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I agree with you on stashing sale items, but I know it’ll go on sale again because I almost bought it the last time it went on sale as well.
By stalling, hopefully you can figure out all the technical bits, and gimmie a real user review on it. Some method to my procrastination 😉
My parents got me a book for christmas to build motivation.
Chapter 6: Cuestas and Valleys. Basically this chapter is written about all the back roads I explore within 45 mins of Shelburne. I’d have some kind of witty remark about how this author (perhaps aided by the government) must be stalking me, but it was published before I moved to Shelburne. So I guess I’m the stalker.
Mom & Dad also got me a small tubing bender (brake lines and fuel lines) and sand blasting cabinet to keep me busy in the shop. Cabinet may have saved me lots of grief on striiping pee rust out of the blower motor housing, or allowed me to put holes in it even faster than I did with the wire wheel. The jury is still out on that.
Time to go buy some blasting media! And solvent for the parts washer they got me last year for christmas. Slackin’, I know. Mark, this is also why I’m hesitant to grab that lightning manipulator, it’ll take me a whole year to get it out of the box!
Page 13 of this thread is a walk down memory lane, with photos of 3 outta 4 of the 4Runners I’ve owned.
Thanks Kevin @FJTTSE for posting Purplee and BigTruckee hanging out before a weekend run through the woods.
As for the brakes, the Rear Disk swap and t-case e-brake will wait for “Stage 2”, hopefully come winter 2019/2020. Neither of those upgrades will help pass a safety, so they are a cost I can post-pone for later. Wheel cylinders and shoes are super cheap in comparison, and get me closer to the open road.
Sorry to hear of Sarah’s Christmas gift?? from work. Crappy scenario, even worse timing. Hope having some quality time at home can help open a fresh window in the New Year.
Almost too shy to inquire, but hows the knee healing up?
At my Tier-1 supplier to Honda, we got 7-paid days off. This week Mon-Fri, next week Mon-Tues, return to work Jan 2nd.
Bonus varied by person to person, based on performance and production results. I took home almost $700 after taxes.
Not yet. Buddy told me last week he was going out of town, and to try for 27/28th. But haven’t heard anything in over a week now. Ad is still up, so I’m not worried.
I’ll be heading to my local parts store to get a quote on all the brake parts I want to replace before I order online. Try to shop local when I can, but I saved hundreds on the ebay wheel bearings on the BigRunner.
Ordering
- T-100 Brake Booster (1-1/16”)
- T-100 Calipers (S13WB casting)
- T-100 rotors (291mm diameter)
- brake pads
- T-100 dual diaphragm booster
- Replacement flex rubber lines Front/rear
- Stock ‘86 rear wheel cylinders & shoes & spring kit
plan to delete LSPV and install manual prop valve all in one go. Hooray for winter shutdown!
Was in Canadian Tire of Orangeville and saw the same welding kit on sale. Took most of my will power to walk past it.
The girls love being in Truckee, we’re a minimum 1-hour from any family members. So far they’re pretty good for the first 2-hours, but anything further is met with disappointment if we aren’t at Disney. We drove to Florida in January, and set the benchmark for payoffs at the end of a roadtrip haha.
Thanks Evan! I see your point, parts guys see so many hard to tell exactly what comes through. Pass/Fail judgment on whether or not cores are present is a much easier call to make quickly
I’ve bought a clutch and flywheel off Rock Auto for Purple-ee, and some fuel parts for Redee. But never anything with a core charge.
Glad you haven’t needed any repairs since the safety.
I hear you on just driving something, that wss the relief I got with the Taco 5.5 years ago. Just put gas in and go. It had been a while.
Oh man that’s a great gift! Serious price break too. I was looking at that welder in the flyer last week, but couldn’t pull the trigger on it. Let me know how it works out for you.
