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

Pft mines at 23" and I cant sit under it except for in the rear

 

I can sit under the rear of my truck haha definitely not the front though.

 

Puh-leez

 

Don't even make me break out 12 inches of Snow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo

 

I took my BORA wheel spacers off trying to hunt down a clicking noise... To my surprise it actually fixed the issue. Emailing BORA to see wtf is up with that, lol!

 

Oh, yeah. I miss that. Couldn't ever risk spinning that, or Vanilla Ice in the clubs... Would rock it on my bike with headphones when I was mountain biking on trails though.

 

you having a pick-a-knick under there or what?

 

Might just have to do little things until you figure it out. If it idles rough it is a fuel problem. Check spark plugs if you haven't for a while. Maybe even clean the throttle body. Check emission hoses going into the intake manifold for cracks. MAF sensor could be dirty. It is a pretty big list of stuff, but they are pretty easy to test one at a time and cheap fixes since you don't have a check engine light.

 

I found her the one sink hole.

 

Sanded and repainted one side.

 

I reeeaaaallllyyyy need to re-do mine...

 

After I finished that one, I remembered I was going wheeling this weekend where they'll get smashed up. Haha fail, oh well, they had to be done at some point. I have the other one already sanded but it kept raining on me, so it'll get paint later.

 

Gonna tackle the o2 sensors this afternoon..
With the manual transmission the upstream one should be fun.

 

Working around the shield is the hard part. More of a nuisance than a problem.

 

Hope you have tiny hands to undo the clip under the shifter console.

I tore my fingers up trying to get to that summabish.

 

did you ever make it work?
Any other tips?

 

I did. Monte was actually in the neighborhood so he helped.

Ended up having to use needle nose pliers to undo the clip (that is attached to the sensor wiring) from a metal bracket. Another PITA part was putting that clip back on the bracket.

Had Toyota moved that clip/bracket/wiring 2" to the aft, it would take 2 minutes to change the upstream O2 sensor.

 

So the O2 sensor on the manual trucks are harder than on the autos? I'll be changing mine soon too, or at least the back one to start, but I have an auto. The upstream one didn't look TOO bad to get to.

 

If it is the harness clip I'm thinking of, I just went in through the floor opening. It took a couple minutes but didn't think it was a PITA.

 

The clip/harness I'm talking about it is next to the shifter, on top of the transmission.

The best way to access it is to take off the shifter trim, boots and that metal plate.

I'll see if I still have the pic.