Ontario BS Thread

Says the chubby driver...coinkydink perhapages he has a dog now to blame the furts on?

 

I thought Taco Lean was 1/4 -1/2 not a full inch.

 

Don't have enough Tacoma experience to answer, but good luck the answer is most likely on this site somewhere

 

Mine was about the same on stock suspension, no skids, but a single RH slider installed, and 1/2 tank of fuel. Front was even LH-RH. Rear LH was 0.7 in. lower than rear RH.

 

Took a mess of RCA, Power, 4 pin camera cables...


Chopped, sleeved, soldered, double shrink-tubed, installed adapters, sleeved and splitloomed.


So now I have a custom factory looking harness for the two side cameras on the rear and the rear center camera for the DVR,
(Center camera wire is not taped into position as I will do that when I install the harness,


I'm going to test if the Birds Eye view system will work with the side cameras mounted on my backrack, lol in theory it could work and save me the headache of installing them in the side mirrors.

So when I get time I'll start on those, I got some heavy duty steel housing cameras to experiment with.

So to get the first stage done (Cross Traffic Camera and Rear View) and the front Camera system, the interior harness was done a little while ago ...


now I just have to do the front harness. And figure out the happy place for the two front cameras (second one is for birds eye and DVR)

Have too get to Princess Auto for more braided mesh and splitloom.

Also still have to do the power feed wires for the two control modules...
Oh yeah have to finish soldering on the connectors lightbar and pod buttons that go onto that interior harness above... sigh...

And I thought this was a quick project.... ghaaaa ,,,

(well it would have been quicker if I didn't add birdseye and DVR which adds 4 more cameras and the extra buttons but oh well I'm a masochist )

 

All depends. That’s usually in the front and is why you can use the spacer. In the rear, some leaf packs are over/under there advertised “lift”/weight holding amount. So you can get a bit of lean on that side.

 

@everyone with a 3rd gen or mechanically inclined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUO57cgTCw

chirping coming from the engine bay, sounds like it's coming from the fan? belt or maybe a bearing? idk but it's loud AF
i'm at 69,200km on the OD and this started this morning but havn't had a long enough time to figure out what it could be since i had to drive into work

@tacoma16 @daks @Norilsk @3JOH22A @llamasmurf @ODSC1

 

1. spray water on the belt, you may need to replace it, takes 10 minutes
2. next is remove belt and check pulleys and how they spin
3. last is replace belt and belt tensioner.































4. burn the truck

 

option 4 is much easier than fucking with belts

 

it's very easy on this trucks, so much room to work on. You may simply have dirt trapped there as well, after I replaced mine at 90K mark as a part of maintenance and went wheeling - mine kept squeaking for 3 days in a row and on the 4th all dirt got finally out.


Water test usually helps to determine that.

 

It's the sounds in your head. @Norilsk didn't you have a squeaky fan belt?

 

we have an electric fan

But i'll give those a try today. i'll need to leave work early to get to toyota to pick up another belt just in case it is the belt going.
Part numbers:

(x1) Serp belt -

$57 90916-A2001 Alternator and Fan Belt

90916-A2001
(x1) Tensioner - 16620-31013

 

Well sounds like a bearing in an idler pulley bearing or tensioner pully bearing... or possible mud on the belt...

Thermal Imaging camera can sometimes come in handy.




*1 Vane Pump Assembly

*2 Engine Water Pump Assembly

*3 No. 2 Idler Pulley Sub-assembly

*4 Generator Assembly

*5 Cooler Compressor

*6 No. 1 Idler Pulley Sub-assembly

*7 Crankshaft Pulley

*8 V-ribbed Belt Tensioner Assembly

If the belt is clean,
it's not uncommon for the seals on the bearings for one of the idlers to become a little weak and fine mud gets in there and corrodes the bearings.

See if you can follow the sound to the noisy idler area.
After running for a while shut the engine off and see if one idler or tensioner bearing feels significantly hotter.

Mechanics stethoscope is also handy, but dangerous to diagnose this.

Taking tension off the belt and then pinning the tensioner to keep the tension off,

then spinning the idler and tensioner pully's looking for drag or wobble.

(in some bad cases you can see a pulley wobble when the engine is running)

If you think you know which bearing it is, try spraying it with some lubricant, but wipe off the excess so it does not get on the belt.

Good chance it's the #1 Idler (*6) if you've been doing water crossings. (or dirty belt).
.

 

took a quick look with @Snail81 , he says it might be the fan clutch going.


coworker brought up the idea of using the mech stethoscope to check around (or a long screw driver and hold it up against my ear)

i'll check the pulleys for heat as you said, that makes pretty good sense if it's wearing a bit more that it'd get warmer.

 

I doubt it's the fan clutch, I have 100K of abuse and it's doing fine.

 

It's difficult to locate the source even standing right next to it. seems to be somewhere in the center and that's where the fan is. yet, one of the pulleys is more possible.

 

Have you done water test? Spray water and see if noise going away

 

i just got home, not sure if there is a need to do the water test.

Left work an hour early just to get to Toyota to get a tech to quickly look at it. (they close at 5)
leave the office 4:10 and you can hear it from inside the office
get to Toyota at 4:40 and it stopped the squeaking the second i got into the driveway and of course there is no techs to take a look at it. BUT thankfully the guy that sold me the truck, Moose is also a former tech - go deal with him if you get to UJT, checked it and said it's most likely adjustable or idler #1 as @daks said

it does it faintly, but that's the A/C and truck revs to 3000rpm.


but the truck is like a fucking dog, it knew the second i drove in that it was the dealership like a dog knows it just arrived to the vets

 

Hi. No lights or issues with any systems. Will see the dealer on this and report back.
Also where is the link for a front camera and anytime reverse camera?

 

Looking for used OEM 2nd Gen leaf springs.

I found a broken leaf while sourcing a squeak under the back of the truck.



....Turns out the squeak was coming from the spare tire.