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Hello TW peeps. My name is Guy, I live in Indiana, and I bought my first new vechicle in 2008 at the age of 47. It's a red quadcab taco (the off-road TRD package). Got it Zebarted from the dealer, put chrome nerf bars on the first month (for the wife, of course).
After owning the truck about 6 months, I had a neighbor's dog chase one of our cats up under the hood, and he tore the crap out of the rubber mud guards in the wheel wells, and the lower plastic trim deally on the bumper, and the sumbitch chewed through the power steering hose. Took it to the dealer for repair (which the idiot neighbor paid for) and I noticed the new Tacos had a skid plate that covers the gap from the bottom of the bumper to the bottom of the radiator. I figured I had to have that to prevent animals getting to the engine compartment.
My truck is a road dog - 125,000 miles so far. Being a mechanic is one of my avocations, so I've done all the maintenance on the truck (with the exception of a tranny flush-n-fill). That brings me to how I found this website.
I had the compass/temp gauge go dark on the overhead display, and found some info here that really helped out. Both of my little chip resistors had burned up and were nowhere to be found, and I knew they were 52 ohms each (if I remember right). That meant that two in parallel would be 26 ohms. I dug through my electronics kit and found a quarter-watt 33 ohm resistor that I soldered across the 4 pads on the circuit board, and it worked like a champ. Saved me like $180!
I've been wanting to do a 3" lift on my truck (since it's paid for and the warranty is up), and I also have an intermittant air-bag light coming on. On both issues I've found excellent information right here! I figure I have to join up with this group - OUTSTANDING WEBSITE!

 

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Welcome to TW from Sparks, NV

 

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Welcome Guy from Indiana

 

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