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    What's This Leaking For, and Should I be Worried?

    yes. when you run the ac in humid conditions, water condenses on the heat exchanger and that water has to go somewhere
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    At what point does doing mods make a 4runner not a practical DD?

    get a motorcycle for the summer dd and the runner for the winter. a bike will save so much gas and its wiked fun
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    How much is my tow hitch worth?

    what if you were planing to build a steel plate bumper with intagrated tow recever?
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    4th gen rear disk on 3rd gen

    Swap your entire axle for a 4th gen w rear disk. Or beter yet,get an elocker axle off an fjc
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    4 LO Grinding/clunk??

    Transmission uses wet clutch packs-when you put trans in n and tcase in n, the trans output will spin slightly bcs of the fluid around the clutch packs. The trick is to shift as fast as posible- ie. Not stoping at neutral on the tcase. You could try shifting to P it won't grinf there and itl...
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    It only took me a year...

    does the diff drop effect ground clearence?
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    5vz-fe

    did you look on yotatech.com?
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    2001 Starting out noise..

    the reason you dont hear it on most other cars is because usualy the brake booster runs off the accesory beli(ie. the engine) in 3rd gen 4runners, toyota made the brake booster run of of an eletric motor. the noise is the motor kicking in.
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    %$#^!! Oil Filter

    punch a hole in the top of the old filter, alowing all of the oil to flow back into the engine for 20 min or so then screw it off. you get a few drops, but not much
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    Can a 4runner hold 1,000 boards?

    wow, thats a lot of wood
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    How to test if 4wd is working

    definatly not a fwd base like those pos honda pilots. the light on your dash might be out, but if your front tires are spinning, you are in 4wd.
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    is the 199mm tundra brake upgrade be worth it?

    well. i just had my truck in for recall service and toyota told me that the front brakes were in need of service. i said ok because they were bad. when i got back in my truck, i fealt no difference betwen the "bad" and new brakes. i even pulled the calipers and verified that they did put new...
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    Fishing trip gone awry!!!!!!!

    its a clasic when guys leave their drain plugs out when they launch and cant figure out why their boat is sinking.
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    Fishing trip gone awry!!!!!!!

    so thats what the big pedal next to the gas is for
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    So explain elockers to me

    also, their is the difference betwen selectible(arb, oem elocker), and automatic lockers(detroit, powertrax). selectible you well.. select weather you want open or locked differental. automatic lockers lock when you are accelerating and unlock when you are coasting, alowing you to coast around...

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