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

Would anyone happen to have that clip that holds the clutch fork to the pivot ball in the r150? Dealer says I have to order a whole clutch fork

 

Did they break the window?

 

No, must have left the door unlocked or they popped the lock. Im assuming I left it unlocked, I had my hands full on the way in the house last night.

 

They didn’t take a garage opener or anything? What I usually see is people taking a copy of the registration or GPS unit with your address on it and showing up at your house and unlocking the doors while you’re not around.

 

No, didnt have any extra keys or anything. Garage door is manual and locked from the inside. I need to double check for my registration tho.

 

This is why I don't have spare keys and keep them on my person at all times. As of the registration that is scary that people do that shit.

 

You can cheat the keys on our truck pretty dang easy anyway, takes like four screws to get to the part of the harness you need to jump with paperclips to start it.

 

Or you can just take the 2 screws holding the ignition switch and use a flat head screw driver.

And to get into a lock truck only takes like 5 minutes if you have the right tools already. An extended cab anyway.

 

Or a rock, and 10 seconds.

 

I was trying to keep things nice when I did it though.

 

than to these two no first gen is safe.........great thanks guys

 

There's a reason V6 second gens come standard with immobilizers.

 

Wellll, if it’s standard it’s safe..... for me anyway

 

I'm guilty of this, my neighbors don't like looking at the Tacoma. Had one of my neighbors tell me it was looking pretty scary before I put it away. It's a truck though, I don't think it is worthy of a long term garage space.

 

as a man who lives in the country and his closest neighbor is 5 miles from me........no lol

 

In the event anyone’s asking.... “inside clip” UJoints are an absolute pain in the ass. If the cap doesn’t spin in the yoke there is all that extra material “inside” the inside clip that can’t be beat or pressed thru as the U-body comes up against the inside of the yoke.

haven’t tried the outside clips yet, still fucking with the UJoint at the rear diff - aka the 1st of 4.

 

Had one installed on my 04 when I bought it a couple years ago, Toyota totally ripped me off on it but it gives me a little peace of mind at least. Not that it would deter a smash and grab though.

 

Its a single car garage and has washer/dryer, a bench and a ton of other shit. Not even close to being able to fit a vehicle.

 

Changed washer fluid bottle. Was filling it last week & the neck had so many cracks the fluid was just gushing out all over. Probably been like that for a while, I don't remember the last time I filled it.

 

My PreRunner came from the factory with an immobilizer installed. It’s called “Loctronics” and apparently it was quite a badly engineered system because the Toyota dealer ripped it out about 10 years ago because it was causing ignition problems. IIRC it was really easy to bypass it as well.

Do you have a pair of snap ring pliers? They helped a lot when I rebuilt my Manual Hubs, and to get rid of the snap ring holding the 4WD shift rod in the transfer case.