What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Hell yeah, in a similar boat? Any big plans for the new rig?

I've gotten a lot of ideas off this site so definitely got plans. Haha. First thing though is switch out the factory radio. Really, the only thing I've done so far is an oil change. Eventually plan to do a full maintenance on it though.
 
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I've gotten a lot of ideas of this site so definitely got plans. Haha. First thing though is switch out the factory radio. Really, the only thing I've done so far is an oil change. Eventually plan to do a full maintenance on it though.

Same here. PO had an okay unit from the mid 90's, but I would like to swap that out eventually, at least it has an AUX cable. But like you, I wanna go through all the fluids, grease the driveline, etc. Congrats!
 
Same here. PO had an okay unit from the mid 90's, but I would like to swap that out eventually, at least it has an AUX cable. But like you, I wanna go through all the fluids, grease the driveline, etc. Congrats!

Thanks! And congrats as well! There's so much you can do with these vehicles. I don't even know where to start. Guess it all depends on what you're looking to get out of it.
 
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Since I am an East Coast guy you can't leave me in the dark on what happened to the engine, especially after Alex rebuilt the top end.....:cry2:

No idea what happened. Driving great, he stopped for gas, fired it up and misfiring like crazy.

I talked to him today, guess he replaced it with a JDM engine. Going to sell the new heads from the old one.
 
Manual Transmission Woes

This past week I replaced my master and slave cylinders on the clutch, but for the life of me I was failing at bleeding the damn thing. So I took it to a transmission shop that I trust and they bled it for free! It's much better now, though I think a clutch replacement will be on the horizon for next spring.
 
Today I took my 99 limited to a local Ziebart for rust treatment and undercoating. I did it all myself last year, grinding away old stuff (poorly) and applying Rust Bullet (poorly), and the results a year later are as you can expect. For $400 I think it is worth the labor alone. We'll see how it turns out when they're done with it
 
Sold one of mine!:sadwave:

2000 limited, 216,000 miles, nice leather, auto climate control, elocker.
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Thanks Scrapper. Love this thing. So many people just don't understand...had a 1st Gen back in 98 and sold it in 01, went without a TR4 for 11 years and just couldn't get it out of my system!
 
Since I am an East Coast guy you can't leave me in the dark on what happened to the engine, especially after Alex rebuilt the top end.....:cry2:

Good to see he got it back on the road. Replaced the engine =/

Did you get a chance to talk to him at all? He's a great dude. Ran a good portion of the WABDR with us a few years back and is very active in the community down around Portland. [MENTION=142712]bennett707[/MENTION] is his name here. More active on Tacomaworld. As is everyone else.

So, went to our local meet last night and ran into this rig...what are the chances? haha [MENTION=63487]A.Wilson013[/MENTION] look familiar?


I suppose I should say hello!

Mike, great meeting you. Join PNW Expedition if you haven't already on FB so I can keep track of you better! :p

Alex, thank you for the kind words.

East coast guy, see pics below. I have yet to dive further, just took a quick snap after removing the oil pan.

I won't lie, I really struggle with this website. You'll have better luck finding me on TW or IG, but I do normally pop in here when I get an email from an alert.

TW: Bennett707
IG: cbennett707
 

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Here she is back home, with a new hat. Tomorrow she gets a new awning. (Thanks Mike for the tips)

*I'm not near the photographer Alex is, but I am going camping this weekend and I'll TRY to get some worthy shots ;)
 

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Post trail ride maintenance. I noticed a new metal rattle on the way home from work after this weekends trail ride. I took the passenger side tire off and played around with a mallet till I found the most likely culprit. Turns out my SPC LR UCAs must have gotten rattled a bit and needed to be re-torqued. I think that did it. I also had to come up with a temp fix for my drop down table that is clanging back and forth due to some latches getting damaged in shipping. They are allowing enough play back and forth with the heavy table to get pretty annoying. I jimmied something up so I don't have to listen to it on the commute. LOL.:lalala:

Oh, and snapped a wheel stud getting the UCAs re-torqued. yippie:frusty: fml.
 
I suppose I should say hello!

Mike, great meeting you. Join PNW Expedition if you haven't already on FB so I can keep track of you better! :p

Alex, thank you for the kind words.

East coast guy, see pics below. I have yet to dive further, just took a quick snap after removing the oil pan.

I won't lie, I really struggle with this website. You'll have better luck finding me on TW or IG, but I do normally pop in here when I get an email from an alert.

TW: Bennett707
IG: cbennett707

I guess Alex's old ride didn't like the grade of gas you were giving it. Those are some serious cracks. Glad you are back on the road.
 
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