What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Well you know what they say. If it's leaking oil it has oil

 

Which master cylinder/brake booster plays nicer with the tundra brake upgrade? Earlier yrs or 01-04? I remember reading about the differences somewhere, but my search skills are failing me. Might have been @Blackdawg?

 

01-04.

The 13/16ths one with a single diaphragm booster.

 

Mine works well and is a 00

 

I'm sure it works fine. Just not quite as hard if a pedal feel is all with the dual diaphragm booster. I've tried both.

 

I’ve hit 220 before, max I’ve seen was 238. 175 +/- 25 is operating temp(which is were I operate 99% of the time with the cooler I’m currently running). +/- 50 I’d say is fine as longs as it’s not happening a lot. I started changing my tranny fluid on 2 year interval.

 

It’s just a little odd because I have a very large transmission cooler installed. That being said, it does cool down VERY quick not going uphill. That being said, I was completely unloaded. I had no weight or anything.

 

I have found that trying to find an explanation isn’t always that easy, long pulls, ambient temps, air flow through your cooler etc is all variable. I wouldn’t be worried about it. Make sure your fluid isn’t low and change it if it’s been a while.

 

Hm. Would be curious to compare to see what kind of difference there is. I've always thought it's had a pretty solid pedal feel in my truck.

 

Are you 4WD? If so just put it in 4-Lo and crawl about. That's what I've done in Atlanta and honestly I think Cali and Atlanta have very similar traffic and I've never had a problem

 

have you checked the color of the transmission fluid?

 

what welder is that?

 

ok thanks

 

Never thought of that haha.

 

I’ll have to check it soon, I’ve been putting off replacing it. What fluid do y’all run?

 

I use Toyota type 4, I get it for $7 a quart at the local stealership. Gonna do a drain & refill today after a long road trip this past weekend

 

I used to do that, but problem is then having to come to a stop and shift out of 4lo when traffic speeds up.

 

Only have to stop to go into 4low... just push clutch in an yank out of 4low while moving.

 

I've seen over 260 I believe and I have a HUUUUGE Hayden, I'm talking like a 679.

Oddly what I've seen is temperature spiking even faster when engine breaking a lot going down hill. Maybe I have something wrong in the trans.

I want to try a trick my AutoX buddy swears by, and that is to not have the trans cooler mounted on brackets with lots of free space front and back, but to use the radiator tie straps most kits come with and actually sandwich the cooler onto the radiator. Seems that makes air actually go THROUGH the cooler rather than around it, as it leverages the OEM design of high/low pressures front/rear of the radiator. After reading about F1 development and how they setup their coolers to not have air go around but actually through coolers (think of the dead air in front of your tailgate while going down the freeway) it stands to reason. Could likely get lots more 'umph' out of our coolers by installing it the way I initially scoffed at haha.