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

I'm in Virgina where are you at?? At the dealer now and waiting to go for inspection. I will see what they say. What year and model you got man??

 

Oh man that would be a pretty big nightmare to get to you. It was a 95.5 Xtra Cab 4cyl. The frame is still perfect, not a speck of rust but I rolled the truck and bought another one to swap everything to so I don't need it anymore.

 

Well this is for a Toyota issue and part of the recall. So that is not off the table if they are going to be looking for a frame to swap it out. Yours is a perfect match to as I had the SR5. Sam year and all.

 

Custer County is in Colorado.

 

Thanks man. I had googled it and got Custer County in 6 states.

 

Well I wish you luck but 95-2000 were never part of the recall, they were bought back and crushed. The buy back ended years ago though.

 

PotatoWorld

 

Yep they said I am SOL. How ever the dealership wants to help me. They said if I could find a frame they would do the swap for me. Know any one with a frame laying around ?!?!? Thats not tweaked ?!!?

 

That would be mine haha. But it's clear across the country.

 

Lets talk about it and I can get some specs on what it is you got and want for it as well as see about logistics. Got any pics I will PM you my phone number if you dont mind.

 

Not quite sure where to ask this, so I'll ask it here. So towed a boat on Saturday. Which I have towed many times no problem. Saturday was hotter then average here. Prob like 90-100* I think. Boat trailer roughly 3500lb. Towed with OD off flat road 10mi each way. Got back home parked the boat on drive way with truck attached until last night. Truck was parked with ebrakes on. this morning got into the truck fired it up and put the truck in drive. It didn't move. Put in reverse didn't move. So tried going through all the gears and still didn't move. Turned truck off and tried it again. Still same thing. Finally put the truck in drive and gave it some gas. Truck rev up but still stayed there. Then after a few seconds it finally engaged in drive but felt really hard. Test drove the truck shifts fine. Goes in and out of gear fine now. Any idea what may have caused the truck from going in gear?

I was thinking maybe when I parked the boat on drive way which has a slight inclide for too long it may have forced the gear in Park since I left it too long? Or could it be caused by hot weather?

 

Check your fluid level. If its low it may have a hard time engaging until it warmed up a little. Could have burned/lost fluid while towing? Just a quick guess

 

Yea. I'm planning to do a quick drain and fill after what just happened.

 

My first look would be the brakes. Hot weather, towing, parking brake applied could cause brake shoes to lock to the drums. If it still drives hard, feel the wheels after a short drive, one that's really hot could mean that brake is dragging.

 

It drives fine now. I was thinking it could have been the brakes also. But when I first put it I gear I didn't feel the transmission engaging at all like I usually do.

But I'll go check to see if the wheels are hot.

 

Truck is looking good Josh. How are you liking the STT Pros? Have you used therm in anger yet?

It may just be the camera angle but the camber looks off on the passenger side. Would hate to see you prematurely put wear on those new tires.

 

Well it may not be "wheelable" but I squeezed my 33 12.5 15 trail grapplers onto my Tacoma with no lift. Also Trd pro decals.

 

If it was me, I would try putting some extra weight back there and see what effect it has. 4"s is a lot. Might have to put several hundred pounds back there to get it to level out in the short term.

Central Idaho

Keep pestering him. Seriously, he gets a lot of requests like this, your pm may have gotten lost in the shuffle. Send it again.

There never was a frame recal for the '96s.

Rear brakes. Were they in water for a while too?

 

So far I like em, not too loud but the plano case on my rack hides the road noise quick. Haven't used them offroad yet, but yeah my camber is slightly off. Been meaning to get into the alignment shop but with graduating and moving all this month makes it tough.

 

I'll be interested to hear what you think of them offroad. They are one of the options I am considering for the next set.