What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (35 Viewers)

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Can’t find any solutions in search but maybe I missed it. The front passenger and rear AC in my 2016 LC is not cold. Blows fine but it’s like the AC isn’t on in those zones. Drivers side blows cold air without issue. (Recirc flap is broken but don’t think that would cause this to happen?)
You are low on freon.
I had the system evacuated, die set and recharged.
Had the same issue, taking it back in 30 days for pressure test as we could not find a leak.
 
Wild Friday night doing diffs and TC fluids on my wife’s stock ‘16.



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How do you guys afford a house with a garage that big? Something like that would cost over 2 million here in Tyson’s corner VA
Not mine, but yes, it’s a nice place to wrench. Climate controlled, good sound system for jams, a tank to dump my used oil in…
 
Got my Rhino front bumper on yesterday. Ran into some difficulties with mounting the winch tho. Will need to try and mount it up again later

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Radiator patch on the ‘13 (80k) while I decide whether or not to replace myself or take it to the shop… or just let it ride until 125k or so.

Went in reverse with the sandpaper. Started with medium grit and the scored it with coarse before applying JB. I used standard JB formula for the patch and let it cure the full 14 hours.

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Hopefully that holds, on my tundra i had the same crack, i did the method you did but it eventually seeped out. Such a shame to replace an entire radiator just because of that one weak spot in design.
 
You are low on freon.
I had the system evacuated, die set and recharged.
Had the same issue, taking it back in 30 days for pressure test as we could not find a leak.
Yup you’re right. Just did a recharge and it helped for now. We’ll see if it holds. The fan speed in the rear is pretty weak but maybe that’s normal? This is our first summer with it so haven’t had to blast the AC before now
 
Looking good. My opinion is that's the best bumper for the 200 without it looking like it doesn't really belong.

How many hours did it take for the install?
Well, if you subtract the time spent screwing around with the winch, about 6 hours. The instructions are....ok-ish? I dunno, I haven't been overly impressed with the instructions from any off-road company. At least compared to what I get with my "regular" car/moto parts.

A bunch of time was spent playing with the alignment of the "wings" to get the body lines correct and leave the proper gap between them and the headlights and fenders.

I need to circle back and install the winch still. What stopped me was the need to at least minimally notch out the gusset on the crossbar that goes between the headlights. In talking with another Rhino bumper owner, he just sectioned it out completely from between the headlights. Which the more I think about it, makes the most sense. That gives free access to the winch and if the winch needs to be serviced it can then be removed without having to remove the entire bumper. So I guess that's the way I'm going to go. I'll keep the piece I remove and if I go back to stock, I'll just weld it back into place.
 
I've had my LC for about 2 months now. Here is what I've done so far (not all this week)...

Per usual, my first "mod" was installing a blendmount and mirror tap for the radar detector. The results are so clean. Blows my mind that people drive around with a cord running up their dash when this solution exists.
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BH3D cupholder installed. Holy crap what an upgrade. Works great for the basic bitch Stanley cup my wife got me.
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Changed the cabin air filter. By the looks of it the PO didn't do this very often (ever?). Replaced with the Bosch HEPA filter.
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Rigged up this phone mount using a phone holder from my last car, a Ram mount double socket arm, and a knock off ram mount clamp from Amazon. I really like the phone placement as it doesn't block anything and doesn't sit up too high or too low. I'll probably bolt it to the side of the center console at some point to get it off the parking brake, but this is working well for the time being.
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Swapped the PCV valve. For $6 and 5 minutes this is a no-brainer PM job.
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And finally, changed transfer case fluid this past weekend. Went with Redline MT-LV. The oil that came out wasn't bad enough to concern me but it was definitely overdue for a change. Planned on knocking out the diffs as well but ran out of daylight so that job is on the list for next weekend.

Much more to come as my limited free time permits.
“Basic bitch Stanley cup my wife gave me”
Heh heh, heh heh heh (Beavis laugh)
 
Yup you’re right. Just did a recharge and it helped for now. We’ll see if it holds. The fan speed in the rear is pretty weak but maybe that’s normal? This is our first summer with it so haven’t had to blast the AC before now
There is also a TSB that reprogram the HVAC servos.
That may help, but it will cost you roughly an hour of service at the dealership.
 
I started the install of the Dissent full replacement front bumper this afternoon. It took nearly two hours to get all of the factory plastics, hardware, clips etc. removed. I pressure washed everything off after the removal and I am pretty certain that I washed out 5 lbs of bugs, grass and other road debris. It is now prepped for the actual bumper install which I hope to start in the morning.

I went ahead and installed the Baja Designs lights in the face plates as well as the parking sensors. I had to open up the sensor holes with a step bit to nearly 1" in order to fit the outer frame clip portion of the sensors. I went ahead and bought new OEM painted black sensors to match the bumper. I also vinyl wrapped the headlight washer covers in matte black vinyl. Considering that this was the first time I have messed with installing vinyl wrap I am pleased with the outcome. I made sure I bought plenty of extra incase I need to redo them in the future.

Fingers crossed everything goes well with the remainder of the install.

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No clue why my Imgur pics aren't showing up in this forum!? Went ahead and added as attachments instead.
 
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