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

POWDER COATED FJ WHEELS BRONZE CHROME...

 

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getting first valve cover gasket job done today @ 113757 ... next up is catback exhaust and to figure where i have lost approx 30 to 50 miles per tank of fuel since beginning of year

 

Nice!! Still waiting for a set of the trail teams rims to show up somewhere nearby.

 

I only bought BP gas ever since Ive owned my truck, got great mileage. I switched to sheetz gas for about 5 months cause its cheaper. I noticed I was loosing 50 miles per tank consistently, originally I thought it was due to the cold weather. Then I switched back to BP, and it went back up to where it was before I switched. Weird, but Ive heard others say sheetz gas is watered down or something.

 

yes, I have strived to use BP ultimate with no ethanol unless I am burning a tank a day on long road trip. I still remember when they offered 92 or was it 93 octane, I pay the premium for that stuff, don't recall when they discontinued that grade locally or nationwide ... maybe I will try the Royal Dutch Shell next (have a few 50d giftcards from the holidays to use)

 

We have a 2 stations that offer octane 93 w/o ethanol, and 3 or 4 octane 87 w/o ethanol. Feels good.

 

I run the cheapest gas I can find

 

With all the parts acquired (mostly), relocation and installation day was here. ...a day that we'd end thinking that we were geniuses, when really we'd done everything ... wrong!

read the whole story and tons of pics: Tacoma Rear Shock Relocation (Part 2) - Fabrication...and Failure

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catch up on the whole story: [part 1] [part 2]



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Why do people think that "coal rolling" is cool? I wasn't alive during the time that leaded gasoline was around but know the history behind it and MANY OTHER regulations that have come since then that are to protect us and others health. Sometimes I wish that people with dirty ass diesel trucks would just put their mouth around their exhaust and breathe it directly in.

 

Has anyone in here done a high clearance rear bumper cut to the bed sides? Looking for info on if it makes it a floppy, and if/how it was re-inforced.

 

I dont have a high clearance but my sides are floppy AF. I need to reinforce them

 

I've had a high clearance for years with cut bedsides, no reinforcements, and zero issues.

 

Needle is about worthless in my eyes. I read 280° and the needle was in the normal position.

 

I think they are the same as an add diff. Left and right are different though.

Isn't every torque spec meant to be dry? Anything but clean dry threads will skew an accurate torque reading. Likely doesn't matter in most applications though.

Sheetz! I wish they would come to Colorado. Kum & Go can't even come close to the food.

Easy to add more fuel to make more power to a diesel without needed to fine tune it.

Mine are cracked pretty badly. Ended up self tapping the plastic liner to something else and it hasn't gotten worse since then.

 

as long as the top bracket in the wheel well stays your fine.

 

Quite frankly I dont see what the rage is. Id rather eat at McDonalds than that place.

 

Kum & Go better known as Masterbate & Defecate.

 

Too late

One side already separated near the tail light. I tried to tack weld it but apparently I cant weld


Zip ties are working great so far.

 

@Kolunatic

 

Can't get a pretzel roll cheese burger with Mac n cheese bites on it anywhere else .