Recent content by tacojeff

I was also warned, and didn't heed the warnings, regardless of how good you think you weld it can and likely will leak. Any spots you stopped and started form little air bubbles. I've been welding and fabricating for years, thought I could handle it. Since then I've spent a lot of time...

I don't think you will get them out in one piece. I've tried about a dozen times on Toyota's I've had, the salt just rusts them in place. Is the ABS light on? If not, cleaning them isn't likely to do anything.

I've probably posted this a dozen times, and the genius who posted it for me saved me having to drill it out. Too late for you but, for the next person. Before you even try to use the allen head which will likely strip the head. Use a cold chisel and make it bite into the edge of the plug and...

Changed the PCV with to a new Toyota one. This is a work of art, it's actually mostly metal construction for only $15! It's in and has 1500 miles on it already. Haven't checked the oil down in Colorado yet, but halfway it hadn't seemed to loose much if any yet

Seems like a possibility on the PCV valve. It was the higher end Napa one, that doesn't scream quality. I'll try swapping it out with a Toyota one. I don't believe it's just blow by causing this. It wouldn't just show up post super charger when it never burnt any before.

So I installed a supercharger over the winter on my 99 with 122k on it. Have since driven about 3000 miles on it, no engine codes and everything seems good from a performance standard. Changed the PCV valve, and valve cover gaskets when I installed it. I've never had to add any oil between...

How are you measuring the temp? I've found the scan gauge to read up to 50 degrees warmer than actual output in temps from the tranny. There was a thread referencing this issue just yesterday and for sure another one about 2 years before that.

I know which way it is going, I just don't know if that is the correct way. I guess I'll pull the throttle body off and flip the check valve around to see what happens.

I recently installed a supercharger, everything works great except it idles different now. When engine is cold but still 50 ambient temp, it idles around 1500 rpm for the first few miles, its sometimes hard to restart when warm. Taking an extra bump of the starter it didn't used to take...

I just had this happen to me yesterday, it was the first time it didn't beep when locked. I thought I was going crazy, but I"ll have to dig into it now.

I have the upper and lower rear links. They are obviously much stronger than stock. No complaints but get ready for some suspension noise from the rear, heims are inherently creaky. If you are in an area with road salt antiseze them and paint them with some decent paint. The pain that came...

Might not be the color you want, but I have my stock bumper that was just about to part ways with. Free to good home. Shown here, slightly clearanced on the ends but otherwise in pretty good shape.

Here is what I had for pictures when I did it. When I held them together, the taurus fan fit right in the stock fan hole. I lined it up so the top two places I bolted it were flat and bolted it together. The bottom two holes as shown below involved simply heating the stock shroud until I...

I have a taurus fan because I bought it cheap off a friend who bought and never installed it. It's coupled with a SPAL fan controller. I'm happy with the install, it is on low variable speed automatically by the controller, and then I have it switching to high by manual switch. I've never...

I just tore into mine last week. I shaved the bottom of the housing and replaced the bottom 1" of the diff cover where the leak was. I had seeping oil for about a year now. FWIW, that cover is slightly less than 1/8" thick, it had big flakes of rust but it wasn't weak by any means. I'm in...