Don’t see slide hammer mentioned, guess you don’t mess with solid rear axles much.  Kind of essential to removing truck axles.  Also, as a form mechanic and a sometimes framer I have sooo many hammers.

Aston Martin Cygnet, its a Toyota iQ but for $55,000

One piece at a time and it didn’t cost you a dime.

Looks like a thigh burner to me.  That turbo is going to get HOT.  Also the exhaust going into the wind seems like a bad idea.  There’s a reason most motorcycle companies put the air filter in the front and the exhaust in the rear.

When I moved away from air tools and started to buy up Milwaukee M12 battery tools one of the first things I bought was the little M12 compressor. It is super small and has built in storage for accessories like the needle for pumping up balls.  I use it when the line to air up tires is too long after driving on the…

Get yourself some big sockets, you’ll need them for axle nuts at some point (cv-joints, wheel bearings, etc.). A set should cover 30 mm up to 38 mm or so.

Leverage is your friend.  I go by the old adage of “with a big enough lever I could move the world.”  If I can’t break a bolt with ease using my 3/8" long handle I immediately grab my much longer 1/2" ratchet (it is breaker bar length 24" or so).  I also try to use power tools wherever possible to make the job…

My uncle had a sedan version with the manual and it was unkillable.  These are solid, also with the amount of plastic used there’s not a lot of problems with rust.  Wish it was a manual but NP anyways

That’s not odd at all.  If a defect affects 10% of vehicles sold that means that 90% of the vehicles go on without issue.  Now 10% of vehicles sold can mean 100,000's of vehicles especially over close to 10 years.  That also means that there’s quite a bit more than that running perfectly fine.  “That didn’t happen to…

Nah, there’s a class action lawsuit about the engines for oil consumption that causes premature failure. It is a known issue.

Some people who have driven and bought them in the last 10 years don’t feel too good about them, as the engines seem to consumer a lot of oil.

Are all the accessory drives mounted super low in this engine?  I see the alternator in the bottom drivers side but can’t really tell the belt routing.  It seems like a bitch to do the serpentine belt on this with all the crap in the front. Looks to be a wiring harness and a coolant line right in front of the belt.

I own a 2019 SR5 premium with TRD rims and a skidplate.  I love it I just wish it had more power.  I knew the engine and trans combo was ancient and bulletproof, I just thought that with the recent upgrade of the Tundra that the 4runner/Tacoma would be due for a hybrid or twin turbo set up.

It’s mentioned it has a limited slip, so yes it does indeed.

GM interiors can make a color picture look like it was taken in black and white.

I had a ‘13 Si coupe.  My brother in law had an ‘08 Si Sedan which certainly felt sharper and tighter than my car.  It was kind of like the difference between an AP1 and an AP2 S2000-one is high strung and rides like a sports car, the other is more smoothed out and has a more usable torque range.  Either way the ‘13…

The 4runner has been using the same 270hp 4.0 V6 and 5 speed auto for over a decade and virtually every competitor has surpassed them in terms of power and refinement.  I’d love to have a new 300+ horsepower engine, possibly a hybrid in the new model.

Civic Si. It’s been at basically the same power level for over a decade. A 2006 Civic Si makes 197hp. A 2022 Civic Si makes 200hp. I get that the fuel economy is better and it has a better torque curve but to be honest that’s not why people buy an Si.

I kind of miss the old metal whip antenna instead of the shark fin, especially since man cars inexplicably have the shark fin antenna protrude past the roof rails making it easy to damage when you actually use the rails.

The TSB says liter which is 1.057 quarts but close enough