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New condenser comes in tomorrow and then I can recharge and test. So I’ll have to get back to you on if it helps. Also after looking the insulation looks like mastic tape. I’m sure it’s to help it not be influenced by the car’s internal temp and only sense the temperature of the refrigerant...

Hope this helps at least 1 person. If anyone has questions feel free to reach out

Since I couldn’t find any info on the location or replacement of a 5th gen 4Runner AC expansion valve I figured I do the logical thing. Rip open the wife’s dash until I found it. Backstory - The wife said her AC in our 2016 SR5 wasn’t keeping up with the Texas heat. Stuck gauges to it and...

Definitely agree it doesn’t sound like an alternator issue. Does sound like a computer issue since you lost multiple gauges

This is after the car is started? And when you turn on the HVAC fan it makes the noise? Only thing under the hood would be the AC compressor but if it does it without the AC being turned on that likely is not your culprit. Seems like a blower motor issue. Not hard to access at all. I have...

Welcome. Glad to have you here

Big Bend is a nice area. I can’t wait to make another trip out there

Welcome!

I had a Garmin Instinct for years. Now I’m on a Garmin Vivoactive 4 since the Instinct was too “military” for the wife on dressier occasions

It’s really aggravating when you have something that you can actually help out others where there’s no info on what you’re working on and you have to make pointless posts until you can make a new thread. I’m trying to get a new thread started on 5th gen AC expansion valve replacement. Everything...

Motor mounts have always been a pain for me. The engineers don’t care about ease of replacement afterwards. They care about how it fits when it goes together. Plus the harder it is to do things the more likely you are to just have the dealership do it.

I’ve had the clunk when turning in other vehicles end up being lower control arm bushings