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

wasn't sure if it would still apply in the situation you were describing so I didn't want to comment on that part, lol. @what road did your noise go away? If it's still there then it's gotta be the TOB I would imagine. Assuming this is the same noise you were talking about the other day.

 

I think it would, they’re both still rotating masses. If the inspection cover was rubbing on it, you’d definitely hear the same noise.

I’d like to see a Flywheel shatter though. The Flexplates are like tin foil compared to a Flywheel.

 

There was a guy on here from the Caribbean (I think) that had a turbo'ed 3.4l making an insane amount of boost. He destroyed his stock flexplate one day while going WOT and said it just demolished everything in it's path when it exploded and nearly came out the floor board. I'll see if I can find his build thread, he describes it in there

edit: meant to say flywheel, it was a manual trans. All this flywheel/flexplate talk has me confused now lol.

 

So... nothing specific for you, but these conversations always make me chuckle. The chance that you're 17.8 was due to the tire pressure difference IMO is relatively low, given that the pressures weren't all that different (at those levels). And, I'm assuming that 17.8 was from the SG for either a tank or for the return trip.

Here are things I think likely played a bigger role:

• On the trip out (east) we were driving from sea level to ~6000' in elevation. That's over a mile of "net up" that you had to push a heavy truck. Conversely, you had the benefit of a net 6000' drop on the way west (home).
• The return trip was slightly slower (and really, slightly - like in the 2-4mph range) - but, given that wind resistance increases by a power of three as speed increases, it's a pretty large effect.
• The weather on the return trip was significantly better. As I recall, headed out, you hit golf-ball sized hail and slippery roads. Not good for mileage.
• Who knows what the headwind situation was, either trip - but as we know, that could make 100% of the difference in itself.
• Who knows exactly when a given gas pump "clicked off" or how much topping off you did of a given tank. (this would be negated slightly if the 17.8 was the entire return trip)

Anyway, I'm not saying that the tire pressure couldn't have played a role - it surely did. But not 10% - that's very unlikely.

I will be very interested to see what your average mileage over the next 3000-6000 miles is (for me, that's about the point where I feel like the introduced errors work themselves out - it's "over the course of an oil change" ), and it'd be very interesting to see if tire pressures affected that.

 

There's a reason people making real power on big V8s and such use QuickTime bell housings that are almost bombproof, those flywheels and flexplates can go right through your legs.

 

Also should go by GPS distances and gas pump fill amounts as the SG and UG estimates for MPG are wildly inaccurate.

 

No shit. That’s hilarious.

There was a guy on here who wanted to mate a Chevy 350 to the original W59 5-speed that came with his 2RZ. I don’t think that 5-speed would last very long.

 

Mini truck guys from well before the Taco used to bolt 350s and 4.3s to W series transmissions and they hold up fine. It's not what I would do, but for low impact stuff like crawling and daily driving they're more than fine

 

Ill help ya out Colton

 

It's looks so wrong but feels so good
EDIT: Also the duct tape corner gussets are a nice touch

 

I got some suspension and a rear view added. I can already tell a tire with tread is going to be a pain...

 

The roof line is still much to square for a 1st gen taco IMO, and too tall. Looks good otherwise!

 

Like this?



I've looked. The closest thing I've found is a ladder rack. Otherwise, you'll have to do custom.

 

Damn, was afraid of that lol, take three!!!

 

You asked about what tire for a tread pattern, I think the BFG KR3 would make a visually good looking tread pattern and lots of folks don't know about them. Or maybe duratrac, that's pretty agressive looking if nothing else haha.

 

Yeah, I was thinking BFG AT and upon further inspection just about every tread is different on that tire, very little copy and paste action would be going on there. It was the stock tire and everyone can recognize the pattern, but I think that ones out the window lol

 

Just looked at the Kr3 I think I'll go with that, there's only three different treads on it and they're all pretty simple. Thanks

 

The KR3 would be pretty easy as it can be copy and paste

 

Dang! Badass 1st gen! Got a build thread?