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.