Recent content by Numbchux

Yep, Kelvin at the Cartune Company. His Youtube channel is a bottomless well of knowledge. And he's a frequent poster on many 1UZ facebook groups and forums. He is more expensive, and shipping from NZ I think is going to kill the deal. I think I'm going to order from...

Thanks, I've had ballenger bookmarked since pretty early in my research. There's a guy in New Zealand that specializes in UZ engines that has everything. It's more expensive, but for the amount of information he shares freely, I don't mind supporting him. I'll be getting connector bodies, and...

They aren't, though. With the exception of cheap ones, an alloy wheel will hold up to a lot more abuse. Now, a steel wheel can be bent back, where should you happen to hit an alloy hard enough to damage it, it will probably break. But the only times I've seen a hit hard enough to damage an alloy...

False. Factory alloys are tough SOBs. Cheap aftermarket alloy wheels....well, not so much. Toyota used about 50/50 mag/shank or conical lug nuts on the alloy wheels. The steel wheels are almost certainly conical, so you may need new lug nuts. If your new wheels have a larger hub bore than...

I'm bored at work today, and too swamped at home to get any work done, so I thought I'd start a thread on here about my 4Runner and it's colorful past. I've owned it for over 14 years, only driven it a few thousand miles, and had 4 different engines in it.... Started life as a top-of-the-line...

I'm in the early planning phase of building my own Teardrop/grasshopper style camper trailer. It will see some occasional fire or minimum-maintenance road, so it needs to be built sturdily to withstand vibration. But, of course, weight is a concern as well. I'm on a DIY Teardrop page on Facebook...

Seconded

Yep, and a halogen cannot be any better than an LED with same quality optics (and the LEDs will do it with less power consumption). I don't know who's telling you that anybody cares if your headlights are DOT approved here in MN, but ********** them.

H6054 sealed beam will swap right in place of those LEDs.... I have LEDs that are still running strong after 10 years, and have had incandescents that have failed in short order. Anecdotal, either way. Use what you like. But quality LEDs ARE better. Technically. ONLY DOT is legal in the US...

Absolutely true, but there are a ton of clearly-different designs. The ones that are DOT or ECE approved cost a lot more, and certainly are better. And there are unnacceptably cheap ones, trying to walk the line between that.... Yes, if you're running a light bar, put it on a switch, and turn...

Auxbeam is very much a mid-grade company. If I stick with 5x7s on my Celica, those are the ones I plan to use (I'm looking into a much more intensive project, but that's not relevant here) as I think they look like decent quality for the money, but I have not actually used them. I've had a pair...

The 5x7 sealed beam unit that was an option on the Econolines is one of the most common (if not the most common, certainly in the last several decades) headlights in the world. I own 3 cars that use them, and my Econoline is not one of them (Subaru XT6, Toyota 4Runner, and Toyota Celica). There...

Yep, they had a low range option in the manual transmission cars almost everywhere else in the world but the US (low range was available here in the '70s and '80s...but not since). It's only like a 1.2:1 or 1.4:1 reduction, so it isn't much. I much prefer the reduction of a torque converter...

Those are certainly more capable. But much less comfortable and typically less reliable. I've owned many EA-chassis Subarus, and for "overlanding", I'll trade the comfort and refinement of '00s Outback for the capability of a lifted EA8x wagon every day of the week. And if the stock drivetrain...

If I had an unlimited budget, it'd be a '00-'09 (2 different body styles, but very similar mechanically) Outback. With an EE20 diesel swap, and dual-range manual transmission. I don't have an unlimited budget, so it's an '04 Outback VDC (H6, and actual AWD with an automatic)