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

I tried those pads.....they sucked ass....hope you have better luck than me....once you get the fluid problem fixed.

 

Passenger side valve cover gasket is straight dripping oil on to the header. Guess they are going to need replaced sooner than I had planned...

 

Define "off roading"

Seems like you could just put an all terrain tire and start exploring mellow trails and work your way up.

 

Yeah, they didn't make it long on my truck before squeaking. Now I have squeaking pads with ~75% of their life left. Gonna just replace all the nonsense with Tundy brakes and EBC pads and rotors.

 

@Delta00
Do you still have the files or measurements from when you made your skid plate? I'm looking to make one but I'm not sure the file I scrounged up is correct, something seems off.

 

I still get that thud noise to and i just put all pro expos on my truck. Let me know if swapping the carrier bearing does the trick.

 

It literally just started doing it yesterday, if it is my springs that’ll be beyond frustrating.

 

New brake setup new rims

 

Well, when you are installing the supercharger would be a great time to do them!

 

Is there a definit way to tell these are bad? There was a lot of movement when I would shake the drive shaft or whatever so I’m pretty positive.

 

While on the top of a mountain off-roading with 2 other rigs, one of the rigs blew a radiator. The plastic part gave out before he could really tell anything on the dash idiot gauge. We JB welded it to get us down and then he swapped it for an all aluminum.

 

But of the aluminum goes bad, you are screwed......

 

Or if the brittle ass plastic didn't blow before the gauge showed he was getting hot....

 

Yeah, I remember that I had to modify the section that mounted to the front bumper though. The way they have it on here it was making contact with the radiator. I had to add a downward section and from that and then it was good with the measurements. I also would not trust the angels. I tacked the skid plate and mounted it on my truck and then made some more welds to hold it in place then welded it out. Had to add this section.

 

Touche.

Probably put this on the never ending mod list haha. Noticed my temp climbing by 5-10 degrees at half throttle up hills. Moved the light bar to allow more air flow. But it probably needs more cooling due to lugging around it's own fat ass haha

 

Death Valley 2018: Day 4
You Don't See This Every Day


... around 1:00am, the wind got significantly colder, and we started
to feel moisture in the air. We didn't realize it at the time as
we zipped up the remaining windows, but the moisture we were feeling was snow...

So yeah - we went to Death Valley to escape the cold, and we got snowed on.

You don't see that every day.

READ ON ... You Don't See This Every Day

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The next time one of you drove your truck will you crawl under it, right after driving it across town or something, and see if the drive shaft is warm to the touch, not burn your fingers off hot, on both sides of carrier bearing?
Please and thank you.

 

Nope. Mine does not get hot. At east not in the middle. I'll check close to the cb.

 

Mine either JKO1998

 

I don’t know what the heck. Frustrating to say the least.