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

What about the positive connection between battery and solenoid?

 

Good stuff man!

 

Those 13.8 volts aren't making it to the starter

 

Everyone is saying I burned the starter, I’m removing it right now.

 

What solenoid?

 

The solenoid is the box the contacts, plunger, etc are in

 

It's the device that handles the high current switching of the starter motor power. Think of it like a really beefy relay.

I'd just start at the battery and check every connection.

 

Oh what a feeling!

 

I think you closed something in the door

 

Got a CEL code p0420. So I got both o2 sensors from rockauto.com Denso upstream was $43.79 and downstream $44.79

 

Just recently dealt with this. You should be golden.

 

I just took the starter to Autozone, it passed.

 

Did you have any other starter related stuff apart?



Or alternatively, did someone stuff a potato in your tailpipe?

 

Nope, first time I’ve touched the starter since my 4WD conversion a year ago.

 

I think I would clamp a voltmeter onto the starter power terminal and ground and get a voltage reading while you're cranking.

 

This.

12v doesn't mean anything unless it's under load. I doubt you managed to burn up your starter being that I've used mine to climb obstacles and haven't killed it.

 

Threw the soft topper on for some fun this weekend. Time to hammer down and get muddy

 

Not that kind of feeling

 

AutoZone's test has been deemed dubious by a few people, I'm going to test it against the FSM specs later.

I don't know what else it could possibly be. I ran the truck directly from the Mercedes holding 2,000 RPM. 13.8v directly on the Tacoma battery harness, yet still slow crank.

Grounds are fine, I touched two grounds: Firewall x Engine Block, and Intake Manifold x Injector Harness. They're both grounded fine it appears, I filed down the paint on the manifold ground. I ripped off the engine coolant sensor by accident, but I repaired it. That's about it electrical wise besides unplugging sensors on the block and manifold plus EGR.

 

Here’s a video of it trying to crank.

https://streamable.com/t4ckw