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A Little 3rd Gen Rear Magic Burtman Spoiler and LED taillights. FJ wheels.

It's an OEM Toyota alarm....

To Elaborate... No problem when I use the aftermarket key fob with the alarm. Problem only occurs when I unlock the vehicle and try to drive off with the OEM key fobs. The weird thing is... The vehicle starts. It drives. The horn just keeps on blaring as long as it's running. Park it and...

The offending vehicle: 1999 4Runner The contributing delinquents: 2 OEM key fobs and 1 aftermarket key fob Aftermarket key fob works fine. The two OEM key fobs both open and close the locks but torch off the alarm when the vehicle is started. It's MADDENING. Anybody know how to fix this...

RESULLT!!! Ok. Here's what I know to be true. I have washed electronic circuit boards of all types in the dishwasher and dried on very low heat for a couple of hours. Fixes a lot of problems. Some dirt is VERY conductive. For example, the dirt floating around a machine shop or in a shop...

Vehicle was upside down. Tube was full of mobile 1.

It's not the electronics that worries me. The orifice down the middle was full of oil. There's a set of wires down there. Beneath an ounce of motor oil.

So, my MAF sensor has malfunctioned. Cleaning it helped but didn't fix it. CE light, no vacuum leaks. Bank one lean code. Got a donor air cleaner box from a rollover 4runner. Here's the problem: the donor car was on its roof for several hours before a wrecker could get to it. The engine...

Your temperature control knob operates two cables. One goes under the hood near the firewall and shuts off the coolant flow through the heater core when the knob is in the extreme cold position. The other cable runs under the dash near the center console and is pretty easy to see from the...

I've always wondered....

Ok. I've got the dreaded CE light on my 99 4Runner 3.4L. Code P0171. Oh crap. First check: vacuum. Leak? Well, yes. A loud one. Only when the engine is cold. It's at the back of the engine. Somewhere. Now for the odd part. As soon as the engine drops out of rich mode the vacuum...

I do a lot of work for a chain of auto repair shops. Those guys are very very good at what they do. When it comes to front end parts, they won't use anything but Moog. A couple of years ago I had the entire front end on my workhorse '01 Town Car rebuilt with Motorcraft parts. Upper/Lower...

Respectfully, this "core thing" is not exactly cleared up. I emailed the eBay vendor this morning: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear brake_overstock, I'm anticipating purchasing this kit to upgrade the stock brakes on my 1999 Toyota 4Runner. The 13WL...

This is just the kind of info I'm looking for. I own two Lincoln Town Cars - A '99 that's my daily workhorse and an '03 that's a garage queen. Now, I know I can't expect the T4R to ride like these cars but at the very least it should ride as nice as the '92 Ranger pickup it's replacing. It's...

How do they ride? My current shocks are rather jarring....