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

Before: 276k mile OEM leafs w/ 1.5 AAL

After: 1.5” new Deaver J59’s

 

Little bit of weight in the back and it's like butter with thoes j59's

 

I wasn’t think about it at the time.

 

I never carry much weight. Might stick my spare tire back up under there or something. My tires are 265/75/16

 

If I had a garage, I'd totally take that home and put it away for when I got a new job and some excess money to build it up as a perfect little Baja explorer with a commercial shell on the back.

It's got rust. Don't do it.

Eh, same problem as the tent on the Flippac - it's not a 4 season tent. Snow will make it collapse, you'll lose a bunch of heat without a good heater, etc.

 

how bad is it?
there were not much for pics of it

 

Every Tacoma has some small rust that’s 20 years old

 

Good luck with the wiring!! It was a challenge for the 328i seats I installed.

 

At least the Tacoma owner has enough sense to keep his snorkel facing the correct way.

Silly Dodge Ram owner...

 

A few days ago I posted about my Amazon Warehouse Reese Class III hitch score ($98.00). Today, got the wire harness installed. Bought an Autozone conversion kit type for $24.00


Overcomes LED and independent brake/turn signal bulb issues.

Dammit, bumper's gonna need some touchup paint before I re-install it.

 

I replaced the factory original fuel injectors with the green Denso remans from Motor West. LTFT's used to fluctuate constantly every second or two, and they were all over the place. With the new injectors my LTFT is a rock steady 0.00 on the freeway and I could feel the power curve ramp up SO smoothly. Couldn't believe what a difference it made! If you have old fuel injectors, you might want to think about replacing them just for the performance gain. You just get used to an engine that micro-stumbles because the computer is constantly trying to compensate for the imperfections in the equipment.

Thanks to @Timmah! for the awesome videos on injectors and valve cover gaskets for the 3.4L V6.



While I was "in there" I also did a valve cover job to replace the leaky cam plugs (but did a full job with tube seals, half moons, PCV, etc.) and wrapped the wire looms with TESA Tape. I was surprised to discover my harness was just sitting on top of the engine without any looms, plastic shields were long gone. Thanks to @1997tacomav6 for the mod idea! Overall job took me about 9 hours, but it was my first time doing it so I took it slow. I documented everything and labeled all the hoses which made reassembly really easy.

While I had my valve covers off I noticed things looked pretty clean in there, but there's a bit of wear on the cam gears. The lobes had some pitting, but not bad. I figure a bit of wear is normal for an engine with this many miles on it. Valve shims looked clean. I'm open to comments if anyone has any.

 

When you reinstall the throttle body in order for the throttle body bolts to tighten,the new metal wire loom tab probably will need to be hammered down or
a pair of vise grips to flatten it just a little because it might actually hit the Lower part of the throttle body. You will understand when you get there. FYI.

 

Yeah I hit it with a plastic hammer to knock them into a better position.

 

That back passenger side wireloom clip in particularly will be a small issue hitting the throttle body under side, but will need a little bending flat to make the extra clearance to fit.

 

Quick question regarding removing doors on 4dr: Where is the disconnect for the wiring, inside door, or behind the kick panel (and center pillar)? @BartMaster1234

 

kick panel for the fronts for sure. b-pillar for the rears if I remember correctly

 

Many thanks! I have a line on a couple of replacements. Didn't want to waste effort looking in the wrong location!!

 

Buddies shop was available yesterday (Saturday) and we got several items done off my never-shortening list. Main thing was installing the Tundra brake upgrade.


Not as amazing as I thought but I'll do another bleed in a few days and see if the beers (plural) we were enjoying while wrenching were the cause of a less than detail-oriented bleed job. In other news we also changed the oil in both diffs (replaced the front drain plug with a new one because we had to essentially destroy the old one to get it off), did a minor tune-up (new plugs and wires), rotated the wheels and installed 1" spacers to hopefully stop the minor rubbing on the frame at full lock.

That seems to have solved that issue but now the tire hits the plastic liner on one corner of the fender a bit so today, before football, I'm going to trim that off and take a BFH to the area.

Go 49ers!

PS - Forgot to mention the brake job was made possible and WAY easier because I had the hardline/braket/line kit from @turbodb (Thanks Dan!)

 

You got it. Why are you removing the doors?

 

So I switched up the tires. I took the Milestars in yesterday to Discount Tire after having the shakes last week while driving and come to find out I went from 19/32nds to 14 on 2 tires and 16 and 17 on another with only 500 miles. So I decided to give the Pathfinders a try!