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

Yeah. I’m surprised how much trouble it’s giving him.

 

He bought it to replace his 1990 Corolla with like 400k on it. I am very surprised it’s giving him so much trouble.

 

This he same neighbor with that annoying dog?

 

Interesting color. Is that red, or orange?

It almost looks like the Safety Orange they paint the CalTrans trucks here.

 

Yes and no. The owner of that house rents the rooms out, the owner of the dog is a different tenant.

 

His Tacoma is red dude...looks nothing like that orange Cal Trans Ford lol

Think maybe your phone or computer is having color issues

 

Yeah. It’s too early.

Maybe like a burnt orange?

 

it's radiant red same as mine, in bright sunlight it can look orange-ish but not Cal Trans orange

 

Too early, bitch it's almost noon. I've been up for 5 hours already

 

It’s been a long week.

 

Remember He is asian...

 

What does that have to do with anything?

 

Every asian freind i have makes the same racist joke about them self not being able to see because they asian

 

I’m not that kind of Asian.

 

So I gutted the doors of all the crap and found something interesting. The driver door window back window channel was broken at the top and the holes that the bolts go through the door were cracked through. I guess all the years of opening and closing the door ended up fatigued the door metal and the channel

 

I just wanted to try a different pulley. That’s all. Just in case there was a dampener issue that couldn’t been seen with the eye.

Yes, you can get fairly good parts that are cheaper. But I do like to say genuine, OEM, or quality performance parts.

Either way, I have an issue somewhere and need to figure out what’s going on. It’s very strange. When I did the head cover gaskets they were super clean so the PO at the very least kept up with the oil changes. Yet, the crank has the wobble. It’s very frustrating. Especially since I don’t have the tools, place, or time to pull the motor and carefully diagnose the issue.

 

I removed the third brake light what a pain in the ass.

 

I bought a new used complete 3rd brake light cause the reflective coating on mine was coming off. Had no idea the housing needs to be unbolted from under the headliner. F that, I never changed it, I just ended up touching up the reflective coating with chrome spray paint where needed.

 

To this day toyota does not make it easy. The new Tacoma’s have a tsb. Have to drop the liner. Pays 2.5 hrs. Shitty

 

Fixed a wheel stud to convert my truck back to 6 lug status.