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

An interesting new thing to say the least

 

this was one of my first upgrades! I hate the orange back lighting, makes the car look so old lol

I just found the bulb size online and bought the best quality LEDs I could find. Definitely do not want to open this back up again!

 

Went for a little drive. It was pretty . Saw some stuff, broke some things. Drove 400 miles home with no power steering was sketchy . My favorite quote of the trip was my truck Drove like the can-am's up the obstacles.



Looks like it's the top seal on the rack is leaking. So I pulled the belt and man handed her home.
It was pretty epic .

 

Losing power steering on a trail sucks. Don't mind it so much on the street though.

 

Yeah it let loose on hells revenge. No power steering in 4low is a little difficult. As long as I was rolling it wasn't to bad just a little twitchy.

 

Leak and pulled the belt. The rack is leaking from the top.

 

My donahoes and icons had offset misalignment spacers too

 

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massive detail and installed dynamat

 

'tis what I'm currently doing, @chrslefty (Rig Review: What worked and what didn’t – Summer 2021?)

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Well I didn't have any extra fluid and the pump was empty and starting to make noise,so I pulled the belt. I wouldn't have been able to hear the pump going out while driving down the freeway so I felt that pulling the belt was the safer option. I sure that your right I could have just kept topping it off and would have been fine but it was leaking out pretty quick and I had a bunch of highway miles to cover.

 

Truck needs new freeze plugs

Labor intensive job on the 3.4l apparently. Started puking coolant over the weekend from the back of the block. Odd thing to have happen with low mileage (98k), warm climate, right coolant, etc. But looks like I'll be getting that done tomorrow and likely a new clutch & rear main since the trans will be dropped.

 

Nice I hope you did a good write up on it beacouse I'm gonna be needing it.

 

Putting my skids back on today and confirmed a leaky steering rack……….


soooo where the best oem pricing on a new rack at currently? Last I heard it was LaGrange, maybe McGeorge?

 

Leaky rack party in AZ

 

Just saw @chrslefty got the party started haha.

Guess we should set up a rack awareness wrench day

 

Order two, save on shipping

 

isn’t it pry it out & tap it in!

 

Yeah but they're on the back of the block, can't get to them without either lifting the engine up or dropping the transmission as I understand.

Some engines they're easily accessible just not the 3.4

 

Lol . I'm interested in finding the best replacement possible. I whish there was a heavy duty upgrade for the rack.

 

Definitely with some leak stop. I had all kinds of other fluid.