FYI... the lousy clutch problem that has bugged me for almost a year was solved by adding a little plastic bushing.

Last Friday I was basically fed up with the clutch and decided I would examine the system from top to bottom. Started at the clutch pedal, looking for the souce of the 2" of slop... the pin that goes through the pedal and connects the master cylinder's piston to the pedal seemed too small so I figured it I would modify the pedal to take up the slop. I thought that I would check with the dealer and have them pull up the exploded view of the pedal assembly... sure enough, there's supposed to be a bushing that goes into the hole through the pedal. $8.02 dealer price (it's worth about $0.03), but I would have paid $30 for it! My 4Runner feels brand new!

I bought the 4Runner almost 1 year ago and had it into the local dealer 4 times for this clutch thing and no one could figure it out. Glad I examined that pedal... I was getting close to test driving a new H3. Whew! That just save me $30k!

Now, I'll be comfortable putting money into the 4Runner... OME here I come!

~Dave