What have you done to your 200 Series this week?

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GreatBenzini said:
Not sure what you used but I know Clyde’s leather recoloring balm gets lots of love for repairing cracks/discoloration
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In the past I've used Colourlock with great results out of the box. They've been hard to get a hold of as of late, so I went with Angelus paints. If Colourlock was available I would have went with them in a heart beat.

I'm not sure who did the seat repair in the past with this car but it was horrifying to look at.
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Seat piping restored with Colourlock color matched glue.
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the whole seat bolster repainted.
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Since the Cruiser is mostly driven short distances, I have installed a Ctek tender quick disconnect. I was aiming for OEM+.

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Sajan said:
Do you know which color would work best for the LX 570 "black"...it doesnt seem like a true black and more a very dark grey.
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Check the Clyde’s website. They offer over 20 different colors & have an online “quiz” that might help give you the best match.
 
Spaghetti Sauce said:
In the past I've used Colourlock with great results out of the box. They've been hard to get a hold of as of late, so I went with Angelus paints. If Colourlock was available I would have went with them in a heart beat.

I'm not sure who did the seat repair in the past with this car but it was horrifying to look at.
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Seat piping restored with Colourlock color matched glue.
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the whole seat bolster repainted.
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Since the Cruiser is mostly driven short distances, I have installed a Ctek tender quick disconnect. I was aiming for OEM+.

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Colourlock makes awesome stuff too. Saw the
Spaghetti Sauce said:
In the past I've used Colourlock with great results out of the box. They've been hard to get a hold of as of late, so I went with Angelus paints. If Colourlock was available I would have went with them in a heart beat.

I'm not sure who did the seat repair in the past with this car but it was horrifying to look at.
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Seat piping restored with Colourlock color matched glue.
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the whole seat bolster repainted.
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Since the Cruiser is mostly driven short distances, I have installed a Ctek tender quick disconnect. I was aiming for OEM+.

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Colourlock makes awesome stuff. They were bought up by Koch Chemie (love Top Star), but one the Colourlock founder has since started up Geist. Wanna reach out and see how their spray Conditioner and Leather Preserver balm work together.
 
dudemancool1904 said:
Wife went to work so took advantage of the empty garage. Pulled the skids off, changed the oil and filter without spilling anything! OEM filter and had some donated Mobil 1 EP 0W-20 from my brother so used that all up. Flushed the power steering reservoir, and rotated all five tires. Oh as I promised @Boston Mangler I finally installed oem black lugs.
Coopers have about 30k miles on them, shoulders and tread blocks still look great. Want to switch to nittos but I can safely get another 25k miles out of these.
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I continue to tear things apart...nothing new has been installed ..so car's been out of commission since the 28th..

Brakes: dismantled the front....waiting for parts (held out for the 25% off). need to start dismantling the rear.
Muffler/Tail pipe: got the old one off. ready for new ones to be installed.

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texag06ish said:
What exhaust did you go with?
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Back to OEM. I want peace and quiet.

The one the previous owner put in just droned on the highway. Not my cup of tea, especially on a Lexus.

EDIT: This is the one that was on there. Totally unnecessary mod IMO considering how long some of these drives are in a comfy SUV..
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This is coming from someone who listens to Porsche exhausts like it's music for hours at a time..not the right mod for this car.

And unfortunately he didn't save the previous muffler, and they also welded the cheap muffler to the tail pipe, which means I had to cut it.....and after doing the math, I just ended up ordering a new tail pipe also rather than having to deal with muffler shop/welding a new connector piece that will work with the OEM muffler.

Lessons to be learned:
leave your muffler alone
as with any OEM to aftermarket mods: try to save your OEM parts when possible
 
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I finally had some time to turn some wrenches on our LX this weekend. I installed a dash cam yesterday and did some interior detailing. Idk what the previous owner was into but I found about every snack option under the seat and inside that access hole in the carpet under there. It was such an impressive variety that I decided to pull the seat completely out expecting to find the green snack inducing herb under there… I only found treats.

Today I changed the oil and, inspired by @Sajan, hit the zerks. After working on our LC I miss the lift and Dissent skids. I did not fit under the LX in high mode and the skids are not very intuitive. It didn’t help that the skids were missing 9 bolts. This really has me rethinking my thoughts on letting the dealership perform the big 60k mile service I have coming up that’s covered under the CPO program. Between them missing bolts and spotless zerks I don’t really trust what the service history says. The zerks still had paint on them and looked completely untouched and at 56k miles I don’t think they’d look this fresh.

Icing on the cake was the Jowett gear that fellow mudder @Rhoman parted with, this will make the oil changes much more pleasant in the future.

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Is that a Fumoto (have them on all my rides)? Part# for an LC200 please?

siberian
 
siberian said:
Is that a Fumoto (have them on all my rides)? Part# for an LC200 please?

siberian
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I ordered this:
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Is the oil pan and filter same thread? Given the depth of it on the filter housing the standard wrench would probably not work right?

siberian
 
siberian said:
Is the oil pan and filter same thread? Given the depth of it on the filter housing the standard wrench would probably not work right?

siberian
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It will not work on the OEM filter housing. The filter housing in my picture is the aftermarket Jowett performance billet filter housing that replaces the OEM one.
 
I’ve had a few customers with these (the one on the pan, not the filter). They are well made, and I’ve never seen an issue with them. But since no one asked—it’s tits on a bull.
 
GrouchyTech said:
I’ve had a few customers with these (the one on the pan, not the filter). They are well made, and I’ve never seen an issue with them. But since no one asked—it’s tits on a bull.
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The 5 gallon bucket I use to carry oil to the recycling place has a small screw on cap and the ability to run a drain hose directly into that bucket to drain the oil is definitely tits on something and it ain’t a bull.
 
I am looking to buy some flare nut wrenches since I need to swap out the brake lines with the Slee ones.
Other than 10mm, what other sizes does our trucks use?

I have yet to use it for anything else so wondering if I can get away with just getting a single one versus a set.
 
Sajan said:
I am looking to buy some flare nut wrenches since I need to swap out the brake lines with the Slee ones.
Other than 10mm, what other sizes does our trucks use?

I have yet to use it for anything else so wondering if I can get away with just getting a single one versus a set.
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Gearwrench flare wrenches are very good. But if you want the very best flare wrench you can get, and I avoid tool trucks as much as possible, Snap-On make the best ones.

8mm, 10mm, 17mm
 
When you have the room you can use a vice-grip on the outside of a cheap flare wrench to get the job done without rounding the bolt head… this has saved me a couple times.
 
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