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

any difference with the seafoam?

 

Made a difference with mine..

mouse?? hahaha

 

Smoked decent amount when i did it, but just changed the oil and havent really driven it yet. On my next tank ill compare the mileage, but I honestly cant say if it made a difference yet.

Ha yea i swung it into my buddys shop and we were doing it and he screams like a girl, apparently the little guy likes the air box. Im guessing I picked him up on the farm I lived at this summer. Guess I shoulda checked my air filter sooner

 

How much stuff you you have hooked up to the bluesea box? i am debating whether to get the one with 6 or 12 connections.

 

Alright, heres the past 2 days of work.
I bought my taco off a old dude in AZ, who granny-car'd it the whole time he owned it.

Seafoamed the hell out of the engine. (3/4 in the booster intake ontop of the plennum just after the throttle body, 3/4 can in the gas, and 1/2 can in the oil)

After doing so it ran... Okay, but then it got worse gradually.

SO:
- changed the fuel filter (the OEM one was still on, and butt tons of mud-gas came out)
- Changed all the plugs with fresh

$7 NGK BKR5EKB-11 NGK Spark Plug Stock # 3967

NGK BKR5EKB-11's
- Changed the bank1 (upstream) O2 sensor with a

$51 Denso 234-4162 Oxygen Sensor with 4-Wire 10.5” Harness for Non-California, Non-4WD Lexus/Toyota

Denso 234-4162 O2 Sensor (which is evidently OEM, but The stealership wants $150 for, and NAPA wanted $80. Go figure)
- Changed the oil with Mobil1 and Toyota OEM filter
- Cleaned every friggin nook and cranny in the throttle body
- Cleaned the MAF sensor
- Changed the air filter to a aFe Pro dry-S

The truck runs like a damn top now. It feels extremely responsive. (it felt like a slug pulling a brick the day after the seafoam)

So, moral of the story:

Thank you all for the awesome write ups on how to do stuff, and all the well thought out posts in the How-To section.

And a big thanks to seafoam for cleaning out a metric ass-ton of carbon/gum/varnish/ and other garbage from my engine. (yes, i pulled the head, and it looked a hell of alot cleaner)

 

My HIDS, DEI 530T, and my electric fan. And then I have 3 ground.

 

I got one with 12 on mine. Tho im only using 3 right now. Time i add more lights and everything 12 will be close to maxed out.

 

Lol I am first thing in the AM when I have some light.

Anything else you guys can think of I should change or clean out..kinda in a fix everything mood before winter hits.

 

Got my Tacoma ANOTHER new friend.

 

My truck got a little love today. Gonna be traveling a couple hours tomorrow so I washed it (was all muddy from trail run a week and a half ago), put some new Bosch wiper's on, and also finished my new front bumper and installed it as well. I've gone almost 2 months without a bumper, so its sure nice to see a bumper on the truck again!

 

Addicted bumper now on

 

Did you do a redesign??

oh shutup, your just jealous you don't have one

 

now i gotta just wire in some new turn signals and clean up (with a cut off wheel) where the stock bumper mounted to.

oh, and, put on the wreath.

 

Kind of a long story. Essentially I was trying to help out a younger guy and give him a deal on my 'used' bumper, then build myself a new one but it turned into a headache. The freight truck with it rolled over in Utah, and dumped all its freight onto the freeway. Needless to say the bumper was damaged a tad.
But yes, I did do a few slight changes and refinements to the design

 

links in my sig, addicted offroad.

get ready to weld...

 

like adam did on his TG?

 

ahhh gotcha lol

 

with our trucks, we need to extend the frame out since the 01-04s have a stubby frame...no big deal since you already got a welder...i wouldn't bolt it on.
o and i gotta drill into the crossmember so i can bolt up my skids, since the tiny one that they bolted onto is gone now.

i might put plates over top, just on the wings tho...cause winch should be here monday