Recent content by TorqueOfTheDevil

Remember me? :bounce: I didn't really do anything to my 3rd gen today, its been daily driven since I "built" it about a decade ago. and time (and the wrong primer used on the plastics by the bodyshop) has taken its toll. However I've started planning more heavily for the next stage :naughty...

To answer your question, not much!! :naughty: 10+ year old pic but I'm stuil running this setup. - I hate fixing the fan directly to the radiator core. When I do my big rejig am going to look at moving the engine down and back a bit, but I doubt I'll get as much as an inch of extra clearance.

I know you are talking aftermarket... but TEMS was a rare factory option in Japan! Just an electronically controlled single damping adjustment really. Most have been repalceds with regular shocks by now. Later this year I intend to pull the trigger on the Dobinsons MRR kit. I know it doesn't...

That's cool. The reason I liked the 4x 10" setup is as most of it is open and full of fan the shroud can be almost flush with the radiator bracket, using the clearence between the cores and the edge of the bracket for breathing space. Maybe they offer a slimline one that I've missed. The Hilux...

Does it only do it with AC on? I once had an AC clutch fail and it sounded a fair bit like that.

That is a meaty relay! PWM fans do cost a fair bit more, and from what I can see very are low profile. From a quick search, apart form being 3x the price the PWM fas are almost twice the thickness. - but most have soft start built in so I could effectively skip the PWM part if needed. If i had...

As others have said, I can't see me ever selling my Hilux Surf... however sometimes I'd like something similar but newer. Unfortunately, the 5th and 6th gens were never sale for the RHD market and I don't want a LHD car in the uk. We can get the new Landcruiser here, but its super expensive...

Thanks! I need e fans because I'm not running the stock engine, I also need really low profile as I'm space limited. Been running a single 16" for about 10 years. The quad fan option looked good to me as the shroud is very low profile as most of it is "open" and the smaller fans are thinner...

I added some snake oil friction modifier to the ATF to not really help at all with the factory '96 box coping with all the extra power for over a decade... Slips a bit less, might save some fuel :rofl:

I have this in my '96... More of a thud when reaccelerating after coasting. I've not isolated it yet as I rarely drive in 4H, but like you it doesn't do it in RWD. I suspect its play in something forward of the transfer case, and as the centre diff equalises eveything that takes the slack and...

Mega thread resurection! I'm still about, have some changes planned (3UZ and 6 speed) and thought I'd revist my cooling. As time has moved on, has anyone tried one of these? Picture looks a bit "AIish" - but 4 x 10" fans coule bea nice low profile soution as they can pretty much sit right...

I'm still alive! I've still got the HiLex, - it's been used daily since, over 10 yeears now. I bought a house and renovated it, and got... carried away... That should be done this year so I can give the truck some much needed love. Still not fitted the oil coolers (bought in 2016 :rofl:)...

Not so much a 4th gen, but the intake on my 1UZ VVTi is very similar. As I was fitting into a 3rd gen engine bay with twin batteries I placed it here, as high up and far back as possible, housing the largest filter I could fit. the key is keeping the MAF sensor the same distance from the...

Thanks, Looks like Toyota have no stock, so my best bet is to hope to find one used. - or try and straighten the one I have.

Ha! no, sorry! Believe it or not I've STILL not received all my management parts (now ordered over a year ago....) I need to get on with it! - it's a project for this spring / summer.