What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (17 Viewers)
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What’s the miles on those plugs?
Not sure, the rig has 206k, but I've only owned for about 2k.
Oil and filter change at 80k miles. OEM filter and mobil1 5w-30. Rotated all five coopers at 10k miles. They are wearing great.
How’s your wear with waiting for the 10k tire rotation? I do my Michelins every 5k and am seeing significant wear that may be more pronounced with longer intervals.
Oh no, i rotate every 5k. I’m just saying with 10k total mileage I’m seeing very little road wear.
Another headlight restore post. This is my 2nd time in going on 5yrs of ownership. This time headlights off. You can really get at all the nooks and crannies this way. Started with a 3m ultra fine pad, then 800, 1200, 2000, 3000, then 5000. Finished with some Meguiars headlight polish.
They definitely do not look new, but holding off that $1200 itch to get new ones just a little longer.
They definitely do not look new, but holding off that $1200 itch to get new ones just a little longer.
jfz80
Cruisin’
Looks like you have a stock bumper.
Any insight to whether an arb with hoops would impede the headlight removal? Or think that may be able to slip out with bumper in place ?
I replaced my headlight assemblies without removing my bull bar.
You do have to remove or at least get around the plastic bumper to remove 2 of the bolts for the headlight (one of those two may be behind the grill, but the other is near where the fender and the bumper meet. @tbisaacs has replaced his headlights, but remember he has an Ironman bullbar and not the ARB. So YMMV.
Clean up of oxidized Toyota front badge. It wasn’t in bad shape yet but I had 20 minutes between meetings to get it done. We will see how long it lasts but the $15 headlight kit from Cerakote is more than enough to do it at least one more time if needed.
I cut a hole that makes my life easier at times. 
It looks great! I had the same idea and decided to go with the Alcantara finish.
In case anyone needs some.
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Brand new never opened set of 4 - 1.25” Spidertrax wheel spacers. 5x150 Bought for my Tundra and sold it. $175 on amazon per pair $300 shipped to you.
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Pulled the Slee skids, changed the F/R diffs with Amsoil GL5 Severe Gear 75W-85, T-case with the Toyota Unicorn blood, engine oil with Amsoil SS 0W-20, Amsoil filter, Trans flush and coolant flush, both done at the dealer. They did not top off the coolant reservoir. Boo. New engine air filter and cleaned the cabin air filter. Re-installed the Slee skids. Figures, the most difficult bolt to get to is the one that keeps binding up. Gonna have to figure that out. For some reason, the holes between the trans and T-case skids will not line up correctly. Got 58,200 miles on the LC.
Now, I got to load the LC up for a trip from Lake Arrowhead to Pensacola via the 10. Joy. Leaving at 5 AM tomorrow morning.
My son is graduating from his MOS and being promoted to Lance Corporal at the NAS and wants me there, plus he wants me to pick up all of his possibles for his next duty station so he does not have to try and ship it all.
Interesting aside: Running some errands today, I compared the truck's odometer with my Garmin Tread XL to measure distance. I drove 10.3 miles per the LC's odometer. The Tread XL, via GPS, measured 10.8, 0.5 mi more. The speedometer reads one or so MPH slower than the GPS speed. My tires are BFG AT KO2 285/68R18. That added one inch in diameter does make a difference.
Back to packing....
Now, I got to load the LC up for a trip from Lake Arrowhead to Pensacola via the 10. Joy. Leaving at 5 AM tomorrow morning.
My son is graduating from his MOS and being promoted to Lance Corporal at the NAS and wants me there, plus he wants me to pick up all of his possibles for his next duty station so he does not have to try and ship it all.
Interesting aside: Running some errands today, I compared the truck's odometer with my Garmin Tread XL to measure distance. I drove 10.3 miles per the LC's odometer. The Tread XL, via GPS, measured 10.8, 0.5 mi more. The speedometer reads one or so MPH slower than the GPS speed. My tires are BFG AT KO2 285/68R18. That added one inch in diameter does make a difference.
Back to packing....
Added a spacer plug to my Slee rear bumper to stop the tire carrier from rattling while driving. The model is Carrier Lock Plug.
prharper
GOLD Star
Looks good. Another option is PPF if you don't want to keep doing this every year or so. You can order the film pre-cut for make/model/year. Installation isn't too bad.
I was considering this, any recommendation on brands?
prharper
GOLD Star
Xpel is what I used a few years ago.
FrazzledHunter
SILVER Star
I used 3M.
