What have you done to your 5th Gen 4Runner today?

Wife and I went to church in the SR5 this am!

 

Church in the TRD ORP!

 

Thanks for the recommendation. Just installed mine.

 

Rotated the tires and noticed the front splash guard was torn up. Ripped it off the rest of the way and noticed a lot of rust on the frame hiding behind it. Make sure you spray behind them when rust proofing. Obviously I didn’t.
Also the amount of rust above the skid plates on the various brackets and radiator mounts is getting out of control. The shitty paint is just peeling off now.

 

Sunny and 68 degrees = wash day

 

Cleaned her up in preparation for an upcoming road trip to Florida for Thanksgiving.

 

That’s purty!

 

Thank you!

 

Discovered that my fog light connector had somehow disengaged last night. Reconnected, all's well!

 

Drove it home after trip to Detroit for Bruins vs Wings game! (Sat outside since Thursday morning, it forgave me rolled over 5600mi 1 year old) Made in home from KPHL under 1 hr!!!

 

Picked up our Christmas tree

 

I’m getting close to hitting 100k km (60k miles) on my 4Runner and looking at replacing the spark plugs. I’m looking for the OEM recommended ones which are DENSO SK16HR11.

Looking at pricing for these in Canada I’m seeing prices like $30/piece for these. Am I missing something? That would put me at almost $200 for the plugs and I must say these would be the most expensive plugs I’d ever bought lol, even my BMW was less.

Is there an alternate to these that can be used or is DENSO really the ones to get I listed?

 

Wow! That's nuts.

A quick look at "Bezos world" shows those plugs at $10 and change each here.

 

Don’t be cheap. You need to give your beloved Runner only the best.
OEM is around $10/each. NGK or Denso both fine. I would go with OEM and wait till 140-150,000km.

https://parts.lakelandtoyota.com/p/...?partner=googlebase&feedLabel=cvb_parts&gQT=2

 

Gave it a good cleaning and said nurturing things to it. Taking The Beast in Monday for the 5000 miles service, but really at a little over 4200 miles. Got places to go in December and want to get this done now.

 

Id rather do it sooner than later and not have them seize in the block. It’s a 2016 so the plugs have been in there for 8 years already.

NGK makes good stuff - which ones are the NGK equivalent would you know?

 

https://ngk.mypartfinder.com/
What’s wrong with OEM?

 

I guess I'm a bit....different. When I clean mine I say mean and degrading thing to it.

 

I changed the Front and Rear diff fluid and transfer case, all with OEM fluids. Not hard just a tedious job.

 

That fluid is Toyota liquid gold. I went with Redline, same viscosity as OEM and much much cheaper.

 

Took my 4R food shopping with my wife today.

 

Definitely go with denso.... I am not a "stock parts only" guy but spark plugs and other ignition components are the exception. Simply, the wrong resistance is etc in the ignition system can cause crazy problems.

 

$11 here: https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=993041&cc=0&pt=7212&jsn=323
$16 here: https://www.thewrenchmonkey.ca/products/auto-parts/denso/3417/

Interestingly Toyota changed to a hotter plug on the 5th gen V6 with the facelift. 2010-2013 used SK20HR11 instead of SK16HR11.

Watch The Car Care Nut's video on spark plug replacement. The exhaust manifold air injection valves need to be removed from the valve covers to access the plugs. The air pipe gaskets may not survive removal, so you should have a spare set on hand.

 

Installed Kezin's adapter module with a Diode Dynamics CF18 DD4015 SmartTap flasher relay, to enable tap-to-blink functionality:

 

Too early, won't it dry out by Xmas. I know they have them cut already.. We go the friday after Black friday.

 

Drove the 2011 to baby sit the grandkids. Ages 7 & 5. Took them to the gym with us then back to their house.

 

^This! And its not just the resistance. It's the materials the plugs are made out of also.

I got burned big time when I decided to change plugs on my F150. Found a set of spark plugs on Ebay for a great price and installed them. Less than 2000 miles later the truck began misfiring. Center electrode of the spark plugs were pretty much eroded away. These were advertised as "genuine Motorcraft" but were counterfeit. It's not just Motorcraft, though. Lots of warning articles and videos on line about the problem. Here's one from NGK: https://www.ngkntk.com/newsroom/blog/emea/fake-or-not/

 

Exactly

 

I know my 2008 & 2012 FJ's had 1 bank Denso & the other NGK from factory new both.

 

I hit 100kms recently but I’m leaving the spark plugs alone