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

It’s not so much that it’s a difficult drive, it’s that everyone wants to drive 80.

In California, speed limits are a suggestion.

 

Thats kinda crazy and sad at the same time, not that it should go to a golf course.

I love to play some g but that is some serious dedication, i barely get up at 6 to go surf haha

 

What's wrong with 80, the only thing I don't like about it is that it isn't 90.

 

Is there a difference between upstream fuel/air sensors? (01 TRD V6 4x4) think I need a new upstream O2 sensor and Amazon says both the Denso 234-9001 and 234-9002 Air Fuel Ratio Sensors dont fit my truck.
Looking at:

$146 Denso 234-9001 Upstream Air Fuel Ratio Oxygen Sensor with 10.6” 4-Wire Harness, for Auto Trans Equipped Vehicles

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C5WD2Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

*update: I have a 5 speed so I need Denso 234-9003... so nvm

 

Parts # and instructions with pictures. You have to disconnect it from inside the cab:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...t-bank-1-5vz-fe-w-manual-transmission.448490/

 

You're the man! Don't know how I missed this...

 

You know the guy I bought my 98 from took the whole bushing out and it’s got LOTS of play even in gear lol but it grew on me and I kinda like it now better like that

 

I have a shell and would be interested. Where are you located?

 

I think I mentioned the story a few months ago about how when I was 19 I bought an old '86 Toyota pickup off a tweaker for $500, with no title and was mostly stripped (did not run). I had it towed home to my parent's house on a flatbed as well, with the very naive intention of fixing it up (turned out to be a huge money pit and I sold it as a parts truck for $400 about 6 months later). A few years later, my father told me that the only reason he let that whole fiasco slide was because he thought it would be a good learning experience for me, haha. It definitely was, in several ways.

Although you're definitely more capable at working on a vehicle than I was back in those days, I had every intention of learning but it was just way too much for me at the time...got way in over my head.

 

Haha yeah I remember you mentioning it a couple times. I bought it fully knowing I may never get a title for it, but I had to take the chance just because of how cheap it was. It runs and drive like a dream.

 

That is a sports cruiser decal on a taco? Just some dealership decal?

 

Get to go pick up my truck with AC now, never had a Tacoma with working AC before haha.

 

It's nice. Sucks when you have a 4 banger though. Eats any bit of hp that you thought you had

 

Reminds me I need to get mine looked at...for 2 years now since I got the truck, the AC works but sometimes it doesn't blow very cold and it sounds like Darth Vader breathing when it's running. Not sure if I just have a leak somewhere (hopefully) or if it's something much more expensive.

 

Evaporator had a leak, and the expansion valve wasn't holding pressure up to the right limit

 

Let's hope the SC can at least cover that bit of loss

 

It'll be nice to have for when it gets hot here.

 

I haven't caught up but I really wonder if my inflator is the reason for me less than speedy inflation from my CO2 setup. When I start it says it's coming out at around 90psi but then starts to drop to 60-80psi when it starts to ice up. You think the inflator is my issue or are those ARB ones (digital of analog) able to keep up to higher inflation speeds?

For reference I am using this thing to inflate currently:

$19 Tire Inflator, 3-in-1 Inflation Gun, with Gun, Locking Chuck and 2" Gauge, ¼” NPT and Flexible Hose (Campbell Hausfeld MP600000AV), 3-in-1 Tire Inflator w/Gauge

https://www.amazon.com/Inflator-Inf...=8-4&keywords=campbell+hausfeld+tire+inflator

Been trying to find something, anything that indicates high flow. But can't find anything that states that.

 

All things considered it wasn't that bad, the dude showed me my old evaporator and it was fucked. It gets really cold now, way more than my cruiser which I'm tempted to bring to them for a refrigerant top up. Just went for a drive, she's cold and I like it.