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06-26-11, 06:30 AM
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wow ... slightly off topic but, I just got word that another windom is now on the way to my home from Japan, this now makes... a total of 3 Windoms parked in front of my house, hmmm I guess I'm gonna have to sell something soon. Probably going to be my old '95
06-30-11, 06:43 PM
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Update: June 30th
Got my Front Mounts, attached to the coilovers now, and everything is ready for installation.
I found someone who's willing to loan me a DeWalt Impact Driver for a few days, it Model# is "DC825KA".
Looking at the spec's I'm not sure if this tool would be adequate enough, it's rated @ 111 ft-lb's maximum torque, will this tool be able to do the job properly or should I look around some more?
Got my Front Mounts, attached to the coilovers now, and everything is ready for installation.
I found someone who's willing to loan me a DeWalt Impact Driver for a few days, it Model# is "DC825KA".
Looking at the spec's I'm not sure if this tool would be adequate enough, it's rated @ 111 ft-lb's maximum torque, will this tool be able to do the job properly or should I look around some more?
06-30-11, 07:39 PM
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Update: June 30th
Got my Front Mounts, attached to the coilovers now, and everything is ready for installation.
I found someone who's willing to loan me a DeWalt Impact Driver for a few days, it Model# is "DC825KA".
Looking at the spec's I'm not sure if this tool would be adequate enough, it's rated @ 111 ft-lb's maximum torque, will this tool be able to do the job properly or should I look around some more?
Got my Front Mounts, attached to the coilovers now, and everything is ready for installation.
I found someone who's willing to loan me a DeWalt Impact Driver for a few days, it Model# is "DC825KA".
Looking at the spec's I'm not sure if this tool would be adequate enough, it's rated @ 111 ft-lb's maximum torque, will this tool be able to do the job properly or should I look around some more?
06-30-11, 08:12 PM
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Looking at my front upper mounts, something in the back of my head is telling me, Something does not look right here.
I apologize for the poor picture quality
The area that I have a question on, is where the upper mount sits, it seems to sit right on the upper spring perch, something is telling me this is wrong.
anyone have any thoughts? looking at the Toyota service manual, there's the suspension support, bearing, followed by the spring upper seat, and then the upper insulator with integrated dust boot, and then the spring.
Something is telling me I need the bearing to go between the upper spring perch, and the suspension support.
I apologize for the poor picture quality
The area that I have a question on, is where the upper mount sits, it seems to sit right on the upper spring perch, something is telling me this is wrong.
anyone have any thoughts? looking at the Toyota service manual, there's the suspension support, bearing, followed by the spring upper seat, and then the upper insulator with integrated dust boot, and then the spring.
Something is telling me I need the bearing to go between the upper spring perch, and the suspension support.
07-01-11, 06:58 AM
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Ugggh when learning, mistakes are bound to happen... well, it happened.
wow, talk about a gigantic mistake on my part... darn it 
So this morning, I decided to take apart the FL damper to make it easy to show the people at the parts shop, well, as it turns out, this ended up to be a bad idea, a VERY BAD idea.
The upper nut, started to come off fine as normal... but then it suddenly started getting harder to come off, so I screwed it back down snug, and it went down smoothly with no problems. I inspected the threads, and it started to strip, everything went on together smoothly without any problems last night. I didn't have to force anything at all.
I always started the nut by hand, and then took my time with the 17mm deep socket to seat it hand tight, everything went on effortlessly and I had it all hand tight with minimal effort to take off with the deep socket, so I'm now guessing that it started to strip while I was attempting to take it off this morning.
This is seriously one heck of a learning experience I'm going through right now, talk about a blunder
If I try to attempt take it off again I do believe that the rest of the threads will strip, which isn't good as I do believe that I need a bearing to go between the upper spring seat and the mount itself, and to do that, I need the bolt off.
From what I can see, it looks like I might have to order a replacement FL damper.
So this morning, I decided to take apart the FL damper to make it easy to show the people at the parts shop, well, as it turns out, this ended up to be a bad idea, a VERY BAD idea.
The upper nut, started to come off fine as normal... but then it suddenly started getting harder to come off, so I screwed it back down snug, and it went down smoothly with no problems. I inspected the threads, and it started to strip, everything went on together smoothly without any problems last night. I didn't have to force anything at all.
I always started the nut by hand, and then took my time with the 17mm deep socket to seat it hand tight, everything went on effortlessly and I had it all hand tight with minimal effort to take off with the deep socket, so I'm now guessing that it started to strip while I was attempting to take it off this morning.
This is seriously one heck of a learning experience I'm going through right now, talk about a blunder
If I try to attempt take it off again I do believe that the rest of the threads will strip, which isn't good as I do believe that I need a bearing to go between the upper spring seat and the mount itself, and to do that, I need the bolt off.
From what I can see, it looks like I might have to order a replacement FL damper.
07-01-11, 05:50 PM
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Looking at my front upper mounts, something in the back of my head is telling me, Something does not look right here.
I apologize for the poor picture quality
The area that I have a question on, is where the upper mount sits, it seems to sit right on the upper spring perch, something is telling me this is wrong.
anyone have any thoughts? looking at the Toyota service manual, there's the suspension support, bearing, followed by the spring upper seat, and then the upper insulator with integrated dust boot, and then the spring.
Something is telling me I need the bearing to go between the upper spring perch, and the suspension support.
I apologize for the poor picture quality
The area that I have a question on, is where the upper mount sits, it seems to sit right on the upper spring perch, something is telling me this is wrong.
anyone have any thoughts? looking at the Toyota service manual, there's the suspension support, bearing, followed by the spring upper seat, and then the upper insulator with integrated dust boot, and then the spring.
Something is telling me I need the bearing to go between the upper spring perch, and the suspension support.
I have this problem solved now, it was indeed the bearings, the upper mounts were supposed to have come with bearings, however they did not, I've ordered the correct bearings online, they should arrive in a few days.
07-02-11, 08:55 AM
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wow, talk about a gigantic mistake on my part... darn it
So this morning, I decided to take apart the FL damper to make it easy to show the people at the parts shop, well, as it turns out, this ended up to be a bad idea, a VERY BAD idea.
The upper nut, started to come off fine as normal... but then it suddenly started getting harder to come off, so I screwed it back down snug, and it went down smoothly with no problems. I inspected the threads, and it started to strip, everything went on together smoothly without any problems last night. I didn't have to force anything at all.
I always started the nut by hand, and then took my time with the 17mm deep socket to seat it hand tight, everything went on effortlessly and I had it all hand tight with minimal effort to take off with the deep socket, so I'm now guessing that it started to strip while I was attempting to take it off this morning.
This is seriously one heck of a learning experience I'm going through right now, talk about a blunder
If I try to attempt take it off again I do believe that the rest of the threads will strip, which isn't good as I do believe that I need a bearing to go between the upper spring seat and the mount itself, and to do that, I need the bolt off.
From what I can see, it looks like I might have to order a replacement FL damper.
So this morning, I decided to take apart the FL damper to make it easy to show the people at the parts shop, well, as it turns out, this ended up to be a bad idea, a VERY BAD idea.
The upper nut, started to come off fine as normal... but then it suddenly started getting harder to come off, so I screwed it back down snug, and it went down smoothly with no problems. I inspected the threads, and it started to strip, everything went on together smoothly without any problems last night. I didn't have to force anything at all.
I always started the nut by hand, and then took my time with the 17mm deep socket to seat it hand tight, everything went on effortlessly and I had it all hand tight with minimal effort to take off with the deep socket, so I'm now guessing that it started to strip while I was attempting to take it off this morning.
This is seriously one heck of a learning experience I'm going through right now, talk about a blunder
If I try to attempt take it off again I do believe that the rest of the threads will strip, which isn't good as I do believe that I need a bearing to go between the upper spring seat and the mount itself, and to do that, I need the bolt off.
From what I can see, it looks like I might have to order a replacement FL damper.
sorry that happened though. . .it's just more money youre gonna have to throw at a damper
07-03-11, 10:07 PM
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Im looking forward to seeing these installed, on a sidenote jeremy-ky the grand kayman islands are so beautiful, was there 2 days ago, saw windoms on a few occasions but most pretty beat up, and it was expensive there. Got lunch at a place called "Hammerheads" and paid something like 130 bucks for fish and chips and appetizers for 5. sorry i'm off topic haha, i hope you figure everything out
07-04-11, 06:41 AM
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Yeah, this was a minor setback, but at the end of the day, I'll still gain knowledge and reap the rewards of my efforts. Lesson learned, take your time and don't rush things. Otherwise, mistakes will happen when you are least expecting it.
@gray_ES300, glad you enjoyed the island. And I do agree, it's stupidly expensive as hell here. But I hope that didn't dampen your experience here, I also hope the weather wasn't too bad for you, on Sat. I got stuck outside my house in a huge rain storm, had to wait some 45 minutes just for it to let up so I could get my groceries into the house, but on a fun side-note, I love the factory TV, during the rain, nothing beats passing time watching TV while waiting for the rain to die down.
I don't think I ever got around on posting the interior shot, but never the less enjoy:
@gray_ES300, glad you enjoyed the island. And I do agree, it's stupidly expensive as hell here. But I hope that didn't dampen your experience here, I also hope the weather wasn't too bad for you, on Sat. I got stuck outside my house in a huge rain storm, had to wait some 45 minutes just for it to let up so I could get my groceries into the house, but on a fun side-note, I love the factory TV, during the rain, nothing beats passing time watching TV while waiting for the rain to die down.
I don't think I ever got around on posting the interior shot, but never the less enjoy:
07-04-11, 01:39 PM
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Thank you, I actually hate a dirty car interior with a passion, the outside may get dirty because thats unavoidable, but I try to keep my car interior clean. You could probably tell how a person keeps themselves when you look at their car interior, at least thats how it goes in my country.
And YEP!
thats a factory unit with DVD Japan Navigation as well as TV,
Here's a close up picture of the unit if you're interested:
And YEP!
thats a factory unit with DVD Japan Navigation as well as TV,Here's a close up picture of the unit if you're interested:
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