Recent content by Lavender Steel

Been a crazy couple of weeks. I got the junkyard driveshaft in and still had a noticeable vibration at 45+ mph. With the rear shaft out and the truck in 4WD the vibration was gone; no problem I thought, this shaft has 250K+ miles there's no reason the DC isn't failing in this one as well...

My shifter bushing (right) vs the junkyard tranny (left). I wasn't experiencing any difficulty shifting but who knows how much longer that bushing had to live If you're having trouble with your cheapo plastic clutch alignment tool, an easy fix is to violently break off the input shaft of your...

I think I have the lowest possible factory gearing and I'm at about 3300 with a 31" tire, 4.56 gears, and 0.85 OD

Update on the state of the DC joint. U joints appear fine. Ball appears to be ... less fine

Found a salvage yard tranny with 150k miles, including bellhousing, clutchfork, and wiring that was damaged. After pricing out a new bellhousing, input shaft, bearing, retainer plate, and labor to have a shop do the press work it was only a bit more to just buy the junk yard trans, and a lot...

V6 auto and 4cyl MT share the same rear drive shaft part number. V6 MT and 4cyl auto have their own part numbers. EDIT: Forgot to add this only applies to the conventional transfer case 3rd gens. Not sure when they switched over to full time 4x4, 1999?

Truck has 255k miles and change. Nothing indicates to me any maintainence was performed on the drive shafts. The ujoints I have removed so far moved freely and without play. I’ll disassemble the DC this weekend. The noise was noticeable for at least 150 miles and I wrote it off as exhaust...

Not - I always thought u-joints were cheap so I'd just replace them if they went bad. You can bet I do from here on out though. Pretty sure it was the DC joint. Input shaft failure doesn't explain the driveshaft, a bellhousing explosion could cause the driveshaft to bind but why does a...

Can't say I've been around this forum much since a Landcruiser entered into my life ... but I know we all love a good horror story so here you go: Got on the interstate headed to work last week and felt a slight vibration at speed. I had just noticed an exhaust leak over the weekend and had...

Lavender of course

I've noticed this as well, my friend's 4th gen is the same way. Has anyone pulled a gas tank and taken pictures? I'm curious if the tank has a uniform cross-section throughout it's height? Does it sit level? The fuel gauge works off a float, correct? So it's not measuring volume - just the...

There's a 2000 camry sitting in my parents garage. I'll see if I can't get some measurements after work today ...I think the tan leather might clash with my faded blue interior though

We are talking about an auto to manual swap here, right? If so you'll at least need the the center console, flywheel, and master/slave cyl - not sure if you need to build your own clutch line. On top of that I believe the front drive shaft and trans cross member are different from the autos...

If you're like me and own an early model 3rd gen, I'd check out <a href="http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-gen-t4rs/44297-99-mid-gen-upgrades-w-pics.html">this thread</a>

+1 Your 'math' pretty clearly suggests a bad pump - this will confirm that.