What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

My thoughts too.

 

Todays' stuff; engine air filter, cabin air filter and rear dif fluid.

 

heat shield for sure my 96 made that exact sound

 

Added my Homelink receiver in the headliner and debadged the tail gate. Minor things for now.

 

I wonder how those mirrors are with other people's high beams. Also, that Taco needs some maintenance.

 

I did the garage refrigerator mod.

 

Mine does the same noise and I removed the heat shield lol...I think it's time for headers

 

Nah. Definitely something minor. But I just managed to consistently reproduce it.

1. Start the engine
2. Put into any gear
3. If the steering wheel is straight, turn left or right 10 degrees.

Pretty sure it did start doing it after i went mudding few months ago.

Funny thing, I haven't opened the hood after going mudding. Then couple of weeks ago went camping, opened the hood to connect my 1000w inverter to the battery, so i don't have to run the engine to charge my phone with the OEM inverter..... and almost pissed myself laughing. It looked like this:

 

I see.
But I removed the heat shield on mine and then it started to rattle on cold starts then now it rattles all the time I'm pretty sure it's the rear driver cat going out

 

Time for racing Y pipe. Rear cats are for sissies (and those that live in places with super lame inspections).

 

Cats are warrantied for 8 years by federal law. You might get it checked out.

 

Living in Cali. Was thinking of getting urd headers

Really? My truck has 150k tho

 

Could be an 8 year 80k warranty. I don't think it was 8 years unlimited mileage. Bummer.

 

Yea I think it's 80k -100...oh well

 

8Y-80K... Having issues is how I know.....

 

Aaaand I think I just fixed it. It was, indeed, a rock inside a driver side cat heat shield (#9 on the diagram). Forced it out with a high pressure water
Can't believe the dealer could not get it figured out... or that I didn't figure it myself earlier.

 

TBH I think rattles that aren't component failures probably don't get that much attention by service departments on trucks.

Could be wrong.

 

Put some new wheels on my Tacoma

 

The shield around my rear driver cat rattled so I ripped off the rusted clamp and put a hose clamp on it