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

But i think all 8” elockers have abs or aleast the axel shafts have the abs thing on it. You cant stick non abs shafts in

 

Theyre all setup for it and have everything but the sensors on non abs trucks. So you have to treat them like they have abs or you'll buy the wrong parts.

 

WTF? All this time I though 01-02 never had abs & 03-04 came standard with abs. I remember when buying my truck, not a single 01-02 had abs in my area. I take it if the the truck had abs, then they had vsc also?

 

VSC is still super unicorn rare for a first gen taco, I don't know when they have it and when they dont. If they had VSC they had abs but vice versa isn't guaranteed

 

I didn’t even know tacomas had vsc.... i only have abs
I think

 

5 lugs never got it

 

How can I tell if I have it or not? Lol

 

I remember looking at an 03 that had vsc back in 04, well it was listed as having it. They wanted more than I could afford.

Here's something I've wanted to confirm, if you have abs, when you turn on the elocker, does abs disable & the abs light turn on? I didn't think so but I ran into a guy once that said so.

 

Go try to slide your truck in some gravel, does a VSC light come on and does your truck beep at you. It's a pretty rudimentary system, just detects wheel slippage like abs and modulates power away from the slip and cuts most engine power.

 

I don't have vsc for sure but I don't even think I have abs

 

I don't have ABS on my taco. But if I take my 93 Land cruiser out of AWD and put it in 4WD it cuts abs, if I put it in low it cuts ABS, if I engage a locker it cuts ABS. So that would make sense on a taco too

 

Most don't, it cost more and doesn't work very well on the taco because it cannot really help the drums much if at all.

 

Glad to hear that lol I don't like abs when offroading.

 

IIRC if you have VSC your master cylinder will have an extra pump & electrical stuff on it. 4runners more commonly had VSC than Tacomas.

 

ABS has been around for a while.

I also had the gas light and the windshield washer reservoir lights - which surprise surprise weren’t pinned or had bulbs either.

You wouldn’t believe how much I have relied on that non operational gas light.

 

Yeah I know ABS has been around for a long time, just thought Tacomas didn't get it until 03 for some reason. Had ABS on my previous car & hated it.

No gas light either huh? That's really weird. Wiper fluid level light I do have, doesn't light up with key on but it does come on when the level is low.

 

You could get abs from the start in 95, just was an option. My 95 and 96 both didn't have wiper fluid lights or gas lights. My 93 land cruiser has both, I guess it was probably based on what a mini truck owner might stereotypically want

 

That's not actually true, it's a myth that people came up with probably because when buying used engines from Japan, they were claimed to not have more than 50K k/m (about 30K mi) on them.

What is true is the safety inspection that's required every 1-3 yrs depending on the type of vehicle which is expensive. There's plenty of old & high mileage cars in Japan registered for the street. You just gotta pay more. There's an old car tax too but not sure how that works.

But what you can't do is get away with a fraction of the crap we can here in the states. Like driving without bumpers, hoods, fenders, headlights, etc. I mean yeah you can get ticketed or a warning for stuff like that here but in Japan you'll get red flagged for not allowed to drive on streets.

 

Don't ship your truck to Japan, buy a diesel Hilux over there and ship it home!!! Even if you don't want a Hilux you could probably sell it to someone here for a nice profit.

 

Tried my experiment with Plastidipping my hood. Not perfect results, masking tape didn't want to cleanly come away from the dip, pulling it up in several places. This was a concern going in. But it was only a temporary spray, to see if I liked the look of the hood with a flat black panel. I'll give it a while, and then either just peel it off, or peel and paint with "real" paint. Anyway, here is the results: