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Big fan of this forum and deeply value all the insights and opinions I find here when it comes to my L300. Today I'm posting on a separate topic. The wife and I had our first real baby (my second after the Delica ;)) and she wants to upgrade from her little whip, a 2008 Honda Civic to a family...

Let me give you the full background (sorry, its gonna be long) in case you might have other suggestions for me to check out, because the immediate consequence of the below situation was lost power steering, but I'm worried something else and totally separate might need checking. The only other...

Apologies for another alternator thread, but I felt this was worthy of a new post. My troubles with it began here. Thanks to @stevenlee I got the alternator back in place with new bolts that I had either snapped or beat to death while removing. Details on that in the above linked thread...

Damn this one feels like a doozy, I was just going to tighten my alternator belts and while I was loosening the clamp bolt, I sheared it off and now I'm left with a loose alternator and half of the clamp bolt still threaded. Not sure what the solution here is, do I need to remove the alternator...

Hey all, got that distinct moan and whine from my power steering pump this morning. I had the time, so I popped out, took out the seat and topped off my fluid and all was quiet and well for about 10 mins. As I was pulling into where I was going I could smell ATF/power steering fluid and when I...

There must be a thread about this, but I couldn't find it with the terms I tried (why does the search bar only allow searching for a minimum of 4 letter words?) What should I do for my van in a cold climate before leaving it to sit for an extended time? In my case three months. I generally...

The other day I loaded the van up with about 16, 80lb bags of concrete. When I started accelerating I immediately noticed a clicking noise correlated to vehicle speed. It sounded like the clicking a winch makes when you're cranking the handle to pull your boat up on the trailer...or the cars of...

Well that escalated quickly. Van was starting fine when I was looking for the right weather stripping adhesive on the forums earlier, but now I have a starter motor issue. When I turn the key to start (after I get my two glow plug clicks), I get one click/clunk but no engine turn over. The...

Hey team, recently the 3 or 4' long gasket/weather stripping on the van (not on the door that goes around the entire perimeter of the door) started peeling off, and finally came off completely. Did a quick search and didn't find anything for "adhesive" or "glue" for the weather stripping. What...

Hey all, I had a private conversation with @Growlerbearnz a while back regarding kickdown cable adjustment (following his instructions posted on the forum still wasn't getting me within tolerance). He was super helpful as you all already know and helped me get it all dialed since I had something...

My sliding door is a little rough to slide at the point when it first starts opening and is sliding back at the same time as out towards you. You know, the little part of the sliding track that has a slight radius to it. Once it gets on the straightaway of the track its much smoother. I did...

Hey all, not sure if I overlooked a thread that would answer some of these questions for me, feel free to direct me to them if I did. I'm just interested in knowing more about how the dual battery system works...is one an aux battery, and the other a starter battery ? Or are both batteries power...

The passenger side window started having a little trouble coming all the way up the other day. I let go of the button and pressed it again and it came up. The next day same thing happened, but after giving the button a break and then re-pressing it, the window still wouldn't budge. Tried...

My van came with a Jupiter 2,000 Watt Continuous / 4,000 Watt Peak Power Inverter. From an internet search, it seems to be average equipment, if not below given search results came back with links to Amazon, eBay, and Harbor Freight and no manufacture site. Nonetheless, I'd like to know a little...

Hey guys let me know what you think of this. I was driving to my parents, which is a 2 hour ride, half of which is on the highway. I just had this subtle weird feeling that I wasn't getting all the drive that I should have been getting from the car. I wasn't totally confident about that...

TL;DR - What spare parts and tools do you pack in your Delica ? Especially if going on an off-road trip. Hey team, recently returned from an epic off-road camping trip down the Baja peninsula to surf the Seven Sisters. Went with a few guys who had Tacomas and boy was I missing having my rig...

In addition to EGT, coolant, and boost, the last gauge I want to install (for now) is a tranny temp gauge. I do quite a bit of beach driving, and here on Long Island we have some of the softest sand I've ever come across. Of my years driving on the beach to surf random spots without a parking...

Did my best to gather all this info from reading past posts, but I still have some issues that I didn't find addressed (mostly regarding the new, increased diameter tubing connection to the down pipe). I want to do a stainless steel, 2.5" side exit exhaust with a straight through glass pack...

Some of you may remember my story (post here) about how my drivers door was damaged. So I'm facing two options and I'd love to hear the groups opinion on the matter. Originally I was going to have the body shop bang out the dent and bondo it back into shape. I never did like the thought of a...

Any color. I'm in NY / Long Island.