Recent content by Driftwood71

I had a mysterious coolant leak around 60k miles on my 2006 v8, but I purchased it at 52k in 2019...time leads to old gasket problems regardless of miles I guess. I eventually found the seal for the water pump was bad, barely visible just under the throttle body. After the water pump was...

I wish you the best with getting the whole system to work together. I'm about two more loose clamps away from welding the entire magnaflow assembly together.

I love the DT long tube headers and y-pipe, so there's my two cents. Haven't tested if the Y-pipe hanger would clear skid plates if you had any, mine hangs suspiciously low however definitely able to be cut shorter if that became an issue. I will say while I'm here, the magnaflow overland...

I've ordered this Boxer Tire Tie Downs 2" Twisted Hook Black Ratchet Strap Fully Adjustable For Tires Up To 39" x 13.5 - Kartek Off-Road and some D-ring brackets I can bolt to the floor. Seems like the easiest method I can come up with.

You ever have one of those "aha" moments that feels more like a "stupid, should've been the first thing you checked"? Because that's where were at now. I checked this morning and lo and behold, the top misalignment spacers are missing...just were never installed. I would hope this could be...

I was thinking along the same lines, but I didn't put too much thought into it because of the fact a well known and trusted shop installed them. I'll have to take another look tomorrow morning, but I'm a little skeptical about the top spacer even being installed in the first place. I hope that's...

Ill see what the long travel guys have to say. I'm just now noticing the difference in the orientation of the uniball housing, kinda seems like something that would be designed intentionally...so im curious.

Definitely something ill check with full bump, id hate to run into issues there at any speed. I reached out to solo so we'll see what they say about it.

It seems to elude me but I know its out there, I cannot seem to find another example of a 4th gen 4runner with the stock length solo motorsports lower control arms installed. Id like to see other installs/hear from other people with some insight. Mainly for two reasons, 1. The length of the...

I don't have any useful knowledge on hand but I have the same no fender liner because 35's, afe with a snorkel, situation you have going on and I assumed I would just install the dual arb (that i don't have yet) in the interior. I've seen it done once watching DirtLifestyles "80 series"...

Ill probably do some math and have a muffler shop weld a J pipe onto the exhaust. I believe it changes the sound the least and targets a certain frequency (drone) instead.

Planning on doing that within the next few days. Benefit of living in the northwest is never needing fluid 9 months out of the year, so a smaller tank will be just fine. There's always something else to do lol

Update since i think this is relevant and i cant post yet. Today i finished removing and trimming both front fenders about 2-3" and mated the safari snorkel to my Afe ProdryS cold air intake. safari snorkel rubber piping fit right into the inlet for the CAI, what luck haha. Feel free to judge...

Magnaflow drones on mine as well. contacted them and they recommended having a resonator welded to the exhaust. Magnaflow support also mentioned that retrofitting one of their mufflers that come with a sort of J pipe (they call it something else) might have clearance issues but they didn't say...

Cool to see some first hand knowledge on the product. If i would've known about it just two weeks earlier it would've likely made it onto mine instead of the magnaflow.