Bay Area Tacos

I don’t post much on TW, mostly occupied on IG. Been spotting a lot of nice Tacoma on my way back home in Livermore. There was nice orange Tacoma with the a RTT and bed rack on HWY 205 around 3pm today.

 

Pacifica here.

Would be down for a meet and greet at a starbux or even a local OHV.

 

Sunday bro!

 

Where?

 

I was thinking driving all 1 southbound starting in pacifica

 

Or stop off at pescadero beach on Sunday and bring your coffee set up

 

Thinking snow run this weekend. Sunday at forni road arco to iron mountain road at 8:00am. Anyone care to join? Should be snowing on Sunday too.

 

Gonna need some chains lol

 

Anyone have any good toyota mechanic recommendations? preferably in the east bay

 

What do you need done?

 

Just a diagnosis and i'd likely do the work myself.

Having a weird sputtering from the top end of my 3rz under hard acceleration. Can't figure it out for the life of me.
Runs fine, but it's weird as hell.

Saw that someone recommended Hagin's Automotive in Martinez. They're offroad guys that do a lot of work on Toyotas

 

Injectors? Coil pack? Tune up?

but I’m regards to Hagin’s, yeah that do great work. They rebuilt my 22re back in the day and that engine ran for another 100k before I sold it. The owner is a big Yota guy, don’t know if he still has his crawler saw it for sale some time ago, but definitely an OG in the Yota family.

 

I'm thinking injectors at this point.
Threw some injector cleaner and seafoam in the tank yesterday so gonna drive it for a bit and see if it clears up.
Coil packs are good.
Pulled the spark plugs last night and re-gapped them.

Just called them and they quoted me $200 for diagnosis. So might take it to them next week if things don't change.

 

How did the plugs look? Any of them black?

 

Looked good to me

 

Don’t really like the look of the black soot or the tip. I’d buy some new OE spec NGKs and drop them in. $3.00 plugs first before $200 bill. Also spraying stuff in your intake an foul your plugs anyways.

 

Ohh yeah O2 upsteam sensor could be bad too. Check if the loop opens and closes.

 

yea could be worth a shot. They've got about 25k on them.

Didn't spray anything in the intake recently.

I'd have a code if the O2 sensors were bad. No CEL's. And it does cycle between open and close loop.

 

Oh no way! So you're a local dude. You have probably seen my Turd supreme rolling around then if that's the case.

Then again there are 500,000 tacos in the bay area alone just rolling around everyday and if you've seen one you've seen them all.