What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (34 Viewers)

[dryrunner]

Yes, I will take some pics of the work. Crutchfield has some replacement speaker options, some good stuff. My direction is towards dynaudio speakers and Audison amps. But it is $$$, so it will be a slow process. I had a full system in a Lexus GS400, really amazing sound. It will take a lot of dynamat to suppress the whine of the Cooper tires.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

So how do you guys deal with/treat the rust on that frame?

What rust? This frame is quite clean. Truck came out of Texas.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

3+ the Baja rig...? I think I see three on the left...

3 total. 2016 URJ200 (bone stock), 2008 VDJ200 (very built) and the LX570 skinned as a URJ200 (Canguro Racing)

 

[SWUtah]

What rust? This frame is quite clean. Truck came out of Texas.

From your picture that looked like it had been badly rusted

 

[cruiseroutfit]

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From your picture that looked like it had been badly rusted

That is a sheet metal bracket welded to the lower arm to reinforce the sway bar bottom mount. I think you're seeing a combination of that, road salt and a super zoomed out cell phone photo

She's clean

 

[Tapage]

3 total. 2016 URJ200 (bone stock), 2008 VDJ200 (very built) and the LX570 skinned as a URJ200 (Canguro Racing)

How did the diesel engine in Baja .? ( tell me that you have some pics of it .. )

 

[cruiseroutfit]

How did the diesel engine in Baja .? ( tell me that you have some pics of it .. )

Hmmm?

 

[mcgaskins]

Swapped the factory tie down points for the ARB ones on the LX. One job.

 

[NQCruiser]

Not so much me, but the building's mowing contractor did this to my 200 this week.......

Sigh... $450 plus tinting later - at least he's picking up the tab.......

 

[jmw101]

NQCruiser - on first sight, I thought this was a result of a baseball line drive... At least it's just glass.

 

[TonyP]

If it hit the body that would be an ass pain to fix. Glass is an easy swap. Silver lining.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Mmmm, 200 wheel rear bearings are such a beast to do, and I'm a bit disappointed we are seeing failures at 125-150k, my 100 has 235k on original rear bearings fwiw and they are easier to change imo.

The upside... time for a rear ARB Air Locker while the shafts are out

 

[mcgaskins]

Mmmm, 200 wheel rear bearings are such a beast to do, and I'm a bit disappointed we are seeing failures at 125-150k, my 100 has 235k on original rear bearings fwiw and they are easier to change imo.

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The upside... time for a rear ARB Air Locker while the shafts are out

I’m not sure I’ve seen this failure mentioned before, so what are the symptoms and signs to look out for?

 

[ckkone]

seeing failures at 125-150k

Did they get noisy or was there some play in the shaft?

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I’m not sure I’ve seen this failure mentioned before, so what are the symptoms and signs to look out for?

Play at the wheel, noise, ABS errors, etc.

 

[TeCKis300]

Do they fail as a result of hard use or just mileage?

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Do they fail as a result of hard use or just mileage?

We've seen both. The race car gets new ones once or twice a season with under 1500 miles between. My personal 200 has been flagged pretty good but nothing outside of normal so I'm calling it mileage based.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

That photo was after I has cut the race off the shaft. This is how it looked coming apart

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Speaking of age based failures, is there a water pump related failure thread for 200's. I've seen a half dozen here locally in the 100k range with weeping pumps including my own. This weekend Olly (my shop czar) is doing a radiator and AISIN pump/fan bracket on Bryce's 2008 (our office manager). The plan was a radiator (see cracked Radiator thread) and then water pump while he was in there. Sure enough his was also leaking.

Mine @ 95k

Bryce's at 120k

He went ahead and did the new AISIN fan bracket along with the pump, belt and our regular "service kit". I notice trends in the Land Cruiser parts sales realm and we sell more 200 water pumps than we do 100 water pumps. Then again we sell more 100 timing belt kits and those come with water pumps

 

[NQCruiser]

NQCruiser - on first sight, I thought this was a result of a baseball line drive... At least it's just glass.

Yeah, stupid thing was that a minute before that I went out to move it out of the way so the mower guy could clean up the grass in front of the vehicle - the bullbar overhangs the carpark a bit, and he can never get the little stripe under the bar. I got to the car and realised I left the fob on my desk, so went back to get it and the rock went through the window as I reached the office door.....