1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I have a 5-MT car where the MT radiators are never stocked. The automatics have brass nipples for the ATF lines. They never leak coolant. I cover the brass nipples with vacuum caps so they don't look like they have been left open.

 

Havnet had any issues with my harbor freight jack

 

I bought a Champion aluminum radiator and it still sitting new in the box at my shop. Waiting for the day I decide to do my timing belt....

 

Do yourself a favor and sell it. They aren't well made and spring leaks. One of biggest disappointments for first genners are those things

 

If you have crappy grounds still and are worried you can do this test.. here's a link to the whole article if you'd like to read up on it ruining aluminum radiators.

https://www.northernradiator.com/kn...electrolysis, use,the coolant in the radiator.

 

How much coolant does it take for the 3.4 to do a full flush and refill? Just off the top.

 

Buy three gallons of the premixed... total capacity is 2.5 gal if I remember correctly

 

Cool cause imma flush the green out and put the green back in lol

 

Perfectly good to do that

Just flush it regularly if you use the green stuff

 

Yeah it’s sat in there for two years now so it needs to be done

 

When I've done it in my American vehicles I usually drain the old out and fill the system with distilled water you can buy in jugs from the grocery store (I'm a cheap ass and have a water filter jug for the fridge.. it takes me half a day but I use 3 gal of tap water that I run through the filter) then I run it for a couple minutes full of just water, drain again, and then refill with coolant mix

 

Sounds correct, been a while since I did mine tho.

Flush the green out and go with the Zerex Asian. To do a complete flush, get about 5 gallons of distilled water. Also pick up a bottle of Prestone Cooling System Flush. Drain the rad and the block of the green shit and then refill with the Prestone flush and distilled water. Run the motor until it's up to operating temp + another 5 minutes. Let cool and drain out the distilled water and Prestone flush. Refill with distilled water only and repeat the running process. Do that until you have no more fresh distilled water. This flushes almost all of the green shit out and also most of the debris in the system. Drain block and radiator each time. After the final drain, refill system with the Zerex stuff and you will be good for like 30 to 50k miles before doing a basic drain and flush with just the Zerex Asian coolant.

Did my Taco like that and it survives just fine in the stupid heat here during summer. Same with the 4runner but it already had the good, red coolant when I got it.

 

Two years is just fine even for green Prestone stuff. If you simply drain and fill radiator every two years, that will keep the system's coolant fresh enough to function as it should.

 

That’s what i figured as well. If I can run a old ford to 200k with that shit I can do it with this lolo

 

Yeah, the big no-no is to not mix the red with green in the system. The mixture can gel up and plug the cooling ports and radiator, and then it's over, something to do with different chemical compositions.

 

Go to the 3rd gen 4 runner facebook group theyre the best thing since sliced bread

Theres no convincing anyone otherwise there its the perfect cestpool

 

What i did with my harbor freight jack after they couldnt find the warenty was buy another one swap the whole hydraulic assymbley from the new one to the old one and return the new one with the old parts

And she works

 

I don't convince anyone of anything, I don't even want to. I don't like talking with those types, waste of time. I like talking even less if it's people that can't think rationally and logically. I simply want to share my experience/s so people can know what to expect. I want you to learn it on your own because then you'll believe it and know it and share it.
We're better off leaving those close minded irrational folks to themselves. They'll figure it out on their own sometime. And if they don't, they'll struggle with leaky champion alunium radiators

 

Its only that particular generation that shared a significant amount of parts