What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

New rear axle seals. Right side was leaking. The many uses of earplugs

 

ebay through jegs, got it for 100$/bucket

 

I'm waiting for the day for you to trade that peerunner in for a 4WD and wheel it

 

HA! Dont hold your breath.​

All things willing, I wont ever be selling this truck.​

Planning to make my dads '01 into a crawler once he hands her over

 

Those new tails aren't plug and play?

What about that third brake light? I've been absent from forums lately so haven't been able to keep up

 

Also what kind of issues where you experiencing?
I've had my depos for a few years now and they seem to be doing well

 

They are plug and play.

Me Depo wiring harness was shot

3rd brake light is OEM painted matte black with red LEDs and a clear lens.

Drivers side tail light had intermittent issues

 

If you had to choose one (considering they worked correctly) which taillight would you go with? Getting ready to order. The white bit on your new lights might look weird on my pyrite mica truck. I can't decide.

 

Your LAPS can usually order it for you.

 

I would choose my currents all day​

The fiber optic tube is WAY brighter than I anticipated

@beertimecontinuum runs them on his truck

I think its the Pyrite Mica color IIRC

 

P0022 just came up for me as well, and I have 100,000 miles on my 2006. Brought it to Toyota and they told me the OCV's were fine and that I should pay them $700 to tear it down just to check if it's the timing chain... and if it is timing chain it could cost me $2,000 more

I am dropping it off at my normal mechanic tomorrow to give me a second opinion.

What was the end result with your Tacoma?

 

Love mine!! chrome housing/smoke lens

 

Where'd you snag these?

 

Fleabay. Not sure if this is the same seller but brand is the same. Housing is chrome, lens is smoke.

 

Your scaring me! HA. After a few clears of the ecu they stopped coming up. We even went on a 1000 mile trip to moab and no issue. But just yesterday it went off again. If its intermittent I wonder if the dealer did not see the issue. I guess a few hundred bucks for OCV's would be a good investment before spending the time and money to do the chain.

 

Not sure I showed a pic of what they look like illuminated, but here they are anyways.

 

It came up for me a few months ago and I cleared it and ignored it. Within the past few weeks it came up again and I did notice my truck was running rough at idle. It also felt like it was loosing power at certain RPM's, and even worse would lose all power momentarily when hitting bumps, but it's been doing that for over a year now.

From what I gather though it won't damage the engine too much if one of the OCV's are in fact stuck since the valves are non-intrusive and won't crash into each-other or the piston. A few posts on here debate that but I'm just wishful thinking.

I think Toyota never actually checked the valves themselves or the OCV filter since theirs no way they pulled the alternator off and checked it within the 3 hours they had it. From what I read on here they just hook it up to a scan tool, check the valves digitally, and their flow-chart then tells them to open the engine and check the timing chain.

I dropped it off at my regular mechanic and I'm going to see what he says.

 

took it to the rig - a bit of rain today.

 

They are easy to test. You pull them and hook them up to power to see if they moving. But from my experience of being a long time shade tree mechanic that if the problem is intermittent than they can test good but still be failing. Im going to replace both of mine here soon and hope it fixes the issue.

 

Maintenance week!
I replaced the ball joints with the newer zerk-fitting joints on my SCA Light Racing UCA's after the originals began popping (two years since installation).
Then finally did the ECGS bushing.
Link: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...nstallation-2013-tacoma.510436/#post-16032585