Matt's 150 GXL

[Madkore Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Madkore]

Looks great Matt.

I'm a little confused though. You have spacers in the rear and spacers in the front - why not just get the correctly rated springs?

[SOL Find all posts View Profile Close SOL]

Thanks SOL, I've been sorting the little things out, step by step.

It's not finished by a long shot !

Matt I understand and feel your pain.
Never are. Always something new and shiny to add. Being on here does not help either.

SOL.

[Brains Find all posts View Profile Close Brains]

A big thanks to your engineering skill Andrew. The quality and fit is top notch. I would recommend his mod to a 150 and its very easy to carry out.

Did your front ride height settle very much Andrew ? I am pretty happy with the height gain, 6mm spacer resulted in a 39mm initial lift, it will settle I think ?

Interesting to see the difference in these two photos -

What's the CV angles like, is there much difference.

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1. Madkore - I guess two parts to this answer for your question, first I thought a 40mm lift would have been ok. But then I encountered sag in the springs and also we bought a camper, so the requirements changed. The spacers are not pricey and will keep me happy for a while until I decide on the new spring rates I need front and back. Currently have 260 lb/in Tough Dog mediums in the back. I think they will get replaced by 320 lb/in rated OME 896. As I plan to fit a winch eventually, the front Tough Dog mediums that are 370mm long and rated at 800 lb/in will be replaced by something about 20 or 30mm taller, with the same rate or Little softer. Things evolve in my shed

2. Brains - Na everything is zen in the CV department, now it's settled down. Even at the inital 815mm it was not to harsh. All good mate

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Bloody jockey wheel..

Had some fun and games this morning when my bloody jockey wheel died while I was trying to wheel my camper back into the shed. 200km later and a quick visit to BCF and home again, everything's good. It even wheels heaps better on the concrete floor.

Bugger..



Nice & new...

[D4D Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close D4D]

Looks like you moved the camper with the jockey wheel extended. Only move a camper when the jockey wheel is fully down otherwise banana time

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Looks like you moved the camper with the jockey wheel extended. Only move a camper when the jockey wheel is fully down otherwise banana time

Yes, I was stuck in a hard place and I shagged it. All good now

[Golly Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Golly]

Ride is looking great Matt, keep it up orse

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Interesting little problem sorted...

I drove the Prado to the mower shop and back this morning and noticed it was abit gutless in the acceleration department. I checked the Steinbauer fine setting at the servo and got my son to rev it up etc while I checked everything. Something I wasn't sure about, do I rang Steinbauer HQ. Yep, even on Australia Day the team answered my phone call !

On their advice I checked all the connections and tried a few tests. I found the Toyota cruise control not indicating on the dash. After checking all the connections, fuses and the accelerator connection to the Toyota harness. There must have been a glitch with the factory ECM because now the cruise is working fine and the doughy acceleration is gone.

I went to my test road and did three identical runs. First with the SB disconnected and I felt like it did first thing his morning. Peaking at 8.9psi of boost in second gear, up my hill. Then connected the SB set at position 3 and did the same run and got 11.5psi of boost in second gear, up my hill. Finally I reset it to position 4 and got a nice 12.8psi in second gear up my hill. I'm confident I've sorted the problem now and will monitor it. I'm happy this is my only issues in 21,000km of using the SB.

Thanks again Steinbauer for the friendly support on a public holiday !

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The boy and I just had some fun in the clay at the new estate down the end of my street..

Traction control took abit to bite, but heaps of fun !!

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Took my chip out for my engine ECM reflash tomorow. Will be interesting to see how different it is on the highway without the Steinbauer fitted... Woo hoo, fresh engine files tomorrow !

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Fresh new ECM update completed. SB on 4 and has been done for a day, so I guess the ECM is relearning stuff. Strangely, I reckon this update has reduced the highest boost pressure available (electronic wastegate setting) to 9.7psi. The previous limit seemed to be about a maximum of 12.8psi. I'm thinking from my seat of the pants testing on my test road, it's pulling harder than it did before (in the wet it was throwing heap of stones off the front tyres a lot under acceleration) and with less boost. I guess I won't know how it really is until after a thousand or so Kms.

The flutter has gone and its revving comfortably between gears, so happy.

[D4DDave Member Find all posts View Profile Close D4DDave]

Matt,

What product did you use for the anti-rust protection?

Cheers,

David.

Had a nice quite morning without any kids at home, so I decided to install my second battery tray. This is the second time I have installed a auxiliary tray in a Prado and since the first install was a success; just copied the install I did in the old 120 series GXL. From the photo's you will see that I glue insertion rubber under the tray and the side that mounts to the inner guard wall. This is to act as a vibration absorber and since this new truck is diesel, I deemed it more necessary that ever before to follow this practice.

Side Hole drilled thru inner guard


View from inside with inner mud guard removed


Hole repainted silver and some nice anti-rust spray slashed around

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Dave. It was a while ago, I will have a look in the shed on the weekend and let you know if I can find the can..

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Matt,

What product did you use for the anti-rust protection?

Cheers,

David.

Dave

i used Valvolone Tectyl anti-rust spray.