Recent content by TheMightyGoat

Alright, I fixed it, but I'll leave this up for anyone else who might have the same problem. I had to take apart the console to look at the assembly inside the shifter handle. There's a plastic head inside the handle that is depressed when you push the button to shift. It turns out the head is...

The biggest part of the problem is that I can't see the "assembly" to begin with. I can't pull the housing of the shifter off far enough to see what's not working without likely fucking it up more. It feels as though there may be a spring in there (something with more tension than simply the...

I find that if I leave the bolts out and fiddle with the position of the housing on the "stick" I can get the shifter to function normally and move through all the gears. If it's off even slightly, though, the button doesn't depress properly and it will not move through the gears. Every time I...

I thought it would be a good idea to try to take the shifter apart to see if I could potentially replace the button, maybe with a resin molded button the way you sometimes see on standards... anyway, on to the point. I saw that the case of the shifter was only held on with two bolts, so I...

Mine is black, but thanks.

I'm not an expert on 4Runners, but in seven years mine has never made an odd sound. Well, excluding when the nuts that hold on the rear O2 sensor rusted off and exhaust was pouring out around it. That was a bit throaty.

...no one? I've tried Google but couldn't find anything.

I hit a snow bank last winter and busted a couple pieces of the plastic trim that goes between the wheel well and the running board on the rear, driver's side. Looks like two pieces broke - the part that goes on the forward half of the wheel well and the part that connects to the running board...

I just registered and this looked to be the right place for this, but if not, moderators feel free to move it. I have a 2000 Toyota 4Runner that has been taken care of and had no major mechanical problems up until a week ago when the rear differential started leaking. Long story short, I drove...