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

just a good ole TPS sensor. glad to be able to put around the woods with out randomly dying and can finally down shift when passing someone again!

 

Thanks man, looking at white 98-00's never gets old.

 

Where’d you
Mount the compressor? Any pictures?

 

Picked up this neglected 1st gen about 10 months ago and have been restoring her a little at a time. Changed out rusty bumpers, ditched the drop in liner for a spray in liner, stumbled upon the wheels on Craigslist while looking for tires, changed the tint, rust treated the undercarriage, leveled it off with a 1" block, and finished it off today with a clay bar/wet sand/two step polish treatment. The previous owner drove through some wet paint and there was a lot of rust spots that needed touch up paint and a nice sand/polish blend. I'd say she's done for now...just maintenance...gonna be about 4 more years before she hits 100k miles

 

those aren't black..

most follow the contour of the grill itself. As in the center insert.

Memorial Day 2018-33.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
FTnBE?-22.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr


So your angle looks right but is too tight IMO. Should be wider overall.

 

Washed and waxed the garage queen. Finally found something to break the haze that the overspray left on the finish around the flares and door handles from PO having it “detailed“. Then picked up some take-out.

 

Washed mine yesterday. Needs paint.

 

Be glad you have a 2002, the 2003 and 2004 you have to buy the entire throttle body to get the sensor $1200

 

Yup....ask me how i know

 

I get everyone I can find in the junk yards and have already used one of them, I have an 03

 

This begs the question, would it be worthwhile to pick up a throttle body from a 2002? Or is this a case where the older ones will not work on the newer engines?

 

02 is a 3 wire, 03 and 04 is a 4 wire sensor

 

I was told this would work on 03 and 04s

https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/aisan-throttle-position-se-c70121324701ais/11965510-P

Here’s a picture of the 4 wire/pins

 

The shop that did mine said i could go used, but no guarantee how long it would last. So i paid for a new one. Broke the bank

 

Yeah I have heard the same thing. Couple threads floating of people that found one without the need to purchase the whole TB. I don't personally have data on this however.

 

Dont know if that is the same one I tried or not but I did try one from Advance and it did not work, that one says on their site it will not work.

 

I have read a lot of threads on ones people have tried with no luck and a few about one that will work but you have to order 100 of them from some country. I have yet to see any where that someone said, hey this one works and this is the part number, not one time and i have spent a lot of time searching. I have heard several times that some one found one that works but no one can provide the information to the one that works or the part number for it.

 

Yep, that has more or less been my experience and I've never dug in properly as currently it's a non issue for me.

 

Drilling metal and notching tubes the last 4 days has been painful. I am burning up holesaws. My 1960's Delta Rockler press should handle it all well based on HP and build strength, but RPMs are too high. I said "screw this, i am buying a modern drill press" and started to price one with the features I needed. Unless I go with crap from harbor freight buying new was way too much $$$$. So I purchased the following off ebay...
51:1 gear reducer should give me rpm of 15 to 1

Upgrading to a bigger HP

Got this switch to allow use of 240v rather than the 110v on my existing setup and it will do reverse

Toyed with using a modern switch like this

but this was the original switch she had when made in the 1960s and given there is not a romantic urge in my body outside of the topic of old trucks, old sailboats, and old powertools.... I foolishly paid extra

Now I need to build a better pipe vise system or invest in a true notching jig. I would love to hear peoples feelings on good but affordable tube notching jigs.