The 2.7L Single Cab Thread

true, i could feel a slight difference with my 265s

 

Looks great. Details on fogs and wheels please.. Did you get the wheels powder coated or just paint them yourself? What fog light kit is that and how did you hook'em up?

 

That's about as big as I'd go as well.. maybe just a nice 255 even..

 

speaking of 265's... took my newly 265'ed (otherwise stock) truck up to park city yesterday... results were not good. i thought the motor was going to blow trying to keep up with traffic. it was a serious struggle trying to maintain 60 as everyone was whizzing by me at 70-75. kind of disappointing. it was about a 3k foot climb to 7100 ft.


soo.. uhh.. should i regear?

 

thanks!
i painted the wheels myself, love how they turned out.
those are ebay fogs. pretty simple to hook it up, followed a thread here.

 

How many miles does your truck have? A lot of the 4 cylinder trucks open up power-wise after about 12k miles. I have the 265's on mine and don't have a problem. I see you have BF Goodrich A/T's. They are a heavier tire (about 10 lbs per tire heavier than the ones I have) but it shouldn't be that bad. The only other thing it could be is the automatic trans. Since it's a 4 speed you have a higher rpm drop between gears than the manuals (5 speeds) have.

I've got one hill by me that I have to downshift to 4th to get up at highway speed but once I hit 4th it takes off and will run up to 70-75 mph.

 

thanks for all the help! these trucks come with 4:10 R&P right?

 

I have a 1988 4 cyl reg cab. and have 2012 identical to .28's I will try to get my pics posted soon.

 

Can't wait. Love the old Toyota regular cabs. An '89 was the one that made me get the Tacoma.

 

Yes they do. Thankfully.

 

awesome. I have had 2 2nd gen tacomas, but they have both been 4.0Ls

 

If you are going to consider re-gearing you will want to think of how much highway driving you do that involves long steep hills. OME 4.30's would be your best choice for 265's. If you don't want to pay the $$$ for those then your other route would be 4.56 but you would want to run a larger tire to keep your engine speed down. FWIW I run 305/70's (33x12.2) with 4.56's and can lean into 5th up hill no problem. (testing grounds being on interstate between CA and AZ).

 

Oh dude! Can't wait to see your 88. I gots me one too last year for my birthday Stout truck for being 24 y/o. Rebuilding the steering system next weekend.

 

here is a pic of my truck i took a few days ago

 

thanks. yeah, i think it's the auto in this one that is killing me. my 2011 was a stick and had more power, but i just couldn't deal with that terrible tranny/clutch. my 5 speed also just had the stock tires as well, so yeah.

 

My 06 regular cab (in sig)

 

My 2012 with s couple little goodies.

 

This is the only pic I have of my '10, it has 13K and my mpg is staring to drop. Have been getting 20 in town but last 3 months it's been dropping to around 16-17. Any ideas as to what to look for? Oh...it is a 4x.

 

If you don't mind me asking, what is labor going to cost a guy to have a 3" suspension setup like yours installed? Also, would a stock size tire look bad with that lift?

 

Hmmm... Let's park next to where the avalance got dug out and see if it'll fall on it, lol