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

Use a TR puller. $15 from Autozone.

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/OEM-Tie-rod-puller/_/N-264w?itemIdentifier=555631_0_0_

Torque it on the TR ball joint and give the LBJ a love tap. Pop.

 

Welcome to the candy crowd.

Got the blinkers done up. Pictures and video to come later tonight. It actually worked out really well when SGT Taco showed me the right adhesive to use.

I'm looking into the equivalent LEDs for it. The lenses do get a bit warm.

 

I got mine from superbrightleds (where else?)

They're great.

 

Ohs no what you painting now?

 

I'll give you a hint:

There's a picture of the part, and it's written in all caps, in the photo.

 

LOL shows how observant I am

 

OK, video of the blinkers working. The "write-up" (actually just a bunch of pictures) is in my build thread.



Also, got some more candy from Wheeler's (and some OME goodness):

 

new starter, All Pro uca's, and working on manual hub conversion



not the best picture but kinda hard to stop and take one lol

 

Did the jiggle valve mod tonight and WOW!!! I was wondering why everyone else was running in the 190's - low 200's and I was always in the 206-208 range with a 210 every now and then. Well after I rotated the thermostat I'm now running 190.4 constant while driving and 192.2-194 while idling. I'm hoping the 15 degree difference in temp will be a little easier on the engine.

 

Did you clip the jiggle valve or what did you do?

 

Yeah I just rotated it to the 6:00 position. The manual for the 3.4l Toyota engine says it should be I the down position and it's correct, especially after the degree change I've noticed.

Another thing I did was replace plugs and wires with denso dual electrodes and denso wires. Trying to fight a thwarting sound and slightly rough idle which after having it tested today the tech found all signs to be good. Compression test came out good also.

I had the timing belt done back in June of 2013 and the thermostat was installed at the 12:00 position which made my temps higher than they should have been. I wonder if having the engine always running at 206-208 degrees for the past 10 months could have caused any damage? It got up to 210* and 212* a couple times (212* maybe 5 times).

 

Is this something you can easily visual inspect? Is it as simple as removing the lower hose?

If so, can you point me in the right direction?

 

I just unbolted the 3 bolts holding the thermostat housing on and then you can easily see if the jiggle valve is up or down. I didn't unhook the lower hose because there was plenty of room to pull the housing and thermostat. Most of the antifreeze leaked out anyway so after rotating it and bolting everything back up I refilled the radiator, had the heater on high, and burped it with the radiator cap off.

If you've never replaced the thermostat and it's till the one from the factory then I'd guess its in the correct position. But if your unsure then I'd say take a look, it's an easy job that took maybe 20-30 minutes.

 

Changed oil, fixed wiper res hose leak also recieved deccals in mail !

 

Proper tool for the proper job makes life so much easier.

 

Kind of my thoughts haha

 

Did a bit of exploring..

 

Nice pics, nice truck!

 

Sounds like a rough day.. I just drove for four hours cause some dumbass guy told me he had a 69" rear ford dana 60. When I got there I asked him to measure and it was 66"..