2005 4Runner Sport w/113K miles. Bought it used in 2006 with 20K miles on it.
Short question: Is the hydraulic line of the XREAS system tied into the brake master cylinder at all? After all the research I've done, I have not seen that to be the case. However, I have an indy mechanic who thinks it is based on what he's seeing when looking at it. And he's called up the local Toyota service dept to verify, who told him that that was indeed the case.
Back story: A few months ago I decided to replace the shocks on my 4Runner. I didn't do my research and just bought standard shocks. I took it up to my indy mechanic to have them put on, and he said that the ones I have in there have hydraulic lines going into them. He wasn't familiar with this, so he didn't want to touch it. I knew about XREAS, but figured it was a limited model option only, but on that day I learned that I have it in my Sport. Or so I think.
I do some research, and from what I read it seems fairly simple to close off the hydraulic lines and replace the Xreas shocks with a standard setup. I take the 4Runner back up to my indy yesterday to have him look around to see what else I'd need to swap in my new shocks. A few hours later, he laid on me what I wrote in the first paragraph. He said the Toyota tech told him that I could buy OEM XREAS shocks and have my indy put them on, but those are a bit more expensive.
So i don't know....the idea of another hydraulic system tied into the braking system doesn't make sense to me, and if my indy mechanic and my local Toyota service dept think that to be the case but are wrong, I probably don't want either of them touching it whether they're replacing the existing shocks with OEM XREAS or the standard ones I bought. I need to figure out how much I want to pursue this and pay to have these replaced.
Short question: Is the hydraulic line of the XREAS system tied into the brake master cylinder at all? After all the research I've done, I have not seen that to be the case. However, I have an indy mechanic who thinks it is based on what he's seeing when looking at it. And he's called up the local Toyota service dept to verify, who told him that that was indeed the case.
Back story: A few months ago I decided to replace the shocks on my 4Runner. I didn't do my research and just bought standard shocks. I took it up to my indy mechanic to have them put on, and he said that the ones I have in there have hydraulic lines going into them. He wasn't familiar with this, so he didn't want to touch it. I knew about XREAS, but figured it was a limited model option only, but on that day I learned that I have it in my Sport. Or so I think.
I do some research, and from what I read it seems fairly simple to close off the hydraulic lines and replace the Xreas shocks with a standard setup. I take the 4Runner back up to my indy yesterday to have him look around to see what else I'd need to swap in my new shocks. A few hours later, he laid on me what I wrote in the first paragraph. He said the Toyota tech told him that I could buy OEM XREAS shocks and have my indy put them on, but those are a bit more expensive.
So i don't know....the idea of another hydraulic system tied into the braking system doesn't make sense to me, and if my indy mechanic and my local Toyota service dept think that to be the case but are wrong, I probably don't want either of them touching it whether they're replacing the existing shocks with OEM XREAS or the standard ones I bought. I need to figure out how much I want to pursue this and pay to have these replaced.
