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

You don’t really need a write up, it’s incredibly simple. Pull the dash, the old cluster, and plug in the new one. That’s really it unless you have a pre-98 with the cable driven cluster.

Your mileage will also be off as it will have the mileage of the donor truck unless you have someone reprogram it.

 

AC?

With the AC compressor kicked it it’s about 250-500 RPM higher.

I got this reading in park.

 

At least I expected it. And did a few drain and fills

 

Why does it idle so high. It's only supposed to idle at 750-800 and 650 or so in gear. AC should be 900-1100

 

Oh shit really... that’s strange.

 

I can always tell if my idle isn't dropping down cause my truck is a lot louder at 1000 than it is right at 750

 

Oh I know why it’s so high. It has to do with my 4WD conversion.

When I had the transmission shop fix my imploded flexplate, I couldn’t reuse the A340F torque converter that came with it, because it was warped from the collision of the donor truck. I had to reuse my A340E torque converter which according to the Toyota transmission repair manual, the stall speed is about 300-400 RPM lower than the A340F.

 

That's what I'm thinking. I'll go idle it in park and see where it sits. Based on @Speedytech7's numbers, I'm a little low

Edit: Good to go, 800ish in park and dropped to 650 or so in drive.

 

Mine is 97 so its cable driven. Is the wire for the tach already wired in to the harness/plug even though I don't have a tach?

 

For fluid film? If so send a link if you could pls

 

Yes, exactly. I have the cable driven speedo as well. Its plug and play as long as you can find the right cluster

 

Yes it is

 

Thanks
Is it possible to roll the odometer so my mileage isn't off?

 

Is yours auto or manual, I have a spare auto cluster

 

I didn't look into it, my original odo was off after my engine replacement and I have no plans to sell the truck. I've seen a few people have swapped in their original odometer, I think that's probably easier than trying to roll back

 

That seems to be going around!

 

Manual. I have a cluster with the cable driven odometer I just haven't put it in yet

 

Should be. Issue you run into is fixing your odometer to reflect the correct mileage.

If you don’t care then you’re good to go.

 

I found some cracks in the bracing on the bottom of the bed. I'm having a friend weld and reinforce them. Here is a photo of one of the cracks. You can see them a lot better after I took the bed off and flipped it over. I just didn't think of snapping any photos before dropping it off at my friends house.

 

Here’s the idle on my ‘98 2.7l I4 3RZ in Park:



And here’s the idle on my ‘98 3.4l v6 5VZ in Park: