1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

@Sperrunner

 

have one for me

 

Working on other people's shit and I'm running into a whole shit done of this attitude... regretfully the bolts were not in their forever home as I needed to remove them to get to shit behind it

 

until...

 

Regretfully it's grade 8 bolts in steel frames, I should've known I was in for a bad time when the first bolt head snapped on me. Turns out that was the easiest to remove

 

Who want's a project? I'm sure there won't be any issues.

 

1998 Toyota Tacoma
https://cars.ksl.com/listing/7528691

CNG

 

Runs on natural gas? Never seen that before

 

I think @Wulf pickup is cng

But I could be wrong

 

It twas quite shitfilled indeed. But thankfully the day is over and I have beer and whiskey to drown out the anguish now


Does anyone else have a horrendous day where everything goes to poop and they wish nothing more to clock out and drink the pain away? Or is that just my alcoholic ass?


Either way the whiskey tastes delicious with a beer backer and I'll just drag my feet tomorrow lol






Because fuck today. Being a business owner is hard

 

When I worked for a heavy equipment rental facility (where we filled propane tanks for our stuff AND to sell to customers) we had quite a few people come in during the summer months to get their trucks filled. Hell even in our rental fleet we had quite a number of pieces of equipment with CNG conversion kits installed

 

You are correct. His older pickup he bought from a friend is propane driven.

 

Alright I'm getting sick of seeing my temps 10 - 15° hotter than before ever since that shop replaced my freeze plugs. I'm hoping they put the thermostat in at 12 o'clock instead of 6 and that's why. But if I'm going to open it up to check then I might as well upgrade

Ordered the 170° Corolla t-stat to put in, hopefully that will bring my operating temps back to 183 - 190° like they were before

 

Is it any consolation that coolant doesn't start boiling until 255 degrees? At some point you've just gotta accept you're driving a 20yr old vehicle and it could be more than their technician installing a thermostat upside down

 

It's just suspect that it ran much cooler until the day I picked it up after that repair. I know when installed upside down it will run 10ish degrees warmer so I'm assuming that's what was done. I'm still under 100k miles too

The 170° tstat is a common mod for the supercharged 3.4s, TRD used to sell a 170° tstat for supercharged 1st gens but it's been long discontinued. The Corolla one fits however, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just relabeled as the TRD one for 1st gens back in the day

 

Yup yup running LPG out of a forklift tank

 

No one wants icon shocks on their 2nd or 3rd gens


It’s a fact

 

Just send them to me, I know they'll fit my 4R

 

Well they are known to leak and apparently have an issue with the top hats, think they fixed it though
Surprisingly the ones I have on the back still haven't leaked in over 3 years. They are due for a rebuild tho