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

This isnt going to be fun.

 

The handle pulls a little rough so I need to go back in and check things out... Tomorrow

 

Wow that's a clean truck. I was in Phoenix last week and couldn't believe how many (old) cars were on the road still in near perfect condition. I hate living in the rust belt

 

The Desert SW is hell on hoses, belts and batteries but rust does sleep.

 

Wow. Looks great! Keep the pics coming

 

Finished up the tub tonight

Drivers side



Interior shots, you can hardly tell once I cut the kick panels and especially with the floor matts back in










Full lock at ride height

 

I get the same code. From the reading I did, replace the knock sensor harness before you replace the sensors.

 

^^^^^^^^^this
But as they say....since your there blah blah blah replace it all
If you have a good wet vac...will definitely help

 

Lets see it with the tire at full stuff and full lock...

 

I put the coilover in before I thought to do that, wheeling on Friday so ill get some real world pics


It rubs the body mount a tiny bit, wasn't enough to warrant chopping it up. It is a little disconcerting already to cut up the A pillar on a DD

 

Hey guys. Someone said I might get a faster response in here.. So I'm doing the water pump and timing belt job and I am trying to get the timing all lined up. the water pump locked up and I think the belt locked up and jumped because the timing isn't lining up as I rotate crank even multiple times. So how do I go about lining everything up? Tell me if I have this right.. So if I'm turning the crank around 360* and its turning easy it's on exhaust stroke, turn it another 360* and its tight/hard to turn then it should be at tdc when the timing mark lines up on crank right? Then just turn the two camshaft pulleys until they line up with the marks. then install the belt and all pulleys and whatnot... Sound right? Or should I pull the #1 spark plug too just to be sure it's at Tdc? Or is it fine doing it how I said? Thx.

 

My body mounts got hacked up big time haha

 

Haha my mounts were cut to shit. Its a bitch fitting real tires on a Tacoma

 

Dat width

We need photos of the rig on the new tires jimmy!

 

Since the cam to crank relationship can not be trusted due to the locked pump forget about compression/exhaust. Get rid of the belt, set both cams on the marks, set the crank to TDC then install the belt with it's marks lined up with the pulley marks. Double check the belt/pulley marks then set the tension. Once you start turning the crank after the belt install the belt marks will never align but the cam and crank marks will line up every 2 crank revolutions.

 

Tip for installing the timing belt, don't seat the tensioner fully until the belt is on, makes it much easier.

 

One day when this is a trail rig only I will give zero fucks like you haha. Pics Friday, still has no rear diff, it will be all buttoned up on Wednesday.

Yeah it is, mine are only fake "real"

 

Yeah don't hold out on us. Kick down some pictures.....

 

So the driver side cam was lined up. I checked the tdc on crank with the finger in hole method just to be sure and is lined up. Passenger side cam was off. when I went to turn it it flipped like 90* on me clockwise. Turned it the other way it flipped again. Carefully turned it back real slow and lined it up. Is it supposed to be like that? When u turn it it springs out of place if not turning real slow to tdc mark?

 

That is normal. It's valve/spring pressure pushing against the cam lobes.