4Runner repair day

[M1911]

Last week, an impatient idiot tried to squeeze past me on the left, and his right mirror broke my left taillight. I just replaced that -- pretty easy. The top nut is not too much fun to get to. Thanks to whoever put the advice in one of the threads here that you have to wiggle the assembly to get it out. On the bright side, I'm sure that it will cost him a lot more to replace his broken mirror than it cost me to replace the taillight.

I also replaced the air cleaner and just cleaned the MAF. Boy, cleaning the MAF on a V8 is really easy. The MAF is right on top of the air cleaner -- remove the wiring clip, take out two phillips head screws and it pulls right out.

After lunch, I'm going to replace the cabin air filter and try to grease the zerks. I've always had someone else do the greasing, so this is my first time at it.

 

[M1911]

Replacing the cabin air filter is dog simple, even for a someone like myself who is not terribly mechanical.

Greasing the driveshaft was a bit more tough -- mostly in getting my fat belly under the truck. I was able to get at the rear driveshaft relatively easily. I had to move the truck back and forth until I got the front driveshaft zerks pointing downwards. Even then, I had trouble getting at them, so I drove the truck up on ramps. I only found 4 zerks, so I think I might have missed one.

While I was under there, I saw that part of my skid plate under the engine is rusted out.