Recent content by JSwain

So far so good, have had them in for almost a year now no problems. They seem like quality replacements when you have them in your hand.

Have a look at the bushings on your lower control arms/axle side. It appears in the picture that they are torn and pushed off centre, if so you will probably want to replace them.

It is the stock fitting for sure, and appears to be a push fit so just clean it up and push it back in there. Might need some leverage with a screwdriver or pry bar

Amazon.com: Febest - Toyota Arm Assy Upper Control - Oem: 48710-35030: Automotive 33 bucks a piece for the whole control arm. I bought the lowers and they seem to be great quality.

Sign up on the ct4wd forum and there will be a few hundred Yota's roaring to go. They always do local runs

Here is mine with the SS 1.2 kit LC's in the back and RadFlo 2.0s in the front. Still got 31's on for now.

Live just outside of Calgary here, the Cochrane Toyota is suppose to be very good, but I am sure there are a lot of places in Calgary as well. Also check CT4WD that is a local Toyota club with a lot of members and they could steer you into a reputable shop

Updated with the full timeline up until current. I still have to clean up the skids with some fresh paint and put the front one back on, in the very near future will be some homemade 3/16" plates front to back anyways so I'm not toooo concerned with them. As soon as I get a gas bottle for my...

Next up comes the front, here is what I have to work with Awesome eh, surprisingly everything came apart reasonably easily, by reasonable I mean using a 1/2" IR impact and a pickle fork on an air hammer lol....seemed reasonable? The only thing that really gave me a bit of a fight was the PS...

Next up I had to extend my bumpstops which would have been SUPER easy with the SS bracket to extend them and the bumpstops that he included. Of course though my bumpstop mount was nearly gone on the passenger side and the driver side was not much better, it did however work good for mounting...

Hey guys, finally got around to doing something with the sagging suspension and cancer AKA major rust underneath the ole 4runner. It has spent its life up until the past year in PEI, Canada which is as bad as it gets, so it has needed much love and still much more. Updated with some photos of...

Agreed sounds like the starter contacts. Get the contacts and change them out while keeping your starter if it is OEM toyota...Don't throw a rebuilt in there or you'll have a 50/50 chance of doing the same job within 2 years.

If you have access to air tools it will make it a whole lot easier. CLEAN out the inside of the recessed area real well with some spray and a pick, then when it is absolutely clean hold your allen socket into it and give it a couple blows with a hammer so it seats really well. Then impact or...

Yuuuuup had that happen before and it wasn't fun, long needle nose eventually got it off. Then right after the socket fell off my extension and landed over the spark plug.....that was even worse. Needless to say I have a set of locking extensions now.

I did this the other day because I was sick of the dim green. I had extra bulbs anyways so I put 3 new bulbs in the cluster, and removed the green condom off the key ring and heater panel. It gives it a nice bright amber look, roughly like 3000K on this chart...maybe a little darker.