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

Finished up the conversion to manual locking hubs today, glad I did the diff tube while the motor was out. Lol

 

Paint them!

 

All in good time. I have the bronze wheel dip coming this week. Then I'm going to do the twist handle assembly in either red or gloss black.
Most likely gloss black.

 

Added cap, had to modify obviously but not bad

 

anyone by chance know the wiring diagrams/color codes for the air fuel ratio sensor on 5vz tacoma?

Looking to figure out what the signal wire is, heater +, -, and signal ground I believe. Not finding anything concrete online.

My color of wire below

ECU >>> Sensor
Pink >>> White
White/Red Stripe >>> Black
White >>> Black
Purple >>> Blue

I am assuming the ones going to black wires on the sensor are the heaters, but between the white/blue what is the signal :shrug

Looking to wire up a Split Second enrichner if that helps anyone or anyone has done it

 

I always painted them before rebuild before selling them off; gives the paint time to cure too.

I'd like to do the dial in this teal color I've got, maybe one day.











What color would you paint your dial and cover?

 

That does look sweet, I'm leaning towards gloss black only because I think (hope) it will offset the bronze wheels. I dunno. Seeing that red makes me ponder

 

Red is the classic look. I think it would look good with red to contrast the bronze wheels

 

https://youtu.be/d1sjEoZsH9U

 

Frame swap time

Going to go slow… but hopefully just a couple months till it’s done. Gotta pull the axle and replace the pinion seal/ paint the whole dealio. Rebuild the front spindles… it’ll be nice when it’s done

 

You talked the black truck? Cuz I know that frames been in the same state for years now. I may even finish my LS swap before that frames driving under a truck!

 

the 01 STILL is in a million pieces.. you cant rush that one..


this truck got pushed way ahead because i did some work for my old parts manager and as a parting gift, well i didnt pay for any of the frame swap parts except the frame and the bilstein 4600s. everything else was free... this ones staying stock other than a fuel pump in prep for a haltech and 100w halogens. (and any TRD parts i can find for it) its a 98 supercharged 3.4 5 speed. grey charger, been on it since it was sold at the dealer. 94k miles on this baby

 

the 01s frame is chilling with the tundra in storage... next to the 01 and the mr2. i need to get this 98 done so i can keep the mr2 at home in the garage.

but hey, the mr2 has gained alot of attention at the car shows...

 

Is that my old frame? Your pumped its gonna rip hopefully you have the supercharger ported and such for more fun.

 

This frames new from Toyota, your old frame is sitting in the barn at our farm slowly getting painted to do the frame swap on my 02. The 98 parts fell into my lap so I decided to get it done first lol

 

Ah right on. Definitely the way to go sure.

 

My big hold up on the 02 is needing to replace the rocker before doing the frame. There’s nothing left on the passenger side so lifting the cab will be… difficult without doing that

 

No pics of work done but I replaced my thermostat and coolant temp sensor, just joined the cool kids and got my first first gen last week so I’ve been going through part by part and updating it cause it needs some tlc heres a pic of the rig hopefully y’all are as psyched as me about it

 

Put some cutouts in the electrical panel for the Switch Pros and fuse panel as part of my new auxiliary electrical setup. Fitment on these turned out mint!


PXL_20230522_002639581 by Cory Bechtold, on Flickr

 

Replaced the transmission side seal on the transfer case input shaft after having a slow drip between the trans/tcase for the last six months or so. I'd checked the two and only ever had to top off the trans, so knew that was the culprit. Gave me a nice rust-preventative undercoating at least...

Anywho, got all the bolts removed and the tcase secured on the trans jack. As I split the cases, about half-a-quart (or maybe three-quarters) of oil gushes out of the "supposed to be dry" cavity. #winning.

At least I can vouch that there's a pretty good seal and true surfaces between the two components.

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