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

Thats the plan. dark blue or black for the truck and black for front, rear bumpers and sliders.

 

How much would it cost ya if you don't mind sharing

 

No idea, they wouldn't give me a price quote until they saw the truck I am willing to guess with all the extra stuff I have it will be closer to 100 lbs in added weight.

 

Still pretty light for the amount of LineX used though.

 

I had the same plan but my wallet told me NO!... whenever she stops fighting with me ... I will rather desert colors or Grey and black for the trims and bumpers ..... leave alone the existing chrome and Tags.... ohhh well ... just day dreaming...
by the way , you're looking 2,500 to 3000 depends if you get the bed removed for proper painting

 

My paint is total shit, my vinyl wrap is all messed up and the fiberglass is all rattle canned bed liner.

And I have like 10 door dings from assholes in parking lots.

 

they were working real hard. i was impressive with them. much better than the skyjackers i had.

 

Hey how is it running with the new AF sensor?

 

Oh god I remember my 2000 tacoma with a 5 or 6 inch lift. Was a lift that was meant for just looks and nothing else. Going down a gravel road was brutal lol. Felt like my suspension was made out of bricks. Got my 2001 tacoma and was confused if it was a toyota or a Cadillac lol

 

not that i could feel. their still fairly new yet so they might get worse with time.

 

Good. I drove through the reset pattern (forget now, but various speeds for a certain minimum time.

It felt smoother on startup and in general. Gee, it's only stoichiometric ratio...how can it possibly help? Go figure.

 

Did they put a new flywheel in?

 

Less rotating mass, such as a lighter clutch plate or flywheel, or maybe your throwout bearing was that bad that it was causing resistance. All could be the cause.

 

Holy cow now that I'm caught up more than 300 posts of nonsense/some useful info I feel like I can post my most recent tacoma update. I changed the fuel filter on my 97 3rz. Big thanks to @Moco 's writeup on fuel filter replacement. Couldn't have done it without this method I don't think. After removing the intake plastics I noticed how filthy this thing was.



Any ideas how to properly clean it? I took a shop towel and kinda wiped some of the grease/gunk off the outside and the inside looked like this



So I hit that too with a towel but I'd like to take off the intake plastics again and clean it good just don't really know how.

 

Jesus, thats dirty. You should replace your PCV valves as well, it should not be allowing that much oil in the intake. Probably could do good by a Seafoam cleaning, since a lot of that has gotten into the engine.

 

Went to the pick a part today, no Tacomas as usual but there was a few 4runners. I got a bunch of leads out of the fuseboxes, along with this cool little fuse/relay combo. I would just need to increase the size for the power wires to 14 gauge. I thought i could mount it in the empty space in the fuse box, but the tabs do not match.

Anyone know of a similar holder that will snap into this spot?

 

The new bumper shipped in! Unfortunately I only have two arms, so I couldn't install it today... But tomorrow for sure, I'll get before/after pics.

Here's a pic of the old gal from the side though.

 

removed the last of the Plasti-Dip from my wheels. it started to peel in a few places (been on for 15 months straight) so decided to revert.

from



to



even with the pitting looks good ;p

also played with removing some of it but didn't like the ring

 

that looks like someone put grease on it to get the intake tube on, it's even on the outer edge and outside... definitely take that apart completely.

 

I seafoamed my motor this summer through the brake booster line and gas tank..maybe I should double duty it. Also where and how can I clean my pcv valves?