Recent content by the great him

Nope, that's why I bought the parts truck, I wanted the interior. My brother in-law wanted the engine and ECU. I wanted the interior and rear axle and some other chassis components. Sorry.

So I'm pretty sure my stumbling issue was a side effect of pulling the efi relay and leaving it out of the truck as a anti-theft measure... I have already found a different work around for this. Put the relay back in it, let it sit for like 6mo and fired it up a few weeks past and not a single...

so after about 6 or so months of sitting, I fired it up the ol girl the other day and I have an interesting issue, it won't rev past 3800-4k RPMs, it just kinda stumbles to get there then bounces like it's hitting the rev limiter. no CEL, no other issues, starts up fine. wtf, anyone else have...

so i have windows 10 and finally got TS working but im looking for the driver(s) for the m-vci cable (j2534), i can not for the life of me get the system to work together. anyone have the drivers for the cable?

Made a bar stop for the chainsaw. Earlier this year I found a perfect spot to hold the saw outside the 4runner. After an hour into the trip I noticed a potential slight issue that I didn't want to ignore. As I drove the vibrations and bumps allowed the bar of the saw to slide over and out of the...

Year I am very picky about, I only want 04s, I don't want to deal with the vvti mess. I also only want the dark interior, non nav, and 3rd row. Other than that it comes down to a color choice and well I have the two colors I would want so... Mileage I could careless about, the 2uz motor has been...

I found the reason for the difference and it's silly but makes complete sense. It's because of the hitch cap/plug, the 4runner one is going to have the Toyota logo on it and the GX hitch is going to have a cap/plug with a Lexus logo. It's silly but that is the reason for the different numbers...

So I have just purchased another gx470, this one however does not have the towing package, and I am looking to install a tow hitch on it. I know the 470 and the 4th gen 4runner share the same frame and chassis so why are the part numbers different 228-89440(50) for the 4runner, and 228-60540 for...

Bought a new toy for the wife... Picked her up a 470 for her and wasted no time upgrading it. Bought it on a Friday and by Sunday it was lifted with new wheels and tires. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Central Oregon as in Bend/La Pine or Eugene/Springfield?

Exactly why I asked, as someone who is in SAR this has been done on a few occasions. I have also seen the guts pulled out of systems by people who didn't consider their equipment and cause catastrophic damage and endangered other people. I always carry a minimum of two blocks at all times and...

Nothing new other than got the new diff in and broken-in. Oh I guess I did put a new muffler in it out of a v8 4runner, and it's nice and quiet once again. I'm so over the magnaflos on a v6 lol

The new exhaust. Full stainless tig welded headers back, using factory cats cut to 2.5" to help improve flow and cut restrictions.

So I made a little road trip Monday up to Cashmere Wa. Got a whole new 3rd member from Nitro Gears, and got it installed that night. Been slowly putting the miles on the 4runner again but I'm glad to be driving it again. You can see in the pictures how all the ring bolts are trashed (the...

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