Oregon and Washington Truck Spotting

Spotted @Digiratus at thee best taco shop!

 

I feel like the bar is set pretty low considering this is the PNW....

 

Costco?

 

Tiger Taco lives in Fremont. At least, within the last year I’ve walked by his truck at night a few times on Woodland Park Ave., I think is the street. He definitely gets around. I’ve seen him in Columbia City a couple times too.

 

Now there’s 2 different sides of Seattle that couldn’t be any different

 

Yes... I must know where these "best tacos" exist...

 

If Lengua tacos are your thing, these guys make the best on the wetside.

https://www.tacomaestro.com/

 

I love tonguing my tacos!

 

I would have sworn he lived in Shoreline. Next time I see it I'm gonna talk to him to get the scoop

 

If lengua and tripas tacos aren’t your thing you aren’t a taco person

 

Beef tongue. Yummy.

 

This is my wife’s. She absolutely loves it. Yes the picture is from my game camera in the driveway.

 

This was mine, loved it for the 2 years I had it, I left it un-locked wherever I went, I didn’t have to stress, especially at the park and rides.

 

I'm just gonna post up more Subaru hate.

Spent half the weekend swapping header gaskets on our 2014 Forester XT. What a pain in the dick. Thankfully, I didn't have to pull the entire turbo, but the turbo outlet studs came out with the nuts. Well, all but the one that broke off.

Took forever and the loss of many bits to drill that out. Cleaning up the threads, I was able to get full torque on it and just used some bolts instead of finding studs.

Given that what I thought was boost solenoid noise is now gone also, I suspect that one missing header nut was never on there. This particular noise was there for a few years. Yeah, bad on me, but it was impossible to diagnose as it only made noise at max boost while moving. Power braking wasn't allowed to build enough. Never threw a CEL.

Fuck these PoSs.

Also, Fuck Amazon for sending incorrect gaskets. Props to Milfuckee and Dremel for saving the day.

Just as a note, this is a stock Forester. No mods other than a K&N.


The header nut was MIA at the blown out area:


Dremel'ed out that mismatch:

 

Lease 'em or trade 'em.

 

See that car right there? Its exhaust manifold was glowing hot back in May. Hasn’t moved since and my wife is pissed I won’t touch it, but will tear into a Tacoma. I have a distain for working on it. It kills my back going under the hood and I don’t fit underneath it.

 

Hahaha! Same boat, sorta. My wife is pissed because I keep hating on her purchase.

What is causing it to run that hot? Failed gizmos usually tend toward rich?


It is incredibly nice to work with the Taco on its wheels. I had the Forester on the big stands just for room. Still, it is mostly built for assembly. They imagine they have been quality than exist real life for them.

 

Throws an EVAP code and the manifold glows cherry red in 5 minutes. Those are my only two clues. I’m thinking timing belt slipped, bad O2 or a clogged cat. It was a super clean old lady owned it and dealership maintained with all the receipts even for gas in the glove box car. It’s an 03’ had 100k miles on it in 2020 and we paid $2k for it. It has 203k now and I feel like we got our $2k out of it. It’s still really clean and she loves it and wants to dump money into it.