What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

it’s hard to find, and more often than not, you have to ask for it, although I got mine on Amazon. Dealers typically want 25-30 a can. Years ago Hot Rod bike magazine did a fiber optic camera inspection on an old Vtwin, through the intake, exhaust ports, and broke down the carburetor bowl as well. You could clearly see carbon deposits on the exhaust side, some gumming and fuel tarnish in the bowl and intake track. They ran one can of BG-44K through it over the course of a few tanks of fuel to meet the mixing ratio (Tank size varies on V twins). Then they did the camera again and posted side by side images. It was very clear and apparent it cleaned the entire fuel and combustion track. Bike was an older shovel I believe, but had about 50k on it
I use one can to one tank of premium in the truck.

 

Cowl intake mod and HPS silicone hose
Before:

After:

 

Hit and run on drivers side rear bumper cap, luckily I had a witness and they got the license number of the vehicle that hit mine. Insurance is dealing with it. Sorry no pictures

 

Would the 265/75r16 Falken Wildpeak AT3's rub without the lift? The lift looks great, but just curious if those will work on an stock SR suspension. THanks

 

should work with minimal rub. not sure of the offset of the stock SR wheels, but i had 265/70r17s (17" wheel equivalent) with no lift and very minimal rubbing on 0 offset wheels.

 

Did you install the TRD air accelerator as well?

 

Dang! Luckily someone caught the plate number, and stuck around to let you know.

 

Well obviously it has its place in the world.

 

Actually i removed it and plugged up the intake on the side of the fender

 

Where does the air box pull from now?

 

From the cowl

 

No they won’t rub

I’m running that size but I have the AT2. And I have no rubbing. it all depends do you want your tires to sound like a truck driving down the road or a tank?

 

I have 265/75/r16 Firestone Destination XT on my stock SR5 with no rubbing at all.

 

The filming locations are pretty neat too. Solvang, CA and surrounding area's.

 

I had some thoughts about a dorkel the other day. The replacement part on Amazon is pretty cheap. It made me
Want to move the intake from out of the wheel well.
I don’t know that I would use the cowl for my intake though. I’ve seen some downpours lately, I think that airbox would be filled with water.

 

I’ve been to Solvang. It’s a beautiful town. Don’t mess with ostrich, they are way bigger up close.

 

Not my drawing, but there’s a whole thread on here explaining how you’d have to be submerged over the hood for water to enter the airbox from this location

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-cowl-induction-snorkel.731453/

 

Nice. So I guess the dotted blue line is air? Amazingly that helped it make more sense.

 

Thank guys.... I'm hoping I can "build up" a thicker coat but I'm not sure that this stuff works that way..... The mequires ceramic wax and TW ceramic wax though good did not last very long especially on the sides.... so it's good that this stuff does according to multiple reports....

 

What battery brand and size are you using? What fridge is that?