Not necessarily all this week but last 2-3.
Powersteering Reservoir hose 3 weeks ago:
Wits End Power Steering Reservoir Hose
Big reco/plug for Wits End PS hose, I replaced my steering rack and hi and lo pressure lines in July. During or before this hose got a slice in it, the oem hose was $80--ridiculous, so I took it off degreased it and put flex seal tape over the slit...which actually largely worked but heat makes it kinda slip and with safety inspection coming I needed to replace it. luckily found Wits Ends hose for $30, its a Continental hydraulic hose, good specs and ratings. Has a nice braided sleeve over it. If you are replacing your steering rack, get the hi and lo pressure lines from rock auto, then get this hose, and youre whole system will be new.
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and yes, I cleaned everything up and the engine bay after this, its fine now
General tune 2 weeks ago:
After taking the air intake off and cleaning the MAF and the throttle body intake I did a series of seafoam induction cleaning the intake/injectors/etc. using a method from
@2001LC, not a lot of white smoke out the tail pipe but some the first rounds and next to none the second rounds. Letting the seafoam deepcreep/spray sit was definitely key. then replaced the following (very cheap from McGeorge Toyota):
All the vacuum lines and idle/up hoses replaced
PCV valve and PCV grommet replaced
Then took off my serp belt and removed my idle pulley, which was spinning freely with minimal noise, used a needle syringe style grease gun attachment and stuck it under the seal to pump in new grease and clean it out. No noise whatsoever now and only spins 1-1.5 revolutions when you spin it by hand. We'll see if that extends it life.
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results wise, truck has an exceptionally smooth idle at 605rpm when warm doesnt dip much below that.
Last Week:
Put on new brake pads ($25 for front and rear after my company discounts and rebate!) in the rear and had rear rotors resurfaced ($10 at Oreillys)
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cheapies obviously, but theyre ceramic, and the rear (front were fine so I left em) are easy to change out, so for $25 I dont care. Took apart rear calipers, cleaned, replaced seal and boots, greased and put back together. Super easy and quick job if you have the right air hose fitting to blow out the piston just follow the FSM.
Install Powertech Stainless Steel Brake lines in the front, and flushed the brake fluid with Toyota Dot 3. Feels great. Did my best to "bed" the brakes.
This weekend (and yesterday):
Rebooted driver side CV - inner was torn but very clean. Replace outer since its probably old. Teeth on the splines arent great but its a new hub flange so I'd rather wait to replace the whole axle.
Wanted to reboot passenger side, both boots were torn to shreads. Grease was completely black. Outer boot has actually been torn since march of this year. In April I just squirted more CV grease in through the sliced opening and cleaned the boot and put flex seal tape over and wrapped all around the boot. I'm not recommending that....but I did then drive 6,000 miles, multiple trails and offroad trips, several water crossings and all without so much as a click. Anyways flex seal eventually unwrapped and came off. Black crap everywhere, I take off the CV and it turns out its one of those 3-ball bearing aftermarket CV axles so I couldnt reboot it even if I wanted to. All that to say these trucks, and even some of their aftermarket components, are tough and its amazing what you can get away with. *as an aside there was some vibrations in the truck with that cv at highway speed but very minimal*
Ordered a brand new toyota cv axle from mcGeorge for $395 shipped and put it in yesterday, drained and filled front diff, buttoned her up and drove her around and now shes all good.
Really just about done (for now), very broke and out of time to work on the truck with a 3rd baby being born and this being the main baby hauler with no back up, can't let it sit on blocks through the week. Plan to remedy this in spring with a real cheap backup vehicle. The truck is currently at 499,450 and im taking my boys and FIL for little offroad camping trip this weekend in Western VA so we'll see if we can crack the long awaited 500,000 mark.
