Recent content by Ako

Lol. Perfect.

Good thinking Dave. Always more that one way to skin a cat!

I couldn't open the fuel flap on my 80 series without reaching under the dash with a pair of needle nose pliers to pull the wire. Wasn't sure if this would work but I removed the interior panel where the jack is stored, and managed to crimp on two split sinkers from my fishing kit to remove the...

Fuel flap fix

Hi Mohammad. Glad you have my old Cruiser, hope the info I sent you via PM will help.

Hi mate. Sorry I sold the Cruiser and moved home to Oz. Never finished that setup but still have all the bits. Might use it on something else one day .

For the LJ73, Dobinson only offer their 'heavy duty twin tube gas long travel shocks' and linear springs. So there are only options of standard height toyota spings with their shocks or lifted. I chose +60mm front and +65mm rear. Note that the square headlight and round headlight series have...

Looks like some good progress there! All the jobs you have done have also been done on my LC, or are waiting to be done. Hope you also get some time to enjoy driving it. Please post pics if you do as I like seeing all the different driving conditions around the world.

I am guessing the answer is yes, the below is from the manual I think the only way you will get to all these wires is to pull the wheel first. Sorry but the manual doesn't specifically say.

Looking very nice. Hope you can clean the mud off the hi-lift before you put it back in, otherwise you will mess up the pristine interior.

You used to be able to get a factory supercharged 4.0 V6 petrol engine. In the states the Tacoma has come with a NA petrol engine option as well, and now there is a smaller 3.5L V6 that no-one likes.

If I take them out Ben, will be losing some lift :) Found this photo : Yep, looks like discs : That's the old POS shock on the way out. Way too long and letting the spring fall out of the bucket : See the different in droop between old and new : Also need to increase the...