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

anyone have any issues with this guy going out? i have one on mine and it has a bit of play in it. do i need to buy a whole new pulley? http://urdusa.com/store/Pulleys-Ten...ercharger-Dynamic-Tensioner/product_info.html

 

should just be able to replace the cartridge bearing. Should be a manufacturer's part number stamped on it somewhere.

 

do u have that same thing tomtom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nizbxdbskm4 this shows the movement

 

Here are better pics. Over time leather turns darker because of the oils in your hand. I also have installed on my CRV, by the way I did a better job. As you can see the CRV looks as a better install. You can also see that over time the leather starts forming over steering wheel and becomes tighter. Thats why you must really pull on needle and thread.

CRV how it suppose to look


CRV


Tacoma not how to tie it off now that I think about. When I did the crv I watched a youtube videos first as it gave me some tips. On the tacoma I thought I was a pro by now.


not good see down on the steering wheel


They are both the same color grey, over time the Tacoma wheelskins will turn dark and get tighter.

I like wheelskins it gives it a thicker handle on the steering wheel vs. plastic thin tube....

 

Cool, yeah that's not what I have. Ol well.. what axle gears do you have and are you manual or auto?

 

New Denso spark plugs today.. Old ones were lookin pretty toasty ~ 45k on them

It was getting pretty dark by the time I was finishing up and I realized I REALLY need some under-hood lighting!!

What kinda lights are most of you guys running under the hood? LED strips?

 

Judging by how much pulley the belt has eaten through, I'd replace it. With the amount of wear you have there, the tensioner might not be tight enough.

I'm also guessing the press fit between the bearing and the pulley might have enough wear to be causing the wobble but that be a guess.

You may want to consider going back to the stock tensioner pulley as it is a steel body and will hold up longer with the back of the belt rolling across it.

When I had the URD tensioner pulley installed, there was absolutely no play. No idea how much is considered too much. URD ad copy and the fact that it is made of aluminium makes it seem more applicable to a true race truck instead of a daily driver. If they had bonded some sort of steel band to the bottom of the channel, it'd last a whole lot longer.

 

So ud just run the stock one?? I really don't care, the stock is $50 urd is $100

 

yes. I am running the stock one now. It is good enough for my purposes.

 

Drove it to get my haircut. My haircutter is badass and good looking.... just like her truck.

 

R u running a urd supercharger pulley??

 

No. running the stock S/C pulley. I tried the URD 2.2" pulley and something seemed off between 2k and 3k RPMs. As I'm limited on time, threw the stock S/C pulley back on until I can sit down and learn how to tune it properly. Also, I wasn't happy with the gas mileage drop.

 

That's what I have on mine. Will the stock tensioner pulley work with the urd supercharger pulley?

 

yes. I didn't measure them but they look to be close to the same diameter at the belt contact surface.

 

Thanks for the insight

 

New PCV valve and grommet, fresh power steering fluid, new plug wires. Pretty much a brand new truck at this point

 

It could be fun on trail rides. Just use the PA rather than a CB.

 

PAs can have a purpose on a trail. Comes in handy when attempting to tell your spotter they don't know what the hell they are doing.

 

I thought you were running the URD tensioner pulley?

Thats strange, I didn't notice any decrease in gas milage with the URD pulley. I have noticed a slight decrease in milage with the supercharger as a whole, but thats mainly because I drive it like a race truck more now...

 

I was. After realizing it was aluminium and hearing isu2014 talk about the belt wearing the pulley away, took it off and reinstalled the stock one when I reinstalled the stock S/C pulley.

After seeing CohbsTaco's video, not a fan at all. Don't keep an eye on it and the belt will be down to the bearing cage. Really is something for a race truck as opposed to a daily driver.

With the stock pulley and babying the gas pedal, I get about 17.5 mpg. This is about what I was getting when I had the stock intake. With the URD pulley, it was about 16.5 mpg.

I read somewhere that the boost with the stock pulley really doesn't start to come on until around 3k. The 2.2" lowers the threshold so it is harder to keep the fuel demand down.

When I say babying it, I mean smooth, easy accelerations and shifting before 3k. Keeping with traffic instead of trying to race it.