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

Well..if itsh on fresh intake vs recirculate air will pass through it causing it to spin.

Your certain its in the cab?

 

Noo! I'm sorry man keep it and wheel it!

 

it just sounds like a couple of hamsters fucking each other. It makes noises on all and any variety of ac/heat fresh/recirc

 

You tried stuff folded paper against the A pillar and dash? Could just be the dash.

 

I have, pressure against any part of the dash has no affect on the squeaking.

 

Hmm..

Not in the kick panel is it?

 

possibly I did remove the door assembly 2 months back. good thinking. it seemed like it was held pretty well but could be something stupid.

 

Yea look there and check that everything under it is tight still.

Really not much under the dash on that side. The blower motor, ecu, some wiring, heater core and that's about it.

 

airbag removal difficult or unwise if necessary?

 

Ooooo right...you have an air bag there..I don't.

Hmmm..idk man..would be up right above the glove box..I have no idea how big it would be. I wouldn't mess with it if possible. But if you disconnected the battery should be fine I think. Can't see why you'd have to remove that to get to everything else I mentioned that's back there. It would be up out if the way.

 

trade me trucks monte. tomorrow will be a full blown truck day. thanks for the ideas i've been swerving all over the hwy this week trying to locate the noise

 

Frankenstein would never leave his creator! haha

Plus I have an 03 already..close enough

And yea good luck man.

 

Sounds familiar

 

thinkin about bed lining the rocker panels on my truck today. would I need to sand them? or just tape and newspaper everything I don't want bed lined? and then spray away

 

If you want the best mechanical adhesion, here are notes I took directly from a conversation I had with a Raptor Liner rep:

 

Thanks! Im not gonna be using raptor liner though. Im gonna use the duplicolor bed armor if I do it. The main reason for even doing it, is I have so many rock chips on my rocker panels it looks like crap when I wash it. Idk if I wanna do it though
Edit: I guess I would basically use the same steps though

 

Yeah... for best results I'd imagine the process is much the same.

If you read the Bed Armor can it essentially just tells you to wipe it down with a Duplicolor Prep Wipe then spray the Bed Armor.

I'm not exactly sure how well that would hold up.

I'd give you feed back on my bed rack I Bed Armor'd but I haven't even really put anything on it yet.

 

I used it on my tool box and then went on a little bit of a wheelin trip to Georgia and quite a few branches hit it and it didn't take any off. but its dusty as all get out now and water will not get the dust color off it haha

 

yes sand them , you can use a lower grit too like 120. you cant see sand scratches through bed liner.

 

Painted stuff.




Herculiner.