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

DT headers are very nice.

Those trd headers will only fit if you have a 2 bolt flange. Or modify for a 3 bolt. The two bolt flange is the older motor design.

 

I wouldnt bro

 

What do ya'll think of the new amber pods??

 

I like em a lot...

 

Can anyone confirm which transmission line is the output and input. I was under the impression that the line at the front (where the temp sensor is) is the output to the radiator, and the input (return) is at the back.

 

Thanks bud! I'm still on the fence. Not gonna remove them because I'm sure these will be bitchin in the fog. Just don't know how I feel about the look of them

 

Thats a mean looking truck! Loving the fender flare delete lol

 

Need fully belly protection?

 

Thanks man. It was accidental. Damn boulder/tree ripped the other side off..lol

 

I would. Those boulders are nasty out in that area. See post above..lol

 

Here you go. $Too-fiddy.
https://www.junglefenderflares.com/toyota-tacoma/95-04-toyota-tacoma-fender-flares.html

 

What gaskets did you use? I read something about stock Toyota gaskets leaking with them - again most of the info I read is pretty old so I don't know if it applies to what you get now-a-days. Thank you.

 

Aint nobody need fenders flares. They get in the way...lol

 

Maybe it's time for a little on those fenders over at Leonard's.

 

Oh, its happening this weekend on the trail. Norcal Fabwerx

 

Bro where you get those been looking for?

 

Freeze plug is starting to leak a little bit found this out when I pulled the trans, but have heard they're pretty sketch to change out and I will more than likely run into more problems than just that so is it even worth fooling with?

 

I stripped a nut on a stud reinstalling the fan bracket on my 3.4 5vz. I torqued the nut on the stud and the bolt that holds the fan bracket above it to 38 ft lbs. The top bolt felt good and my torque wrench clicked at a comfortable feel. The bottom nut on the stud kept spinning. I took it out and it looks like the nut / stud connection is stripped since the nut is spinning in place.

I was concerned the stud may have stripped out the threads in the block, so I measured the depth of the hole for the stud and marked it on the stud. This is how close it got - roughly half way to bottoming out. The threads are sunk in the block. There couldn't be any more resisting torque to be gotten I'm assuming. Maybe if the stud was sunk to be bottoming out in the block? But threading it any further into the block felt like I was chasing the threads and I've had bad experiences doing that with a regular bolt.



So I tested the similar stud and hole that the other stud goes through the fan bracket and the power steering pump into the block. I got roughly the same result with both studs and the top bolt threading roughly the same distance into the hole before I felt like I was overtorquing the bolt / studs.

Here's the same stud in the other hole. Remember I've gotten roughly the same result with two studs and a bolt in each hole where they would not bottom out before it felt like too much torque.



So my question is, are these studs supposed to bottom out or do they generate enough torque for the nut on the other end by just having all the threads engaged in the block? Did the nut that stripped maybe just have bad threads from the last guy that worked on it over torquing it? Is that even possible while using studs? Sorry - I'm pretty noobu when it comes using studs vs bolts. Just to confirm, everything is spinning nicely and securely in each hole until the threads are buried and at about the same depth on each the torque increases to where I'm promoted to stop. Thank you.

 

Got the rago ditch light brackets today.

 

Been getting a Knock in the bottom end ever since I blew my radiator and overheated... took it in to the stealership and they want 5000.00 for a bottom end rebuild...bearings and such... and that's without pulling or actually see what's up...any ideas out there on other options... if I let them do it think it's worth it or do I need to have them do a full rebuild... thoughts? Thanks for the input.