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  1. Jimmy Brooks

    Pulling injectors for valve cover gasket, can I avoid it?

    So finally the time has come. 4 years ago I noticed a bit of a leak developing from my LH valve cover gasket and my RH upper timing cover and valve cover gasket however ive never throught twice about it, just check the oil level live value on the IID tool every once and a while (when the car is...
  2. Jimmy Brooks

    Injector failure?

    Hey guys, currently chasing a misfire issue with my parents discovery 5 (3.0L SCV6). The issue started with the car making a bucking sensation when accelerating up hill under moderate (3.5k-4k rpm) and has slowly gotten worse over time. The issue always seems to exist when the car is under load...
  3. Jimmy Brooks

    Loosing a little bit of coolant

    Hey guys, over the past couple of weeks that I’ve been driving my LR4 I’ve noticed a bit of coolant loss. Nothing crazy but over the last 1k miles I’ve noticed that it’s dropped into the middle of the two full lines on the expansion tank. The water pump was done around 75k miles and I have 146k...
  4. Jimmy Brooks

    M12 outter tie rod or m14?

    I still get a bit of steering wheel wobble at freeway speeds from 73-84mph. It normally starts when turning, but will go away after driving straight for a bit. Even when driving straight some times it will come back aggressive and then fade away to be perfectly still. It’s not enough wobble to...
  5. Jimmy Brooks

    Long crank, no faults

    As weather began to get colder I started to notice that my car would occasionally take longer to crank over. Can’t find any correlation or connection between weather and how long it cranks, seems to be more of a random occurrence and usually on the first start of the day but didn’t have issues...
  6. Jimmy Brooks

    Front Sway bar endlink advice

    Had my front sway bar endlinks done about 35k miles ago yet I noticed some seepage coming from the top bushing that connects to the upper control arm on the front left endlink. If I get my finger inside of where the rubber folds over myself I can feel the inside of the link. Checked for play in...
  7. Jimmy Brooks

    Upper control arm prices

    Gotta get my front upper control arms done, 2 shops want to charge me near 1600ish with a 4 wheel alignment included. I live in Southern California but, Is that reasonable? My lower control arms were around 1000 maybe 1200 with an alignment. Thanks!
  8. Jimmy Brooks

    Failing alternator?

    Was up in Santa Clarita with my buddy that owns a 4Runner TRD Pro doing a little night time off roading. We were out there for around 5 hours and since it was night I had my high beams, fog lights (you can make it so you can turn both on at the same time via IID tool) and my big light bar all...
  9. Jimmy Brooks

    Trusted transmission shops in LA area?

    Yesterday I was driving back from La Quinta in California and my transmission, which has been strong for 136k decided it did not want to hold 5th gear anymore. Car would be in 5th gear the RPM would judder a little bit and then it would throw itself into 6th with a little thump until finally it...
  10. Jimmy Brooks

    Timing chain…

    I know we’ve seen enough of these threads but I’m fairly confident that after leaving the truck sitting for 9 days while I was on vacation I was greeted with a dead battery and the chain rattle. This is the first time I’ve heard it and it seems to go away after the truck has been running for a...
  11. Jimmy Brooks

    Bad tie rod ends?

    So it’s been over 2 years and I still get some steering wheel shake at higher speeds from 75Mph< I’ve done LCA’s sway bar links and mounts, rebalanced the wheels multiple times and still happens. The steering sometimes will go light when under moderate power (3500ish rpm) at like 70 ish mph. So...
  12. Jimmy Brooks

    K&N air filter?

    About time for some new air filters and ive caught myself in a predicament. I’m thinking of going with a K&N reusable air filter but I’ve held back because I don’t know if the factory ones have extra particular filtering for dust in off road conditions or help filter out water incase it some how...
  13. Jimmy Brooks

    Spark plugs?

    I was going through my maintenance of what I needed to have done within the next month and I realized that I had never replaced my spark plugs at 105k. I current have 131k on the truck and it still runs great, no lack of power, no rough idle, no check engine light, the car runs absolutely...
  14. Jimmy Brooks

    Ton of faults after an aftermarket subwoofer was installed (SOLVED)

    Well had a subwoofer put in and got the car back early this afternoon and everything was great, until I got on the freeway. After going over 45 mph the every light on the dash came on (stability control, ABS, parking brake, cruise control, suspension, transmission etc.) I’m not too familiar with...
  15. Jimmy Brooks

    Steering issue (is this normal?)

    I posted a form about this a couple of months ago but no one really had any idea about what I was talking about so I have come back with a video. Is this normal under hard acceleration? You can see in the video that the steering wheel pulls hard to the right and then goes straight then...
  16. Jimmy Brooks

    As Predicted. (Defender news)

    Well, it’s here boys.
  17. Jimmy Brooks

    Light Bar suggestions?

    Planing on getting my front runner rack installed with a light bar mounted under the roof rack in between the trucks roof and the rack. Right now I have a couple of options of light bars, but I don’t have many trustworthy reviews to back them up. I’m looking for a straight LED light bar 42-46...
  18. Jimmy Brooks

    Creaking when I turn left (comes from the right wheel)

    Starting to notice a creaking when I turn left or articulate over things. I did a test to see what wheel it comes from by putting one of the Front wheels on a low curb and having the other one on pavement. This showed me that it was coming from the right wheel. It would Creak while going up the...
  19. Jimmy Brooks

    Toque steer?

    I’ve noticed an issue that I thought would go away when the alignment was fixed but it didn’t. Basically when I go from a stand still and press the gas heavier then normal the steering wheel will steer right and then straighten out when I take my hands off of it. Almost like toque steer in a...
  20. Jimmy Brooks

    There she blows, (maybe coolant crossover)

    Well, it looks like my car decided to relieve its self of all of its coolant after a drive to one of my buddy’s houses. I’m guessing it’s the inevitable coolant crossover pipe but I’m not too sure. I’ll keep you guys updated when I hear from the shop on Monday. Good news is my oil temperature...
  21. Jimmy Brooks

    Front skid plate options?

    Looking to find a good quality for price skid plate for the front of my LR4. It seems they raised the prices on lucky8 for the “front Guard” anyone know where I could get a good quality one for less expensive?
  22. Jimmy Brooks

    Speedometer recalibration with IID Tool

    Hey guys,I’ve been trying to re-calibrate my speedometer with my IID tool and I’m having a bit of trouble. I am running 265/65/18s with a total diameter of 31.5 inches. I told the IID tool that I had 32 inch tires and I was on the freeway and the speedometer says I’m going “72” MPH but Waze says...
  23. Jimmy Brooks

    Gas tank fuel capacity.

    So I finally got sick and tired of staring at it and decided to make this post about it so here is my issue. I noticed about 10k miles ago that when I would fill up my LR4 that I was only getting 250 miles on a full tank. It’s quite inconsistent but it seems to have gotten worse now only getting...
  24. Jimmy Brooks

    Clunk/knock, starting to get concerned.

    Well here I am again! I’ve been hearing a clunk/knock recently that’s starting to scare me a little bit. After I got my tires I got exited and decided to have some fun with her, which led to me accidentally hitting a jump at 40 Mph and throwing off the alignment and causing a little bit of play...
  25. Jimmy Brooks

    Steering wheel shake

    Getting a noticeable steering wheel shake/jitter at higher speeds on most surfaces. Didn’t get this before upgrading to 31’s. I know the 18 inch wheels a long with the bigger tires are much heavier and track different but I’m not sure if the place that put the tires on balanced them the best or...

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