For those like me who were trying to figure out what kind of PEX was needed here - it turns out that it's not called PEX in the store. If you go there and buy what they sell as PEX, you'll get something that's nice and stiff with a hard surface (kind of like PVC) but the outer diameter won't work (it will jam your door). With the help of the video poster, who noted it came off a water filter install and looking at the video frame by frame, I figured out that the 'PEX' he used was Parker Parflex PE Tubing, part number EB-64-Y-**** where the asterisks are the length of the hose in the original package it was sold in. This is a low-density polyethylene tubing that is (as the original poster noted) FDA approved for using in food service such as drink fountains, water filters, etc. You can get similar and cheaper if a little lower quality LDPE hose from your local Lowes or Home Depot plumbing department. Home Depot carries it as "Everbilt 3/8 in. O.D. x 1/4 in. I.D. x 25 ft. Polyethylene Tube" for about $11, for one example. I used this to make 'bushings' for the latches on my 2002 Sequoia driver door and the rear hatch as shown above. Works great! Thanks a lot for the video, @FixitFrank
@@zfrocc6327It should be a bit stiffer, but not a whole lot harder, at least not after you've closed it a few times. If it is difficult to *open*, something really is wrong. Which tubing did you use?
Lol, I wonder about their algorithm sometimes!! But thank you for taking a chance:) And now you have a new subscriber too! I do side work for a local land rover shop and repair keyfobs and speedo's for them. I suspect your channel will be a wealth of knowledge for me
Came across this video while looking at some other repairs I need/needed to do on my 02 Sequoia. Question - which kind of PEX is this? There's several and they seem to have different uses. All the ones available locally are red, white or blue and are intended for use in water/plumbing applications, but I've been told yellow is actually MDPE intended for natural gas. Yellow MDPE/PEX in 3/8" seems to be hard to find even on line. Any idea what kind this is or what application it was intended for? Thanks.
It's just cheap water PEX. I cut this off some scraps from a water filter install. You could use anything of this shape really. The PEX is only good because it seems more abrasion resistant.
@@FixitFrank Okay, I did some experimenting, testing and research and it turns out it's not quite PEX, but it's easy to get. I'll post a top level reply with the info so it doesn't get lost in the reply chain.
Thank you! Being cheap does lead to some useful discoveries! So much easier than taking the door apart. I know its only been a few months but this is still working quite well for me.
Oh man! You are also waiting for rain to clean the car eh? I wash the Corolla once in two years. But I wash under the car twice a month, and once every two months I wash the engine. But the outside........ Perfect solution my friend, no go wash it..... NOT!!!!!!!
I love Toyotas. I just passed 220,00 mile and maintain the heck out of the mechicals. But since I live across from a horse farm, the dust just coats the outside instantly. It's funny. I bought this truck a few years ago after my jeep died. I only expected to keep it until I found another jeep. I'm driving this one into the ground and plan to postpone that as long as possible. She has a new timing belt, new front suspension and steering rack. Rebuilt trans, new brakes, rotors and calipers, all new hoses under the hood, radiator, Aircon compressor. For fun I replaced the radio with a touchscreen android (eonon) and amp. We named her Sally.
@@FixitFrank HA HA! Nice! My beast is white and being a 1998 model it is old. So, I named it GRANDPA GADALF THE WHITE. I plan to keep it until forever. New cars are sure fancy, but I'd rather mess with a mechanical cheap water pump than with an electric one as in new Toyotas. And I service it by myself. No fancy tools, nothing. Just a cheap diagnostic tool for all the jobs needed. Repaced the clutch the other day (it is a manual) and the cost of the part was 80 euros. EIGHTY EUROS. Just try to beat that!
Any idea what might be wrong with my Epson 9700 UB power Cinema it's flashing both red lights I replace the bulb hoping it would fix it and it did not I'm mostly a car mechanic but have done work on speed duino and building my own PCB and soldering stuff too circuit boards but I've never worked on a projector
If it's temp and lamp LEDs, it's probably a fan problem. There are four to six fans inside and if any of them are jammed or not reporting their rpms that would throw that error. Usually it's the lamp blower fan(turbine/squirrel cage type). I'm on my phone so I can't link it easily here but search my channel for an Epson 8100. It had that problem so it might get you closer.
@@FixitFrank When when I try to turn mine on the iris doesn't try to engage or anything it almost immediately flashes to Red lights one for temp One for lamp it doesn't even sound like it tries to do anything.... Do you think it could be a ballast problem
probably not the ballast if you are getting temp light. I still suspect a fan problem. If a fan is jammed it may not allow the lamp to ignite at all. I would investigate all the fans first. Look for jammed fans or possibly an insect that got stuck.
@@FixitFrank so far I could only find three fans one big square fan at the front of the projector one big squirrel cage fan at the bottom left of the projector then a small squirrel cage fan at the top right they all move freely the unit isn't Dusty or dirty ... When I plug it in and turn the switch on the back the top power button is blue and stays Blue when I engage that button to typically turn it on it makes two very quiet clicks on the right side and then starts flashing the two red lights temp and lamp then when I turn it off via the switch in the back it makes two clicks before it Powers off .... Sad thing is is I got this given to me for free about 2 years ago and has been great to me I was doing a remodel job for a multi-millionaire that was going to throw away and I was curious if I could have it and he let me have it so unfortunately will not have the money to replace other than that best projector I've ever seen
You covered the best part of range rovers. The only downside is that they eat engines for lunch. ( I do work for a local range rover specialty repair shop. The amount of Discovery's with bad engines that look beautiful is amazing.
For those like me who were trying to figure out what kind of PEX was needed here - it turns out that it's not called PEX in the store. If you go there and buy what they sell as PEX, you'll get something that's nice and stiff with a hard surface (kind of like PVC) but the outer diameter won't work (it will jam your door). With the help of the video poster, who noted it came off a water filter install and looking at the video frame by frame, I figured out that the 'PEX' he used was Parker Parflex PE Tubing, part number EB-64-Y-**** where the asterisks are the length of the hose in the original package it was sold in. This is a low-density polyethylene tubing that is (as the original poster noted) FDA approved for using in food service such as drink fountains, water filters, etc. You can get similar and cheaper if a little lower quality LDPE hose from your local Lowes or Home Depot plumbing department. Home Depot carries it as "Everbilt 3/8 in. O.D. x 1/4 in. I.D. x 25 ft. Polyethylene Tube" for about $11, for one example. I used this to make 'bushings' for the latches on my 2002 Sequoia driver door and the rear hatch as shown above. Works great! Thanks a lot for the video, @FixitFrank
Pinned the comment! Thanks man. I had an old reverse osmosis system that I cut this off of so your research makes a ton of sense.
@@FixitFrank No problem, should help more people solve those rattles.
@@TexasSpectreIt seems as if the plastic pipe is making it harder for me to close. Is there something I am not doing right?
@@zfrocc6327It should be a bit stiffer, but not a whole lot harder, at least not after you've closed it a few times. If it is difficult to *open*, something really is wrong. Which tubing did you use?
@@TexasSpectre I used the exact size you recommended. My latch is sagging a bit. Do you know how to deal with that?
Well Frank, I don't have a Tundra and I don't know why YT sent me here but great video! Helping people save some time/money is always awesome
Lol, I wonder about their algorithm sometimes!! But thank you for taking a chance:) And now you have a new subscriber too! I do side work for a local land rover shop and repair keyfobs and speedo's for them. I suspect your channel will be a wealth of knowledge for me
@@FixitFrank Thanks Frank! I'm out here trying to help a few people from time to time as well
This actually worked. However, opening door requires a little more force now but i can live with that. Thanks!!!!
Awesome! I'm glad it helped!! it'll wear in pretty quickly and then the door should open more normal. I want to say it took less than a week.
Great idea! Just got a sequoia and going to need to do this! Great tip!
Welcome to the club! I love mine. Let me know how this works for you. Thanks for watching!
It works I just did it on my 01 sequoia shuts just fine now 🤙
Perfect solution!
Thanks man, I appreciate that:)
Came across this video while looking at some other repairs I need/needed to do on my 02 Sequoia. Question - which kind of PEX is this? There's several and they seem to have different uses. All the ones available locally are red, white or blue and are intended for use in water/plumbing applications, but I've been told yellow is actually MDPE intended for natural gas. Yellow MDPE/PEX in 3/8" seems to be hard to find even on line. Any idea what kind this is or what application it was intended for? Thanks.
It's just cheap water PEX. I cut this off some scraps from a water filter install. You could use anything of this shape really. The PEX is only good because it seems more abrasion resistant.
@@FixitFrank Okay, I did some experimenting, testing and research and it turns out it's not quite PEX, but it's easy to get. I'll post a top level reply with the info so it doesn't get lost in the reply chain.
Thank you sir! You are brilliant!
Thank you! Being cheap does lead to some useful discoveries! So much easier than taking the door apart. I know its only been a few months but this is still working quite well for me.
Are u kidding me I’ve had this problem for over 3 years !
I hope this solves it for you! It drove me nuts
Oh man! You are also waiting for rain to clean the car eh? I wash the Corolla once in two years. But I wash under the car twice a month, and once every two months I wash the engine. But the outside........ Perfect solution my friend, no go wash it..... NOT!!!!!!!
I love Toyotas. I just passed 220,00 mile and maintain the heck out of the mechicals. But since I live across from a horse farm, the dust just coats the outside instantly.
It's funny. I bought this truck a few years ago after my jeep died. I only expected to keep it until I found another jeep. I'm driving this one into the ground and plan to postpone that as long as possible. She has a new timing belt, new front suspension and steering rack. Rebuilt trans, new brakes, rotors and calipers, all new hoses under the hood, radiator, Aircon compressor. For fun I replaced the radio with a touchscreen android (eonon) and amp. We named her Sally.
@@FixitFrank I guess you will have fun the next 220k miles, you can't kill the old Toyotas only with driving it :) .
@@FixitFrank HA HA! Nice! My beast is white and being a 1998 model it is old. So, I named it GRANDPA GADALF THE WHITE. I plan to keep it until forever. New cars are sure fancy, but I'd rather mess with a mechanical cheap water pump than with an electric one as in new Toyotas. And I service it by myself. No fancy tools, nothing. Just a cheap diagnostic tool for all the jobs needed. Repaced the clutch the other day (it is a manual) and the cost of the part was 80 euros. EIGHTY EUROS. Just try to beat that!
I have the exact problem, hows it holding up so far?
so far so good. still on the first piece of pex tubing.
@@FixitFrank Cool thanks I might have to try it out.
I'll put it this way. I have zero thoughts about buying a new latch. I suspect the frame will rust out before I have to replace this piece.
Any idea what might be wrong with my Epson 9700 UB power Cinema it's flashing both red lights I replace the bulb hoping it would fix it and it did not I'm mostly a car mechanic but have done work on speed duino and building my own PCB and soldering stuff too circuit boards but I've never worked on a projector
If it's temp and lamp LEDs, it's probably a fan problem. There are four to six fans inside and if any of them are jammed or not reporting their rpms that would throw that error. Usually it's the lamp blower fan(turbine/squirrel cage type). I'm on my phone so I can't link it easily here but search my channel for an Epson 8100. It had that problem so it might get you closer.
@@FixitFrank awesome thank you so much
@@FixitFrank When when I try to turn mine on the iris doesn't try to engage or anything it almost immediately flashes to Red lights one for temp One for lamp it doesn't even sound like it tries to do anything.... Do you think it could be a ballast problem
probably not the ballast if you are getting temp light. I still suspect a fan problem. If a fan is jammed it may not allow the lamp to ignite at all. I would investigate all the fans first. Look for jammed fans or possibly an insect that got stuck.
@@FixitFrank so far I could only find three fans one big square fan at the front of the projector one big squirrel cage fan at the bottom left of the projector then a small squirrel cage fan at the top right they all move freely the unit isn't Dusty or dirty ... When I plug it in and turn the switch on the back the top power button is blue and stays Blue when I engage that button to typically turn it on it makes two very quiet clicks on the right side and then starts flashing the two red lights temp and lamp then when I turn it off via the switch in the back it makes two clicks before it Powers off .... Sad thing is is I got this given to me for free about 2 years ago and has been great to me I was doing a remodel job for a multi-millionaire that was going to throw away and I was curious if I could have it and he let me have it so unfortunately will not have the money to replace other than that best projector I've ever seen
Just buy a new range rover the new shape 2023 models are great looking and very comfy to ride.
You covered the best part of range rovers. The only downside is that they eat engines for lunch. ( I do work for a local range rover specialty repair shop. The amount of Discovery's with bad engines that look beautiful is amazing.
@@FixitFrank Well, the one I've got seems good. Autobiography 4.4 diesel..
ohh you got the diesel. Thats why. We dont have those here/hard to find. America hates diesel for some stupid reason.
@@FixitFrank To be quite honest I prefer 5 L petrol engine 550 BHP one. You can't beat them. The best suvs around if the speed cameras allow.
@@chessguru900 ooh, you’ve got speed cameras? Thank God we don’t have them around here.