you should be able to lay the fan on a table and it should be flat of even all the way around. you can also swing by a toyota dealership and see if they have any in stock. i know my dealer stock them because body shops always buy time.

 

yeah it doesn't make any sense. Its perfect and cool when im on normal streets. but at highway speeds and its warm out, the temp gauge goes up slowly. but when i turn the heater on, it goes back to normal. turn on just the air ( not heat ) it goes back up. lol its pretty trippy. all i can think of is air bubbles or possibly the fan shroud.

 

It's a good thing you say that, because that's exactly what I did and it wasn't even flat. Looked even worse once installed.

I looked up dealerships around here, and it seems the only Toyota dealership closed down and is now a GM/Chrysler dealership. The nearest one besides that, is in Yuba city which is an hour away which is why I ordered online. I think I'm wrong though because the guy at NAPA seemed to know one in Chico.

 

Coolant Leak, making air bubbles go in the system? Well, you'd probably notice a leak by now if there was though.

Maybe needs a coolant flush?

That's all I could think of. Weird that the radiator doesn't have threaded holes to fit the shroud.

 

haha its a brand new radiator from davez offroad and its brand new toyota red. Im thinking i just need to burp the system correctly. ( i forgot to turn the heater on ) but it kinda blows the shroud doesn't fit on it.

 

Use zip-ties or industrial strength velcro to make it fit lol.

Or a couple of brackets, using thin metal that you could bend by hand using a bench vise. Just bend them at right angles to make a "S" shape, then drill holes on each end. One so you can use the bolts that hold the radiator, and another to bolt the shroud.

 

is it just the mounting points for the shroud a few inches to far? if so i just used zip ties. i had the same issue with my rad i order online. suppose to be a factory replacement

 

its off by maybe 1/4 or 1/2 an inch. I was thinking of just using zip ties, but didn't wanna be ghetto. lmao i'll think of something. I think it just has air pockets in it.

 

Went to NAPA today to pick up brake drums and also look at the cooling fan. The fan has been officially ruled out as a problem now. When I looked at this fan at NAPA, I put it on the table and the outer ring as a slight waviness to it like the other two fans shipped from Kansas. So it's obvious now that even with the slight wavy edges on the outer ring, the cooling fan shouldn't wobble.

Plan is to just put this fan wobble issue on the back burner until I have enough money to get Factory Toyota parts. I don't know if the fan clutch is bad or the fan bracket is bad, but you have to get them both as a set from Toyota anyways if I'm not mistaken.

 

Since today was sunny, I decided to do my rear brakes. It's easy when you have brake tools. It sucks when the old drum won't come off and you have to go from behind the backing plate to get to the adjuster. Took me an hour just to get the drum off, luckily it was only one that was seized.





Happy St. Patricks's day, drink responsibly haha.

 

nice thread, very good pics and full of good info. thanks for taking the time to do it.. truck looks awesome!!

 

sucks about the fan. maybe you can just pull what you need from a junk yard for cheap.. the rear brakes looks good

 

Thanks man. I do what I can, helps me remember how I did things lol.

That's also a good option, kind of forgot about that one.

Thank you. Not bad for my first time eh? haha

Wish I got different brake shoes though, realized I had to press in the stud pins into the brake shoes, that holds the adjusting lever, that holds the adjuster wheel from turning. Had to use my HF ball joint press service kit to get them in.

 

wow didnt know they had shoes that reuses the pins....

 

The brake shoes I got came with new pins, but you have to press them in. I would have taken them back if I knew what the pins in the box were for at the time, but I didn't think anything of it.

 

Got a valve adjustment done to the truck today by the local dealership. Expensive, but worth it to me in the long run. They had to adjust 4 shims.

The engine wasn't running too rough or anything. I had the adjustment done because it's never had one as far as I know, even when my dad had it. Runs about the same, but more peace of mind for me. It's only got 153,488 miles on it.

 

nice. now you can go another 100k

 

Love the truck looks amazing! You mind me asking why you went with the blazeland kit over something like total chaos or camburg?

 

Pretty much. I wonder how different my life will be by the time it turns 250k haha.

Thank you. I chose Blazeland because I didn't have a lot of money, and I wanted to do a last minute thing to my truck that I could still do at home before leaving for college.

 

So I had a little scare today. I was driving to Target to get a wireless mic for my 360 and when I turned into the parking lot there was a loud snap and my truck was leanin on the driver side a bit.

[Me thinking:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!... ..
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!]

Fortunately I was able to steer and drive my way to a parking spot.
What happened was the coil pre-load adjuster slipped off the threaded shock body and got stuck at the top.

The cause might have been me not tightening it enough, I'm not sure because it's held up for months now. Moral of the story though, is always have a basic set of tools with you. I actually didn't have my coilover adjusting wrench in the truck up until 4 months ago. If I didn't, I would have had to wait until night and limped back home.

Just thought I'd share. Needless to say, I bought 2 extra coil adjusters from FOA to put in my truck. Just in case the old one got stripped really bad. Drove home like nothing happened though.