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

Couldn’t find an exact mileage I installed them, but based on my build thread I put them on in July 2013. Looking at some other maintenance records around this date equates to about 95k miles ago. So basically I ran them to failure. Did not perform any rebuild on them. I’d say you are fine. Note this is all mainly highway miles. I’d say this is pretty a good life for no rebuild.

 

Cool. Thanks. I’ll have to tighten mine up some.

EDIT: Props for remembering to do this. I always forget. Better community member than I.

 

Instructions say to adjust it in the middle. The auto adjusting tensioner should take up the slack, right? @1997tacomav6

 

It will depend on your pulley size. His belt is slipping so he might have to adjust It tighter. If I put mine in the middle it would slip probably

 

Sir, if you have the spare for the latch or the whole tumbler/latch unit i will greatly appreciate it. Let
me know if I can have it or trade with extra tacoma parts that i have. Thanks

 

Next on my long list to do with my Tacoma is to replace the oem radio with another oem radio i pulled out from the yard. The one installed has a white background screen and please note it does not have any problem and hopefully the replacement radio has a different background color. I guess i have more time tinkering with my truck instead of yard work. Thanks

 

Been a long time since I’ve been on here. Just been crazy busy with life. Anyways the truck started to misfire today (P0304). Swapped the spark plug out in cylinder 4. Didn’t fix it. Then I tried swapping the coil packs and that didn’t make it jump to another cylinder. Tomorrow I will try to swap the wires around and see if that does anything. Any other common 5VZFE things associated with that code I should check into?

 

New Wheels, tires, bumper lights, and winch.

 

Cleaning up the garage I forgot I had this so I had to throw it on

 

Took the truck to get smogged and found out it has an EGR issue and the CEL is not turning on. I have to figure out white bulb size fits in the 95 Taco 2.4L instrument cluster. Also found out it's an OBD2 so I feel super lucky I can pull nice error codes tomorrow.

I did run some initial checks on the EGR system by confirming the solenoid works and the valve functions correctly. Still could be a vacuum pressure issue or the temp sensor though.

 

Chk bulb should be a neo wedge, I think a T4?

 

From what I've seen so far, and form rock auto, it was showing a 194 bulb? Not sure if that's the CEL or the normal cluster illumination bulbs though.

 

regular instrament bulbs are 194 (your speedo and what not) the little lights like the turn signals and check engine light are neowedge. Theres a good chance theres a bulb in a part of your cluster your truck doesnt use that you can just swap over (mine had an abs bulb, but i dont have abs so i put it in the chk engine spot)

 

Thanks! I'll order some of both to have on hand. Don't wanna pull the whole cluster out and find other lights are going bad.

I see so many little things I need to do to the truck to get it into a good condition. I noticed it had green coolant in it as well.

 

losing coolant? Heads are cracked between the coolant passages and cylinder 4

 

Hang on to your $$ a little longer, these mounts are for '96-00 Tacos. The '01-04 are still in work (assuming by your signature that you're looking for the '03 taco). Should be ready soon though!

 

I’ll check again but not that I know of.

 

Put some new to me seat covers in. Took our son to his baseball game yesterday evening and got back to our store and there was a note from a friend up the street. It said "G totaled his Tacoma and thought you would like these seat covers". I haven't talked to him but I am gonna have to repay him with something good, these covers are nice!

 

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