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

My ultra gauge is a few years old now so maybe that's why I haven't seen it

 

Yea I think they added it to the newest version.

 

I have been cheating on my truck all day... looking at Land Cruiser FZJ80s.... I don't want to trade my truck.... but damnit I had one to many kids.... maybe I 'll just leave the wife at home when I go camping.... Or she could always ride in the back.... but that means less storage.... hmmmmmmm

 

Installed these: Nice improvement!

 

I really want to go to 35's and 5.29's after my lift but I can't justify $500+ for someone to install the gears. I know it's complicated but the only thing I don't feel comfortable with is measuring backlash and adjusting it for both coast and drive sides and I don't have that measurement tool. Does anyone know of a good writeup for this?

 

You ready and willing to tub the fuck outa the fire wall too??

 

come on, Monte, that's the fun part

 

I know can't wait to do it to mine!!


Some tho...would not haha or have the tools..

 

Learn something new everyday!
It does make sense to have a fast, accurate, dedicated gauge for heavy winch use. Are you thinking of going dual batteries at some point?
Just curious, what code did you throw from the refresh rate? I am only 3k miles into driving mine...and did have a random code come up.

Right on, the newb here thought they would have had that from the start; my apologies.

 

I ordered a 90 degree coaxial cable elbow so I could fit my Uniden in the ashtray slot, but I ended up breaking the metal 90 degree elbow

 

Received my locking glove box latch from rman808. Going to get it re-keyed tomorrow.

Should come in handy for whenever I do get tube doors...

 

weighed it.
(this was coming out from dumping a load at the landfill)

 

Yes sir! It's what the cool kids are doing right?

I can't wait to do it either! I (and by I, I mean my dad haha) have the tools as well. I've researched the shit out of and if I had a 35 to mock up and didn't live an hour away from my parents' I would have already gotten started! Like I said, my only concern right now is shimming the gears. I can do it on my rc cars all day long but my truck's just a liiiiiittle bit different...

What thickness sheetmetal did you use Cody?

 

I would think so too. I was disappointed when I couldn't find it. I'm still going to look next time I get a chance. No worries!

 

Oh yeah, I finally got around to making a build thread since I ordered my lift!

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/285970-gear-heads-silver-2000-trd-build.html

 

No, I'm not doing dual batteries. Dual batteries are only good if you are running stuff with the truck turned off and i never do that. I already upgraded to the gm144 alternator and i plan on putting a bigger battery in eventually which is all I'll ever need.

I don't remember which code it throws but I do remember it being a weird one. It throws a code because the high refresh rate uses up the bandwidth, or whatever, that the ecu needs to run the tests. So, then, it can't run the tests properly.

 

Ah ok. Man, it looks like those GM144's can really crank out some amps.

I threw P0133; http://www.obd-codes.com/p0133.

Hasn't come back yet and could be a bad O2 sensor, but I am wondering if the gauge's refresh rate interfered with the ability of the ECM to adjust the air fuel ratio in a timely manner.

 

Yea it works great.

I wanna say that's the code that mine threw also.

 

Haha probably if its cheaper than other vendors...