What have you done to your 100 Series this week?

[JBinGA]

The War Wagon got its final bit of planned service—transmission flush and ASFIR skid plates.

I did the drain-and-fill routine four times. Fluid started out dark brown but not burnt smelling. Fluid got redder and redder each time. New fluid came out bright red out of the check valve as I adjusted the level.

Took me damn near 1 year to put the skids on. I was too impatient to wait for Dissent aluminum and ordered ASFIR. Then they sat in my garage for 18 months.

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[2020 Rocks]

Cleaned up shift plate surround and hit with a couple coats of underbody rustoleum spray, new shift plate and cup holders, Nice after work project.

 

[saucebox]

Cleaned up shift plate surround and hit with a couple coats of underbody rustoleum spray, new shift plate and cup holders, Nice after work project.

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Kind of dig the two-tone, nice work

 

[FxFormat]

AHC shock came in. I’m going to work on it after my shop close

 

[GTV]

I thought cupholders in the corners of my Huracan storage lid would be a good use of space. Put everything back together and immediately realized that I forgot to reattach one of the tailgate release cables The drawers must be removed first in order unbolt the drawer frame so I really thought I was screwed. Then I realized that if I got the wing panel out of the way (two Phillips screws) I could then pull the cupholder out, reach in and manually turn the release lever. POP! We're back open!

Ever since I bolted my drawers down I've been concerned about what to do in case a tailgate cable/sheath breaks. With my tailgate stuck closed I am dead in the water. The cupholders also serve as absolutely essential access holes, I can't recommend this mod enough!

 

[TnTnola]

Replaced the ignition cylinder shaft as preventative maintenance on my '99 UZJ100 with 332,000 miles. The most time consuming part was getting the original (unbroken) shaft out of the ignition barrel.

The replacement ignition shaft (current production OEM) has subtle differences from the original part.

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What’s the part number for the shaft? I was told to buy the whole assembly.

 

[Lexus Cruiser]

I got my ARB bumper in already. Skid plates in the morning then an afternoon in the Rockies.

 

[Attn2Detail]

ARB Deluxe Bull Bar w/ Ironman 12k lb winch.

 

[YezusLX]

ARB Deluxe Bull Bar w/ Ironman 12k lb winch.

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This has to be the Kim Kardashian of LX's cause every photo looks like a glamor shot. Nice freakin' rig.

 

[FxFormat]

here we go, this oughta be enough to flush it out twice. Btw the next cushions that Toyota give you, it’s impossible to thread the nut on the shock. You gotta compress it with a vice beforehand and let it sit to squish down a bit, then I used a socket to push the shock up enough to flatten some more to get the top nut on. They don’t give you enough threads the oem shock

 

[Attn2Detail]

This has to be the Kim Kardashian of LX's cause every photo looks like a glamor shot. Nice freakin' rig.

I’m dyin at your comment! Thanks.

 

[boma23]

I didn't like the idea of $400 for extended sway bar links. so bought some $40 rockauto items and cut and welded some wheel studs in (1" in front, 1.5" in back according to my napkin geometry estimations).

Only installed the front ones so far (as the rear top nuts are sunk into the washers so going to be a PITA to remove), but the difference in ride quality and handling is night and day on my 2.5 slee OME / nitrocharger lift.
Honestly, those lift kits should come with sway bay drop link extensions as part of the lift kit. I've always thought it rode like crap, and had a horrible habit of lifting the front inside wheel over fast road undulations that I blamed on the nitros being over damped on the return stroke, but these extended links have transformed it and it rides like a different vehicle. Even though it looked like nothing, that incorrect angle on the sway must have caused quite a lot of stiffening/binding of the front independent arms.

Highly recommended.

 

[Africaster]

Might have made a mistake . … had the truck for a year and 5k miles already and have really enjoyed that throaty V8 roar on start up. Much like a slow boiled frog, hadn’t really noticed that the roar was getting loader and throatier of late until the muffler’s cover plate started dragging and revealed the muffler’s true state … mainly rust being held together by more rust. 3 days later a rather well made replacement arrived, slightly more expensive than the cheapest that Amazon offered up, but not OEM league either.

Tried many tools to get off the original … Dremel, oscillating cutter, sawzall but the one that worked the best was a small angle grinder with a metal cutoff blade … cutting heated the bolt as well, which facilitated a fairly easy process to knock out the cutoff bolt with a hammer and punch. Reuse the vibration absorption thingy and install … half a banana job

… problem now is it sounds like the flapping wings of a bloody hummingbird… gone is the manly V8 roar … AND … I can hear the noise of the hullivator, tires, power steering pump, brake pump, diff and a thousand other things to start worrying about

 

[Lexus Cruiser]

Alright, done with the rig for a while outside of maintenance. Started with a super clean 98 with a full maintenance history, then picked up “the largest will call order ever” from Slee (at least according to their warehouse team). Last week took out the AHC and went OME. This week got the Slee skid plates and ARB bumper on and then threw on some KC HiLites since my buddies like night wheeling up in the mountains.

 

[highkick05]

Put on 3 genuine from partsouq door handles - all but the drivers DH. Ripped the drivers door card off anyway to check my speaker which is on the nose.
Those speakers sit really close to the door card, looks like I've hit the door once or twice and broken the centre part of the speaker. Going to replace with some kicker 2 ways next week. (slowly do them all plus a sub). Clipped the overhead console back in where the spraypainter who did my windscreen repair didn't put it back on right. Lost the bolt straight down the park brake crevice (smh damn annoying couldnt find it even after ripping the trim off around the gear shifter/s lol). Found a replacement anyway. What else? that's it I think.

 

[dubdub20003]

We got some new dancing shoes! These lightly used wheels and tires were in the classifieds for a few weeks and I kept hoping someone would buy them, for they were not in my financial plan right now… alas, they were too tempting! Also digging into some baselining of fluids as a new-ish owner.

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

Investigated the "cabin air filter" on my '99 UZJ100 today.

Some on the 'web say that early 100 Series did not get a cabin air filter, but the LX470 version did. Others say the early 100s do have the filter housing.

Bought a Denso brand cabin air filter (2 pieces) a couple weeks ago. Got around to the project today.

There is a decent YouTube video on the process by "Mister Memo" I used for guidance. It is an easy job.

And . . . my 1999 UZJ100 does have the cabin air filter housing with door. But there was no filter inside the housing. Helps explain why the interior gets so dusty driving off-road in the desert! lol

Vacuumed out as much of the debris in the lower filter slot I could access then insert the 2 filter elements (upper and lower.)

Worth it to investigate on any of the early 100s in case the vehicle does have the cabin air filter housing.

 

[highkick05]

Investigated the "cabin air filter" on my '99 UZJ100 today.

Some on the 'web say that early 100 Series did not get a cabin air filter, but the LX470 version did. Others say the early 100s do have the filter housing.

Bought a Denso brand cabin air filter (2 pieces) a couple weeks ago. Got around to the project today.

There is a decent YouTube video on the process by "Mister Memo" I used for guidance. It is an easy job.

And . . . my 1999 UZJ100 does have the cabin air filter housing with door. But there was no filter inside the housing. Helps explain why the interior gets so dusty driving off-road in the desert! lol

Vacuumed out as much of the debris in the lower filter slot I could access then insert the 2 filter elements (upper and lower.)

Worth it to investigate on any of the early 100s in case the vehicle does have the cabin air filter housing.

Could you fit the entire (long/only manufactured) cabin filters in the housing? Or did you need to cut the mid section out to fit them in? So many variants it seems.

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

. . . wired in a switch to override the interior lights turning on when the liftgate is open - this is huge for sleeping with the liftgate open or generally having the gate open for long periods while fishing, at camp, cooking on the gate, etc. . . .

MooseMichaels can you explain a bit more in depth about the lift gate light switch? Thanks!

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[Josie'sLandCruiser]

Could you fit the entire (long/only manufactured) cabin filters in the housing? Or did you need to cut the mid section out to fit them in? So many variants it seems.

What I found behind the glove box in my 1999 UZJ100 was exactly what was shown on the YouTube video I mentioned (which was about replacing an existing, dirty cabin air filter.) The housing accepted the 2 cabin air filter elements supplied by Denso without issue.