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

Yea, they're not nearly as high quality and I'll probably have to replace them sooner than the superbrightled bulbs, but such is what happens when you drink and one click buy.

 

Where have you guys bought new cv axles from?

 

You could have other issues. The tranny should hold the power you're making no problem. When is the last time you changed the fluid?

Constant shifting is usually due to odd load and being at a speed in between your gearing. Were you going uphill? Hauling anything? You have bigger tires?

 

Got the oil changed, then crawled under and greased the driveshaft

 

You could go with eibach coils. They give you 3" of lift and they're good coils but the problem is your gonna need aftermarket UCA's if you go past 2" of lift.

Well I installed a URD 7th injector quite a while ago. But I noticed that I'm not getting the acceleration I'm used to be getting (torque converter problems?). I changed the tranny fluid about 10K miles or less. That was the 2nd time I changed the fluid from the pan. Used Valvoline ATF fluid.

I wasn't going uphill. It might've been a 5-10% incline but not much. I have the same size stock tires and I wasn't hauling anything. Unless you count my 2 sisters. It was shifting back and fourth between 2K-1.75K and when I mean constant it was like the transmission found the next gear than slipped into 2nd and 3rd about 5 times in less than 2-3 seconds.

Edit: no check engine light came up as well. Plus no pending codes.

 

How many miles on the truck? Could have flex plate or torque converter slippage for sure.

 

Put in an order for extended travel kings today with dsm! Okay so I have Kings, new uca's, new dakar leafs, bushings, and ordering a bamf bpv bracket. Since I've now spent all my money what rear shocks should I run until I can afford kings and a shock relocation? I was thinking Billy 5100's or 5125's, ome nitrocharger, or toytec boss, would any of these pair up decent with my planned setup? Also am I missing any components for install?

 

Are you going to install aftermarket bumpstops in the front since you have ext. travel kings? Or stay with the OEM's? I have ext. trvl Icons and have OEM bumpstops in the front. I'm wondering if I need aftermarket bumpstops also?

 

Why? Extended travel coilovers tend to give you more droop. The oem bump keeps you from bottoming out the shock.

You can swap one if the stock bumps for a wheelers one if you want.

 

100%, shitty driving on my part coupled with a tire I took too much air out of.

 

Didn't plan on new bumpstops for the front, I was going to get new rear bumps soonish though.

 

I had a buddy who had an 02 Tacoma with ext. trvl Kings and Super bumps. And they were so close to the frame. Didn't understand it. Thought OEM was fine till I saw a lot of people using aftermarket bump stops.

 

Ordered a cap so that I can put it on top of the storage I built and camp in my truck!!!

 

OEM is fine and you need to leave one of them on as the super bumps will compress too far.

But you can add them as they are soft bumps to help with some impacts. Totally up to you and driving style. I did this to mine: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...nkensteins-helper.390488/page-9#post-13568798

 

Almost all back in

 

I buy remans from Toyota. Make friends with a tech and you can get them for $150 a piece.

 

146K I thought it was the converter when the torque convertor locked in. Got any preference for a better built convertor? Gonna have a local transmission shop take the truck on a test drive.

The more the lift the more the UCA's ball joints will Suffer from the different angle given by the lift. I saw a thread on here by a guy saying, it's like a ballerina to where she can stand on her tippy toes for a while but later on her toes will start to suffer, same rule applies to the UCA's.

Damn that sucks, did you go in the single digits on air pressure?

 

I was close, aired down to 11psi. I think when I noticed there was a tight turn I would have just spun out if the tire had more pressure. But instead it caught and the bead popped off and in my estimation that's what started my roll. Flipped at about 35mph hit both corners of the roof and ended up back on rubber.

 

I think hitting the steep embankment is what caused you to flip, not a popped bead

 

I'm not so sure, the memory isn't as fresh anymore. But I think since I smacked it on the drivers side and it was originally on the passenger side I would have just continued to slide until the bed smacked the embankment wall too if the tire hadn't grabbed. It wasn't all that steep, just slightly less than one of those roadside trenches used for stormwater runoff.