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

Damn that's ridiculous lol! Good for me but ridiculous lol!

 

FWIW I picked up a set of the bucket seats and a center console all together for $150.

Seats were in like 8/10 condition and the console was pretty much perfect.

 

Installed an 01 console tonight I scored yesterday. Only one I found in the whole state of Tennessee and it happened to be on my way home from work. Coincidence? I don't think so☺. Looks so much better. Look forward to using the reconditioned cup holders for the ride in tommorrow. I thoroughly washed it and replaced all the little rubbery flap things before putting it in this evening. Now if I can find some 4runner seats with the manual lumbar dials in tan I'll have made a huge improvement over stock. Thanks Magic for the tip.

 

Does anyone remember the best year model 4runner seats to swap for the 1st gen tacoma seats? I believe they are from limited models?

 

I got non powered leather seats from a 2000 4Runner.

 

Are they a pretty good improvement? And were they from a limited if you know?

 

I got cloth seats from a 2002 4runner. Nice improvement i think.

 

Delta do yours have dials on the sides for lumbar adjustment? Thanks

 

It has the seat rise/lower but not the lumbar thing.

Edit: This is what they look like

 

Yep. I think that's what I'm looking for. Thanks. How much fabbing did you have to do to make them work? Thanks. I've found a set for $150 close by but don't know what they look like.

 

Did you have to fab the tracks or move the anchor points or any other fabrication?

 

I just swapped the rails from my Tacoma seats to the 4runner ones. Which is a lot easier said than done. Lots of drilling and grinding to get it to work. Took me about a day to figure out how to get the rails off, then another day to figure out how to get them on the 4runner seats.

 

Yeah I was thinking that would be easier than drilling holes in the floor to fit the 4runner tracks.
So does the dial make the seat front tilt up or down I'm hoping? I'm going to have to try it if I can find some clean ones. Thanks for the feedback.

 

And you took the tracks that are attached to the bottom Tacoma seats and attached them to the bottom of the 4 runner seats?

 

I like them a lot, they are the second seat swap I have done on my truck. I didn't have bucket seats to begin with so a rail swap wasn't possible as the mounts on the driver's side of a 60/40 bench are much too low. But it was only an afternoon to weld my old mounts with some spacers and they fit perfectly. I like the leather and I believe the seats weren't from a limited because the limited had power seats with power lumbar and power height adjustments. If you have seat swap questions lemme know, after doing a couple you kind of iron the kinks out.

 

God speed, glad to hear your ok.

 

Thanks Speedy.

 

Yes the dial makes the bottom cushion go up or down.

Yep!

 

Has anyone heard pro's & Cons on taking the Cat converter off of a 3.4 v6?

I had a upstream 02 sensor go bad because the previous owner put a universal sensor in, so I replaced it.
While replacing it I finally realized that the PO took out the cat converter and just straight piped it to the muffler
Now I am throwing a P0420 code.
I would imagine with the muffler would have enough back pressure, just not sure.

Since I have changed the 02 sensor the truck will surge while stopped.

It is throwing Bank 1 knock sensor code after I just had them replaced. I am still underway on trying to fix that.
Just trying to get any insight on the Cat that may be causing additional issues.

Thanks again

 

Not sure on that whole causing performance issues, but they do have 02 simulators that push the correct information to the ecu so the engine doesn't begin to retard like it sounds like it's doing.