Recent content by Forrest931

Hey all I was enjoying some 4wheeling at an off-road park near where I live (Hollister SVRA) and had a great day with no big failures. However, when I left the house this morning, some gear oil was on the ground, maybe enough to fill a shot glass in total. if it were a normal oil leak I...

Thanks for the advice I plan on keeping my 4runner for a while so I went ahead and ordered poly bushings for the upper and lower control arms in the rear and some moog Upper ball joints, I will send an update when Parts come in.

Hey, I've got a 3rd gen 4runner that I did valve cover gaskets on and found tons and tons of buildup and sludge in so I've tried a good number of products to try and fix that. I've never used engine medic, but I have used sea foam, liqui molly flush, MMO, and Valvoline restore and protect. I...

First, here is some backstory on my car, I have a 1998 4runner Limited 284k miles billstien 6112 5160 lift. a couple of months ago I started hearing some metal-on-metal sounding clunk from what seems like the front suspension. It started pretty quiet and after lifting my car, it seemed to become...

Today I did an oil change and changed the air filter as well.

I went With an eBay universal cooler, it takes up most of the grill and cools amazing so far I also added an inline filter from Magnaifne. I've been going through all my cooling recently I also did a champion all aluminum radiator, fan clutch, and TRD thermostat. Long story but I overheated on...

FIXED! I got my new OEM thermostat in the mail this morning and pulled off the thermostat housing. the jiggle valve was at 12 o'clock and upon closer inspection it looks nothing like the OEM one and has no brand name anywhere. I installed everything and refilled the coolant with OE Toyota red...

That's super unfortunate when I bought my car the seal was leaking and the push button 4WD wasn't working so I opted to replace the Transfer case entirely. I bought a new (used) transfer case off eBay and threw that in, works great now. for what its worth the job was difficult but doable and...

Installed a new trans cooler and started to flush the coolant out to switch back to factory red coolant.

It could be something more sinister but before you worry too much about it replace the crush washer on the drain and fill the plugs to rule out that possibility. Speedy Garage has a great video on this that I'll link below. He should have part numbers and links in the description. Hope this...

I bought my second set of Kenda Klever R/T for around 750 for 4 of eBay. I buy premium tires for the fleet I look after at work ie, K02's Wildpeaks, and Opencountrys. Specifically with Toyo open country A/T's, I have noticed poor performance in mud as expected with an A/T. I digress The Kendas...

Thanks, Charlie I appreciate it, drove it around some more today and ended up in the 197-201 range. I'm sure it's fine I want to bulletproof my system so that I never have to worry about it again when 4wheeling at altitude with AC on. I also don't want to get close to over 220 again on the...

Update I installed my champion today temps are down about 10 degrees or so sitting around 194, lower but not quite as low as I'd like. I'll give another update when I install the new thermostat I tested my fan clutch and it seems fine but I'm going through all the trouble so I figure I'll...

Thanks, Timmy, I'll get that new rad thermostat and fan clutch installed when I get it and send an update. You're the man I used your trans video to do mine.

Hi T4r, I know there's already a bit of a thread about this but I was left a little unclear about what the optimal coolant temp should be for a 3rd gen 4runner. I have a 96 limited 286k miles and recently on a trip to some dirt roads in the sierras I started getting a little hotter than I have...