1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Ohhh are you a prepper?

 

Nah lol I just prefer the simplicity. The 5VZ isn’t bad to work on, but the VG seems like kind of a pain.

 

The VG30DETT is for sure.

But that's the Z32 TT. VGs before that are stupid simple.

 

It's a tool thing, as I remember. Then once deep into into a Nissan, I would modify things to make it easier to live with on the next time in.

 

The VG33 seems to have a lot of emissions hoses with the EGR and distributor etc. - it seems more similar to the 3.blow from Toyota. Nissan had pretty primitive tech in their trucks in the early 2000s for some reason. I mean a distributor in 2004 was kind of crazy lol.

 

Yeah but emissions aren't an issue for ya; lots of people remove that stuff, use block off plates, and more to get rid of those extras

 

Yea it’s good we don’t cause this thing has like 4 different emissions codes and a blown out muffler. It’d probably make a decent deer camp rig for someone though haha

 

Money in on one or two of the codes will be "ghost codes" that disappear when the big one is resolved.

 

That's a VG30i, it has throttle body injection, it's crap

 

The K24 seems like the motor to have from that era.

 

thisssss

despite all my bitching (from self inflicted problems ) first gen taco is my favorite platform. great reliability/maintainability/drivability

driven all kinds of stuff and i keep coming back to the 1st gen stuff

 

GM did that on some F bodies, Vettes, and trucks; absolutely terrible

 

Well that and it's cheaper than him buying a different platform he's unfamiliar with for cheap as a "fixxer", not actually fix it because he'll pay someone to do it, then end up with another shitbox

He's got a Tacoma rotting in someone's tow yard and I'm surprised he hasn't accrued storage fees

 

Guaranteed dude has already filed for an abandoned title. If he hasn’t I might.

 

As the owner of that yard, yeah I would've as well.

Owning a yard/being a mechanic, you would have experienced plenty of people leaving their vehicles there because -

Owner figured it's not worth fixing

Owner can't afford fixing it

Owner can't get to the vehicle and/or afford towing it out of the yard to some place else

Person driving wasn't even the legal owner - inherited the vehicle, never did a proper transfer, etrc

Tons of different reasons and I'm sure they've heard it all. So by now it's either, hey you need to start paying me storage, you come pick it up now, or I'm going to put a lien on it and claim it myself.

 

Better with video.

https://youtu.be/EFGKTNoAXa4?si=Q-TvGuS1eZ5PXgtF

 

hey now, gm tbi may be bad but old jeeps with the 4.2 carb inline 6 had it so bad that gm tbi was considered an upgrade lmao

 

KA24DET

 

I mean, GM did fuck it up even worse when they did their 1-year only Crossfire injection on the Corvette

 

I swear he told me he’d let me know if he ever needs it moved. It’s a pretty big lot full of junk cars so I guess it just kinda sits there in the corner and people don’t really pay it any mind.