y=mx+b's Build Thread

[4RunnerAquasport]

This gen yaris is absolutely hideous, but I want one lol

I'm 6'6" @ 250 lbs and pushing 60 years old. I cant fit in these little cars, let alone get in and out of them.
Even if I liked the way it looks...and your right...it is hideous lol.

 

[y=mx+b]

passenger rear window regulator met an untimely demise yesterday when my friend decided it would be a good idea to hold the window button down, so I couldn't roll it back up, while yelling "penis" out the window. Initially was looking at just the motor, but the whole regulator has to come out anyway. The assembly wasn't as expensive as I was expecting, so I just got it all. managed to snag the last AISIN part on rock auto. I'll try to grab pics for a writeup, since I only found information for the front regulators

in return they received 1 entire trip around a roundabout with no swaybars at a speed of my choice. thanks to my broken wheel speed sensor, safety was completely disregarded



Harry at JD fabrications (81Trekker on TW) also sent me out an extra passenger side spindle gusset, so I'm gonna pull my current known good passenger spindle and gusset that puppy, then reinstall.

 

[y=mx+b]

Previously, I've been doing really structured updates, but that has made me wait to post things until I do a big chunk of work. I'm still going to do those big compiled updates, but I'm going to try to throw in some little interstitial updates here and there. Especially while I'm in school, which is my main priority right now, I don't have any big updates

I purchased some BORA 1/2" spacers last night (~4 week lead time), which should provide a little more clearance up front for the gusseted spindles. Theres already plenty of room on the unbent spindle side for street driving, but I want a hair extra for a blobby aired down tire to have plenty of room too. Hopefully these will also help with the tires kissing the frame at full lock too

Need to buy some extended lug studs to pair with these puppies. ARP studs are expensive AF, so bought these ones that my buddy EatSleepTacos from TW is using Extended Wheel Studs for Toyota Tacoma, Tundra, Lexus IS300 (set of 12) - WheelAdapter.com. He wheels his truck pretty hard while pairing these studs with the same 1/2" spacers, so thats a good enough testament for me.

Now I need to either reuse my current good condition, but 40k mile, parts-store wheel bearings with the new studs, or just buy new ones while I'm in the spending money mood. Feels wasteful to toss the ones that are fine on there now, but also feels like rewearing underwear to reuse them while installing all that new-new.

Probably dropped a pic of it already, but this is the current amount of space


And this is where the tires are rubbing on the frame a hair

 

[y=mx+b]

Made it to the Moon!





Bus
One of our full electric buses got a new wrap and I finally got to drive it, so here are some bus pics


Earth day and the Hokie Bird Bus

 

[y=mx+b]

A Midwest Adventure
This summer, I relocated from Virginia to central Illinois for an internship. About 880miles, and the 4runner didn't skip a beat. Did notice I developed a bit if an air bubble in my cooling system, which is a HG leak sign, so maybe not entirely without skipping a beat. Quick burp and its back to normal. Also rolled into 240k+ miles


Got this bike rack to take my bike with me, and its super high up there lol. First pic in the driveway at home, second one somewhere in Kentucky


some big toys. I'll be mainly working with the engines themselves, and specifically valve train design for large engines 27 to 300+ liters, which is pretty exciting




45/65r39 tires on that loader! thats 45" across. About 28k per tire holy moly. check out the rear diff on the haul truck too

 

[gm350reratliff]

Heavy equipment is fun! At my previous job, not too long after I started there, I ran and worked on some of the heavy equipment there. I really enjoyed it but I eventually chased the money into the operations side and moved away from the heavy equipment. Good memories though!!

 

[aemravan]

That's exciting stuff man!

 

[phatcheeks]

A Midwest Adventure
This summer, I relocated from Virginia to central Illinois for an internship. About 880miles, and the 4runner didn't skip a beat. Did notice I developed a bit if an air bubble in my cooling system, which is a HG leak sign, so maybe not entirely without skipping a beat. Quick burp and its back to normal. Also rolled into 240k+ miles

Is that 192 your normal operating temp? How did you figure out you had an air bubble?

 

[y=mx+b]

Is that 192 your normal operating temp? How did you figure out you had an air bubble?

Normal operating temp for me is like 180-190. Usually 185ish but sometimes up to 195 when working. never breaks 200 under normal operation

So for the bubble, when the coolant expands and goes into the expansion tank, it won't draw back into the radiator as it cools. In writing this, I should buy a new radiator cap and try it because they're cheap. Another reason for this happening would be the combustion gasses getting into the cooling system. Only happens on long drives or when its working hard. So like this trip was 14 total hours, full of crap, and through the mountains of southwest VA, WVA, and KY.

I can tell it has the bubble/low coolant because the coolant temp with rise when stopped up above 200. Easy temp fix (for like at a stop light) is to put in neutral and hold 1500 rpm and it comes right back down to 185ish. Burping the system fixed all of that. When burping, I didn't notice any bubbles forming (like exhaust gasses) in the coolant beyond what came out from burping. Thats of course not an end all, be all, but I guess a goodish sign lol.

 

[phatcheeks]

Normal operating temp for me is like 180-190. Usually 185ish but sometimes up to 195 when working. never breaks 200 under normal operation

So for the bubble, when the coolant expands and goes into the expansion tank, it won't draw back into the radiator as it cools. In writing this, I should buy a new radiator cap and try it because they're cheap. Another reason for this happening would be the combustion gasses getting into the cooling system. Only happens on long drives or when its working hard. So like this trip was 14 total hours, full of crap, and through the mountains of southwest VA, WVA, and KY.

I can tell it has the bubble/low coolant because the coolant temp with rise when stopped up above 200. Easy temp fix (for like at a stop light) is to put in neutral and hold 1500 rpm and it comes right back down to 185ish. Burping the system fixed all of that. When burping, I didn't notice any bubbles forming (like exhaust gasses) in the coolant beyond what came out from burping. Thats of course not an end all, be all, but I guess a goodish sign lol.

Yeah I am about the same temps.
I had similar issues where the coolant wouldnt draw back into the radiator, and temps would rise if I'm at a red light. I would also get the waterfall sound behind the dash after startups. After replacing almost everything and the issues still persisted I got the headgaskets replaced. Now its running much better. My heads were warped as well, dont know how because it never overheated under my ownership. I wonder whats too hot for these engines?

 

[rdruss]

What all are you able to monitor with your ScanGauge? I see Trn Temp, what is that? I'm thinking of getting one, but have an '03 V8 and not sure if I can monitor enough to make it worth while. Thanks.

 

[phatcheeks]

What all are you able to monitor with your ScanGauge? I see Trn Temp, what is that? I'm thinking of getting one, but have an '03 V8 and not sure if I can monitor enough to make it worth while. Thanks.

With my Scanguage, I monitor, trans temps, coolant temps, battery voltage and MPGs or MPH(you can calibrate MPH if you have bigger tires) there a lot more things you can monitor but these are the most worthwhile for me.

 

[rdruss]

Thanks for reply. Do you know what "protocol" your 4Runner uses for OBDII?

 

[phatcheeks]

Thanks for reply. Do you know what "protocol" your 4Runner uses for OBDII?

I have no clue lol. I know I had to enter a special code into my Scanguage since the early 4runners did not have some feature to have the scanguage read the temps.

 

[rdruss]

I have no clue lol. I know I had to enter a special code into my Scanguage since the early 4runners did not have some feature to have the scanguage read the temps.

Yeah, that's the conclusion I came to that maybe it wouldn't give the older 4Runner much data but sounds like in your case it does. Maybe I'll give it a try, thanks!

 

[y=mx+b]

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So a bit back, I mentioned that I bought this Saris bike roof rack second hand to take a bike to Illinois with me. It has one single bike rack and one tandem bike rack. Each bike sits in a little tray, that runs front to back of the car, and sits on roof rack crossbars that mount to the factory rack.

The single rack uses one (1) of these arms (pictured below) to both secure the tray to the front crossbar and to hold onto the bike frame. To mount the tray to the rear crossbar, there is a little block that goes between the tray and the crossbar

The tandem bike rack uses an additional arm instead of the rear block, to hold onto the longer frame, for a total of two (2) arms. The tray for the tires is identical in profile, just longer for a tandem bike. The problem is that the arms have no way to secure them when a bike isn't attached, so on a normal sized bike, the rear arm would be flopping around.

The goal of this project is to replicate the functionality of the rear block, so I can mount two single bikes on the roof

Arm left, block right


So here is the final product! Aluminum flat bar and stainless hardware, so rust won't be an issue. Two bolts are used instead of a T-section to keep the tray straight. The top/flat aluminum piece was slightly undersized because I had initially made bends in the bottom piece that were too sharp, decreasing the overall span. When I flattened it out, the bottom piece got longer, so it looks a little funny. Still works and I'm using pretty limited tools here and didn't want to make another if this one still worked. May trim down the ears to get them to the same length, but that would just be for aesthetics


Additionally, the previous owner lost a piece of a small bracket and replaced it with some bent piece of soda can. I didn't like that, so I made a little replacement piece out of some left over aluminum

 

[rdruss]

That does look more "pro"!

 

[y=mx+b]

That does look more "pro"!

Thanks!

Hey I just saw you were in illinois! What part? I'm living in peoria right now

 

[y=mx+b]

Burning my 1000th post here. Is when I get to upgrade to senior member status???

Bought a MTB a few weeks ago because paved roads are for nerds. No 4runner mods recently, but I have been more active like doing stuff outside etc which is always good
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edit: Kachow!


hmm also need a new pfp because its also no longer winter

 

[Bluesky 07]

Burning my 1000th post here. Is when I get to upgrade to senior member status???

Bought a MTB a few weeks ago because paved roads are for nerds. No 4runner mods recently, but I have been more active like doing stuff outside etc which is always good
]

edit: Kachow!


hmm also need a new pfp because its also no longer winter

Is that a Rockhopper?