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Wait till you try a diesel! 20 Nm, 40 Nm, 105° then 105° was a bit of a nerve wracking process haha

I was under the impression that they were a total no go in general unless factory fitted? I'm looking into ways to modify my Merc mufflers and hide a pair of valves in there, was told to hide the cables and controller well/try to convince WOF guys they are factory fitted AMG options haha

That's a lush muff! I've used FMF exhaust packing sheet on a couple bike mufflers, seems to hold up well and the packaging says it adds something like 4hp haha Got any plans on how to hide the valve actuators etc for cert/WOF? Could try make the cable look like it's coming from an O2 sensor lol

"Compared to conventional type bolts, torque to yield bolts offer the engine manufacturer a number of advantages including; greater flexibility of design, reductions in component costs, more accurate assembly and reliability of seal. Engines designed utilising torque to yield (TTY) head bolts require fewer head bolts to achieve the desired clamping loads than those using conventional bolts. With fewer bolts the engine manufacturer has more flexibility in cylinder head and block design as well as reducing the cost of the engine."

Yeah it's a thing, predating lift arc start. You want to be real good at sharpening tungstens with a scratch start machine as you will be sharpening a lot of them!

I persevered for a couple years or more, but now I've got a decent hf start machine with pedal etc I'd never go back. I found starting the arc with lift tig easy enough, but having to try to speed up as things heated up and then breaking the arc at the end sucked!!

Silverado etc

Briggs aren't really my field of expertise sorry, @ESKIN8R might be more help.

Peel the label off the Duplicolor... /Might be the other way around, but either way Duplicolor and VHT are the same thing, one brand has a stuck on label on the cans, peel it off and it has the other brand printed on the can.

Sounds like breakfast to go at Bort's.

Universal cut to length ones are a fair bit cheaper still too.

You'll need some rubber garden edging and rivets to cover the tread if you go narrow. /I'd probably suck it up and get the 4x4 patch panels and zap them on if it was mine.

How thoughtful was Toyota to fan force the drivers farts directly at the rear passengers??

Yeah can change to a thicker fluid in them, mine was fucked that even with super heavy fluid it wouldn't lock up. Thankfully it only cost me a head gasket and a gasket set etc rather than the brand new head to figure that out. Brand new one was cheap enough that I shouldn't have bothered trying to mess about changing the oil. Also the 10 blade fan from late model 1KD Hilux is a big upgrade from the stock 7 blade, @GuyWithAviators is the man to talk to about them.

Injector rebuild ASAP. Even with an immaculately clean cooling system a sad injector will easily take out the head, learnt that the hard way.