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Looks like this thread has pretty much dried up. So thanks for all the input... Next stop: Canyonlands / White Rim Trail. Someday...

Thanks for the feedback so far guys. The only unexpected thing so far for me was the little o-ring on the bottom A/C line connector at the condenser - a slow leak and easy enough to replace. Dealt with the sticky 4-low position sensor switch just in time, before having to deal with...

Have a 2012 5th gen TE - 72,000 (fun-filled) miles, but (yikes!) 10 years old. Lots of towing (3,900 lb trailer), plenty of freeway, fair amount of fairly ambitious wheeling, not so much local/commute; has received plenty of regular maintenance and TLC. So... what have you guys found that...

Got shingles so had to cancel my White Rim Trail reservation for May 22-28. Go get it while it's still available: Airport, Gooseberry, Potato, Hardscrabble, Labyrinth, Taylor (2 nights). Wanted y'all to know first so we'll maybe have a 4Runner out there having some fun.

When shopping for our trailer, our mantra was "As small as possible, as big as necessary". Ended up with a 19' fiberglass Escape, and have absolutely no regrets. The 19 Foot Escape Don't be scared by the price - it's in Canadian dollars, so cut it by 20- 25% for US dollars.

Thanks for the hopefully useful information. I'll have a look at the post. [Edit] A great read - thanks! Hot damn - looks like I can monitor my power steering pressure! Maybe it's time to root around on the interwebs and scare up a copy of Techstream. Looks like some fun stuff...

Nope, I only bought the one $13 switch from O'Reilly's, and my original post was made before doing so, just in case I had trouble finding one locally to look at. I still don't know what the threads are - NPT, SBPT, metric of some sort, size? All I have is a sample, and it's sorta hard to order...

Hello. My name is Dave, and I just want some gauges. Anybody know the thread size of the oil pressure idiot light switch? :ybrick:

Yeah - but at least I would know that something has gone awry if it's at a certain temp for months under certain conditions and then under similar conditions it starts running much hotter or colder. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be able pry the acceptable temperature range for the 1GR-FE from...

Again: "As far as I can tell, Toyota doesn't make oil pressure or temperature available on the bus - if they did I would be looking at the values on my ScanGauge, and avoid this whole thing." If anyone has information to the contrary - please lemme know.

What I did was... I didn't want to pull out the oil pressure idiot light switch just in order to have it available while shopping around for an appropriate sender and/or adapter - thereby disabling the vehicle - then have to re-install it while waiting for the sender and/or adapter to show up...

Yeah - brain fade - sorry for the (my) confusion - meant to talk about "oil", not "coolant", flowing out. Damn keyboard - I typed "oil" but it came out "coolant". Thanks for being my proof-reader. Two separate topics, ergo two separate paragraphs in the original post: First pressure, Second...

Prolly a remnant from my mis-spent youth wrenching on race cars. But that was then, and blah, blah, blah... We used to even monitor differential temperatures.

I was just saying that I'm almost out of the 5 year / 60,000 mile warranty, so now I can do stuff to the engine - like installing real gauges - and not worry about Toyota trying to weasel out of warranty coverage cuz the problem was caused by an "owner-installed modification". No question about...

Again, I'm talking here specifically about oil temperature, not pressure. In the limiting case example, just replace "hose" with "non-deformable tubular pressure vessel". I used "hose" cuz it's easier to type than "non-deformable tubular pressure vessel", and I'm a lousy typist ;-). [Edit] I...