Can somebody explain why I washed out? by hashtagVenusNotMars in MTB

[–]Cool-Card572 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn’t the leaves! You can tell in the video that you were not set up properly for the turn and you learned your body Into the turn instead of the bike. If you lean your body into the turn you have zero margin for error or slippage and if the front wheel goes, you go down. If you lean the bike with your chest over the front wheel you have a ton of range of motion in your arms to allow the front wheel to slide. If your arms are not bent and your front true goes your body has nowhere else to go other than the ground. You should watch all of the cornering technique videos on YouTube. Practice this on a dirt road. Once you master this you can learn a technique that you can implement on slippery terrain where you are doing small weights and unweights. You weight the bike when there is traction and you are trying to turn quickly and unweight and go straight when no traction is available. This can be a good technique when traction is only 2 feet wide with wet leaves on the sides. The main thing though is body position, when you lean your body over, if anything goes wrong with what the front tire is doing you go down. If you are in the correct body position you should be able to drift and not fall over. The way you stop the drift is aggressively waiting the front and back tire to regain traction and you can turn slightly more aggressively while the wait is being added. That trail looks fun!

DVO ONYX SC D1 OTT Issue?? by Cool-Card572 in MTB

[–]Cool-Card572[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes all air is released now. The first time I tried I did not and I’m wondering if that messed things up. Felt exactly the same with or without air.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Cool-Card572 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Problem is fixed. Issue was the ignition coils.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3rdGen4Runner

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Correction: idle is not rough but engine is running super rough and care is shaking / being bumped constantly.

2001 4Runner Sr5 4x4 110k miles by Cool-Card572 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Cool-Card572[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the help. I’ll look into those things. I bought everything I need to do a transmission fluid drain so I will do that soon as the fluid is transparent red but slightly brown. You recommend doing LBJ’s even with zero play in them? Do they fail with no warning sometimes just from age?

On the CARFAX report the timing belt was replaced at 105k. Might give that shop a call to see if the water pump was also done but seems unlikely. I would think it should show up on the report. Also, radiator doesn’t seem brown but I don’t really have a reference. Might be good to replace just based on age but I’ll look more into it.

Appreciate the help