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

So carb cleaner is supposed to be safe to spray into the engine bay area right? Like where a vacuum leak might occur to find it?

 

I'e always been told yes. Or you can use low pressure compressed air. Both will change the sound of your engine if not make it die

 

as long as you use short burts of spray just enough tho get a slight rev enough to be noticeable your fine.

 

Keep an extinguisher handy. Had a buddy do this with his exterra and it started a fire. He was able to put it out before any damage was done.

 

Finished the valve cover gaskets replacement today. All hoses as in the correct places and every thing looks good. Had a rough idle the ended up being a misfire, got the sorted out and now she runs like normal! Can’t wait to bust out the degreaser and power washer when it warms up outside to clean up all the oil that she was leaking. I was pleasantly surprised by how clean the throttle body was 260k miles in, Ive seen cars and trucks with 100k have extremely gunked up throttle bodies.

 

Well.. found my issue and it's on the supercharger. The joint of the elbow that connects the pressure relief and the main housing is ever so slightly separated. I would be willing to bet that's causing my lean condition at idle and the whistle.

 

Glad to.see she's making a full recovery

 

Mine has a nasty window tint stripe on the windshield. Any tips for taking it off? Been waiting for a nice day

 

It wasn't super hard just kinda time consuming. Get a bottle of original Windex, it really turns the glue into an easy to scrape gum substance, you'll also need a hair dryer so you can get an edge loose to start peeling from and it helps to heat as you go. And you'll need some nice new razor blades to scrape the gummy substance off after you Windex it. I just douched the glue with Windex hardcore then scraped and re windexed and kept scraping. Came out super clean though.

 

I would 2nd these comments. VVVVVV

I just got one from them earlier this week. $557 shipped and comes with iTREs. 44250-35042

 

Awesome! Doesn't sound too bad! I'm hoping I can get to that this weekend.

I'm debating the other windows that are tinted. The front doors look they used to be, but it was removed (there's a couple flakes left). The back doors still are and the rear windows. I like the idea of the tint, but I can't decide if it looks goofy to have everything but the front doors tinted.

There's also about a quarter inch along the top of the back doors (just where it goes into the seal when you roll it up, that has started to peel down. You can't tell when they're rolled up. Currently, they are acting as german shepherd hair magnets. Super conflicted haha.

 

I've got a long night ahead of me.





Shameless plug for my Cadillac Horn group buy going on.

Can you play spot the random Tacoma part? This used to be a two car garage. Now it's about 75% full of a million different Tacoma parts.

 

Hmm. i can assume your going to be the #1 cause of an increase in caddy horn prices.. lol (i have been thinking about a set for my Avalon and truck... but gotta finish the truck first..

 

The horns on these trucks are just downright pathetic. You're lucky with the dual hi/lo Horns they made standard in 2001 but 1995-2000 was just a single hi tone horn which sounded more like a Japanese Moped than a truck.

 

Lol but when they go off people look around like "the hell was that"

 

Years ago, I used WD40 rather than the windex, and it worked pretty well. As suggested above, Goof-Off would likely work very well, or even some acetone. Just be careful with the acetone around the plastic. It is hard on plastic!!!!

 

Anybody have any ideas on how to wire this led switch to only illuminate with the key on:

$12 MICTUNING Universal Rocker Style Dual USB Car Charger Compatible with iPhone 6 6S Plus Mobile Device, Blue LED Digital Display Voltmeter Monitor Battery Voltage(Blue)

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The problem is it's only got 2 posts, one power one ground. I could put another switch inline so the led voltmeter function doesn't stay on all the time but that's annoying. Any ideas on how I can make this work or where I can find another one like it that has the ability to go off with the key

 

If you're worried about draining your battery I wouldn't be. I have the same one and have parked the truck for two weeks in very cold weather and it still started.

You should be able to tie into the radio power if you only want it on when the key is on.

 

True but the truck I’m putting it sits for weeks at a time sometimes. I just don’t like the idea of it. I thought about looping it in to a keyed power source like the radio but I worry that I’ll cause false voltage readings.


I think I’ll just install it with a another switch inline so I can turn it off for long periods of time if I need too. I am not having any like finding something similar that does what I want

 

Thanks fellas! I thought it was Camelback but didn't know for sure!