98-00 Tacomas Only

Recent one!

 

Is there a chance you could post a picture of the fit?

 

If you want to remind me later tonight I can, just getting ready to leave work.

 

This is the best I could get.

 

That looks pretty good. I've been wanting to get a set myself, but wasn't sure about the fit seeing as that they only go back to 2001 last time I checked. Think I'm gonna now.

 

That looks like a great fit! Is there any difference in floorboards between my 1999 and your 2000? if not then I'm definitely getting the weathertech over Husky. Does the passenger side fit just as well? And do you know the part#, just so I can double and triple check to make sure I'm ordering the right ones. Thanks!

 

Shouldn’t be a difference at all. Uh I don’t but just go to the website and find an 01 tacoma

 

Awesome truck. What tire size and lift?

 

Anyone know of any good research/ write ups on 3rz (2.7L) misfire at cold start up? Low compression on the cylinder with misfire potentially due to valve clearances, bad cylinder rings, or leaking head gasket. Once the truck warms up, no noticeable issues. Any thoughts?

 

Tacos of the month(s) up... 8 months, a new record!

 

It took a ton of searching, driving, scraping, sanding, and painting but I finally pieced together a set of 98-00 flares and some 01-04 mirrors and black door handles to match. Chrome delete is nearly done.

 

Lookin’ sharp!

 

Best of both worlds IMO right there

 

33x10.5 15 bfg a/t lifted on 881s and 5100s and 5100s rear with 2inch block.

 

plooooowin

 

Testing my hypothesis of low compression and misfire due to valve clearances over the weekend. BINGO! Found it! Cylinder #1 has no clearance between the cam and valve shim which means the valve is not seated inside the chamber. valve not seated = not able to hold compression. No compression = misfire. See attachment.

All of the exhaust valve clearances are well below spec and will need to have new shims to get the clearance back to where they are supposed to be. The only remaining concern is whether or not I burned the exhaust valves while driving without clearance. Once I change the shims, I will need to get a leakdown test to tell me if there is still leakage or not.

1st Moral of the Story - CHECK YOUR VALVE CLEARANCES EVERY FEW YEARS OR 15-30K MILES (Especially as the motor gets older and higher mileage)

 

2nd Moral of the Story - Be sure to change your coolant as required in the maintenance schedule manual and run the best fuel you can.

See the link below for an article about valve and valve seat wear. There is a chart that shows potential causation of wear and a few of those can apply now.

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/778/1/lewisr3_Trib_&_Lube_Tech_2003_Valve_Recession.pdf

1) Thermal softening due to excessive temperature - effectively, keeping the engine cooler (or as cool as it is supposed to be) can help prevent excessive wear of the valve and valve seats. If coolant is not cooling like it is supposed to (because it is old or bad water pump) then the metals will wear away more quickly and cause proper seating issues, which leads to a host of a lot of other potential issues.

2) Proper clearances - use the spec in the manual but it seems like the lower end of the spec might be more desirable as the exhaust will have "more time" to escape. Personally, I plan to shoot for 0.011 or 0.012 for the exhaust clearance which puts me in the middle-lower end of the spec.

3) Deposits and varnishes can impact proper cooling and/ or proper seating - keeping clean/ good quality fuels can help reduce excessive varnish and deposits. I would assume running some cleaner (seafoam, marvels, amsoil, etc) would help keep these cleaner to help some.

 

Top Tier Fuel Brands

https://www.toptiergas.com/licensedbrands/

 

Here's my hunk of junk. I don't think I've ever posted in this thread.