snivilous
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Nothing has changed haha, I might mess with it (Runner) in the summer. Here is my life since the last post summed up:
Sniv's Custom Long Travel Build
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Nothing has changed haha, I might mess with it (Runner) in the summer. Here is my life since the last post summed up:
miles.less.traveld
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:nono:I am thoroughly distraught that you failed to mention my name at all in your Build Thread
SRQ-Runner
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All I've seen is Fj photos lately... this is a 4runner forum :focus::wtf:
Chuckles89
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This Tony guy must be pretty lame...
snivilous
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You guys are so annoying -_- My build was going fine and had faded away into T4R until you morons had to spam everything.
Chuckles89
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But hey, it reminded me of the blue FJ :rofl:
snivilous
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Thanks man! It's fun, but definitely lacks in a few departments like going over 50mph or having a stereo or not being deafening or having a decent heater or.... Makes me consider doing an ultra cheap and quick fix on the Runner this summer and going back to using the FJ as a weekend cruiser, since dailying a carbureted tank is sometimes annoying haha
snivilous
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No, I literally didn't even look at it besides moving it in the yard after I got back from school last year. I'm assuming the water pump is leaking or something fairly simple like that, but who knows :noidea: Like 15 gallons of coolant over 10 hours, and then it didn't lose ANY for the last 50 miles or so after I got off I-70 and it didn't feel like it had any change in power and there wasn't any white smoke or stuff coming out the exhaust... So all that makes me think it's just puking from somewhere and the guts of the engine are fine and it's relatively simple. Guess I'll find out this summer! Maybe...
snivilous
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Some cool pictures popped up on my Facebook and I realized I had never posted them here. I also got to reading the last couple pages on here, and found an interesting quote I said:
Which either coincidentally, or subconsciously, matches up exactly with the symptoms of coolant loss I was experiencing on the last time I drove the runner (from UT to CO about 11 months ago). At a minimum this will give me a starting point to look for what's wrong with the engine/coolant system assuming compression checks out.
I have a lot of plans (as usual) over the summer, but between moving home in ~4 weeks and then business trips and family trips in May, I'm thinking of pulling the runner into the garage then and doing a (hopefully) quick maintenance/mod session to get it fixed and driving well. But we'll see... As for the photos I came across I never posted for some reason:
Until next time, hopefully it's working on the runner since I'm getting a bad itch to have it moving again...
Which either coincidentally, or subconsciously, matches up exactly with the symptoms of coolant loss I was experiencing on the last time I drove the runner (from UT to CO about 11 months ago). At a minimum this will give me a starting point to look for what's wrong with the engine/coolant system assuming compression checks out.
I have a lot of plans (as usual) over the summer, but between moving home in ~4 weeks and then business trips and family trips in May, I'm thinking of pulling the runner into the garage then and doing a (hopefully) quick maintenance/mod session to get it fixed and driving well. But we'll see... As for the photos I came across I never posted for some reason:
Until next time, hopefully it's working on the runner since I'm getting a bad itch to have it moving again...
99 sr5 highlander
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Cant wait to see this working again. Im fighting the urge to dive into the world of long travel.
Chuckles89
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Sounds like it could be the oil cooler line or the oil cooler itself leaking. It's on the driver's side of the engine. Mine was pretty shot when I did my water pump last January, so I replaced it.
turbo8
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If you built it right you can or buy a kit from the various LT manufactures that state that you can.
Because all the stuff I see is like $600 per cv axle ! ARE YOU MAD !
snivilous
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I encourage you to dive in! Even with my setup that has had more issues than probably any other and isn't even tuned right, I've had a blast!
Lots of places sell stronger/modified tundra axles, and I've read of people modifying stock ones so the CV joint can articulate more (which I think is what Total Chaos does with their axles, simply put). From pictures I've seen it looks like my suspension has less down travel but more up travel than Total Chaos or other kits, and I know at full droop my CVs aren't happy, so I can see it necessary to run the upgraded axles. Mine are 100% stock from O'reilly and the suspension is just setup so that it cycles the axle within its stock capabilities (though I obviously modified the frame to move my suspension travel region higher, most kits don't utilize a lot of the potential up travel left in the CV from the looks of it). At least all that is what I think is happening, though I've never actually looked at a LT 3rd gen/Taco up close before so it's all assumptions I've made.
TheHoneyBadger
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This is a bada$$ build that is always fun to check up on. Lots of inspiring fabrication. Will be glad to see you get back to it! Nice fj though.
Build thread: http://www.toyota-4runner.org/showthread.php?t=219718
Build thread: http://www.toyota-4runner.org/showthread.php?t=219718
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