What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

RichochetRabbit · Oct 27, 2023

tacotrdyota said: ↑

That was my daughter when she was like 6
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Instructions should be left to your wife (if she survives you) upon moving out of the house, maybe when your daughter buys her own house ... cut out that portion of the bench for her. At least offer ...

wcoffman · Oct 27, 2023

MikeyMcFly said: ↑

I can dust off my tech writing notes and add in figures and diagrams and take all the emotion out of the report, but I’m curious where you found a spelling error as I’m usually pretty good with that. Of course, that whole story was written with the monsters running around and distracting trying to get my day of annoyance out onto the page.
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It was fully intended as a compliment. Entertaining and educational, yet self deprecating. Well done (in case my non-What have you done to your 3rd gen today opinion has any value).

Benny blanco · Oct 27, 2023

rgljr831 said: ↑

Did the sway bar delete today. Gotta say, with the Billstein 5100’s and OME 886 coils as well as the Wheelers Off-road Super bump stops the difference is negligible around town thus far. I’m waiting on extended brake lines from Yota Mafia before I test it off road.

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886? What do have on the front end?

rossk35 · Oct 27, 2023

Started installing the s/c today basically 90% done. Just have to do the pump wiring, belt, coolant, flash the tune and done. Put about 6hrs in of work today.

WaitingOnMyR1T · Oct 27, 2023

rossk35 said: ↑

Started installing the s/c today basically 90% done. Just have to do the pump wiring, belt, coolant, flash the tune and done. Put about 6hrs in of work today.

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Are you going with stock tune or a third party tune? I have the Stryker tune from YotaWerx and I’m very happy with it.

rgljr831 · Oct 27, 2023

Benny blanco said: ↑

886? What do have on the front end?
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Nothing….yet

Breknraj · Oct 27, 2023

wcoffman said: ↑

Well, your grammar, spelling, and punctuation betray your ChemE degree. There’s that, too.
(BSME, post slide rule, pre-Commodore64; Fortran and Hollerith cards rule!)
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Fixed it for ya! ;-)

Maddog-51 · Oct 27, 2023

TacoTaco-BurittoTaco said: ↑

Where did you purchase the grille from?
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https://tacoclout.com/product/honeycomb-toyota-grille-with-raptor-lights-for-3rd-gen-tacoma

Right here. Thought it was just gonna say Yota but it required drilling some holes and shit and I didn't have the gumption at midnight to be making things square and level much less drilling new holes lmao

Maddog-51 · Oct 27, 2023

On another note, can the comfy ass 4Runner front seats be put into a Tacoma? Just got a 4Runner for my girlfriend and her fucking seats are so comfortable compared to this Tacoma I'm ready to go to a pull apart and have a new drivers seat tomorrow.

Or a good aftermarket headrest to fix the ungodly angle?

TRDRed · Oct 27, 2023

McHale said: ↑

Got home from work, saw a BIG box at my front door and was so excited to start working I cut open my thumb with a box cutter with a LOT of force. Blood everywhere. I grab a shop rag to stop the blood, run in the house and slap a band-aid on it, wrap the band-aid and thumb in a paper towel, wrap that whole thing with scotch tape and proceed to open the box again... left handed. It's getting dark and raining and I'm right handed without the use of my right hand. I then proceeded to install my new tri-fold tonneau cover. Well, it's on but not perfect at the moment but considering the circumstances, I'm OK with it. Tomorrow in the daylight I'll try to get it straightened out and include pics.
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OBXPaul · Oct 28, 2023

MikeyMcFly said: ↑

Today was a collection of epic fail after epic fail after epic fail. I reminded myself why I hate fluids so much. The goal was to change the diffs, transfer case and transmission fluid. Let’s begin.

The Rear Diff
I had the correct Toyota fluid ready to go. Of course it’s cans because this is 1965. No biggie, I have a hand operated transfer pump ready to go. I go to loosen the fill plug and it’s not budging. Not an issue, I fire up my compressor and hit it with the ugga dugga and it pops loose. The drain plug, same deal. Of course I don’t get my finger off the trigger fast enough and it sprays fluid everywhere because of course it does. I whip the drain pan under the diff and let it drain. I’m grumpy because I hate getting fluids everywhere, but here we are.

So I start pumping can one into the diff. I didn’t realize the pump was directional (because why wouldn’t it be, pumps only work one way, it’s not like you don’t have a chemical engineering degree, Mike). So I aerated the can and it overflowed. This is spill #2. Whatever, I re-orient the hoses and cans 1-3 go in. Toyota says that its 3.8 liters or 0-5 mm below the fill. I’ve read some people take more, some people take less. I only have two cans for the front diff which is 1.6L. There’s some heels in the cans, so I’m trying to consolidate to use up as much of the fluid as I can.

It was at this point I noticed that the drain pan isn’t draining. Think I pulled the plug out? Of course I didn’t! So I reach in and spin it open, only to overflow the pan onto the garage floor…again. My truck is covered in Fluid Film, so now I’m covered in Fluid Film from being under there. Life’s just grand.

I decide to dip a bit into the 5th can and pump some more in until I’m fairly satisfied I’m less than 5mm below the fill line. During the 5th can the pump lines disconnect and dump more fluid all over the garage floor, because why wouldn’t it, right? I torque the bolt and decide to move to the transmission next. I’m already grumbling to myself.

The Transmission
This one should be easy, right? 2.6 quarts, I have 3 quarts of Motorcraft Synthetic GL-4 which is the hotness in the Miata world. I bought a bottle pump so this will screw in, I’ll bang the fluid in, zip the bolts back in and I’m golden. Wrong.

I get the fill plug off and promptly punch the underbody. I’m going to have a nifty under nail bruise, because that’s a great look. I get the drain plug off and put my pan under the flow. I aimed right this time and right into the pan it’s going. I’ve got the drain plug open on the basin open, we are truly banging on all cylinders here. Until we’re not. The flow, which was right into the pan decides to shift and dump yet more fluid all over the floor of my garage. This is an omen. It's not until after I pulled the drain plug do I notice the crush washers I purchased using one of the guides on here aren't the right crush washers for my truck. At this point everything's open, so I have no choice but to reuse what I have. Hopefully I'll be good, but I'll keep an eye on things to be safe.

The bottle pump won’t fit the neck of the bottle, it’s too big. Luckily I have a spare hand pump. So I put the fluid under the truck, rig up the hand pump and start to move under the truck. Of course, right into the quart of fluid which promptly falls over and dumps guess what, more fluid on my garage floor. I yell a few choice words, and reorient myself. I finally get the first quart in and when I’m almost out the tension on the hose knocks the bottle over because why wouldn’t it. More profanity.

Bottle two, I won’t make the same mistake, I line everything up and start pumping. Things seem to be going bang up and then the hose disconnects at the pump and I don’t notice immediately. Another puddle? Another puddle! I finally get so fed up I yell into the house to get the wife to help me. We finally get the fluid into the transmission, slightly over full so it’s dripping out. Fine, I throw the pan under and take some time to think about my life choices while it equilibrates. Two down, two to go.

The Front Differential.
I have the TRD skid plate on my truck With the skid it has to come off to access the drain bolt. I despise removing that thing, but off it comes. I get the truck up on jack stands and pop the driver side front wheel. I grab my hex key socket and pop the fill plug. Maybe things are finally changing for me. I then go to open the drain and the bit spins in the plug.

So yeah, no way in the world I'm going to deal with that. I will get it done at 70,000 miles, so that will put me at just about 30,000 on the fluid.

The Transfer Case
Two plugs, this can't be hard, right? Pop the fill plug without drama. I line up my drain pain (now saturated in oil) and pop the plug. I swear this is getting comical at this point. The fluid defies physics and hits the floor again!

So I grab my trusty hand pump since again it's 1950s metal cans and just pump in the liter as it's a 1L capacity. I don't have the correct washers for that either (I haven't a clue how I screwed this up when I was ordering everything) but the existing ones look decent, so I torque them down to factory specs.

I then fight getting the skid plate back on. At this point my wife has to leave and the little one is home sick, so I bang the plate back on, jump in the shower since I'm covered in FF and oil and then put it all back together and clean up after the wife gets back.

Did I mention I hate fluids?
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Damn dude, you sure had one of those days! But, you got it done, and not much damage.

I share your hatred towards fluids. It's always windy where I live, so changing fluids outside is always a challenge. I bought a BFP (big f'in pan) for those windy days, but fluids still escape sometimes.

I take care of quite a bit of equipment at work, have gotten really good at oil changes and transmission/transfer case flushes/refills, hardly spill a drop. But, when it comes to gear oil, I hate that stuff. Gosh awful smell that you can hardly get rid of. I might as well dump some on me before I start, as no matter the day/weather/equipment, I'll get that stuff all over me! Never fails! I always say next time will be different, but it never is.

OBXPaul · Oct 28, 2023

RichochetRabbit said: ↑

12-in 5 lb glass-platter drive packs, 11 in floppies used to boot VAX 11/750, booting from TU81 drives. Still not AS400 though ... so ...

Trash-80 with its standard cassette drive interface ... closer ...

Does IBM Assembler language count?
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You're dating yourself my friend!

MikeyMcFly · Oct 28, 2023

wcoffman said: ↑

It was fully intended as a compliment. Entertaining and educational, yet self deprecating. Well done (in case my non-What have you done to your 3rd gen today opinion has any value).
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Fair! I misread and figured the grammar police were making their rounds.

D-knoww · Oct 28, 2023

rgljr831 said: ↑

I beg to differ
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That’s ok. You can.

ULURU · Oct 28, 2023

Discount Tire said: ↑

@ULURU how do you like the ride of the Michelin tires?
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I've driven six miles in 70 degree dry weather so far. Too early to tell. What I have in my truck now is far better than the tires that came with it. I'll advise when I've taken them for a ride in inclement weather.

CB350G · Oct 28, 2023

So I took my Taco to the dealer for the 5,000 mile service. I asked if that included an oil change, since I had some short-trip driving and some towing. They said they could ‘apply’ the 10,000 oil change to this trip. ?? I said no thanks.

So, I get the service report and besides the Toyota-approved rotation of the tires, inspection of the sealed transmission, and technically-accurate topping off of the washer fluid… …there is also a note and photo regarding the 360-walk-around video of my vehicle.

Don’t know if that is a local dealer thing (liability), or a Toyota-Care thing (deny coverage), but Big Brother is watching.

TacoMike · Oct 28, 2023

Not today but yesterday. Cleaned up, ready for winter.

19992021Taco · Oct 28, 2023

New rubber yesterday on the 2021! Falken AT Wildpeaks. These should do way better in the snow then the Firestone Destinations!!

Americas Tire had me in and out quick.

Jbbarrette · Oct 28, 2023

19992021Taco said: ↑

New rubber yesterday on the 2021! Falken AT Wildpeaks. These should do way better in the snow then the Firestone Destinations!!

Americas Tire had me in and out quick.

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Looks great, stock suspension?

TacosMan · Oct 28, 2023

CB350G said: ↑

So I took my Taco to the dealer for the 5,000 mile service. I asked if that included an oil change, since I had some short-trip driving and some towing. They said they could ‘apply’ the 10,000 oil change to this trip. ?? I said no thanks.

So, I get the service report and besides the Toyota-approved rotation of the tires, inspection of the sealed transmission, and technically-accurate topping off of the washer fluid… …there is also a note and photo regarding the 360-walk-around video of my vehicle.

Don’t know if that is a local dealer thing (liability), or a Toyota-Care thing (deny coverage), but Big Brother is watching.
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When I went to a different dealer for my alignment, they did a video walk around too. They told me it’s for dings and scratches.

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