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

Just anti lock braking...and for the first generation of antilock braking, Toyota nailed it.

 

Ive gotten away with it before, but I got too cocky

 

Some later year 1st gens had VSC/TRAC

 

Hope you're joking. 1st gen ABS is terrible.

Hmm, interesting. Never heard that before. My 03 doesn't have it.

 

My '04 either. I'd like to see one

 

Never.

 

yes. maybe it was only 04s but it was an option on 1st gens. Every now and then youl see people having trouble fitting 15" rims over the rotors. Thats because these models have bigger brakes.

 

I got up to go to work this morning, got in the truck and it wouldn't start. Engine was straining but it wouldn't turn over, and when I popped the hood I smelled hot belts. Didn't have time to troubleshoot this morning, had to get to work, so the wife drove me in. Been running worse-case-scenarios through my head all day, especially since I only just did the timing belt two weeks ago. I get home, finally get a chance to dig into it: A/C compressor seized. Cut the belt off and it turned right over and started up. So:

Good News: My truck is not dead!
Bad News: I have to replace the A/C compressor. Just when I was thinking I was done working on the truck for a while.

Any hints, tips, pointers, advice? I have heard that if the compressor craps itself you have to replace everything else in the system too since it's impossible to flush all of the debris from the compressor out of the other components. True or false?

 

Had absolutely nothing to do with traction control. In 04 they just upped the brake size. Never had traction control

 

Been threads on this before. A quick google would have it seem vsc was an option on some v6 4x4s in 04.

 

Limited edition taco ????? Maybe. I don't know... I thought traction control only came in 2nd gens...

 

I hope you're being sarcastic. I pray to god my ABS never kicks in. Shit is useless and I end up having to swerve around cars so I don't hit them when it kicks in. Run over a giant pothole while braking behind someone and tell me you won't shit yourself. It's to the point where I have to let off the brakes and reapply if going over a bad bump in the road. I wish I could just disable it.

 

My truck doesn't even have abs


Thank god

 

You can disable the ABS... I think Jason done it. And some others.

 

In the hopes of not looking like a complete idiot i looked through an 04 taco owners manual and it mentions there are trucks with vsc

 

Hmm. I think the light stays on though. I may just do that. Just do manual hub swap while I'm at it.

 

I just pulled the bulb from the cluster. Just like that not ABS light.

 

VSC which stands for what? I've never heard of this

 

Vehicle stability control... At least that's what it is in 2nd Gen tacos

 

Yeah it's wasy