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

Intercooler option for it, lol

 

People will be super surprised when a naturally aspirated and intercooled 3RZ doesn't blow their doors off

 

I’ll rock my 285k rad till it dies TYVM

 

And thus concludes Phase 1 of my Quarantine 2020 Burnt Valve Adventure and Sanity-for-Andy Project

• Burnt valve fixed
• new valve seals
• new head gasket
• new injectors
• new hoses
• new cooling pump
• new egr valve/vsv
• cleaned out power steering resi
• new power steering cooler
• new radiator
• new belts
• replaced idler pulley bearings
• new oil pressure switch
• upgraded horn

Runs great, still idles a little funny. (Occasionally drops to like 500 rpm after you let off the gas and put the clutch in). Either I've got an air leak, or osmething... I dunno, still looking for it.

 

My frame will be broken before I look that shit up on YouTube.

honestly just waiting to come home one day and see the tire in the wheel well on flat ground

 

Id like to see that 50 dollar flywheel, my buddies 5 speed 4 runners clutch has been heated up and could really use one

 

Hopefully you resealed the half moons?

 

Ill be honest with you, when i did my valve covers i couldn't even rip them off with channel locks, so i left them be no leaks after so i wouldnt judge

 

So, I’m laid up after giving my wife a kidney last week.
Had my mom (who is staying with us) take the covers off and bring them to me so I could put the stickers on...lol

Mod with mom assistance...lol

 

They can be tricky to get off
if you wiggle them too much they break

 

Yeah i saw they were aluminum and decided against twisting, but just sheer force wasnt doing the trick

 

I finally had my All-Pro ifs/transmission skid plates get delivered. Installed those.

 

That's one awesome mom! Mine would just laugh and tell me to wait.

 

My mom wouldn't do shit. But the wife would tell our son to SAS it. Lol.

Heal up brotha! Good on you

 

installed some front bolt-on torklift camper tiedows for a slide in camper I'm picking up next week. Have the rears too but apparently my hitch isn't stock like I thought it was and it won't work so I'm going the Happijac bumper mount route now.

Will be selling the rear tie downs (if anyone is interested) once I have 50 posts and am allowed to sell things haha

 

I made a sleeping platform/drawer storage solution for the past few days. Check out the build for more pictures. I'm very satisfied!

 

Are to Delrin strips?

 

Was time to rotate the tires and decided to really rotate them off the wheels and flipped to show the white lettering. I've heard both yes and no, pro and con about changing a tire's rotation but these are KO2s, non-directional and I decided what the hell.

Used to look like this:

Now they look like this:

Dog tax paid by my girl hanging out in the shade under the Taco.

I think it gives the girl a bit of an old-school vibe and at 16 years young she is kinda old-school.

Looking at those pics I've just decided that my next project will be taking off the fender plastic and painting it. Done the heat gun thing twice and it worked but seemed to revert back to faded quicker each time. Happy Tuesday BTW.

 

My leaf dun cracked



Gonna get some leafs from the junkyard to fix er up for a bit.

 

this was easier than expected to replace after ~278 months (as far as i know its original equipment and not ever replaced during the old 15k, 30k, 60k, 90k maintenance schedule)
used a ratchet with longish 9/16s deep and contorted my elbow above side of spare tire on ground non-lifted level concrete and it came out like smooth butter, ...was quite worried it was gonna be seized and stuck, but no problemo!
this old one had a hard time jiggling and the top part would not twist as easily as the new part installed did, probably getting clogged up



the new one
finger tight then a couple ratchet turn to snug it up