Thing you found out AFTER you owned your 4Runner for a while.
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Originally Posted by 4x4Fink
kurt,
ECT is used to hold the gears longer, in turn, this give you more power and better acceleration...mileage doesn't really suffer too much and you get quite a bit more power out of each gear.
Sorry for side-tracking the thread...
Fink
ECT is used to hold the gears longer, in turn, this give you more power and better acceleration...mileage doesn't really suffer too much and you get quite a bit more power out of each gear.
Sorry for side-tracking the thread...
Fink
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I found out that:
1. when you get a really nasty tick coming out from under the hood its time to grab your wallet and your wrench...
2. my new warn hubs will take me just about anywhere i want to go, and the engage in reverse...muahaha.
3. i can pull the key out when the ignition is in acc, which helps when i dont feel like resetting the cd player settings.
4. toyotas kick ass.
1. when you get a really nasty tick coming out from under the hood its time to grab your wallet and your wrench...
2. my new warn hubs will take me just about anywhere i want to go, and the engage in reverse...muahaha.
3. i can pull the key out when the ignition is in acc, which helps when i dont feel like resetting the cd player settings.
4. toyotas kick ass.
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Only had the truck a week, so all my discoveries are probably noob-ish:
- You can roll the windows up after you shut the truck off (like my wife's F-150).
- The rear swing-up hatch closes itself once you get it down, no need to slam it shut.
- You can make it so all the locks lock when you move out of park, and unlock when you go back into park
- You don't have to hold the key on to get it the truck to start (why isn't there a push-button start mod?).
- The little plastic caps beneath the 3rd row seats you find when you lift the seats up cover up the things the seats bolt to when they're down.
- You can roll the windows up after you shut the truck off (like my wife's F-150).
- The rear swing-up hatch closes itself once you get it down, no need to slam it shut.
- You can make it so all the locks lock when you move out of park, and unlock when you go back into park
- You don't have to hold the key on to get it the truck to start (why isn't there a push-button start mod?).
- The little plastic caps beneath the 3rd row seats you find when you lift the seats up cover up the things the seats bolt to when they're down.
#149
I found the second smaller compartment on top of the big compartment in the armrest about 3 months after I bought it.
EDIT
Just found the place for coins in the armrest an hour ago. . . now I can put a CB radio where the ashtray goes since I have somewhere else to put change!
EDIT
Just found the place for coins in the armrest an hour ago. . . now I can put a CB radio where the ashtray goes since I have somewhere else to put change!
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1.) Took 6 months to discover the 'small top of armrest compartment
2.) Took 3 years (found out today) to discover that it is normal to have no light in the pass front window control on the drivers door
3.) Took 3 years to find out that those wires were for an antenna in the rear window
4.) Took 1.5 years to notice the mirror defroster
2.) Took 3 years (found out today) to discover that it is normal to have no light in the pass front window control on the drivers door
3.) Took 3 years to find out that those wires were for an antenna in the rear window
4.) Took 1.5 years to notice the mirror defroster
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Originally Posted by tc
On my second gen the little drop down door is to cover the screw for handcranking the power moonroof. (It's in the owner's manual LOL)
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I bought my 3rd gen in CA and then drove it 1,000+ miles home. I had no idea there was a lumber support adjustment on the seat for my back. It was in the total opposite direction i would have liked the whole time! :pat:
My 2nd gen... i was driving to work one day and went to "roll" down my power windows but they didn't move! I was mad and thought the wor$t. Hours later i realized/remembered i had a window lock botton on the armrest!
My 2nd gen... i was driving to work one day and went to "roll" down my power windows but they didn't move! I was mad and thought the wor$t. Hours later i realized/remembered i had a window lock botton on the armrest!
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Originally Posted by SnoViking
i just found the little map pocket (wrap around from back pocket) on the left side of the passenger seat
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Originally Posted by LarsDennert
The 3Rd Gen has two radio antennas. One looks like a window defroster.
You have to be careful changing out the single O2 sensor cause the little heat plate will shave the skin off your knuckles.
The fuse for the ECM isn't marked to reset the CEL after changing out the bad O2 sensor and I wasn't going to unhook the battery (hate having to reprogram that radio) if I didn't have to and just pulled all the fuses in the fuse box under the hood (It worked!)
The factory harness plug for the radio is the same for almost all Toyota's if you unplug the amplifier that comes with some stock radio's (So thats why they have all those connectors on the back of the radio!). found this out after I took the nice Toyota stock radio out of my 87 4Runner (which by the way was the stock radio in my son-in-laws 2003 Tacoma he gave to me) to put in my 95. Really confounded me for awhile as to why the rear plug on that nice radio didn't seem to have the same connector as I had when I first unplugged the 95's! After seaching eBay for toyota radios, started noticing some had the same connection as my 95 but wait! There it it! A silver colored box to plug into the radio! What did he say that was?? An amplifier??!! And I kid my lady about being blonde!
To change out the radio I had to remove the entire lower portion of both left and right sides of the dash to get to the center console to remove the cover and get to the 4 screws holding the radio in place. I really need to find a factory manual for this thing!
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I've had my 3rd gen for a couple months now and always thought that was a defroster for the side cargo area windows... lol.
After pulling the radio out I was confused as to why it had two antenna connections...
I went over it top to bottom inside and out looking at every possible thing there was to offer on the rig the first day I got it. I found:
-The rear seats have a second set of holes for the headrests when the seats are folded up.
-The jack is under the rear passenger seat.
-I am missing my whatever that comes in the rear "hidden" cargo area on the pass. side.
-The garage door opener compartment has little tabs that you mount to line up with your opener's button. Then all you have to do is press up on the spring-loaded door to activate the opener.
-Only the driver's window switch lights up (thanks yotatech). Both driver and passenger windows are automatic, even the switch on the passenger door.
-The traction control light on the dash will light up and beep at you if you break traction around a corner in the rain and end up sliding sidways down the road.
-The entire dash is easy to remove, but does not need to be removed to access the radio. Doh.
-The wipers are NOT controlled by the turn-signal lever like it has been on every other vehicle I've ever owned ever.
-There is a heater on the floor for the rear passengers. This was left on for whatever reason when I drove it home from the dealership and kept wondering why the hell I was feeling heat coming from the rear, and why I could still hear a fan on when the switch was in the Off position.
-My doors don't automatically lock or unlock when the vehicle is turned on, or put in gear. Is there a way to enable this?
-A 10mm socket will fit on just about everything in the vehicle.
I'm sure there's still more to be discovered...
After pulling the radio out I was confused as to why it had two antenna connections...
I went over it top to bottom inside and out looking at every possible thing there was to offer on the rig the first day I got it. I found:
-The rear seats have a second set of holes for the headrests when the seats are folded up.
-The jack is under the rear passenger seat.
-I am missing my whatever that comes in the rear "hidden" cargo area on the pass. side.
-The garage door opener compartment has little tabs that you mount to line up with your opener's button. Then all you have to do is press up on the spring-loaded door to activate the opener.
-Only the driver's window switch lights up (thanks yotatech). Both driver and passenger windows are automatic, even the switch on the passenger door.
-The traction control light on the dash will light up and beep at you if you break traction around a corner in the rain and end up sliding sidways down the road.
-The entire dash is easy to remove, but does not need to be removed to access the radio. Doh.
-The wipers are NOT controlled by the turn-signal lever like it has been on every other vehicle I've ever owned ever.
-There is a heater on the floor for the rear passengers. This was left on for whatever reason when I drove it home from the dealership and kept wondering why the hell I was feeling heat coming from the rear, and why I could still hear a fan on when the switch was in the Off position.
-My doors don't automatically lock or unlock when the vehicle is turned on, or put in gear. Is there a way to enable this?
-A 10mm socket will fit on just about everything in the vehicle.
I'm sure there's still more to be discovered...
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Ive had my 85 4runner since January. I just discovered today that BOTH windows on each side next to the back seat open up! i thought the forward window only slid backward, but i had no idea the back window slid forward!
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after buying it, I discovered:
1. the cupholders in a 2nd gen really suck, a drink will block the a/c vent and drip onto the center console.
2. the auto-down drivers window is cool.
3. where the rod for the spare is located, who would have thought.
4. The V6 doesn't have a lot of power
5, very small gas tank for such a big and heavy vehicle.
6. changing the headlight bulbs are a bitch.
1. the cupholders in a 2nd gen really suck, a drink will block the a/c vent and drip onto the center console.
2. the auto-down drivers window is cool.
3. where the rod for the spare is located, who would have thought.
4. The V6 doesn't have a lot of power
5, very small gas tank for such a big and heavy vehicle.
6. changing the headlight bulbs are a bitch.