Recent content by Hopeless Diamond

Sorry for the delay. Ditched the idea. Wasn't worth it to me to struggle with a work around. Have learned to embrace the wheezing. Gave the rig it's name "Wheezy" :). It's just like me, a little bit of effort and it wheezes for days...

Doesn't look good on Instagram

Stop and go traffic - no air flow. Your torque converter is in a constant state of slipping as it's never able to reach 3rd/OD and lock up so it creates a lot of heat. No cooler is going to help under those conditions. Put it in Lo and creep along

After I did both of mine, the passenger side had started leaking again (service records show it was replaced twice by a dealership). I used new retainers (don't remember if I flipped them), applied FIPG around the axle before I pressed the inboard retainer on, and also applied it around the...

Exercising the suspension a little. Northwest Overland Rally "trophy challenge". Fun little timed challenge through a portion of the technical course they set up. Also had to shoot a targets with a nerf gun along the way, 2 on each side, got the 2 easy ones on the drivers side. Good times...

Yeah, watched mine because of this thread. ~-13 at idle and LT pretty much 0 at cruising speed, ST bounces around by 1 or 2 % as expected

Well, never did figure out what caused it but took things apart and applied power to the motor and got the glass raised. Unplugged the motor, and no more random opening.

Yeah, was thinking it could be a stray random signal that effected it, or even some douche bags cruising the street with some sort of transmitter looking for something to react. I'm gonna inspect the wiring, but a cursory look at the harness didn't reveal anything noticeable. Plan is to get...

Has anyone ever had their rear hatch window go down by itself? Got home last night from a trip and parked behind the 4Runner. Didn't notice anything amiss as we were unloading. Came out this afternoon and the rear window was down. First reaction was that someone broke in but no glass, the...

Welp, ol' Wheezy did good. Passed 375k a few days ago and missed the photo op, oh well, there's always 400k. Our track...(may have to change to view all tracks on the right) Baja XL Awesome time and experience, can't wait to do it again. ROUGH roads, beat the hell out of everything, Raptors...

Yeah, my biggest concern is fuel mileage. Last time I put 18 gallons in the tank twice. 1 of those times was after I had already put in the extra 10 gallons I was carrying. Those Limo guys were great, how they got that thing through some of the spots was amazing. Couldn't imagine trying to...

Welp, rather than start a new thread, figured I just resurrect my old one from 2 years ago. Doing this again, what a blast. Been going through and getting it prepped, maintenance, etc. Replaced a few things (steering rack, fuel pump, sending unit, etc.) probably could have lasted but, might...

So, to resurrect and add to this post... ('96 SR5) I've been dealing with this myself. It seemed to be getting worse so "assumed" the MC was leaking down. After 370k miles, I could understand. I have done the TBU, using Powerstop calipers/pads so it made sense to me that there may be a...

Figures, seemed too simple FWIW. it still shifts the same with it having the fault. Don't know if it's because of an open, or just out of expected range though. May do some playing around, will report back for future generations...

Bumping this old thread... My understanding is that this sensor provides a specific amount resistance when in normal operating range. When it is outside that resistance range it will set a CEL. Which is what happened to me. Ignored it and it actually self healed...for a while. Now it's...