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

Is it not recommended to add a SC on high mile engines?

 

It's not a hard rule really if maint is good and it's running normally. A little extra ring leakage is a good safety barrier haha. But you don't wanna boost an engine that's a couple thousandths from spinning a rod or main bearing though. Thanfully our engines are the cheapest parts of the trucks these days, suspension parts cost more added up and exterior bits.

 

Ok! Makes sense!

 

I am partly waiting for it to go boom and then I'll replace the engine and boost it

 

It came from Salt Lake

 

I should have dropped my fuel tank

 

New Fan clutch finally showed up, going to throw it in after work.

 

What’s that lime green thing there?

 

Not today but late last week installed the Anzo taillights.

 

Picked up a new daily the other day. 195k miles 5spd. Gonna be swapping a new frame under her in the next week or so. Front pass is buckled beyond repair and a new used frame ran me like 500

 

If anyone has a lead on a 01-04 hood, front bumper around SoCal pm me !

 

i also noticed I gained a full mpg when I got my soft top rack.

go full dumb and raise the gas tank too.

It’s not terrible at all I promise.





Nothing like tackling boxing the frame (all of it, not the half ass trail gear shit) , raising the gas tank, shock relocate, aal, new shackles, and prob some other dumb stuff I am forgetting all at once.

 

I'm making a pseudo frame box kit. It's a balance between interior c-channel support and dimple died box sides. Won't be raising the tank though because I don't intend to rebuild that crossmember and moving it up kills a lot of torsional strength

 

a what now?

 

gave these old 15" a spray of black and put some new 31x10.5 general grabber atx.

grille is getting a spray next and after i fix the hole in my bed and line-x, i plan on line-x the bumper chrome as well.

 

New fan clutch feels better, but is this still higher than normal for around town?

 

Seems normal to me. I'm at 188 -190 around town usually

 

That’s where is was before, now I’m 200-210. Not sure why it shifted. Fluid looks good and was changed 6 months ago.

 

You mean the trans temp? I'm just going off your photo and the engine/coolant temp shows 190 there.

As far as trans temps go, I wouldn't know being manual

 

Only way you'll see a big drop in temps is an external cooler. Other wise that's normalish area. If you get over 220 then start worrying. That's bad.