Recent content by Whtrnr

My ashtray would slide out when driving on rough roads and I never put anything in it, absolutely no weight. Mine doesn’t stay closed after 254000 miles. Fixed it today with this quick solution. Thanks

OP asked a simple and straightforward question and it can be answered very easily.... Bama my coldest reading today was 45. See how easy that was. Any question can be turned into a complicated mess! If he wants more info he can ask.

I did my cross rails out of unistrut....

Zoom in on the picture and you can see how they look when installed.

The shop is Big Brand Tires. No, I don’t have lift....??

No doubt about it, mine were bad!!! I should have done them before getting my tires and alignment, thankfully the shop took care of it.

Ok so I did not think that lower ball joint replacement would effect front end alignment, but I have discovered that is not the case. A timeline of my situation is as follows: 2/21/18 new tires and alignment - felt fine and drove fine 3/26/18 installed lower ball joints - felt fine and drove...

I used this and no clear

Sprayed my center caps with metallic silver.

Rolled past 250,000 today

I had no trouble doing this by myself in 2.5 hours. If I had an impact wrench it would have been less than an hour. I made sure I had everything I needed (parts, tools, torque specs and phone just in case I needed to refer to the video) close by and ready. I used a floor jack to lift the truck...

My 23 year old CR Sebenza is my current everyday carry. Has an out of date ATS-34 blade, but it still holds a great edge.

Completely agree, I used parts ordered from Camelback Toyota

Thanks to Tim and infamousRNR I did this repair with basic hand tools in 2.5 hours. I have a 3/8 and 1/2 torque wrenches for the proper torque, but I had to use a 2 foot piece pipe to make a breaker bar, worked great. I also have the tie rod end puller and I rented pitman arm puller to pull the...

Did lower ball joints and fixed a windshield rock chip. The lbj took me 2.5 hours with hand tools, including getting everything ready and putting all the tools away. Not a bad job at all. The old ball joints did not feel bad when I compared them to the new ones but I could feel the difference...