It’s time

Wife is going away for 2 weeks

 

Welcome to the forum

Toyota made draining the coolant very easy.

Get some 5/16" ID hose, it fits the radiator drain too. If you leave the radiator cap on when you drain the radiator (before draining the block) it will siphon the fluid out of the recovery bottle too.



After you have got all you can from the radiator, draining the block is easy.
Remove the passenger wheel, pop the top plastic clip out and gently fold the splash shield down.



And find this handy block drain.



A long extension and a 10MM socket.



The coolant won't gush out, just get it draining and go do something else for a while.
Fill it up nice and slow, keep squeezing the top radiator hose to work the air out.

 

So it’s going to take you 2 weeks ? Lol

 

Jeez, I would have gotten Hookers & coke....

 

And here I thought buying a bag of pork rinds from the Jiffy Rip store was being a rebel when the wife was out of town!

 

i usually enjoy a good T bone covered in mushrooms and a few sides when my wife goes away for a weekend. You should be able to knock out those fluids in 3 hours if you take your time.

 

Well it’s a lot of lube. Anytime my (ex) wife was out of town I would throw a party, usually make some waffles and fried chicken.

 

Lots of beer and good food on the list as well

 

Thank you for the info Rusty Green!

 

Nice! Take your time breaking the front diff fill/drain plugs. They can be a pain and do strip. Mine came off relatively easily and I swapped them for the Lexus (male) hex plugs. I used one of those big fluid syringes for the diffs which worked great.

Consider also doing you power steering fluid if you haven't done it already. The factory fill still looked clean but after flushing, it really wasn't. I flushed mine at 28k mi which by some is really early.

 

What are the 2 silver "things" lower left?

 

Looks like spacers for lifting the front a bit.

 

Two Weeks!!! man it won't take that long to do all that. I work slow and I could do the oil change, the Diffs and the Transfer case in one Saturday and still be done by about 3pm if I started after 9am.
Looks like two days work to me. I get planning to d it when the wife or significant other is not home, no interruptions.
You're gonna need some other mods or something to fill in some time.

 

I have some other things planned. Like you said, I just need the time without interruption

 

Two weeks? Did you get the Shanghai Shivers?