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Mark, I consider the “Season over” when the toys get packed up for hibernation. For my bike that was the day after the collar bone incident haha.
Evan, if your gauge sender is mounted in the rad hose, it could be reading the cold side of the thermostat (radiator temp) rather than the hot side of thermostat being fed from the cylinder head (engine temp).
The gauge looks awesome, making good use of the smallest storage space in any dashboard I’ve come across.
I had a cheapie gauge mounted to the steering column plastic cover. It was out of the way of knees/hands, but still able to read it through the steering wheel.
I believe the rear heater if in stock configuration gets hot coolant from the cylinder head and feeds it back to the block. To be honest, I forget how the front heater is plumbed into the coolant circuit. But I always had hotter and faster heat out of the rear heater, especially after my thermostat failed open in January of 2010. Brrrrr.
Mark, yea I’m trying to make a mid-week run. Weekends are booked up with family stuff. The Seller is suggesting the week after christmas, I’ll be on plant shutdown supervising my girls. Think the girls and I will make a 1/2 day trip out of it, pack snacks, snowsuits and a disney movie.
That’s too funny your gauge failed HOT. on 4Runneree I only ever saw the temp gauge lift off COLD once or twice. Possible I could dig up a picture from the first time I saw it move from Cold to Warm. It was that astonishing.
Where’d you mount the gauge?
Hey Mark, thanks for the shotgun offer. Biggest trouble I’m having is finding trouble to go driving for 4-5 hours. Got a year-end bonus at work today which will cover the cost, but December sucks for finding me-time to do stuff like this.
I work an afternoon shift next week (4:30pm-1am), trying to arrange with seller a meeting before 1pm.
@Tacoma16, thanks for your first-hand review. Is the dual setup literally that ARB slapped two of these into a combined package? I’ll have to click through your TW build thread again, I recall you’ve got a sweet setup inside your flatbed/aluminum box.
I’ve never researched air compressors, and wasn’t too sure what alternatives would work in lieu of the ARB unit. Just so happened to stumble across that unit on kijiji, and it seems like the price is right. I know I’ll need a compressor for the rear locker, and would hate to buy that component twice.
Hey guys, I found an ARB air compressor on kijiji, looking for some feedback if it’ll suit my needs. Jotted below are my current ideas for Redee’s uses for the compressor.
1. Rear Air locker (already installed)
2. Front locker (eventually)
3. Filling tires (beach toys, air mattress)
4. Air assisted rear shocks
5. Pressurize a water tank so it doesn’t have to be gravity fed.
My girlies helped me put a couple rivets in the corners of the NVH firewall blanket. With exception to cutting out one slotted hole that I missed (traced, cut out pvc but not underpadding), and test fitting and installing, this task is complete!
Next I need to make a couple patch plates for the firewall. One where the clutch master cylinder used to come through for mating to the pedal, a second patch plate to cover up an access hole for one the bellhousing bolts. Not gonna get too fancy here at all, can’t risk it taking 6-weeks to complete.
Gotta call my windshield buddy again, really hope to get it sealed up before I reassemble my dash. I really Don’t want old silicone rattling around in the dash after I can guarantee right now I’m rattle free (but only because I’m dash-free). Fingers crossed for an inexpensive repair.
Chalked up another small victory last night. Got the two layers of the NVH blanket glued together and put under some weight to help curing.
Think I’m gonna put a dozen zip ties around the perimeter to prevent the edges from peeling apart. I’ve been trying to find where to buy a “plug or post” style zip tie. Something that resembles an anti-theft tag for clothing, only need to poke one hole in the corner, rather than “stitching” the two together.
Hey Evan, did you do anything special to winterize the Orange Saphire?
That JK you parked beside looks tiny in comparison…looks like some good parts on it though.
Oh for sure Mark. Feels good to make some progress wherever I get it.
I still have to arrange with my buddy to seal up the windshield. I wanna get it resealed before I put the dash back together just in case there’s some grinding or excessive scraping required.
Hoping Santa brings me T-100 brake calipers, master & booster.
Had a couple hours in the shop midday today, and got non-4Runner related tasks complete.
Got the power wheels, wagon and stroller packed away into the shed (out of the shop!!) till spring time.
Found out the Taco will fit in the shop with less than 10cm to spare. Good to know should another ice storm come our way. Last winter I was able to get the Taco and Sams caravan inside before a crazy wind/freezing rain storm hit, but the bigrunner was parked in the backyard.
Anyways, with the extra crap out of the way, I got Little Trucky some overdue service. Oil change, engine air filter, and zerks greased up. I bought frint brake pads 3 months ago, but there’s still life left on these original pads @ 108,000km.
Tomorrow I gotta do an oil change in Sams Focus. Perhaps afterwards I’ll make another attempt to glue that damn blanket together.
