New England B.S. Thread

Its been a busy two Sundays on the 4R.
-Radiator changed and coolant flushed.
-Mounted Remote trans cooler
-Installed LC80 7.5 wrap rear coils
-Installed SS Adjustable panhard bar to re-center rear axle
-Moved the turn signals from the bumper to the corner lenses with Honda connectors, leds, and a new flasher relay
-changed the transmission filter and flushed the system with 4 gallons of the Castrol Transmax import (Toyota T-III/T-IV compatible)

 

Looks good! That's a nice size trailer. I towed about 340 miles this weekend myself with the boat and new trailer tires. Much better. Need to get new tires for the truck though.

 

Looks nice Dan. Congratulations!

 

I had a little giggle fit (GF just shook her head) after I loaded up that 16K dump trailer a few weeks ago. Same thing; flat-towed w/o a WD hitch, zero sway and not much squat. Big trucks are sweet for towing. Parallel parking, on the other hand...

 

Thanks, it's not bad. It's not huge and obnoxious, it's only a 24' box. Should be a good size for my wife, the kids and I (and the pup when we get another one). I can still get into the small, wooded sites I usually go for.

 

Threw another 50 lbs of clover down around our house where we didn't use real seed. Also got our parking area and around some new spruce trees. The stuff I put down a week or so ago is already up and going. This week should be wet and cool and let it take off.

Hows it feel now? Seems like after all that work it should drive nice and smooth, and be able to tow as long as you need.

 

That's a lot of clover... How many acres did you seed? Supposedly 10-15lbs will seed a full acre.

 

Just got back from my honeymoon in Colorado...I'm way to jealous of the clean framed tacomas and non-rusted out vehicles out there...unreal

 

I've already had the TSB spraying done and I was under my truck yesterday and it's ALL flaked off the frame around the base...

 

Where in Colorado did you go? My wife and I were on vacation in Steamboat Springs 2 or 3 weeks ago

 

Spent most of time in Colorado Springs and Denver. We definitely want to go back for a longer period of time and maybe make it a yearly vacation spot for us. Surprisingly we both did better allergy/breathing wise despite the attitude and the wife has asthma and had less trouble there than here in NH.

 

Any recommendations?

 

God I'm old. I've been reading an article online about how far special effects have come in 20 years, and they're comparing the Matrix and the Mummy (both from '99) to the new Avengers movie.

 

I feel you there. Both were groundbreaking at the time, and have even aged well, but the stuff they're doing today with CGI just blows it out of the water.

 

Yeah, you look at the list of people involved JUST with the cinematics in the credits for these Marvel movies and it's amazing that they even bother building sets any more.

 

Even Avatar looks dated now.

 

Does it not snow there?

 

It does. But they don't get the heavyweight stuff that we do, and they opt not to salt their roads. Plus they've got much lower humidity rates during the summer, so their cars aren't getting that year-round rust assault.

 

Small issues to fix. I didn't get all the air out of the cooling system so if I sit in traffic I can watch the temps slowly rise on the scanguage. Normal driving it isn't noticeable. I bought the proper funnel kit to burp the radiator so I will do that tonight.
I need to plumb the cooler still but I everything planned and mounted. I just ran out of trans fluid to add capacity. After the flush, the trans no longer slips going into OD. The fluid was BLACK and smelled rough but the pan, magnets and filter/strainer were all spotless.

The rear suspension setup is great though. The combination of the LC coils and the Bilstein 5160 remote resi shocks made the ride much softer and smoother on and off road (compared to the OME setup).

 

Has anyone changed a steering rack on an 09?
How bad a job is it?