Couple of Tricks

A few tricks to help with other 1st Gen owners.

Every once in a while, unhook your battery cables to ‘reset’ your engine computer. This helps the transmission shifting memory to reset to factory setting. Especially helpful when you tow/haul a brief load every once in a blue moon and you want your computer to ‘unlearn’ this memory.

Take a 10MM wrench and tighten (every 6 months) the valve cover screws. There are 10 screws. An 1/8 to quarter turn max depending on the ‘feel’. These aluminum valve covers loosen from engine heat over time. I learned this trick a few years back when smelling burning oil eminating from the gasket seal. The cover screws were very loose (half to 3/4 turn per) and once tightened the problem was fixed. Now its a regular maintenance thing and no problems. Just do not over turn the screws and stagger your screws tightening like you would tire lug nuts.

 

Good tips to remember thanks

 

Well. If y'all 1st gen people are gonna post up some ideas, I figure I'll throw this in:

https://www.tundras.com/threads/double-cab-rocksliders-ac-soon.25137/

This guy seems to have skills we SoCal members want to take advantage of so, since his first offering is specific to 1st gens, here's me helping him cast his line.