Recent content by Mean Kitty

Got everything put back together about a month ago, and just got back from a 3500mile trip. No leaks, everything is working very good now. The extension adapter is pretty much just that, it did have the FIPG on the side facing the transmission, so it does keep some of the ATF in the...

Just wanted to post an update on my situation. Got everything back together probably a month back. I ended up removing the dampener, that did seem to make a notable difference, so the fact that the rubber had detached, I think was allowing excess vibrations at certain times on the highway at...

The output shaft bearing seems to be ok, at least it didn't seem to have any movement from side to side or in and out, still seems to spin pretty good. The transfercase input shaft does seem to have a little bit of play in it, maybe 1/64th of an inch. The seal on the input shaft isn't leaking...

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In the middle of changing out a leaking transmission output shaft seal. Today I got the transfer case separated from the transmission. Had about a 1/8 cup maybe less of transmission fluid pour out when I removed the transfer case. There was also a visible line of atf running down the inside of...

I picked a couple up on Ebay (they were new) 7 or 8 years ago for less than 200 shipped to the house. I was pretty hesitant if they would get rid of my P420/430 codes, or if they would last very long. They got rid of the codes, and have been on my 2002 runner that whole time. I had to replace...

Thanks for all the input guys. Yesterday I took the mount off, and checked the rear drive shaft to see if maybe there was an issue with the u-joints. Found out that the plate that attaches the rear driveshaft to the transfer case had quite a bit of movement in it. So unbolted the driveshaft...

Thanks guys, I think I will just unbolt it and see if there is any noticeable difference. Not that I'll probably notice, since its probably been dangling around for a while now by the looks of it. I am going to email the ToJo center too and see if they can ship to the US, that looks like a much...

Transmission mount is good, I replaced it with the engine mounts. Checking around for the dampener, I think they must of a little bit of gold in them or something, they are crazy expensive! $300+. Its almost cheaper to buy a used transfer case that has one still attached. Of course with it being...

So I have the model with the two cats, the first hanger that is mounted to the frame is right after where the first cat ends, then goes into the second cat. After crawling around under there checking to make sure all mounts seem to be in good shape, I noticed that the horseshoe shaped dampener...

Actually the new piece of pipe that the muffler shop welded in to attach the new cat is cracking.

I had an issue with my ac a few years back, and thought I had a leak, it would sometimes blow nice cold air, and at other times it would not keep up in the Texas heat. After messing with the ac system way to long, I eventually tracked it down to the fan clutch being bad. So if I happened to be...

A few months back I replaced both my engine mounts and transmission mount because the driver side engine mount had separated. Everything seemed good for a few thousand miles, and then I got a crack in the pipe going to the catalytic converter, I figured this was probably from the broken mount...

After replacing the lower control arm bushings on both side of my runner, I've noticed the steering rack has started leaking a little bit of fluid on the passenger side. It still steers and seems to work fine, but I would like to take care of this as soon as possible. I've checked out...

Today I swapped all the bulbs in the instrument cluster with LEDs, and it was all good once I clocked a few of them to get the +/- right. I had once bad LED in the ABS spot, which made the trac/vsc lights come on. Put in a new LED and got polarity correct and all was good. Like others have...