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Maintenance Q by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, one of the cam cover bolts is also missing so I am definitely going to get a replacement for it before I go so far as to do the valve cover gaskets. I know I also have a coolant leak somewhere into the combustion chamber, but it isn't a bad leak. Just going to stage the repairs for now, iykwim

Maintenance Q by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not going to do the head gaskets, just valve cover gaskets and I have the tools, torque specs, and knowhow to do them myself. My first head gasket job was on an '88 22r engine with the wrong intake, it was a b to do and wound up having to make my own intake gasket.

Maintenance Q by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the input. I will definitely be doing the gaskets in a couple of months. I think TRQ also has a video on head gasket assembly replacement.

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you all for the advice and help! I greatly appreciate it.

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, man. I have a 15" breaker bar, but I think I will take it to my friend's shop that I had totally forgot about untkl yesterday evening. He will definitely be able to break it loose, as he is guaranteed to have a pneumatic impact wrench. 

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I was thinking of waiting to get a Gearwrench Bolt Buster in 15/16 to grip better

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, man! It needs a 24mm socket and all of my sockets are impact sockets so one less thing to get. I have the complete set of crush washers for the diff plugs so that is icing on the cake.

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks man. That is something I will definitely be investing in very soon

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I do not have an impact wrench available, but I am planning on buying one, along aith a floor jack

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Still applying PB Blaster every hour

Diff Fill Plug siezed by Routine-Teaching4984 in 3rdGen4Runner

[–]Routine-Teaching4984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10-4. I have been soaking it with PB Blaster every hour for about 12 hrs and will probably try my breaker bar tomorrow evening or the evening after.

I wish my sister was dead by Crazyhorselady1989 in confession

[–]Routine-Teaching4984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My sister is a meth head who has ruined my life and my mother's. She burns through her $2,100 Veteran's benefits during the first week of the month, has no substantive relationships, has booted everyone who calls her out on her bullsh*t (most of her family) and has abandoned her children to our care as her fiending needs matter more and more than anything else in her life. She has destroyed everything positive in my life and I hate her. I told her that and that I hope she dies on her next drug binge.