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

Yeah 260000 does a lot to an engine so no surprise things need to be replaced. Would it be wise to replace my fuel filter? Help with mpg or anything?

 

Have no idea on that. I guess if its the original.... then it probably need replaced. But I have no experience with that

 

The Marlin TacoBox? How long have you had it?

 

Looks good.

 

Greetings! Here are some before and after pictures. First pic is day I bought her. Last pic is everything I've done to date. Treated and breathed new life into fender flares, painted stock wheels, note the hubs are not painted in the first pics, they are in the later ones though. Treated tires with a renew polymer. Last pic is the final result with hubs painted and black lug nuts. And a side-note for anyone painting their wheels, be mindful of the fact that putting the center caps back on may lead to you inadvertently marking up your freshly painted wheels. I had to learn that the hard way. I painted my wheels and center caps, but needed to replace an ABS sensor two weeks later. After taking off the center cap I noticed that I had gouged the paint. After touching it up I took off all the center caps and painted the hubs to match, so I would never have to worry about scratching my wheels again.

 

Thanks Captain Jack!

 

Speaking of ko2's. Would you buy them again or switch it up?

 

I know you asked Ben, but definitely gonna switch em up next time in my case. I like them but I feel the performance on dusty and dry dirt roads as well as wet pavement could be much better. If tread life has to suffer then so be it, I'll probably sell the KO2s this next summer. For such a hard tread compound they also tend to chunk at the edges, which is odd to me.

 

I rarely ever go over 70, RPMs on the freeway stay around 2-2500.

 

Needed a cover, so pulled the trigger on a access roll up cover. Just came in and installed in about 45 min. Instructions were confusing. But I'm happy with the end product.

 

I can get 18-20 in the city but somehow my MPG is the same on the highway. But than again my truck was in limp mode during that time. But that's really good especially for our trucks that are supposed to get 18 on the highway stock.

 

Makes sense looking forward to feedback. Planning to get new tires the end of next summer.

 

MPGs is such a hard thing to decipher, I've heard people say they get as high as 30...

 

On a Tacoma that's car MPG.

 

thats sounds like bs. I dont think even a 5 lug 2.4l could get that. But who knows.

 

Yep. Had to do this to mine last year. Suuuuper easy.

 

Oh I agree, but I've read on here multiple people claiming to get in the mid to high 20s.

 

My 2.7L 4x4 single-cab on 265s consistently pulls 20-21 mixed. 250lbs of sand in the bed.

Edit:
I just checked my app. Average is 20.4 since I bought it in March. Amazing improvement since the tuneup I did early on.

 

I bought a set up old мan eмυ rear leaf packs and my question is does anybody know which side is which there is CSO46RB and CSO46RA is the part numbers for those leaf packs

 

On the leaf pack there will be one of three symbols...(+)(-)(0). The positive is above spec weight support persay, negative is below and 0 is at spec. The higher spec no matter what comes on the pack always goes on the driver side to "fix" taco lean and the lower spec goes on the passenger side