What have you done to your ride lately?
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balakay
BabyMax
I'm sure the lady who drove it before you made it smell really nice too.
jab
Scratch and sniff seats?
Best response in a while. I just hope for your sake she did not eat at Taco Bell often.
balakay
BabyMax
Threw on the new coilovers with Toytec spacers and got rid of the running boards. Much better! Front is about 5/8"-3/4" higher than the back but I'm gonna give it a week or two and decide if I want to mess with the back. It's barely noticeable. Dealing with the KDSS wasn't too bad but fuck those ride sensors on top of the shocks. That's the last time I'll mess with those. Next time I do something to the front end, they won't be going back on. Anyway, picture of it in it's current state.
Looks good; but looks like you might need an LCA skid for the rear axle.
texasislandboy
donde esta la NGAGE IT
Looks good! Was that 3" up front?
balakay
BabyMax
Toytec 2.5" spacer. And it actually rides amazing. I know that's weird to say about a spacer lift but it rides so much better than just the stock setup. Gonna leave it parked until Tuesday when I can get it aligned. Then I'll really test it out and see how it rides on rough back roads and off-road.
Keep it up and we will have to open up a Lexus subforum for the builds.
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
I would post up pics but they are on the camera and Im tired from cutting a stupid sensor up on a Lexus to get a coilover off. Dumb bolts rounded off. almost no room to get anything in there to cut it away. Thankfully Blake had an extra sensor from the coilovers he picked up.
looking forward to more info
taco4x4rar
Well-Known Member
My tacoma was the same way, actually rode better after the toytec spacers were installed, I thing the stock spring rate was likely too light to the truck and preloading the spring bumped the effective rate up enough to make better use of the stock valving
PSU Taco85
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Replaced the steering box on the tow pig. At 250k miles the stock one had quite a bit of slop to it. The red head gear boxes are supposed to be much better than a reman from vato zone or the like.
Old one looks like it came from the bottom of the ocean
Old one looks like it came from the bottom of the ocean
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
the_white_shadow
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https://youtu.be/4xhJPiyli_YI spied me some Dirt Squirrel in action on the trail pics today!! Looking damn good!!
That is awesome. Did everything work like you wanted it to? Anything not make it through the shake down run?
the_white_shadow
Well-Known Member
I took the Squirrel out for a shakedown run at Hidden Falls Adventure Park on Friday for a day run. Picked up Brian and the Raisin and made it to the park around 10. Proceeded to hit a few trails and picked up Scott once he got to the park. Truck worked well with a few issues that i need to address before this weekend. Didnt break anything catastrophic and it went back on the trailer under its own power (always a good thing when on its first trip out). Oh and it didnt catch on fire like the last time.
Some pics:
Loaded up.
Some of the issues that need to be ironed out:
1. It ran hotter than i would have liked it to (around 235). I dont know if this is due to an air pocket still trapped in there somewhere to due to the smaller radiator/fan combo than what i was running last time. More on this later.
2. I guess the arms on the sway bar loosened up causing one side to strip out about 20% of the splines on one arm. The bar is fine, just the aluminum stripped. The rig felt super stable with the sway bar connected, but from the looks of it was limiting my flex in the rear. The front was doing most of it. Im going to leave it off this weekend and see how it feels in comparison.
3. Need to trim the from fenders more as the tires made contact and sliced a few lugs in half.
4. Need to seal off the area where my right leg is near the center console as the exhaust right under there was pretty warm. Its wrapped, but needs some type of barrier and not just open.
Other than those issues, i'd call it a successful shakedown. Had a good time and learned a lot about the rig. The tuned coilovers from Accutune are awesome. This thing floats when bombing down the fire roads. The belly is low at 19" and i did hit it on a few ledges, but it didnt keep me from making it up the obstacle.
More on the overheating issue. Last night i changed out the water pump to another one i had on the shelf. This time around i looped the heater core ports and ran the steam lines back to the radiator. Bled the system and watched it creep up to 215 just at idle. I connected my tablet with the Dash Command App to the OBDII port and saw that the coolant temp was about 190. Thats a 25 degree difference. the gauge is picking up the reading from the rear passenger side head and the PCM is getting the reading from the front of the drivers side head. Which one is right? I still think i have some air trapped in there somewhere so Im going to try to get that out tonight. It has a 160 degree thermostat in it so it shouldnt get anywhere near that at idle. The fan was off.
Some pics:
Loaded up.
Some of the issues that need to be ironed out:
1. It ran hotter than i would have liked it to (around 235). I dont know if this is due to an air pocket still trapped in there somewhere to due to the smaller radiator/fan combo than what i was running last time. More on this later.
2. I guess the arms on the sway bar loosened up causing one side to strip out about 20% of the splines on one arm. The bar is fine, just the aluminum stripped. The rig felt super stable with the sway bar connected, but from the looks of it was limiting my flex in the rear. The front was doing most of it. Im going to leave it off this weekend and see how it feels in comparison.
3. Need to trim the from fenders more as the tires made contact and sliced a few lugs in half.
4. Need to seal off the area where my right leg is near the center console as the exhaust right under there was pretty warm. Its wrapped, but needs some type of barrier and not just open.
Other than those issues, i'd call it a successful shakedown. Had a good time and learned a lot about the rig. The tuned coilovers from Accutune are awesome. This thing floats when bombing down the fire roads. The belly is low at 19" and i did hit it on a few ledges, but it didnt keep me from making it up the obstacle.
More on the overheating issue. Last night i changed out the water pump to another one i had on the shelf. This time around i looped the heater core ports and ran the steam lines back to the radiator. Bled the system and watched it creep up to 215 just at idle. I connected my tablet with the Dash Command App to the OBDII port and saw that the coolant temp was about 190. Thats a 25 degree difference. the gauge is picking up the reading from the rear passenger side head and the PCM is getting the reading from the front of the drivers side head. Which one is right? I still think i have some air trapped in there somewhere so Im going to try to get that out tonight. It has a 160 degree thermostat in it so it shouldnt get anywhere near that at idle. The fan was off.
TacoXpo
HOAX DENIER
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