OldSven's Tacoma
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OldSven
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Paul R said:Truck looks great!
Have you used the truck enough to make an opinion on the new fan? I.e. gas milages verses temperatures?
Not quite yet. It has more gitty-up out of the whole. Tomorrow is a big trail clean-up up here so that will give me some trail time with it. It just kicks on when the truck hits 190, and isn't ever on going down the road. I will try and log the mpg's tomorrow.
OldSven
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Maybe one day 
The brakes are still alittle soft, but much better. I guess you vacume test the booster or MC, I might do that just to rule them out. The truck stops fine, but I like the peddle to be nice and stiff. I did make a new bracket for the rear BPV lever that goes to the axle. That helped make the drums do alittle more work.
The brakes are still alittle soft, but much better. I guess you vacume test the booster or MC, I might do that just to rule them out. The truck stops fine, but I like the peddle to be nice and stiff. I did make a new bracket for the rear BPV lever that goes to the axle. That helped make the drums do alittle more work.
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Did or does your truck have ABS? I secured the rear bpv up and that seemed to help stiffen my brakes, it's my understanding that the bpv is set up to compensate for load, so the more that lever is pushed up as the bed is weighed down, the more braking that is proportioned to the rear drums, I could be wrong though.OldSven said:Maybe one day
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adrenaline503
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OldSven said:
Maybe you don't know your own strength....
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Well if you have ABS you would see sensors just behind your brake backing plates on your rear axle would be the easiest to see. Or under the hood on the passenger side fender, closer to the fire wall there will be an ABS pump that has 6 brake lines routed into it, 4 lines, one for each caliper and cylider, 2 lines go to your MC. Anyways if you have ABS, the system has to be blead with a constant presure of 15 to 17 psi with a presure bleeder or your pedal will always feel soft.:sombrero:
OldSven
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Well vacume blead the system and still have the problem. We did find the a piece of the linkage on the brake pedal assembly is very sloppy, so I will get the parts from Toyota on Thursday. The other problem with the soft peddle is the MC as far as we can tell. Going to order one up end of the week:smilies27
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Well took the plunge:hehe: Just got my new ICON's from Wheeler's today, and got them all installed. Pretty plush ride at first but definetly not high enough, so I cranked them up so that there is 2 1/8" of thread showing. Took it out for a spin and they are nice. Was trying to go over a railroad track near by to see how they held up, was going a little bit to fast and all four came off the ground , but with the timbrens and the ICON's landed like a champ!!!
, but with the timbrens and the ICON's landed like a champ!!!
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Cool man, nice upgrade. Did you ever figure out what was going on with the brakes????:bigbossHL:
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2008 Expedition Trophy Champion
Lookin good!
What did you have installed before? Tundra coils?
I'll be interested in your mid-term, "unbiased by the amount of money you spent on them" report on these after you run them for a while. Most of the reports I've seen are guys going from OEM to 'hoes, which I would expect a huge improvement. But I'm wondering if these stand out when compared against other, similar (stiffer) springs and performance shocks.
What did you have installed before? Tundra coils?
I'll be interested in your mid-term, "unbiased by the amount of money you spent on them" report on these after you run them for a while. Most of the reports I've seen are guys going from OEM to 'hoes, which I would expect a huge improvement. But I'm wondering if these stand out when compared against other, similar (stiffer) springs and performance shocks.