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

Little flexing




"Dad why do you keep taking pictures of the truck?"

 

I thought you had the Shasta, didn't you just get it from the recent gb?

 

I suspect there's a story behind this.

 

Is that a spacer atop a 5100?

 

It was more of a 2 day deal, but, here it is! Still got some stuff I want to do, but I got the jungle love green monstaliner on!

 

Camping at Devil's Tower

 

Yes the bed is black. Outside is pyroclastic. I was thinking of doing the tan but wasn't for sure how good it would look. Google images on the color you want cause it will look different from what's on monstaliners website. May want to buy there sample chips to looks at the color. Only way to know for sure.

 

lost the transmission cooler output fitting on the bottom of the radiator and installed an aux. transmission cooler while i had the skid and grill off to fix that issue... only to have a brand new cooler leak due to an unfinished factory weld on one of the seams makeing me redo it all. hayden maxi-cool.
after a 900 mile round trip watching the scan guage; the fluid temp never got over 100*F and pretty much stayed between 75*F and 90*F all through the Alleghenies with several long 35-45mph 8%+ grades
-for reference the '15 honda pilot I was caravaning with over heated 3 times and had the rear brakes smoking once...
which has me worried/wondering... is there such a thing as too cool a temp for a transmission to operate at? I cant think of why it would hurt it at 90*F as it typicaly ran at 90-115* commuting or 100-125*F on these same mountains prior to the cooler install.
but what about winter? it was about 57-81*F and low humidity this trip and in the mountains...at home we often see -25*F in the winter but the tranny still ran about 80* or so even then.
I did have the temps briefly spike to over 190*F towing a friends pontoon boat in texas and it may have gotten over 200 through town with my sisters car on a excavator trailer prior to the scangauge.

 

Hit the drive-in last night with Mrs. TNwj. Ended up being a perfect night for it.

 

Gentleman, my passenger side floorboard is wet. Do help as my truck smells like ass... Please

 

Likely candidate is a clogged evaporator box drain plug. Open up your engine and look for a black rubber nipple on the passenger side firewall.


Gently poke a coat hanger into it. It's probably clogged with leaf debris.

 

These numbers don't seem right. They are way, way low compared to what I see.

On a scangauge, before a trans cooler, I was typically seeing 175-200*F in normal driving. In more extreme conditions it could climb to 225-240*F. After adding the cooler, typical normal driving is 150-175*F. And under extreme conditions, it will max out at 200*F and more importantly, it'll recover almost immediately once the load is off.

IMO, 75-90*F is too low. On cold mornings, if mine is below 90*F, it wont shift into over drive and converter lockup.

 

True that.

 

I actually figured it out already what was happening...the reading was way off due to sensor placement being replaced in the wrong location... I was going off an aftermarket sensor I installed in the output line ie; post cooler. it should have ben put in the output line coming in from the transmission too be cooled by the cooler(s).
that mistake was corrected this morning on finding it.
on the 40 mile drive today around home hitting only minor hills it was reading between 110*F and 150*F and mostly about 120*F or right in that area.

 

I had this problem last year... compressed air worked best for me after using a wire hanger a couple of times and having it plug right back up first.
it drained a ton of real brackish nasty water when it finally drained


also may want to look into putting a redirect on it like ^^ as mine was dripping directly onto the exhaust manifold. I used a bent aluminum pipe I found at advance auto in the emissions help section for roughly $3.

 

Cv boots. Went surprisingly well!

 

Those angles are horrible.

 

thats not ride height.

 

Yeah but so is having to put up with shorty IFS and CVs. It's a trade off...