Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Between Wits End and this guy in Yemen who ships globally, parts of these are not hard to find.
I will personally vouch for the guy who runs Wit's End, he is rock solid and has been through absolute hell and yet is still a great dude

It does

 

Thanks for the information!

There's a small part of me thinking about selling the 4Runner and buying something older with cash. No car payment would make it easier to live with these gas prices.

I wanted to buy an 80 series in '05, and then I fell into another 4Runner. It was a great vehicle, and probably much more practical at the time. But, now I have a second vehicle, so it's easier to justify something a little more trail focused.

I'm thinking about it now because It's tempting to take advantage of the current used car market before it crashes.

 

Turtles are out-be careful out there. Coming back from the Pipeline fun I had to stop and motivate an angry snapper out of the middle of the road... stubborn critters they are. Up into the Penokees for some fishing last night and they were everywhere. Cross the road to lay some eggs I suppose. Slayed the Crappies/Blue gills=dinner tonight...

 

I've been seeing a lot of snapping turtles as well. It's nice to see people going around them, instead of hitting them. I have moved a few across the street, also, always in the direction they're heading.

 

We are going to bike in Marquette. The trails there look incredible.

 

Grease your driveshaft zerks, that usually seems to solve the shudder at low speeds.

 

Uhh, that's a good question. I'm only familiar with mine.

Looks like they removed the ones on the rear. I now have no idea what could be causing the shudder lol

 

they got rid of them in 17.. my 16 had them

 

Why?

I guess no one was ever actually lubing them but still seems strange

 

When going from accel to decel, the rpm’s will drop and there will be a momentary voltage drop (you can see it if you have a cig voltage meter). The alternator output is ecu controlled and it is flipping between outputs. I haven’t figured out any way to fix that (including tuning)

some third gen trucks do that. Some have been fixed by doing a drain and fill of the trans. Others have been fixed by tuning. Others have just lived with it. Toyota will say it’s normal and not do anything.

 

No idea. I figured it out when I climbed under to grease them and they weren’t there. I think they are some poly composite no maintenance thing. They also used them on the older gen 4 cyl trucks I believe.

it’s been a while so I might not be 100%

 

Thats what happens when you slow down so fast and the lights are still going at the SPEED of light

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/check-your-u-joints.409042/

This is the thread and why I originally checked on my 17 cuz the 16 was dry

 

There’s no way to tell really unless the calibration ID is changed (usually only is if you are on a super charger tune). If you’ve got the software, if you try to do a read it’ll fail if it’s tuned. That’s really the only way to know