What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (40 Viewers)

[MongooseGA]

Started on a little bit of paint correction. I've only had the truck a few months and have only gotten to wash it a handful of times. I wanted to see what steps would need to be taken to get the paint back into tolerable shape. Nothing fancy here, just two passes with some store bought Meguiar's ultimate compound (which I've really liked using lately) and a layer of Klasser AIO. I'm still debating what kind of LSP I may use.

See the cloudiness and water spots in the paint? Not to mention the swirls.

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• MongooseGA
• Jan 9, 2019

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And after one pass with the 'compound'.

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• MongooseGA
• Jan 9, 2019

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It really makes the galactic gray pop. I wasn't looking for color in this picture but there's a bunch of blue popping out now.

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• MongooseGA
• Jan 9, 2019

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Fun fact: When you lift your truck enough, you no longer have to wheel the shop-vac around the door to get into the cabin. Now it just rolls right under!

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• MongooseGA
• Jan 9, 2019

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[joseywales]

I wanted to see what steps would need to be taken to get the paint back into tolerable shape. Nothing fancy here, just two passes with some store bought Meguiar's ultimate compound (which I've really liked using lately) and a layer of Klasser AIO. I'm still debating what kind of LSP I may use.

How are you applying the Meguiars? I have a Makita 7” polisher I was going to use. I need to knock some oxidation off the red ‘89 4Runner I bought. It’s got to have a nice shine on it so it looks good getting scratched up on hunting and fishing forays!

 

[custyota]

Took 2 kiddos and sister with her kid to Arizona for 5day vacation. Hotel at Flagstaff so we can hit up Sedona and Grand Canyon. Two car caravan from San Diego. We all piled into the LX for Sedona adventure on Broke Arrow trail. Snow on the trail was gonna be an epic day.

But the cold and age of the truck had other ideas. After submarine rock, we continued on and I dragged the hitch pretty good. That bang was enough for the frozen fan bracket bearing to break loose. Back track to downtown, did our shopping and cross finger truck made it the 45mile climb back to Flagstaff and it did! Few hours of homework on the broken truck revealed this wasn’t gonna be fixed in the hotel parking lot in sub freezing temps.

But there was a toyota dealership down the street. After $99 diagnostic fee they told me what everything was wrong with the truck. Kept it simple enough to get me 500 miles back home.

T belt kit
Water pump
T stat
Fan mounting bracket

They wanted to do the fan clutch too since they said it had wobble (now it whirls sounds a bit). The wobble was likely from the broken bearing and it doesn’t wobble anymore. Clutch is on the outside of engine and I can address that when I get home and pinch some hundreds of dollars off the bill. $1240 later I got to drive back home few day later than i expected but that’s OK. 208k miles on the truck. Last tbelt was 124k so it was due soon!!

Sounds pretty reasonable to get all that done. My fan bracket went bad and caused a lobe of my fan to break off in BFE Utah last year. (This was after a toyota dealer said nothing was wrong with it before I left for my cross country trip) Luckily some nice guy saved my ass and hauled me to a great shop in St George! Thanks to the Ih8mud boss man

 

[MongooseGA]

How are you applying the Meguiars? I have a Makita 7” polisher I was going to use. I need to knock some oxidation off the red ‘89 4Runner I bought. It’s got to have a nice shine on it so it looks good getting scratched up on hunting and fishing forays!

I used my Porter Cable for this, but I'll probably use my Makita for the hood and roof. Just faster to use. I prefer the control and safety of the PC for most of the car, though.

 

[vcheng]

Replaced the low frequency horn. OEM Maruko Part # Toyota 86520-60200.

 

[Cargo1234]

Speaker swap
Not an audiophile so just looking for an upgrade with no major modifications

Found 6.5" kicker speakers that dropped right into the nakamichi cradle. Screwed them in and reinstalled the door panels

 

[Rizon25]

Thanks to this thread here: Center Differential Lock Transfer Indicator Switch Problem

I was able to finally get my central diff light working again on my dash.

 

[bushdoctor]

Did the annual death valley trip - 4 days

San Diego to Trona > Balarat > Jail-Canyon > Panamint > Lippincott pass > Racetrack > Ubehebe > Furnace creek > Echo Canyon and back to San Diego

 

[Overlandeffex]

Looks like a great trip!

 

[bushdoctor]

Looks like a great trip!

Death Valley is special..surreal..First time experiencing snow out there

 

[Njck22]

Installed an Alpine HU, Alpine sub amp in the center console, Earthquake 4 channel under the passenger seat, and 2 Boston Acoustics 10.5LF subs

Sounds great so far, waiting for more time to do the door speakers.

 

[MongooseGA]

Preparing for a retrofit. What good is big light output when the lenses are cloudy?

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[wvrx]

^20 minutes with a buffer makes all the difference!

I silicone’d my sunroof seal and patched up the front door speaker. Trying to milk the stock setup as long as I can...opened the rear sub enclosure and the speaker foam is completely disintegrated beyond saving.

 

[Matthew810]

Wast just browsing Craigslist thinking about roof rack options and found this surco safari roof rack and high lift jack . Picked both up for 40 bucks. I'll have to figure out the best way to mount the rack to the oem rails but it should fit my needs for summer camping. The jack is a bonus. It needs some attention but it looks ok. Will be a nice tool to have along. Just need to lube it up and check that all the parts are good to go. For 40 bucks I don't feel like I can go wrong.

 

[jsigone]

nice score!!

 

[ktmracer01]

Wast just browsing Craigslist thinking about roof rack options and found this surco safari roof rack and high lift jack . Picked both up for 40 bucks. I'll have to figure out the best way to mount the rack to the oem rails but it should fit my needs for summer camping. The jack is a bonus. It needs some attention but it looks ok. Will be a nice tool to have along. Just need to lube it up and check that all the parts are good to go. For 40 bucks I don't feel like I can go wrong.

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Nice score on that! The high lift alone was more than worth it.

 

[camino70]

^20 minutes with a buffer makes all the difference!

I silicone’d my sunroof seal and patched up the front door speaker. Trying to milk the stock setup as long as I can...opened the rear sub enclosure and the speaker foam is completely disintegrated beyond saving.

Simply speakers sells foam kits, cheap and easy.

 

[moooooooo]

g'day everyone. It's been a while. I ended up over in NZ after i sold the beast. Still in NZ and loving it. Unfortunately no LC's needed in the CBD of Auckland, NZ, but hey, never say never.
I hope y'all have been safe and well since i was last here and i wish you all the best of good health, good fortune, and many laughs in 2019
cheers
Peter

 

[crash1121]

In order:

All for an outrageous $12 and 8 grueling minutes of my time, I replaced my ‘06’s PCV valve (no grommet required for ‘06-‘07s)!

There was no reason for its replacement, other than OCD stemmed from recently replacing all of the nasty 27-yr-old PCV components on my other vehicle.
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Next, noticed a strange snapping/clicking noise similar to that of which a bad CV joint can make, which occurred when going straight, and turning left & right. So, I took it to the dealer to investigate, and they found that the CVs were perfect and decided to take off the Spidertrax wheel spacers... Lo and behold, THEY were the culprit to the noise. I suspect when they were removed for a brake job at Slee a while back, loctite wasn’t used!

(Tucked look is killing me—this won’t last long)
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Then got a string of dash lights when driving down the freeway, so I hooked Techstream up and found: bad O2 sensor (bank 1, sensor 2).

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Just ordered all 4 O2 sensors because what the hell, and also think I found a great deal on (upstream & downstream) Bosch O2 sensors. Hope these’ll bump up my god awful (for a near-stock setup) fuel mileage, too!

Upstream O2 sensor ($76): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000CF5Z2G/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
Downstream O2 sensor ($55): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0028MN5IM/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
(These work for ‘06 & ‘07s—not sure about other MYs)

 

[saucebox]

Wast just browsing Craigslist thinking about roof rack options and found this surco safari roof rack and high lift jack . Picked both up for 40 bucks. I'll have to figure out the best way to mount the rack to the oem rails but it should fit my needs for summer camping. The jack is a bonus. It needs some attention but it looks ok. Will be a nice tool to have along. Just need to lube it up and check that all the parts are good to go. For 40 bucks I don't feel like I can go wrong.

Hi Lift makes a fix-it kit—new pins and springs. If yours are gummed up or rusty, it's a super-easy way to refresh to new.

https://www.amazon.com/Hi-Lift-FK-1-Jack-Fix-It-Kit/dp/B00042K37O