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

Looks alot better!!

 

Anybody need 1 black nerf bar for ext cab

 

thanks guys i agree also i feel like we saved another toyota's Life.

 

How much?

 

Not much at all, I'll really just want to get rid of them once I get my lift installed. Lets say $20 +shipping?

 

Killer deal!

All four?

 

Hmm, lets say $50 +shipping if it's all four. They're still on my truck as of right now, but should be off this Saturday. Then we can exchange info and figure out price and shipping starting next week. Just pm me if you're interested...

 

Anybody who's done the deckplate mod: any LOSS in mpg? Mine went down to about 14-15 feather-foot and that's the only "performance" mod I have. Maybe a urd MAF could correct it?

 

Plug it and check over 2-3 tankfulls

 

Yeah I just plugged it up. Gonna see how the mpg is now that its back to stock, but it definitely wasn't this bad before the deckplate

 

I doubt the deckplate made any difference, the winter blend garbage gas we are forced to use has dropped my mpg to 15-16 as well.

On another note you are using a K&N filter.. those are terrible for our trucks and can cause a large amount of dirt buildup on the MAF and in the throttle body, replace that with a stock toyota filter $21 from your local dealer.. and clean your intake system and try again.

 

Am I suppose to b able to spin my front drive shaft by hand

 

If its in 2wd and in neutral yup

 

Ok just making sure I was greasing shafts and u joints last night n I tried to get to the alemites n I barely moved n it spun just wanted to make sure thanx

 

Went snow wheeling:



Some nice trails:



Lots of deep snow to be had:



Found a good parking spot:



Helped a fellow taco:

 

Why is the K&N worse for out truck? What about the aFe dry?

 

It's not terrible, it just requires more precise maintenance. AFE = no oil is all.

 

K&N filters are terrible for anything that goes offroad and will be in high dust environments. The cotton gauze the K&N filtering elements are made of is VERY porous and lets in a lot of dust.

The amount that any aftermarket filter flows over a paper filter is negligible...the best option (IMO) is to protect your motor and run a stock paper filter.

 

I'm not trying to argue, I just don't see how it can be both letting a ton more dirt in yet negligible amounts of air. I would say a negligible amount of both and therefore not worth it, mayhaps?

I wouldn't say they're good by any means, but terrible just sounds like your engine will explode . . .

 

I worded my post wrong...should have said that they flow more, but the power gains are negligible. So its not worth it.

I used to run a K&N filter on an ATV I used to have, I constantly had to keep cleaning the carb because the amount of silt that always ended up in the jets and in the bottom of the float bowl. Switched back to a Foam filter....and never again had an issue.