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

Yeah exactly. It was hesitating to shift from 2nd to 3rd, this is when the truck was still cold and hasn't warmed up since I was late. Didn't realize the trans would hold 2nd until it warms up. It was hovering around 2500/3000 RPM

 

Installed 2nd hand AVS $27 bug deflector Christmas gift

 

Are you guys certain that the '00s don't have a trans temp sensor and the ECU is unaware? IIRC, it was only the '96 & '97 models that the scangauge xcodes couldn't read.

 

Pretty sure my '98 has an A/T Temp. indicator on the dash.

 

It has one and the ECU is aware but the issue was finding the location in eeprom memory to access it. No one seems to have done it.

Also an at temp light is not proof the ECU can see it just FYI. Cruiser has an at temp light but it is the only thing fed off the temp sensor, ecu doesn't know.

 

So would my Scangauge be able to read transmission temp? I wasn't sure

 

Bump. Two answers I got last night were 2" apart.

 

I found this thread where the OP has a '99 and he was able to read his trans temps with a scangauge2. This suggests it is possible.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/scan-guage-ii-vs-ultra-guage.315717/

 

If you can wait until Friday I can get that info for you. Won’t be near my truck until then.

It’s on stock suspension. For now.

 

IIRC (and I am old so take it with a grain of salt) when I first got my truck it measured ~21". I couldn't find it written down but it seemed like it was 21 in front and 21.5 in back. The truck had 36K on it at the time so likely pre-sag.

 

Sweet, so someone found the memory address... that's what those Xgauge codes are. Well that saves a lot of work for lots of folks. 95-97 im sure are right up there with fully mechanical calculator in terms of features so those probably don't have an internal address that is accessible from the OBDII bus. Now if only my damn land cruiser had a real trans temp monitor and not a dummy light hooked to a temp switch.

 

Do you only need rear measurements? My rear suspension is pretty (extremely) clapped out but it is 21years stock.

 

He needs someone who just got a frame swap with no aftermarkets.

 

Not many, but don't the leafs get replaced with the frame replacements. I'm sure there's a few stock height 1st gens rolling around with good leafs.

I'm in no hurry.

Sounding like that's close based on the few I've hard now.

Yeah, just rear.

 

This method is likely as close as you will get to (newish) stock height numbers. I bought my truck new and it was pretty close. It will still take some extrapolation. But it's a start.
You are spot on about "communication" with a custom spring builder.

 

You got it, I'll measure hub to fender and the way @Dirty Pool mentioned and pass it along, I'll do passenger side because it is less saggy.

 

Just to muddy the pool some more, before I put my new springs on recently, my front measured 19.5" & 20" (d/p sides) and the rear was about 21.5". But those are with 189K miles and clearly not babied. Them bitches were soft.

 

No need to thank me

 

I'd give you my measurements before installing the OME suspension but the stock suspension had 182,000 miles on it at the time

 

The number I gave you was with year old springs, but they may have been ef’d up