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

Did you use monte's design?

 

worked some more on my rear bumper over the weekend. pretty happy with how it turned out. just need to trim it by the flare and cap and it should finally be all done.

 

I did not I did my own little design. I might modify/ make another to get more capacity later but it works like a charm
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ster-build-thread.437656/page-4#post-12988673

 

Nice thanks for the link.

 

This looks really nice. I quite like it. You make the bumper yourself?

And I still love those tailgate lights.

 

So after reading up on some stuff I'm getting worried I could have a blown head gasket. Cylinder misfire, bubbling in the coolant reservoir... do I assume the worst?

 

Check your oil. Blown headgasket will most likely show there. Whats your coolant look like coming out of the rad?

 

Checked the oil yesterday looked just fine, I'll check the coolant in the res when I get out of class.

 

Yup! built it myself, taken a bit longer than i would have hoped just needed time. its all built out of 1/4 wall 2x4 rectangle tubing, should hold up well haha and thanks!! im really happy with them there and still so far the only one ive seen with it

 

on my old 4runner the oil looked fine, where it blew it pressurized the coolant system and made it bubble and push out the overflow bottle

 

Very nice. Seems you do good work.

 

Coolant is green but it's not a vibrant green, green with a little brown

 

should be using toyota red.

 

Go get a leak down test and have them do it when the engine is cold. Definitive and cheap. Mine ended up being a cracked head but I had the same symptoms, even had a bubbly heater core.

 

Not important to the issue at hand, had his water pump taken a poop then maybe. The green universal works great in our trucks

 

i know. felt the need to point it out tho

 

Green is just fine as long as you flush out the red. It's not going to hurt anything.

 

Ordered a leak checker since I didn't want to pay twice as much for a shop to do it. If it's something deep in the engine I should just engine swap. His really ruins my suspension plans.

 

Damn...maybe my tube was too big

Thank you sir

 

Mine is 100% green. I think you just have to flush it more often than with the Toyota stuff. I am not going to loose sleep over the color of the coolant in my 20 year old truck.