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

Today I started cutting up my donor grill for the satoshi mod that I got two months ago.

At this rate I’ll have a pretty sweet grill in a year or so.

 

Everything went better than expected. Went to the body shop to watch the bed getting uncrated today. The replacement bed has never seen a day of hard use or salt ever.

 

Awesome

 

Had the same thing happen in my mom's camry...I never fixed it.

 

Cleaned some sensor grounds today, truck stays at 14.5 - 14.7v again. I win I guess?

 

Could that affect idle ? Before the clean

 

Every time I walk into the garage I have this POS sitting here teasing me to install it



Having these babies powdercoated in the black/red livery of the Toyota pick-ups and Isuzu Troopers.

 

Uh, maybe it would be a long shot, I'd look more toward a vacuum leak or vacuum hoses routed wrong

 

I'm in the process of rebuilding my manual hubs. Any idea why these snap rings between the two are different? It's what keeps the handle attached to the surround.

I'm led to believe the snap ring with the slits in it is the OEM ring.

 

DONT DO IT. GO WITH A MANUAL TRANS.
The only thing i regret about my 4x4 swap was having an automatic. Im going to be doing a manual swap soon, hopefully.

 

I live in the Bay Area, lol. My commute consists of 2 hours in traffic. It sucks to have a manual car in California - wouldn't want to be shifting all the time stuck on the 101.

I also can't drive stick - maybe I should've mentioned that haha.

 

I sit in 2.5 hour traffic every morning and 2 hours in the afternoon in Atlanta Georgia. I drive a 6.7 cummins 3500 and trust me man my knee feels swollen every day. That clutch is HEAVY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W78RkF1mUOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0bZtx4BDY

 

I've been running the Tundra brake upgrade on my 04 for over a year and absolutely love it. My pedal was a touch lower then originally. But the brakes were so much better at the same pedal pressure applied.

 

Is this a pretty normal idle for most of you? In drive with foot on the brake. Just curious, I Feel like it's lower then most. This is in park with e brake. Just want to see where I stand compared to others out there. Also it's a 3.4

 

I don't have an auto, but that seems pretty normal to me. Drive and Reverse put a draw on the engine, so they always go less than Park and Neutral. My manual sits in Neutral where yours is in Park. Previous vehicles with autos I've had always dropped ~100RPM or so in gear.

 

I have a 3.4 5-speed and the second picture shows my idle when fully warmed up in neutral.

 

Yeah I've been watching those. That's actually how I got the thing apart in the first place. Just wondering why the snap rings are different, I have a feeling it was replaced at some point.

 

Yea, not too concerned about the park to drive difference. I've been chasing around a idle problem for awhile now. When I plug in any type of light accessory , fire the engine up all of the sudden shit hits the fan and drops to 100rpm sputtering and wants to die. So I rip the harness out and idle goes back to normal when fired up again lol. Just curious to see if my idle is looking around the same to others.

 

Honestly looks pretty normal to me. My cruiser drops around 100-150 rpm when it is in driver vs park. My AC will cycle it up high though, any chance your AC circuit is kicking on?