metal sleeves are rotating around the bolts instead. It's a pretty nice setup. What this means is that the metal sleeves will not wear out the ID of the polyurethane bushings.
They have a decent feedback after a year or two of in service from other 4th gen owners.
SuperPro Front Lower Control Arm Bushing & Camber Pin Combo
SuperPro's TRC120LCA bushing and camber pin kit is the ultimate upgrade for customers looking to enhance a set of new lower control arms, or as part of a comprehensive overhaul of an existing let of lower control arms. This kit includes: 1x SPF4690K - SuperPro front lower control arm inner...
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Dumpolina
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Yes please!Pulled the engine today on this project and found this!:
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If you are interested in learning how poor a Toyota engine's health can be and still run, give this post a thumbs up!
More pile?
alia176
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I'm sitting in the Firestone shop to get the alignment done after replacing both LCAs filled with sexy new bushings and LBJs.
Pass side took five hours and the driver side 2.5 hours and that includes roughly setting up the camber, caster and toe adjustments. This was a four Advil project. Also took the opportunity to remove the cloud start assembly and replace the top hat which includes the rubber isolator. I'm disappointed that the KYB rubber insulator was breaking down only after 5 years of service, I think.
While I was in there, also replaced the rack and pinion bellows since one of them was torn off. The rebuilder who rebuilt my rack used non OEM rubber bellows.
I wasn't a bit nervous driving to the Firestone from the East mountain so I took route 66 all the way. Nothing fell off, and the vehicle tracked pretty straight with the steering wheel a little bit off center, which was to be expected.
Pass side took five hours and the driver side 2.5 hours and that includes roughly setting up the camber, caster and toe adjustments. This was a four Advil project. Also took the opportunity to remove the cloud start assembly and replace the top hat which includes the rubber isolator. I'm disappointed that the KYB rubber insulator was breaking down only after 5 years of service, I think.
While I was in there, also replaced the rack and pinion bellows since one of them was torn off. The rebuilder who rebuilt my rack used non OEM rubber bellows.
I wasn't a bit nervous driving to the Firestone from the East mountain so I took route 66 all the way
. Nothing fell off, and the vehicle tracked pretty straight with the steering wheel a little bit off center, which was to be expected.
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alia176
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Just some random pics, check out the alignment hardware from Super pro. They are really beefy and seemingly made of decent quality but who knows!
Got the youngest and the middle child to help me flush the power steering fluid this morning. They were a great help.
New battery and replaced the voltage regulator. I was chasing electrical gremlins with large voltage spikes from cold seemingly while the alternator was recharging. Dropped those tiny screws maybe 10 times. The voltage indicator still wiggles but now doesn't have any alarming spikes.
Is the regulator still available for the 60's? I thought it was disco'd.
I bought a toyota reman off of cruiserteq and not new from AmToy. I have the internal voltage regulator and not an external one; I have no idea if those are still available.
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