What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (47 Viewers)

[BamaCruzer]

A lot going on the past couple weeks.
At 18 years and 378,000 miles, it is time for some TLC maintenance items for Tilly.

-Front wheel bearings, CV axles, seals & boots

-Front wheel speed sensors

-Steering rack and associated hoses, clamps

-New seals and lines to replumb leaky power steering

-Timing belt, water pump, thermostat, tensioner, pulleys

-Spark plugs

-Fuel filter

-Serpentine belt

-Right front brake line/hose replaced

-Valve cover gaskets, cam seals, spark plug seals

-Rear brake pads and rotors

-OEM radiator, cap and upper and lower hoses

-Old Man Emu 864 rear springs and OME Nitrocharger Sport shocks.

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[kcobourn]

Four months & 4,500 miles later the baseline is done.

DIY maintenance
- Idler pulley
- Alternator
- Mobil1 fluids for front/rear diff, transfer case, motor, steering (full flush)
- Front & rear pads, rear rotors, DIY brake flush (2X)
- Heater Ts
- pfran CV clamps
- greased driveshaft / U-joints
- re-sealed leaking third brake light
- MAF / TB cleaning
- Seafoam top end cleaning

Local dealership finished the rest up (bummer!)
- Timing belt & water pump (tech claimed the belt showed signs of dry rot)
- Serpentine belt (cracking)
- Thermostat
- Tranny pan drain / fill (3.8 qts)
- Fuel filter
- Fuel system treatment
- Re-packed front wheel bearings w/ Mobil1 grease + replaced washers gaskets & seals (tech stated the grease was pretty burnt-up & some scoring on the inner oil seal)
- Coolant flush

All that's left are application of 3M side moulding tape, chip repair, & bending back the rear bumper crash pad + POR15 treatment where the pad contacted the rear PS quarter.

The truck had 72k when I got it. The next stop should get me close to rolling over to 80k - Austin, TX to Grand Lake, CO! With me will be a pregnant wife, a 3 year old, and hope. Lord help us all.

 

[TTCruiser]

Finished installing my homemade crossbars on the factory rails and mounted the rtt on them!
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I love how low it sits! Well done.

 

[TTCruiser]

I made a hi lift jack mount for the stock crossmembers. I got a basic Jeep hood mount kit at 4 Wheel Parts and drilled holes through the crosmenber and used longer bolts to mount it. Feels really solid.

 

[JB2004LC]

I love how low it sits! Well done.

Thanks. I wanted it as low as possible but being low makes it a real pain to get the tent bolted to the crossbars. My hands don’t fit under it very well.

 

[Ambledog]

Completed the sleeping platform. Leave for the Sierra's in 5 days!

That sure is nice work, do you have any details on how you put it together?

 

[VinylSeats]

View attachment 1730706 View attachment 1730707 View attachment 1730708 View attachment 1730709 View attachment 1730711 Built a sleeping platform for those cold nights out hunting when I’m just too tired to set up camp. Thanks to @TheAshenWolf for the inspiration. SIA for the crappy iPhone pics but that’s about all I use these days.

Looks great! The carpet looks nice.

We'll be using ours for the first time (other than my garage tests) in a pilgrimage to The Land Cruiser Heritage Museum next month. What we spend in gas, we save in lodging!

 

[ClayPigeon]

New shoes - Finally ditched the PO’s 16” winter tires for some 275/70/18 WildPeak A/T3W's. Found a nice deal on some Tundra take-offs, then added a little PDip, and some black lugs. I think she looks alright.

Also did a little mud flap trim and mounted that ARB awning.

 

[TTCruiser]

Looks perfect with that body color! Nice looking truck!

 

[roemer7]

1998 LC, 327k miles

Replaced rear shocks. Plan to get to the fronts before too long. I think these were original.

I did the 1-3/4” hole saw, hole in the floor method. I found plugs from Body Plug - 1-3/4" SM HOLE - 2-1/8" HEAD - RUBBER

One note: The top nut on the rear shocks was 19mm not 22mm like most are reporting.

 

[ClayPigeon]

Looks perfect with that body color! Nice looking truck!

Thanks! Much appreciated.

 

[ga12r1]

Came home to surprise on my front porch!

I can’t wait to get these on. I can’t get over how massive these things are!

Thanks so much @reevesci for getting these out to me in time for HIHs. Awesome customer service and GREAT communication. The best buying experience I’ve had in a very long time.

If you need any suspension parts hit @reevesci up!

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Came home to surprise on my front porch!

I can’t wait to get these on. I can’t get over how massive these things are!

Thanks so much @reevesci for getting these out to me in time for HIHs. Awesome customer service and GREAT communication. The best buying experience I’ve had in a very long time.

If you need any suspension parts hit @reevesci up!

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L,

Brother you are more than welcome! You guys make my job easy. Thank you for the order and let me know if there is anything else I can help with. Enjoy HIH

J

 

[cmassa]

Small project today. My 2003 LC just turned over 195K and today after work I did the oil change myself for the first time. I'm fully capable of my own repairs/service but I guess I never had the time before and oil changes were free from the dealer since I bought it there new in 2002. But I've made the decision never to take it back there again after my last fiasco with a front axle replacement (very expensive aftermarket axle with a vibration). I have to say that an oil change on this vehicle is one of the easiest I've ever done (and I've done a lot in the past). Although whoever put the filter on the last time must have used a wrench or something because I had to use a big pair of channel locks to get that thing off. Filled it with 10w30 Mobil 1 synthetic (very hot summers here).

Next project for tomorrow afternoon before towing my boat up a 5000 ft mountain to our family cabin for the 4th is to change the oil in the diffs and transfer case. I think it has been many 10's of thousands of miles since that was last done (oops).

After that will be to replace the two aftermarket front axles with OEM in the next few weeks.

Chris

 

[nikramos]

Preparing for HiH8 so I took the LX to my Mechanic to have the Timing belt,water pump and thermostat replaced, new transmission, transfer case and differential fluids. New valve cover gaskets and Radiator flush. New 8 Denso ignition coils.
Need to install brake controller. Still debating if i will tow my teardrop trailer since Mrs will not be coming

 

[Trailguy]

Replaced my radiator, fluid, and hoses, today. The old one was weeping at 156K (see pic, top left).

 

[cmassa]

Well, today I changed the oil in the differentials and transfer case with Mobil 1 Delvac 75w90 synthetic. It's not a hard job but boy is it messy and smelly. I forgot how much gear oil smells. I got the oil by the gallon and used a suction gun to fill. Of course it leaked everywhere while trying to fill the diffs. Maybe it's better with quart squirt bottles. I think my garage is going to smell for a while. There were a lot of shavings on the magnets of the differentials but no chunks. The transfer case was clean. I think I'll pay to have that job done next time...

Chris

 

[kcobourn]

Well, today I changed the oil in the differentials and transfer case with Mobil 1 Delvac 75w90 synthetic. It's not a hard job but boy is it messy and smelly. I forgot how much gear oil smells. I got the oil by the gallon and used a suction gun to fill. Of course it leaked everywhere while trying to fill the diffs. Maybe it's better with quart squirt bottles. I think my garage is going to smell for a while. There were a lot of shavings on the magnets of the differentials but no chunks. The transfer case was clean. I think I'll pay to have that job done next time...

Chris

It's much easier after the first time! I just did my new truck's gear oils & it took no time ... exception was a trip to the dentist after knocking my front tooth with a breaker bar (no cracks yay!). My wife had a field day with that.

 

[frogers935]

Front brakes and repack, Brembo rotors and Terrain Tamer pads. Details in build thread.

Out with the old

In with the new

 

[vcheng]

Finally changed the original battery after being on the road just shy of 14 years.