Recent content by COSteve

I would certainly fall into the lack of use camp although you would think 16 years of light use would be enough to loosen things up some.

Both rear doors on my '04 are very tight in the hinges. I have lubed them and they don't make any noise they just don't swing freely. What am I missing?

Sounds like something to learn to ignore. That's good news.

Yea, I live in a place with a small collection of very expensive shops so I pretty much diy everything. Sometimes it cost you $ due to mistaken diag. but it's part of the game. I'm going up tomorrow am so I'll check temps then. thanks

Ok, yea I did the work myself. The old bearing seemed ok to me but I went ahead. Not big $. It's a V6. I have plenty of OBD tools and Techstream so I'll try monitoring transmission temps. I changed all fluids including a tranny flush when I got the car a year ago. If it was tranny why is the...

I can't find my initial post on this problem and this weeks shutdown seems to have lost the conversation so I'm starting a new thread. 04 Runner, little over 100k miles. Right rear wheel well area has burning rubber smell after 30 minute trip up to ski area. Upon board advice I changed the...

When I had the wheel off I spun the hub and it seemed ok, no roughness or noise. This was my first thought as well.

I have a '04 with about 110k on the clock. Recently after a 45 minute uphill drive there is a very slight burning smell coming from the right rear area. It's happened several times. I've gone underneath and nothing is touching the exhaust. Pulled the rear wheel and brake disk and found nothing...

I saw a 40k mile one just this week for $25k. It was nice too but might have to wait a while to get that price.

I'm sure you could use Techstream to do this. As I understand it you have to erase all the extra keys and then add them back in one at a time. I have TS but have never tried this function.

I just towed a uhaul 5x8 with a similar load to yours over Vail Pass and Eisenhower tunnel to Denver with no issues at all. I only have the V6. Funny, my V6 gets about 22 mixed driving and on this trip it got 21 with the trailer. I wasn't pushing it at all.

So is it possible you have a low tire that warms up above the low limit after a few miles of driving? I use Techstream to monitor TPMS, you can read all sensors outputs as the car sees them.

Would you guys put the Hankook Dynapro ATM in this group as well?

What did you do with the old ones? I had a set of snow tires and wheels that had no sensors. My summer setup was in the corner of the garage. The car would pick up the old set and keep the light off until I was quite a ways from home. Seemed the time from loosing signal to light on was reset...

What is it about those front diff drain plugs? I've done two recently and they both were crazy tight. I was lucky both were in good shape so they could take the torque required. You could stick a tube in the fill port and vacuum the old lube out. Maybe drill out the old plug and replace...