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I'd have a close look at your front wheel bearing adjustment, and your rear brake adjustment. If ether of these are out it will produce similar faults to what your describing. Yep I'd check front bearings. If they are letting the wheel wobble then that pushes the pads back and the pumping brings ...

You can adjust a shim over bucket setup on these motors. It's a common setup on toyota motors. There's a special tool available to allow shim removal without having to remove the camshafts. Some who are even experienced and game just use two screwdrivers and a magnet to get them out. A lot of run of ...

Loctite the crankshaft pulley bolt because they can work loose over time which will at least wreck the harmonic balancer and also wreck the crankshaft key way which is a very expensive repair. Getting that bolt undone can be a hassle as well as getting the harmonic balancer to slide off the crank ...

Agreed.

But the way I see it, the extra fuel use is an insurance premium against the inevitable $,000s you are up for with a turbo diesel when the turbo, fuel pump and injectors all crap themselves.

Rearmost cover of the transfer (where the output flange bolts to) will be circle - shaped for chain drive and oval shaped for gear drive. This will explain it http://www.marlincrawler.com/tech/transfercase/transfer-case-bible Although I'm pretty sure yours will be a gear drive which for the purpose ...

I had the same problem in my 2.8 4runner. I replaced the pressure relief valves and also had a new gasket put on the whole oil cooler filter assembly (steel one with grey sealant) but it still leaked so maybe there was a crack in the plate somewhere. Most likely the threads where the relief valves ...

It compresses the bucket so you can flick the shim out. It's a shit of a tool and easier to use a screwdriver, or 2 if you have someone to help you. Is that the one that looks like a tap reamer, slides onto the camshaft and then you wind a little narrow foot down from the top to push the shim ...

got a questioon guys. the diff drop, does in move the diff down a 4inches or is it only 2 and the torsion bars wound up 2. what else needs to be done eg. tail shafts, exhaust ect. can u give me all the info on it even the un-nessessary things cheers It drops the diff 4" Do you consistently bang the ...

You would do this job on the ground, having it on a hoist would not help you much at all. You really should get a workshop manual so you know what you are in for. It is a normal timing belt job with the pump removal as the extra step. Steps you might have trouble on are getting the crankshaft pulley ...

Fellas? http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sad017.gif got a terrible oil leakage problem and it seems that it is a seal.. Either the oil pump or crankshaft seal , still not %100 sure which one. Which seal is usually the one that leaks? Thanks! And sorry for posting in an old thread, I just ...

While workshop manuals are great, they are no substitute for experience or someone standing by who knows what they're doing. Manuals can only give you a general idea on what the job entails but things can be very easily thrown off course, usually by a broken or frozen bolt. eg for a timing belt job ...

They're pretty much the same deal as the base model luxes to look at. But will be higher trim level (nicer seats) and a few other electrical goodies. Main difference mechanically will be ADD for the front end (auto disconnect diff) which means the front axle runs all the time and is vacuum operated ...

As said before there's no guarantee that a qualified mechanic would be able to sort out the problem, particularly as a conversion's been done. There would be heaps of shops that would never have seen a conversion like this. I got mine all replaced by a qualified mechanic, for the next week and a ...

... Since every mob that makes the low profile hilux ones say they don't suit 4runners, I'll be making my own. That might not be right. When I swapped a G52 and transfer case from a solid axle hilux into my 4runner to run crawler gears (the standard transfer is chain drive and no crawler option ...

The 225/75/16s aren't much bigger than the standard issue 205R16s (205/80/16) being only 9.5mm bigger on paper. The 235/85/16s are about a 32" and you can see them as standard issue on landrover defenders or energy company nissan patrol cab chassis trucks. The problem with the 32s is that your motor ...

If you're talking about the "5L" 3 ltr non - turbo then yes you will get high kms out of them if driven within their limits and serviced regularly and looked after. I have the 3L 2.8 ltr, done 311,000 and I would have every confidence of it getting to 400,000, still feels fine. If you are buying one ...

THe only way you can simply replace a broken belt and be on your way again is if you're the luckiest man alive. When the timing goes out, the pistons can smash into the valves. But If the motor can still turn over freely, then that's a positive sign. I did read somewhere that someone with a 2L had a ...

The hilux should have had a gear drive transfer while the 96 model will have had a chain drive case. The adapter on the back of the gearbox that allows the transfer case to plug in are different for a chain case compared to a geared one, so no, the old hilux box won't be a bolt-in replacement for ...

the mud gets into the brush housing and jams them up not allowing contact Exactly what happened with alternator no. 2 on mine, just got it repaired a couple of days ago. the other thing it works its way into the bearing and they will fail to Exactly what happened with alternator no. 1, to the point ...

Hey guys where can I buy these spacers? I think there's still a few on ebay. can you run the ball joint spacers without doing diff drop or do you have to do both? Yeah you can but your cvs wouldn't last long. The point of the spacers is to allow you to crank more lift in via the bars than the ...

geez for all the sh*t you have to go thru to replace a rear main, why wouldn't you use a genuine one that has less chance of leaking? Unless you just love pulling gearboxes out. If you're still not convinced, ring a mechanic and get a quote for the job. Even using a genuine seal, you're still miles ...

So can you see that you can get fuel to the injectors (by loosening their nuts off and then cranking motor and seeing fuel spray everywhere)? If not, the fuel cut solenoid could be gone.

I reckon you're better off getting on internet forums and going on their trips and getting to know people that way. If you find a group that you regularly wheel with and they belong to a club, then you should join their club, rather than shelling out at least $60 a year for the privelege of club ...

You're right, did 2.25" pipe straight thru muffler and extractors on mine with the 2.8, didn't make much difference other than the sound, which isn't great or truck - like like I hoped. What it did do was clean up the bulky standard exhaust manifold and heat shield and rerouted the pipe cross over ...

bellhousings should be the same as the LN106 was on a 3L while the LN167 will be on the 5L. main difference will be the transfer cases and overall length of the drivetrain. Transfer on the 106 should be geardriven while the 167 will be a chain. Therefore you might get the 106 box and case in but the ...

They're not great in shopping centre car parks where tight slow turns are required, or on roundabouts in traffic etc. Expect faster tyre wear as well. On road at speeds about 30-40 kms and above, the corners are sufficiently wide to mean driving with a locked diff isn't really noticeable. A lot of ...

225/75/16s will be fine, 9mm over standard.

Maybe 245/75/16s (31s).

4Runner_01, your rig is about the setup I want. I got some 35s in a 16", but mine is the later IFS and chain t/f case, so I haven't worked out the crawler gears yet. And the 35s will need some guard chopping I reckon.

after some hours of reasearch i have came across many topics of the 4 runner models having trouble with parts as they are an import also a head cracking problem with many 4 runners I think you mean the other way round ? The 4runners were the Australian market vehicles. The surfs are the imports ...

if the top plates don't look the same, ie the hose fittings point in different directions, just swap them over. I had to do this with a replacement from a LN106.