Recent content by CDNsurf

When I was down in that area I found these guys through a Tundra Forum that had some good reviews. The owner was a Master Toyota Tech. Tomball's Choice For Auto Repair It was just over $1000 for the timing belt, water pump and new anti-freeze. At the time I believe the dealers were...

Planned a quick 15 min job to replace the foam/grille insulator piece that sits behind the grille and hood. Of course 6/8 nuts are seized and or spin, looks like I will be cutting them off and getting new hardware...

Bumping this old thread. I assume the easiest way to deal with these stuck nuts/bolts (that now spin) is to dremel them off at the nut and order new hardware? I was able to get 2/8 off but stopped until I can order new bolts/nuts. All these to replace the grille insulator piece that had...

We’re you able to retain the factory AUX? I installed the same head unit and kit from crutchfield but for the life of me I could not get the factory aux port to work. Went through it all with their advisors, who thought it might be a harness issue. I decided just to run a separate aux cable to...

Not K02s but just put Falken Wildpeaks AT3 on my 08 V8 stock height (~100k miles XREAS). 265/70/17 on 17” Trail TRD wheels, had slight rubbing on the fender liners (pushed them up about 1.5”) no other rubbing now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey Crikeymike I’m looking into refreshing my 08 V8 4WD xreas suspension (~108k) and hoping to take advantage of the current sale! I’ve read over pretty much this entire thread but still a bit unsure of the direction I want to go. I want to keep it <3” (avoiding diff drop and UCA for now)...

Appreciate the feedback. The market right now is very location dependent. Though it is fair for my neck of the woods (TX right now) others like you said are a bit inflated, but if you like you'll buy it! There was a 03 GX470 with 95k local here and was sold within a day online from someone...

Not sure if this is allowed... I'm close to getting into another 4runner (previously had a 99 limited). Came across a local trade in at a Toyota dealer, 03 V8 limited 4x4 with 111k on it and pending inspection I was able to negotiate it down to $9.5k OTD. I believe the 90k service was done...

Fairly sure your surf does not have one. My 98 does not and from what other users have mentioned and what I found it uses the 22 pin plug MOBD system see this thread OBD II protocol - 4x4 Hilux Forum(half way down) for more info, some years of the surfs have been found to have OBO II while its...

*UPDATE* I've been fairly busy this weekend, but I got the new alternator put in Friday and everything is working perfectly and smoothly again. I did end up going with a lifetime alternator from Napa (Reman from BBB industries), this was the best option in terms of price and availability for...

That is the route I will most likely be taking, this time I'll be giving Napa's reman version a try, I believe its the best economical choice. $250 Lifetime warranty, toyota wanted north of $400 for theirs and the others had poor reviews and were in the same price range as Napa's. If I wasn't...

Alright, I had a chance to double check everything over again. All fuses were good, grounds were tight and clean, cleaned up the battery terminals and made sure they were tight, tested the voltage on the alternator plug (reading battery voltage) and couldn't find any evidence of wire shortage/...

I will take a look at it all again tomorrow, thanks for the advise so far. *I can confirm the alternator is a remanufactured Champion (Most likely the problem)... and the battery is a Bosch, both of these were installed when I imported my Hilux/4runner from Japan*

Hey, Battery light randomly came on the dash earlier today on my truck. Both the battery and alternator are just under 2 years old with ~ 50km (31k miles). When the light came on I took it over to part source for them to do an on the truck load test. Everything but the charging system checked...

A picture of what it's going on!