New England Mod & Meetup Thread:

I'm a huge proponent of doing things the "lazy" way if it means it's less risky. ATF? Drain and fill, instead of flushing and starting the truck with plugs out and getting to the exact right temp and yaddah yaddah yaddah. Just do it at a ~40k interval instead of 60

I'm at 65k and haven't touched front and TC diff fluid, ATF, PSF, or brakes. Should have done a lot of that in the spring but procrastinated.

 

Is that an Excel spreadsheet that is available to all. Looks like a great way to keep track of everything.

 

Made it myself.

Top has current mileage and date pulled from my fuel log. Then I have a table of maintenance tasks with intervals (time and miles).

Conditional formatting for mile/date intervals, yellow means it's coming up (Can't remember the intervals, I think 500 miles/30 days, red is "overdue", <0)





You can also do similar using Fuelly, setting up reminders (I made up some of these, so they might not be accurate).

 

Me likey. I should totally do something like that...

 

Who wants them? They are free.

 

Me too.....



Nine years in here including every gas fill up

 

I’ll take the body mount and radiator but just did my steering rack and I’m not doing that again.


Thanks mr. white

 

The body mount is regular cab

 

In that case I’ll take the radiator unless you have someone to take the set. Drew just did some or all of his bushings but now he’s talking of selling it.

 

So that's what like, 2 pages?

 

Yeah, pretty much...I'm up to 54K miles...

 

I’ll double check the part number on the body mounts.

 

I would be interested in the body mounts and steering rack bushings, as I already have thier rad support bushings on my truck. If you wanted to split up the set...

 

I only did the rad bushings but I bought the whole kit, was waiting for a body mount relocate for the others

 

the radiator mounts are going to @AllTacosFloat
the cab mounts and rack bushings are going to @nickonfire700

now we just got to find a time and place to meet up, hopefully the next mod day

just found that the cab mounts are for a Tacoma, it doesn't specify reg, ext. or dual cab.

 

Sweet, thanks . I would like to meet up at the next mod day, or I plan on going to that overland expo at Thompson speedway in the beginning of September.

 

what part of Connecticut are you?

if you’re near Manchester maybe my BIL can get them to me for John and I’ll give em to him if that helps

edit I’m sure the expo works too I think a decent group of us are going

 

I live in Branford.

 

Expo it is

 

@Merling ....... @TacoTuesday603 has the right idea. Even though the Turkey baster way can work, it will not get all of the bad fluid out of the system without the possibility of dealing with the problem of getting a lot of air in the system. There are a number of good videos on youtube that can help you with this.

@AllTacosFloat do we have a list of people that are going to the expo?