What did you do to your Baja today?

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Simple fix today. The tailgate latch became very hard to open. Simple: remove the inside plastic panel, remove the metal panel, spray with WD 40 to clean, then dry lube each pivot point.
Oh, I also blew out 18 years of dust.
Works great now. I love cheap fixes.

[HalfNakedWalrus]

Installed new spark plugs and ran some CAT clean through the engine.

Cleaner cleared the engine light and now ive got some fancy blue wires on my engine!

[Thwipp]

Got the headers and oil pan done. Still waiting on powder coating...

[Thwipp]

Turbo, downpipe, up pipe and blankets are in!

[20Baja06]

Radiator sprang a leak so it needed replacing. I’d also been putting off the timing belt and water pump since I got the truck. Figured it would be a good time to tackle those as well since it already would have the coolant drained, radiator out. Very glad that I did as the belt was in badddd shape.

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On the whole, the N/A engine is literally one of the easiest belts I’ve ever done. I did spring for a generic crank pulley tool and crank socket which both helped, the tool more than the socket in my case, but happy to have both.

Replacement radiator was a Denso 2213601 unit which had all provisions for the automatic transmission cooler lines. Timing and water pump kit was AISIN TKF010. Both worked great and should be good to go for another long while.

[TenPA]

My Baja is sport trim level, so I upgraded to powered and heated seats. Had to add the wiring for the seat heaters, but that was easy enough. While I had the interior out and the carpet up I added a double DIN radio with backup camera and dash cam.

[Guacamole]

Bit of an update on this exhaust...
MD's salty roads have rusted out the replacements. Got a good 6 years out of it for a daily driver. Now that my Baja is retired to the backup/weekend car maybe the 2nd catback will last longer.

[20Baja06]

Yes, I know this makes me officially an old guy, but I took some joy in installing these child seat protector mats to minimize the leather seats from getting dimpled and rippled up from the kid seat. Only time will tell…

Is this only a base cushion protector? I’d be interested in a review after some use.

Yeah, this is only just to protect the base cushion from marks or crazy indentations from forming from the tightly strapped kid seat. No backrest protection. I like that they are a nice grippy rubber material and they don’t let the seat slide around like the fabric-based mats.

When I first started shopping for this, I saw that WeatherTech makes one, but it was $40+ $12ish shipping and I couldn’t see myself paying over $50 bucks for this, so I got this Britax brand mat used off FB Marketplace for like $12.

I’ll circle back in awhile after I put a few month’s use on them, and hopefully report that they did their job to protect the seat. We’ll see man

Been a minute - do you have any updates for how this worked out for you, long term?