Fluorescent Orange!!!

 

*hands over ears* lalalalalalalalalalalalalala

 

96 4Runner 261,xxx miles

Cup holder arm spring repair

See broken post in foreground, the one replaced with the nail was broken even lower down and didn't work at all:



Underside of cupholder. Nails lined up in holes where the plastic posts would have gone:



Nails nipped and ground down lower than the screw heads



And the topside. I used a dab of jb weld on the underside of the nail heads. Prolly doesn't need it because of how the holder fits into the console:

 

96 4Runner
Location of bulbs in
Hazard switch (1)



Defrost switch (2)



Use a screwdriver to turn a quarter turn and take straight out.

 

Since "it's gonna catch fire" or similar is the catch phrase, I'm surprised Fire Engine Red was not the suggestion.

Nice fix on the cup holder!

BTW, I've been trying to get the gears my old Trek MTB shifting well. Once the shifter pawl in the thumb shifter was cleaned and re-lubricated it was better. Adjusting the cables is a pain though. There're close to done now. :-)

 

96 4Runner

Hubby got impatient while I was doing the other stuff:

Grind grind grind:



First coat. Thinking satin black for the finish.






Those are our spare tires- better get this thing in pretty soon!

 

96 4Runner 261,xxx miles

Replaced rear seat belts with junkyard finds. Easy to do, just a few pics:
One bolt, keys in at 3 places- at top and just above bolt



one bolt up here:



Fits through the trim:



And one bolt down here:



Had to unbolt the cargo cover holders(3 screws total), the door jamb trim (2 screws), the trim next to the seat (pops off), and the rear cargo panel (pop off enough to reach in). 14mm socket for all 3 bolts, phillips head screws.

 

HEY!

Well, it works better than trying to fix the lower tray on that last one, anyway!

Cleaned and lubed is excellent. Sometimes a brand new cable makes a difference too. Sometimes the rear derailleur shifter gets a little bent and that makes it hard or impossible to get the adjustment right. Good luck on it!

 

Hi Hab! The axle is looking nice.

The bike adjustment is good enough, not perfect, but it hits all the gears easily without noise now. The brake pads are like bricks and will get replaced next.

I need to find a project or two on my truck. It does need some touch-up paint on the hood, the clear coat on the canopy is shot, and the carpet needs cleaning...that might be a good list after ski season ends in May.

Cherries are just beginning to bloom here. Now, allergy season is full on.

 

Hey hab haven't been around much just trying to catch up on a few of my favorite threads.

 

Ah, rw, allergies. Lucky me, all I get is stuffy ears so it's harder to hear and my voice changes. Actually, the voice change is usually for the better. I don't sound so much like Minnie Mouse off and on for a little bit. Mmmmm, cherries! It'll be interesting to hear what projects you come up with when you aren't sliding down hills on skinny little boards.


Glad to hear from you Jason, and the ego stoke doesn't feel too bad, either.

 

Hoping today's bad weather in StL missed you!

 

Few bouts of small hail, lots of lightning and rain but nothing awful for us. Some damage to the northeast and I didn't hear if IL got hit too bad. Thanks for the good thoughts!

 

96 4Runner 261,xxx miles

Good bye open dif



Hello locker dif









In enough to support the truck



Got started kinda late this afternoon, wasn't terribly hard other than the weight of the things. I already had the newer one on wheels so it could be rolled around so I rolled it up to the rear, put it on the jack and pulled the wheels so I could lower the thing and get it under the truck. This prolly would have been faster with 2 people but I wanted to do it myself and the Husbandio had his own stuff going on. I'll finish connecting the upper arms, panhard bar, parking brake cable, brake lines, extended dif breather, and other little stuff, bleed brakes, that sort of thing.

Next up some time in the not too distant future:
the front dif!

 

Nice work!!

 

I just saw it drive down the driveway!

 

Thanks! Got it finished today, don't think I could be much dirtier. Will re-bleed brakes again in a few days, I'm not satisfied with how one side went. I think I'm a little tired now...

 

I was up to my neck in fixing a crashed Taurus and wasn't able to lend even a token bit of help.

 

Woohoo! That's a great accomplishment! Yea, I know the tired feeling too...I had it several times when doing the head gasket project on my truck a few years ago.

Now, to get the front on the schedule?

How is that new diff activated?

A crashed Taurus does not sound so good. Hope it was only the car that was hurt.

 

My younger daughter. Wednesday morning she got caught on the tail end of a sudden freeway slowdown, and bumped her Taurus wagon into the back end of a BMW X5. She's OK, got a bump on the top of her head somehow, some bruises and sore spots, all minor.

The tall bumper of the SUV combined with the dipped nose of the Taurus meant that her car nosed under and the sheetmetal took the hit. I.e. it looked pretty nasty, but not that hard of a hit. Nothing that didn't unbolt easily was bent. Just a lot of bent parts to unbolt, get at a junkyard, and bolt back on.

Brief pictoral:

What the tow truck dropped off:


Everything broken/bent taken off:


Parts slapped back on:


A lick of paint applied, fluids added, good to go again: