Salon - Toyota 4Runner, 3.0L, 1995

Earlier, I wrote about replacing the gearbox, which preceded the summer vacation and about replacing the oil seal of the gearbox shank, which was already in September ...

But back to the warm beginning of August.

My father put things in order in the cabin with a pedantry unusual for him ... he disassembled the entire cabin, took out all the seats, removed the carpet mats ...

And very on time, I must say. The passenger had a swamp at his feet ... at first there was a thought that it was flowing along the pillar through the elastic of the glass ... but a more detailed examination showed that both the swamp at the feet of the front passenger and the not working rear window washer have the same base under them - a disconnected joint hoses for supplying fluid to the rear "pischka". Connecting the hoses turned out to be a difficult task, because neither my, nor even my father's hands could reach the joint, which the "wise" Japs decided to place in the upper part of the front door pillar box. and what narrow-eyed cretin thought of taking the tube out of the engine compartment into the underwing space, then to bring it back into the front door pillar, and then into the salon to lay it along the threshold? Given the fact that we have lockers on Runner,

The solution was not searched for long ... after finding the desired end of the tube in the engine compartment, in one of the joints, the section leading to the inaccessible end was simply uncoupled, we take the corresponding rubber hose from personal supplies, join it to the end left in the engine compartment, drag it into the salon through the boot of the wiring harness and having laid everything “as convenient and free”, we dock with the connector at the threshold, from which a normal hose goes further back. Now our Runner also has the back "writer" working.

Fortunately, the weather was fine ... Under the warm August sun, the rugs with Shumkoy and the floor in the cabin also dried out.
The skins removed from the seats were washed and dried in the same way. The seat fittings were also repaired.

In addition, the steering column switch, which had already been purchased for a long time, was finally installed to replace the old one that had not switched the light and dimensions for a long time (my father had already switched on the dashboard via the toggle switch for a long time). True, I still had to tinker with the electrician of the light ... for the Japs - the devil himself would break his leg in the power grids ... even his father, who is a brain in electrics and electronics, did not immediately figure out what was turned on and how ... But, it seems, they did everything.

Another problem that "finished off" in our Runner is the freezing legs of the front passenger. Think about it! An efficient stove in a few minutes heats up the interior that has cooled down on a winter night to an acceptable level, add. the stove in the back generally makes Africa in the cabin; the driver's boots melt, the rear passengers take off their boots and put on flip-flops ... and the front passenger's legs become tanned when driving, if they are not dressed in high boots on a knitted sock. How so? How is it that the mega-intelligent Japs did not foresee the front passenger's legs?

A complete revision of the cabin with the disassembly of everything and everything gave the answer: the Japs had foreseen everything ... It turns out that the muzzle was just covered with a carpet of floor covering. Apparently, when connecting the music and laying its wiring, the installers simply did not accidentally slip the mat under the muzzle nozzle. And since the edge of the rug in this place is close to the nozzle cut, and the cut itself is in the depth of the "fence" space and close to the floor, then this edge of the carpet exactly overlaps the rectangle of the nozzle. To prevent this from happening even by accident in the future, my father came up with a quick, elegant constructive revision. Finding a suitable plastic with an L-shaped cross-section, he cut off two pieces of the required length and width and, overlapping the nozzle with them, pulled them together with a wire. Thus, he seemed to lengthen the nozzle by 5-8 centimeters. Aesthetically, it didn't break anything,
:about)