Recent content by mikewilzn

Ended up ordering this one. We'll see how it goes. I'll probably do a writeup on the whole process.

The Champion all aluminum radiator does have the transmission loop. You're thinking of Koyo that makes an all aluminum radiator but only a manual transmission version (so no transmission cooling loop). I plan to run the external cooler (Hayden 699) inline with the Champion radiator. The aluminum...

It's that time. I'm ordering the parts to do a new radiator + external transmission cooler. Tired of worrying about overheating while driving in the mountains. For the Champion radiator, I've not found a clear place to buy it. Every thread I see has a different link. Is this a good/official...

wtf is this thread lol. Talk about a sense of entitlement.

Do you have the crossbars? I just used this method (second or third comment, pictures farther down) yesterday to mount the NAPA awning and it worked great. Hardest part was removing the roof rack end caps without snapping them lol.

Not sure what they were thinking with this one. As others have said, there's just not a market for this with 4Runners. They're still way too common for something like this to be worth it. Out west especially you can pretty easily find a very low rust 4Runner for less than half this price. The...

I have an iOttie mount. Very solid mount and doesn't shake around a lot when driving. Eventually I may upgrade to a RAM mount but we'll see.

****in great. Now 4runner prices are gonna go even higher.

Around town I typically cruise at a constant 40 MPH. On the highway I'll be in the low 70s (55MPH speed limit). On the turnpike, closer to 90MPH. I did once get the 3rd gen up to 110MPH and it's surprisingly smooth.

I usually let it warm up until the fan drops down in RPMs. Typically 15 seconds or so. I'll get in the car, immediately turn it on, and then put my seatbelt and get music playing through my phone. Typically it's been 15 seconds by then. You really don't want to let it run a lot at idle. 15...

It's definitely style and production quality that make Chrisfix much more popular than Eric or any of the others. Sure they may know more, but they don't make their videos nearly as exciting or entertaining as Chrisfix. I've literally caught myself watching some of Chrisfix's videos that don't...

Scotty Kilmer and Doug Demuro are just the shittier versions of Chrisfix and Regular Car Reviews

Almost all of those problems seem like problems you could have discovered from sitting in the vehicle for five minutes. As for the tank range, consider yourself lucky getting 320 miles to a tank. I usually barely get 250.

Oh God why

I'm in a similar boat. My passenger side valve cover has a slight leak and I'm really dreading doing that. My timing belt is also coming up on 100k miles and I was pondering whether or not it would make sense to just to both at the same time since I have to disconnect a lot of shit anyway.