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I got these ones and was surprised how well the quality seemed:

Got the same after reading it here and installed today. All good on my end!
 
This weekends project. Complete 06-07 conversion on my 04. Really liking the new look.
Forgot to order an emblem for the grill.

If anyone is looking a set of good used tail lights I have the originals that are in good shape. For 03-05 models.

Also have a set of 2 month old glass OEM headlight housing and clear OEM corner lights of anyone is looking.

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Are you referring to beam height? As in the drivers side beam begins to be lower than the passengers side at 30-40ft. If so, this is intentional to help prevent blinding oncoming traffic as it approaches your drivers side ____,———
I’m not referring to that step up. Take a look at this picture. The gap between the high side of driver side beam and the high side of passenger side beam increases as you move away from that wall. So does the low side.

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Can you post a night shot? In my LX, driver and passenger side beam line up until 30-40 ft but beyond that they do not.

Yeah, I'll post a picture later. I did some height adjustments by measuring at 25 feet. I just did vertical though, I didn't do anything with horizontal. The kinks in the beam pattern appear to be roughly the same distance as the headlights themselves. Not sure if that's right or not. Good article here on amin and US vs EU and some background, Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply - https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html -- Need to spend a little more time with it though.
 
Replaced the lens on my instrument cluster. It had some pretty bad scratches , not sure from what. But cheap enough from Mr T and pretty straight forward.

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There is a plastic polish system I used on my turntable cover that eliminates scratches and polishes the plastic to a perfect finish again. Might save the next person some time in the future. Nice refresh btw
 
I did two of mine. I read through the walkthroughs here and got started. It wasn’t terrible but it was a little tough getting the thing out. It felt like one of those puzzle games you get at Cracker Barrel where you have to have things perfectly positioned then everything just Comes apart with no effort. The most worrisome part was separating the to sides of the motor housing. I was terrified I was going to break it the whole time. It took me 2 hours for the first one with a 2 year olds help.
I followed this video below and for some reason my rods to the door lock assembly did not look like it does here at 3:18... so I struggled trying to figure out how to remove it without breaking. In the video, theres a pink plastic clip that unhooks downward of the handle, mine didn't have that at all and instead there was a yellow plastic locking tab that I determined need to be rotated clockwise to release. I was super concerned I would break it sine it's something that requires some force to unclip and i'm sure it's not something sold separately.

For anybody considering tackling the door lock actuator, it's really NOT that bad and once you do the first one it all makes sense for the rest of the doors. I hear the driver side one is the hardest.

 
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This weekends project. Complete 06-07 conversion on my 04. Really liking the new look.
Forgot to order an emblem for the grill.

If anyone is looking a set of good used tail lights I have the originals that are in good shape. For 03-05 models.

Also have a set of 2 month old glass OEM headlight housing and clear OEM corner lights of anyone is looking.

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Interested if the headlights aren’t spoken for! Looks great btw
 
I followed this video below and for some reason my rods to the door lock assembly did not look like it does here at 3:18... so I struggled trying to figure out how to remove it without breaking. In the video, theres a pink plastic clip that unhooks downward of the handle, mine didn't have that at all and instead there was a yellow plastic locking tab that I determined need to be rotated counter-clockwise. I was super concerned I would break it sine it's something that requires some force to unclip and i'm sure it's not something sold separately.

For anybody considering tackling the door lock actuator, it's really NOT that bad and once you do the first one it all makes sense for the rest of the doors. I hear the driver side one is the hardest.


Oh yea I forgot that apparently I grabbed the wrong motors somehow and had to grind a flat side onto the output shaft to get the worm gear back on. That was an unnecessary step that slowed me down. There quite a few cuss words used in finagling that yellow clip though.
 
Got the same after reading it here and installed today. All good on my end!
DAMMIT! if only I had waited and not pulled the trigger last year. I spend 40some$ a piece. HAHA. That is good info on the quality. Hopefully others can get on on this cuz what a difference it makes
 
Completed my tcase refresh with new oem bearings and seals. My garage still smells gear oil after a week lol.
Drained and filled F&R diff fluids, total of 6 quarts for front diff, tcase and rear diff.
6 pieces of oem drain/fill plug crush washers.
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Got the 35s in as well.
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It was a productive week. Looking forward for some shake down at the trails soon, but gotta recover from this pesky corona visitor first.
 
My (adult) son, and three of his buddies decided that they needed a guy’s ski trip. Apparently everyone booked the trip, and then figured out that most of them drove either unreliable or two seat vehicles. Somehow my old 99 LX with 270+k miles, that was just supposed to be a spare household vehicle, got volunteered.

I don’t know if I was more concerned about my kid, or three strangers driving my LX, but (so far) everything has been OK…
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Last Saturday, I headed over to a buddy's house to install the aux. driving light and indicator panel inserts in the ARB front bumper...literally as I was starting it up to pull it into his garage, the "Sporadic Crank No Start" reared it's ugly head again and we couldn't move it.

I was planning to do the lights ahead of having Steve Prosise install my winch while I was recouping from shoulder replacement surgery that was scheduled for this morning...(which got cancelled last minute because the anesthesiologist aborted the procedure due to heart concerns...but that's a whole different story)

I had researched the crank-no-start issue (ChowCares has a great YT video on it) and it seems the culprit is the Block Assembly (main fuse and relay box) under the hood. I had already purchased the OEM replacement during a Toyota of Decatur sale, so Prosise did the install of that instead of the winch. We also threw some military terminals and Slee terminal brackets at it while he was in there. Winch will have to be on deck for now.


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Yes, we know one of the indicator lights is upside down... :)

And hopefully now the crank-no-start phenomena is a thing of the past.

I can't believe Steve got the little push bumperettes on...I tried and there were nuts I just couldn't get started.
 
Last Saturday, I headed over to a buddy's house to install the aux. driving light and indicator panel inserts in the ARB front bumper...literally as I was starting it up to pull it into his garage, the "Sporadic Crank No Start" reared it's ugly head again and we couldn't move it.

I was planning to do the lights ahead of having Steve Prosise install my winch while I was recouping from shoulder replacement surgery that was scheduled for this morning...(which got cancelled last minute because the anesthesiologist aborted the procedure due to heart concerns...but that's a whole different story)

I had researched the crank-no-start issue (ChowCares has a great YT video on it) and it seems the culprit is the Block Assembly (main fuse and relay box) under the hood. I had already purchased the OEM replacement during a Toyota of Decatur sale, so Prosise did the install of that instead of the winch. We also threw some military terminals and Slee terminal brackets at it while he was in there. Winch will have to be on deck for now.


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Yes, we know one of the indicator lights is upside down... :)

And hopefully now the crank-no-start phenomena is a thing of the past.

I can't believe Steve got the little push bumperettes on...I tried and there were nuts I just couldn't get started.
Hmmm my buddy with a matrix is having a similar problem. Thanks for the video I’ll have him check to see if his EFI fuse looks like it’s been arcing.
 

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