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

yes, but you'll have to remove the part that holds the actual bar down to the sway bar. Zip tie it up and your good. Know a guy or two that does this as the bar in place actually kinda protects the steering rack..

 

sweet i think il try that next time i go wheeling

 

zip ties?

 

Yeah that's what I do when I wheel. Zip tie it up out of the way. Make sure its pulled up high enough, I put a hole in a CV boot not having it zip tied high enough.

 

I got my Soliport ELM 327 Bluetooth OBD2 Diagnostic Scanner in the mail today from China. I really like it so far, I heard that about 20% of them don't work so I was alittle worried I'd have to send it back for a working one, but I lucked out and this one works fine! I'm using this with the Torque app on my smartphone.





Sorry for the bad pictures, but I can now read live data from the computer. Been wanting to have a detailed read-out of my temp. I don't like the dummy lights and guages that don't tell details. 192f degrees on the dot!

P.S. The adapter plugs in as you can see, but the only downfall is it could be very easy to whack it with your leg and break it, or someone using your truck (w-w-whaaaat?!?!) that does'nt notice it. Maybe a adapter with a 6 inch whip so I could zip-tie it, also the LED's stay on, it could trickle-drain your battery.

 

how much for that scanner? also, can you increase performance on it?

 

Its about $15 at Amazon, nah you can't increase performance with it. I dunno if the app for phone is free or not, I got it free from a friend.

 

Yeah zip ties they sell them at the auto parts store, little plastic band that you can cut back off and through away

 

lol no sorry. i know what zip ties are I was just asking him if zip ties would work. sounds like they will

 

Oh yeah they should work just fine, funny that I went for a ride with him over the weekend and he didn't give me that idea. Just flipped shit all weekend to take it off

 

lmao

 

I washed it and attempted to use a compound to remove some scratches. I tried it on my driver side front side panel and it took out some real fine ones but did not touch medium or heavy scratches (did not expect it to) Then I put a fresh coat of wax on the entire truck. Today I changed the plug wires out with NGK wires. I only drove up and down my street once after the wire change and have not noticed a difference. I thought it may have reduced the hesitation I think I'm getting. It did seem to start up a lot quicker though.

 

i know they make quick disconnects for soild axel but they make for ifs also? how much?

 

bought an optima yellow top battery

 

How much did the wires cost?

 

I think it was about 45 bucks at NAPA. Oriellys has them for 32 but they were out of stock and I didn't want to wait. Much better than the 90 bucks the toyota dealership wanted to charge me.

 

Thanks, that's why I asked, didn't want to pay for the OEM when I replaced my plugs. Do you know if these are one of those things that are worth it to buy OEM?

 

Honestly, I have no idea. I just read a few threads on here about it and people seemed to recommend the NGK wires so that is what I went with Hopefully others will chime in.

 

Rockauto.com if u can wait.