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I bought my '00 3rd Gen T4R with 18" 2012 Tacoma TRD Sport chrome "clad" wheels and got a nice gash in one of the wheel covers after off-roading on Sunday. I tried to do a search and couldn't quite yield the part number from Toyota for these wheels. At first it looked like I possibly bent the...

What is a good header recommendation for a 2000 3.4L 4WD which I don't plan on doing any forced induction on? I'm really just weighing options vs. replacing my cracked passenger side manifold which if I do both plus manifold and flange gaskets I'm looking at about $350 in parts + tax.

Purchased mine on 4/6 for $5500. 2000 SR5 4WD w/ 167k and supposedly well maintained until I had a close call recently... http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-gen-t4rs/197804-p0171-disaster-please-help.html Thankfully it was fixed with only about 2hrs of time and about $200 in parts, however, I...

lol, snowy21 was right about the noise, but you were right about one of the problems :p We should get together sometime though so you can show me where to off-road around here. I went up to Lake Pleasant today with a friend and his '13 Wrangler and have done Sedona twice, but I know there's...

After new NGK platinum plugs, PCV valve + grommet, 1/2 Coil, air hose which connects to TB and cleaning MAF w/ MAF Cleaner... <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rk4DoUZ-QIo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Still need to get a new passenger side...

Already dropped in NGK platinums on the "easy" side. Now I'll have to lift the plenum to get at the "hard" side. What a joke, my friend who is quite anal got taken for a ride by whoever did his tune-up. To snowy21, you were right on the money! The sad part is the plugs in there were cheap...

Found another culprit... That's the coil from #1. 3 and 5 were fine. Here's the plugs (5, 3, 1): 5 and 1 were hand tight. 3 was snug.

3 culprits found so far, hoping these are the only ones... 1) large crack in exhaust manifold 2) bad exhaust flange gasket 3) cracks in both end of rubber tubing connecting MAF and TB

Thanks! I'm hoping it's just the backed out plugs. After talking to the guy at Toyoworks it sounds like the "plug shot out of the engine" scenario is exclusive to Fords, however, I'm hoping and praying it's just a backed out plug. A cracked manifold would make me cry, a cracked manifold...

Just rode my bicycle to Autozone to borrow a scan tool. New code: P0301 - Misfire in Cylinder 1 Detected. No P0171 this time.

From the description or the video? Also, where do you go to get yours serviced? I'm trying to find somewhere in the North Central area, but if there's a good place out East I might go that route. I found Integrity Auto Repair on Craigslist who claims to be a Toyota/Lexus specialist(as well as...

Didn't see any oil in coolant. Haven't been able to run down to Autozone to get the CEL code checked, however, as mentioned above I kept getting P0171 when it went off.

I did lose power, however, after checking the oil and 1) it still looking brand new(changed about 500mi ago) and 2) no metal shavings, hopefully rules out blown head gasket(would've had "milkshake" color with the coolant/oil mixture) and major bottom end destruction(spun bearing, thrown rod or...

Now I am probably the 1,000,001st victim of the dreaded P0171 - left bank lean condition curse of Toyota, however, I think mine has ended in disaster. After doing a few thorough cleans of the MAF as well as actually having the CEL miraculously turn off on its own for about 300mi(before going...

Hey everybody! I finally caved and got another 4-wheeler(for the past 1.5yrs my main ride has been my '09 CBR600RR... now I can finally use it for just fun as opposed to daily driver). Before this I have most recently owned a '98 Mustang V6 conv't(POS) and '91 3000GT VR4(hence, the username)...