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

F5 gang. Love my set. The deep dish is sweet

 

Only if they aren't black. I hate this black wheel trend that has been going on for a long time. Good thing it's not my truck and you shouldn't care about my opinion

 

I like my black F5's

 

i like the shade in the other pic better!
kind of a bluish misty satin color?

 

Well ain't that a bitch. Of course it was self inflicted. Man they were so nice to have.

 

Uh, how the hell that happen?

 

Oh yeah I did some things with some wires.

 

Trying to shut the hood with a pair of line pliers in the way

 

Oh that sucks! I had a customers hood close on my air ratchet one day because their struts gave out. That one bent the hood though.


At least it wasn’t my head!

 

I had my hood come down on my hand one cold morning. Didn't push up all the way for it to hold and as I went to adjust the headlight, bam! At least my hand was too cold to bleed and just went numb.

 

Oil Change
Filter Change
Air Filter Changed
New Windshield Wipers
New Harmonic Balancer
AC Tensioner Pulley
3 new belts
4 New Spark Plugs

 

Deck Plate Mod

 

Why are people still doing the deck plate mod? I could swear I read somewhere it was tested and determined ineffective.

 

It helps dirty the air filter effectively faster.

 

Makes it sound more like a Dyson with less throttle response.
At least those are my findings from doing the reverse deckplate mod. (New Factory Airbox) Better throttle response and a better sound without it.

 

they want to hear their mighty engine roar!

 

my deck plate is a noticeable improvement. I cap and uncap when cleaning my engine bay or running the forest roads here with dust. Definitely can tell better response uncapped.


I will admit with the dusty AZ weather I clean my filter a lot, but meh takes 5 min to clean the K&N.


To each their own

 

It prob makes more of a difference on the 2.4 & 2.7L motors.
I liked mine, but now keep it closed cause I would rather not change the filter as often. And I found myself forgetting to put it on when I went wheeling.

 

I personally did the deck plate mod so people could immediately talk shit about it.

I don't uncap it much anymore now that I installed the snorkle... so people could talk shit about that too.

 

I've always had a theory that an manual hub tube would be stronger because you would have less deflection on the stub shaft. It's a future mod (manual tube on add diff) I want to try but haven't prioritized.