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

Every thing should be the same, the 1997 fuel injectors are a little smaller, so use the 99 injectors.

If your planning on keeping the truck long term,

Think about replacing the knock sensors and wiring harness with the motor out.

Whatever parts you replace with the motor out will be very easy to do when your doing a swap.

Make sure you have an oil cooler.

Rear main seal
Valve cover gaskets
Knock sensors and wire harness
Oil cooler hoses
Have fuel injectors cleaned and balanced
Timing belt and those parts. (Fan bracket)
Clutch if u have a 5 speed
Transmission if you have a 5 speed input shaft seal
Etc

 

Supposedly only has 160k which is good news. Seller claims it has all new gaskets and such. I'd obviously check it over pretty thoroughly as I've done most of the work you mentioned before when it was in the truck and although doable, its a pita. Mainly just didn't want to have to swap over any major parts to make the newer engine work properly. Which from all my looking didn't appear so but just wanted to make sure

 

How long do the spherical heims in coilovers typically last?

Trying to track down a noise in my front end when the driver side loads up on a hard right hand turn.

 

ADS recommended servicing(replacing) them every 60k miles approx. I’ll be sending my COs in soon.

Check your upper control arm bolt/nut. I had a similar noise not too long ago and that’s what it turned out to be.

 

Thanks!

Good suggestion. I'll double check that.
If that's not it i'll pull my CO's and cycle the suspension to try and narrow it down.

 

Maybe for full rebuilds (and even then that's way too long of a service interval IMO) but definitely not for the lower spherical bearings. Mine make it one wheeling season, sometime less than 10k miles.

 

I agree. Replace that stupid coil spring with a linear spring. A hardware store spring works, a brake pedal return spring also works. As does a clutch pedal return spring for a 4-cylinder first gen Tacoma.

Did you get new plastic bushings? If not, things will start to wear quickly. If you did get new bushings all will be good until the new plastic bushings wear out.

 

I got about 20k miles out of my lower bearings, they were pretty shot and had a bunch of play. I can’t imagine them lasting 60k.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/clutch-pedal-squeak-new-bushing-design.76599/

If for some reason you absolutely don't want to change the clutch spring to a linear one.

 

Yup. You can see the new plastic bushing in the post’s picture lying next to the old pedal assembly.

I will try this brass bushing when the plastic bushing fails.

 

What have I done with my 1st Gen today, I drove as far as I could on several trails.

 

Some people just gotta do things the hard way.

 

That's just the one that goes in the center. There are also bushings that go on each end.

 

Id agree with this 100% almost all shock companies recommend rebuilds at 15k for driving in only dirt. Dirt plus pavement its like 25-30k. Mine lasted about 10k as well since it really only lives in the dirt now and I got a lot of miles in last year. 60k is way too long

 

Made that annoying battery light go off with a new alternator, came on this morning on my way to work and wouldn’t go off.

 

Well today it was the starter (at least the removal), tomorrow I’ll install the new one. On the bright side the Northstar AGM battery is still good...

But when it rains it pours. In the last month and a half: tires, timing belt & water pump, 90k mi maintenance, LCA’s, left inner tie rod, alignment, new King struts & coils up front and Foxes in the rear, and another alignment next week after I put the new suspension in this coming weekend.
Hopefully she’ll be good for a while after that.

For the record I’m not complaining, she’s a great truck and I’ve put a lot of performance parts on her. For an 18yo truck with 114k miles she still feels like she only has 20k on her. Just painful to invest this much $$ in such a short duration.

Okay bitch session over, this will help get another 30 years and 900k out of her.

 

Same here. 10k

 

nothing to my Tacoma but I bought this 4Runner

 

Here’s another situation when what we drive, how we drive and where we drive are all part of the answer to the “how often” question. Most of you said you don’t agree with the 60k recommendation because of your experience. I have over 100k on my kit and my CO bearings upper and lower are fine. I check regularly and lube/clean often.

I’m just repeating what was told to me by ADS. Yes it was a full rebuild that I asked about which obviously included the bearings. If your experience is different then by all means go with that and recommend that to others but again, all of our experiences differ.

 

The motor itself is the same basically. Shouldn't be an issue.

Depends on your driving. Lots of wheeling, 10-15k. Street mostly, Id got 20-30k max.