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

I baby my truck. I usually hit 3K Rpm's once to twice a week just to hear that whine. But I change my casoil synthetic every 4K with Fram ultra synthetic filter.

 

If we did that it would be more than just a day trip...

 

There's somebody here with a 98 that has 500k miles last time he posted.

 

LoL. I didn't know that either. So x2.

Oh. btw the spidertrax come with their own stubby acorn nuts. Then you can use the spine conicals for your wheel as normal.

 

Yea I know, had the spacers for a while now..just was curious which lugs to buy to use with the steel spare

 

HIGHLY encourage ET lugs for any spacers. Well worth it. Just acorns to hold the rims down is fine.

The studs on the front are short so the ET lugs will be very nice there.

 

oic. in a pinch i suppose you could have pulled the spidertrax and used the lugs from that for the spare

i think wheelers has alot of the lugs on their website. i'm pretty sure the acorn shortys should work.

 

Yea I was gonna just get the shortys, wanted to be sure though. The steel rims are pretty thin so I don't think the ET are needed

 

Ok, so you're saying that I should be using ET open conical nuts to mount the spacers but then use regular lugs for the rims?

 

I'd do whatever BD said since I just proved I was a spare tire noob

 

Yes. Torque the spacers on at 90ftlbs.

 

Aright, torqued and blue loctite for 35k miles now..but will switch up to ET for piece of mind, thanks.

 

Shouldn't need loctite. But can't hurt.

 

Mine came with loctite from Spidertrax.. Soo I used it lol

 

Will ET fit in the depth of the spidertrack? How long are they?

 

Didn't wanna post a new thread so figured I'd ask here guys. So I had been noticing a but of dust buildup around the throttle body on my 3.4. Decided to take it all apart and clean it out a long with the iac. When I unbolted the throttle body and slid it off, I found that the gasket in between was folded in half and clamped down like that. So only half of the gasket was seating! I said oh shit!! So last time I cleaned and reassembled, SOMEHOW, I fudged up with that gasket. And the bottom folded upwards! Idk how in the hell I could've done that!! I should've taken a pic because it's the damndest thing. Anyways... I replaced the gasket and all is good now. Question I have is, is there anything that could've been harmed driving it so long with only half the throttle body gasket sealed. It must've been pretty tight and not allowing much of a leak because it ran pretty good. I did have a very slight idle fluctuation and I think that went away. Only drove it once since I fixed it. But it SEEMS to be running a hair better. Hard to tell. Like I said it must've been a tiny leak there as it hasn't really been running bad or anything noticeable enough to worry about. There wasn't really any buildup in the intake plenum. A little bit of an oily residue. But that's it. But the outside all around where the gasket it had a dusty buildup. kinda strange it would build up on the outside and not inside. Especially when the gasket wasn't sealed properly on the bottom of the throttle body, only the top half. So stupid. Can't believe I did that and fail to see how that happened. Unless I slid the throttle body back off a little to get the hoses back on the iac, then caught the gasket when I slid it back on... So yeah, what, if anything, could that have done to the motor? I wanna say the last time I pulled the throttle body, was like, 30k miles ago!! Should I check anything? Or be worried about anything else more serious internally? I guess I shouldn't worry if she's running ok. But wonder if it could've done any harm at all with an open air intake leak like that even being somewhat small.

 

I got bored




Than met up with a buddy that's polar opposite of me

 

Who can help me Identify this part?
I guess the PO found more of a use for its hoses. Thanks

 

Thanks

 

Actually I just realized @Blackdawg is talking about the lugs not the nuts. You can press out the old lugs and press in ET lugs which are longer and safer typcally. Just make sure that the lugs fit inside the depth of the spacer which is 1.25" so that they don't hit the back of your wheel.