Why did Toyota put this here?

Why did you choose that path? As opposed to along the frame?

 

It’s a mouse hurdle!!!

 

It is along the inside of the frame. Exits the engine compartment on drivers side just below the hydraulic brake module, hugs the left frame rail until the cross member that holds the rear drive shaft mid bearing and crosses to the right side rail and then out to the back.

 

Nonsense. Those year 2000 landcruisers are pretenders. The real off road Toyotas have front drums.

 

It must just be common knowledge on this forum as a way to cope with the fact that drum brakes are shittier than disk brakes in every way, including off-road.

https://www.exploringoverland.com/overland-tech-travel/2020/3/12/once-more-with-feeling-drum-brakes-are-not-better-off-road#:~:text=A disc brake might squeal,to be caught between them.

https://revelryoverland.com/why-do-4x4-have-drum-brakes/

 

Lol bro what? are you trolling? If you went "hard" on the trails the pedal will noticeably get progressively softer and less effective when going down steep inclines and slopes as brake fluid boils into gas at the system’s wheel cylinders, as the drum brakes will retain huge amounts of heat. disc brakes don't have this problem as the rotors are exposed to the air that allow them to more rapidly dump the excess heat. Also, A disc brake might squeal initially as slush impacts against the pad and disc, but it will quickly wipe itself clean. Drum brake shoes ride farther away from their contact surface on the drum, allowing debris to be caught between them. Also, water can easily get inside the drum, rendering the drum shoes ineffective, as they slip and slide along the metal facing of the drum. All this misinformation on this forum about drum brakes being better than rotors in any way is hilariously sad and shows a major lack of understanding of even basic mechanical engineering.

 

I made a note in case my wife needs to fill it up

 

Eloquently copied and pasted.

 

A skill I honed in middle - high school lol.

 

We had typewriters when I was in school.

 

We used dirt and a stick.

 

Must be a Southern thing.

 

Truth.

 

OI! I grew up and still live in the south (GA) and we used computers in school dang nabbit!

 

When I was in school computers looked like this:



This was how we learned to type:
The lesson was on a record (as in vinyl record).

 

OOF, imagine not being able to google something and actually having to physically go to a library and hunt for a specific book. So wild to think about to me as the first Iphone came out when I was 10.

 

Books got me a long way in life.
An advantage of books and catalogs is that you discover other things in your quest for information.