hey guys welcome back to the channel so with all my recent videos i've been uploading on the sienna
and on the computer and on the 1is sport cross project i've been kind of neglecting the 2is
so if you guys saw a couple videos ago or maybe the last video i don't know when i posted it but
where i had the parts that i ordered for the fort cross project and i ended up ordering a couple
things for this guy so today what i'm going to do i'm going to jack it up i'm going to put in
that under brace that f sport under brace that i ordered it was like 300 buck i got it from bella
lexus out of arizona get under there i think it uses all the factory bolts and the factory
mounting points that is under the car already because it didn't come with any hardware it's just
the bar by itself so yeah you can see just the bar by itself no hardware no nothing so it's just
you know eight bolts on here and it goes right on under the car so i've got the car
fully jacked up and secured with jack stands double jack stands just because i'm gonna be under
the car and i don't want this thing falling on me if you guys want to know how to jack up the car
check out this link i have in the video up here where i show you how to properly jack up this car
so that doesn't fall on you and you don't destroy anything or damage any of the undercarriage on
this car but we'll go ahead and get under there what you can do is just take a piece of cardboard
if you're working in your own garage or in the driveway so you don't get dirty i have all kinds
of pieces of freaking cardboard i'm a box holder over here you don't have a piece of cardboard the
actual under brace comes with that big ass box that you can just unfold and use that as a piece
so i had a piece that was already cut so i'm going to stick it down under here and get under the car
to get started we got to take apart these two covers over here they're 10 millimeters or
phillips head screwdrivers and the the bolts for these uh things are only
uh 12 millimeters there's eight of them
so you get the 12 millimeters and start shooting the the bolts off if you want
to take it all out in three pieces there's a crossbar right here and then the two little
side bars which makes it a little bit easier so you're gonna take it all off in one big piece
and this is pretty easy for most 2i 2is owners i think if you have a convertible you might have
some panels under here and depending on if your jdm or other markets they actually have
plastic paneling covering a lot of this area so luckily the usdm version doesn't have that stuff
so we got everything out from under the car so that's the factory under brace it's not a
cross brace it's just uh really just two sides basically the same two bars here and then one
crossbar so you don't have the x in the middle so you're taking those two out and then you've
got to pop these little nut cert things and then you got to put them over here because that's where
that plastic covering sits with the phillips screws or the 10 millimeter screws using that
so once you take transfer those over you just get back under there and put it back on it's pretty
straightforward and easy the one thing you'll notice here they have these little holes and what
i was explaining under the car that some of the other markets like the jdm markets and maybe the
european markets came with under panels a bunch of under panels underneath the car and the back panel
has one of those so if you end up putting that on you can't use that same panel anymore or you
got to rig your panel somehow with some zip ties or something to keep it on i know the convertible
guys also have a pain in the ass trying to get get by those under panels on the convertible too later
on i'll show you some under panels that i have under my car they're not stock they're not usdm or
is ones i actually got them off of gs so i'll show you that in a little bit once i'm done with this
with
look at the old parts look at the flex tolerances that they built in from the factory so look at
that hole look at how huge that hole is then this one's oblong this one's a tight hole that's
another huge hole that's on one end and then the other end is kind of like that too where you got
one very tight hole you got a big adjustment hole here you got an elongated adjustment and
then another big adjustment hole so that's the kind of flex that they expect out of rear end
of this car from the factory already that they build in all those different uh adjustment points
in that factory bracket so checking out the install underneath this car this thing
hangs pretty freaking low look at that no wonder some of the reviews of these guys were saying
on club lexus were saying that how that bottom thing gets so scraped up from being this low but
pretty much got everything back in those 12 millimeters were very easy to remove i didn't
even bother torquing them because they're 12 millimeters i didn't want to over tighten them
and break something so i just hand tightened everything but i got all eight screws back
in the four left over for the rest of the bar so what i was explaining to you guys earlier was the
oh hit my head under here so these panels right here i've got that panel right there and i've got
one on that side right there is from a gs so i got those from a gs 300 like an 06 which is the 3gs
the 3rd gen gs and it was a little bit longer than the is so i actually cut it right there before it
hit that spot to fit it perfectly but other than that all the other points on there are the same
size 10 millimeter studs and they fit in there so if you look underneath this car you can see
there's a stud right here and right there and on both sides of that so that's where the factory
optional undercarriage covers would bolt into that you can get for this car from jdm and in the back
here there's more where that you know where i said the factory brace was with those mounting
points there and it goes all the way back to i think even here like if you look at this other
enforcement bar that's got a little stud on it back here too so it's got all these back panels
that would cover up the suspension and everything and keep everything back here pretty damn clean
but man my car i i don't get very i don't get down here very often but this thing is freaking clean
as hell for what is it going on 13 almost 14 years owning this car man look at that i was looking
under even my axle that thing was clean as hell from the drive shaft laying on on that end but
yeah this is pretty good it looks like i've got a little bit of boot grease leaking right on here
so that's uh that's probably from being low and the pressure from uh stretching the boot out on
this side is pretty clean i had these boots or i had these cv axles replaced under warranty around
60 000 miles i was probably like seven years ago uh and they were leaking from the center one here
the center clamp was loose on the inside so i was spitting grease and it wasn't really the clamp it
was like right here it was like that that spot right there so it was leaking from there and
they replaced it under the drivetrain warranty which i got lucky it was a second dealership i
had to try the the first dealership cleaned it up and the second dealer took care of me
anyway let me get out from under here hey guys thanks for sticking around all the way to the end
of this video i hope you learned something about uh installing that under brace and how easy it was
this would have been like a 20-minute job but it took me probably over an hour an hour and
a half just because i'm filming everything and kind of explaining everything but it's a pretty
straightforward upgrade eight bolts uh it really stiffens up your chassis from all the reviews i've
read i'm probably gonna road test it one these days maybe i'll do a review of it how much of an
improvement it has done for the car as far as other upgrades if you saw my unboxing video i
still have that sway bar upgrade that i need stay tuned on a future episode where i install that
sway bar and kind of show you how to put that in it's a pretty straightforward install too on the
sway bar the only thing is to make sure that there isn't too much pressure on the bar so you can take
it off without uh injuring yourself and getting it back in in place but anyways uh if you guys
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stuff with teespring so all it says now is lit but anyways um i'll see you guys on the next video