What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

#prerunnerprobs

 

LEDs originally were an on/off thing...you could put them on a dimmer switch and they would stay the same brightness until the switch was lowered so that the lights didn't get enough voltage to turn them on.

Now there are dimmable LEDs.

 

Yea I. Going to do that when I have a cage.

Trust me. Every inch makes a huge impact on aerodynamics. On my first bed rack I couldn't believe how gutless the truck was at highway speeds. Was crazy.

 

Mine does the same thing. Mine are LEDs

 

I gave the truck an angry look last night.

 

Hahahahaha

 

So do you guys think since our trucks aren't the 01-04 they won't dim? Or do you think it's dependent on the led bulb itself?

 

mines 96

 

Tried getting my AC fixed.

The idle pulley bearing was seized. Took me 5 mins to swap the new one in. Went to go put the new belt on (old one snapped when bearing seized) and saw that I had to remove the power steering pump belt in order to get it on.

What retarded monkey designed this? I followed this walkthrough: http://www.yotatech.com/f2/how-change-drive-belts-3-4-l-5vz-fe-216234/

Yet when I turned the adjustment head in either direction, it did nothing. The tension on the power steering belt did not change an iota. After two hours I gave up.

Still no A/C and now I'm driving around having no idea if the adjustment bolt for the power steering is anywhere near where it should be. What a piss poor fucking design this is on the 3.4

 

Usually you have to loosen it then push on the pump to force it down. It'll move.

 

Everything was as loosened as it can get (without the nuts coming off - cause that would have been as serious PITA to get back on) and I was pushing, pulling, cursing, praying... nothing worked

 

ok. Thanks for the tip. And it's kinda inspired by yours. I like roof racks but I'm not drilling holes In my roof for one.

 

Huh. Odd. Did you looses the mount bolt for the pump too?

 

Hell yea man me too

 

Meant to ask young how do you like ur cvt tent? I was in a tepui gb so they called it on t4r. It's now maybe gonna be a cvt one. I've not heard much obout their tents.

 

Had mine for 3 years and use it all summer and lives outside year round. Still looks brand new when I open it up. It's been great I love it.

 

That's the thread I used to change my belts and everything worked out

 

I loosened the two circled in red, then turned the adjustment head counter clockwise (until the whole long bolt was wiggling) then tried moving the pump to get the belt off. Didn't budge.

So then I turned the adjustment head clockwise until it wouldn't turn any more.... then tried moving the pump to get the belt off. Didn't budge.

 

Use a pry bar between the mount and pump