97 Tacoma surges at a stop

yupz. while I took the throttle body off and had part of the intake off I found that excuse to clean it. Cleaned the throttle body too, it was disgusting. But, being a northern truck and having that many miles on it and probably never being changed, it's expected I suppose.

 

Yepper. Always when unplugging and messing with sensors & stuff. Plus the IAT wire bein messed up threw a code, so I kept it off for almost a week and it cleared the code.

 

Just curious... have you been in to have your frame inspection yet?

 

Not on this truck. But I had a 98 x-cab that they bought back for $12k, 140k miles, it was in excellent condition except the frame. I'm still kicking myself for not swapping motors into my tacoma, hahh.

The frame on this truck is surprisingly good for the amount of miles it has on it and the fact that it's been a Northern truck for its whole life, plus playin' in the mud and mud bogs...

 

WOW! Good to hear it's clean... so many trucks from the northeast are failing the inspections... Just didn't want to see you go through all this hassle if the frame was about to fail. sounds like you are moving in the right directions! Good Luck!

 

sometimes in my 99 if i have my a/c on and come to a stoplight, when the compressor kicks in, my truck kinda jumps forward if you dont have the brakes pressed down hard......probably not your problem, but i thought i would throw in my .02

 

I don't have ac. Well, the truck is equipped with it but it's never worked sinceI had it. I'm gonna check the vacuum and see where that leads us

 

that would definetly not be your problem then. hope you find out the cause soon. keep on keeping on

 

I don't want to start a new thread, but the truck won't idle when it's cold, I have to turn the idle up for it to actually idle. and when it warms up and i'm able to turn it down it still idles at 2,000RPM

I'm gettin' aggravated now, lol

 

anyone?

 

This really seems like a problem with you MAF. And which the surging, it seems like a rich issue. Do you throw any codes?

 

Hehe. You were just trying to make "small talk" albeit....and he had to come rain on your pickup line.

LOL

 

try a pcv valve

 

no vacuum leaks, fixed the exhaust, shes idling around 1500 now, it used to go up to about 1200RMPS until it warmed up and bouce back down to 7-800RMPS after warmup.

No codes, MAF cleaned like 3 times

 

Thats normal than. Its going to idle high until it reaches around.. 140-180deg, then lower the idle.

I wouldnt cbe worried, mine idles around 1200rpm ALL THE TIME! LOL

 

That would drive me crazy. lol I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my vehicles and I'm not happy unless everything is running smooth and no bumps in the road, lol

 

You would hate my build then... LOL