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

Installed a new cv axle and rough installed my ARB twin compressor on Friday. Went camping on the river this weekend. Got stuck in the snow once on the way down to the river and used my Amazon special traction boards as a traction board highway on a particularly narrow, sketchy section of cliff side snow covered road.

We had the entire place to ourselves!
We got stormed on and ended up clearing somewhere around a dozen fallen trees on the way back out. It took us 4 hours to go 30 miles.

This was only the first two trees we came across I lost count of how many we actually cleared.

 

35mm socket came in today, got the passenger side spindle off. Gonna pull the drivers side later this week

Might adjust my Kings while I have the spindle off and all this access...

 

just a good ole TPS sensor. glad to be able to put around the woods with out randomly dying and can finally down shift when passing someone again!

 

Thanks man, looking at white 98-00's never gets old.

 

Where’d you
Mount the compressor? Any pictures?

 

Picked up this neglected 1st gen about 10 months ago and have been restoring her a little at a time. Changed out rusty bumpers, ditched the drop in liner for a spray in liner, stumbled upon the wheels on Craigslist while looking for tires, changed the tint, rust treated the undercarriage, leveled it off with a 1" block, and finished it off today with a clay bar/wet sand/two step polish treatment. The previous owner drove through some wet paint and there was a lot of rust spots that needed touch up paint and a nice sand/polish blend. I'd say she's done for now...just maintenance...gonna be about 4 more years before she hits 100k miles

 

those aren't black..

most follow the contour of the grill itself. As in the center insert.

Memorial Day 2018-33.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
FTnBE?-22.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr


So your angle looks right but is too tight IMO. Should be wider overall.

 

Washed and waxed the garage queen. Finally found something to break the haze that the overspray left on the finish around the flares and door handles from PO having it “detailed“. Then picked up some take-out.

 

Washed mine yesterday. Needs paint.

 

Be glad you have a 2002, the 2003 and 2004 you have to buy the entire throttle body to get the sensor $1200

 

Yup....ask me how i know

 

I get everyone I can find in the junk yards and have already used one of them, I have an 03

 

This begs the question, would it be worthwhile to pick up a throttle body from a 2002? Or is this a case where the older ones will not work on the newer engines?

 

02 is a 3 wire, 03 and 04 is a 4 wire sensor

 

I was told this would work on 03 and 04s

https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/aisan-throttle-position-se-c70121324701ais/11965510-P

Here’s a picture of the 4 wire/pins

 

The shop that did mine said i could go used, but no guarantee how long it would last. So i paid for a new one. Broke the bank

 

Yeah I have heard the same thing. Couple threads floating of people that found one without the need to purchase the whole TB. I don't personally have data on this however.

 

Dont know if that is the same one I tried or not but I did try one from Advance and it did not work, that one says on their site it will not work.

 

I have read a lot of threads on ones people have tried with no luck and a few about one that will work but you have to order 100 of them from some country. I have yet to see any where that someone said, hey this one works and this is the part number, not one time and i have spent a lot of time searching. I have heard several times that some one found one that works but no one can provide the information to the one that works or the part number for it.