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

Yeah, it looks hilarious the way it's sitting right now. The springs should settle a bit though and 35's will fix the wheel well gap nicely

 

Fought my diff today..damn install kit doesn't have the right stuff

 

I think its outside but ive never paid much attention to it.

 

It's probably your slave cylinder or clutch fork squeaking.

 

So...to take off my stock bumper do I need to remove the factory skid? And how the eff do I get the bumper aligner screws off? Things wouldnt budge last time I tried.

 

It should be much the same as my 98.

Four 14mm bolts (two on each side of the frame bracket)
Two 10mm nuts (one on each side behind the corner lights)
Two plastic screws on the frame near the frame horn (I ended up ripping them out and just using zip ties)

Pics for reference: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/98326-madjik-mans-laugh-him-build-6.html#post5264080

 

Be careful with those bolts on the side. The second I took a wrench to them the heads snapped off... Haha

 

Yup. Mine are just zip tied now too.

 

Yeah the problem I had before was the bracket they're mounted to flexed so much so I couldn't get any torque on them. I'll soak them in PB blaster to see if that helps. I have an impact gun now too but figured that'd just snap the heads off or rip apart the bracket.

 

Been fighting a rough idle and "thwarting sound" (th th th th th th th) at idle.

Truck isn't throwing any codes. I have a ultra guage and I've had it scanned at autozone, still nothing.

So far I've replaced: coils, wires, cleaned MAF, fuel filter, plugs are 4 months old.

Seafoamed twice within the last 10 months. The 2nd time was to try and get rid of this rough idle and thwarting sound which did nothing. The thwarting/ knocking Noise sounds like it's coming from the driver side of the engine.

One thing I have noticed is all 3 plugs on driver side of engine have "corona stain". The first time I changed the plugs 10 months ago I don't think it had the corona stain. 4 months ago is when I started to feel the rough idle so I changed the plugs again but this time I noticed the driver side plugs had the yellow/ burnt stain on the white part of the plug, so I put new NGK dual electrodes in. Then when I checked the plugs yesterday I saw the same thing on the 4 month old plugs, more corona stain on the 3 driver side spark plugs.
Is this common?

I'm gonna replace the plugs again tomorrow with denso dual electrodes. The passenger side plugs look new. Other than the corona stain there isn't any other bad signs, no carbon build up or burnt electrodes.

Anyone have any ideas as to what else I can try?
Anyone think the Corona stain could be the cause?
I was told it's normal but the missing out/ noise seems to be comming from the same side where the plugs keep showing up burnt on the white part.

 

Thats weird cause my plugs had this rusty lookin stain creeping up on the white parts of the plugs after only 10k miles, granted those 10k miles were riding with a CEL due to leaky exhaust and running way rich. I had also seafoamed a couple times prior to servicing, but no persistent issues with a rough idle such as yours. Have you located and cleansed the idle air control valve? I guess that can get gummed up and cause rough idle, couldnt locate it last time I had the throttle body off though so that will wait for another day.

 

Stage 3 Electrical System Upgrade

 

Also a big help is heat. Holy hell it's amazing how it can free seized bolts.

 

How much did that run you?

 

Stage 2 Electrical:



and, apropos of wednesday, finally installed the winch:


Somewhere in the midst of the install, I took a plate bumper upside my head. Seriously.

My front end is very heavy now. I need some helium rope for the winch next.

 

When connecting the wires to the battery connectotors did you add sodder to keep the wires together?

 

Where did you find your battery connectors?

 

Both got their kits from Bama:

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/ma...coming-2nd-gen-electrical-system-upgrade.html

I'm seriously considering it.

 

You ought to take one of Sams tires of his runner and throw it on there to see how it will look. I say go 37 on it but that's just me. 35s will probably still look small.