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Well I ordered my tires on Tuesday and received them on Thursday. Here are some pics of the new tires and wheels. Tires are Mickey Thompson Baja Claws 31x10.50x15 and Eagle Alloys series 102 These are for posing purposes and this one is loaded up in the pathy Sadly, I was planning on mounting and balancing them today, but since it is Good Friday, all tire shops closed early :furious: So I'm gonna wait until tomorrow and hope to find a shop open so I can get these on damn it!

Thanks, so from what it sounds like is that I' gonna need to hunt down some electrical gremlins right? That may mean looking under the carpent and may be pulling some seats.

Today my fuel gauge began a yo-yo effect. it went from the point where fuel is at (halfway point) and all the way to empty. Should I be concerned? If my fuel pump was shot, wouldn't the pathy turn off? The pathy didn't shut down or anything, it was the guage that was going crazy.

I had a really bad ordeal with this problem on Friday. I placed the clutch fan back on, and didn't notice any change in temp. The clutch fan fell off during my way to work, i didn't know it fell until I saw the battery, a/t f light, and the brake light's come on. I thought to my self WTF? Then I started to see water splatter against the windshield, then I said Ohh F! I pulled over, popped open the hood and saw steam come out. I opened it and saw the rad cap popped off, fan in the shroud and the belt hanging from the main pulley. I called my brother to pic me up. I had to drive the pathy to his house, which was 5 min away from the incident. Since I didn't have the e-fan with me, I had to buy another one. I got a 16" fan for $80 with life time warranty. Mounted the fan put the belt back on and everything was ok. I left from work and went home and still smelled hot coolant. I turned the pathy of and saw there was water all over the belts and t-belt cover. I turned the pathy on and noticed that the rad had a leak between the plastic and the aluminum lining. I bought another rad for $160.00 life time warranty, and everything was fine. But the temp does not drop at night, it's only a hair down from the half way point. At this time I think that my water pump may be shot. What do you think? By the way I did the burp again.

Yeah, I think that would be a good idea. I was planning on purchasing nerf barfs, but sh#t? I don't want to spend that much money, so I just decided to make my own.

I was thinking for looks. I'm planning on installing the trailmaster lift kit, so that would currently give me about 5" and 4 1/2". I'm pretty sure I can clear what I wheel in though.

I'm thinking of fabing some step bars and paint them blue, the mounts will be made to fit specific parts of the chasis. Here's a picture of what they look like. Since I don't have any tools to accomplish this, I'm going to have to come up with measurements and go to a shop.

Welcome to NPORA! Hope you really like our forum as much as we do. Just to let ya know, I'm 3 hrs south of you in Yuma AZ. Nice truck man, like the color.

That sucks man, hope you recover soon though. I think I speak for everyone when it comes to finding out how your swap from 2wd to 4wd has gone and how well your pathy runs. Hope to see lots of pics.

I would second that 88. I'm doing this swap, but on a 95-96 tacoma. It'll be my recreational vehicle! Since the aftermarket support for GM is very extensive, I'm planning on hopefully producing at least 400 h/p with out NO2.

So how many horsies does a stock 3.3 have?

Ok, finally burped her. During the day the temp stays at halfway point, which I think is normal since that is where it was when I bought it a year ago. But during the night it still stays at halfway. It's not even hot out, may be around 50's, during the day about 80. So wtf?, what else can I check, I know temperature has a lot to do with the heating and cooling of a car. I'll swap the e-fan witht eh clutch fan later on today and test it out tomorrow to see if there is any diffrence. I really hope it's not a head gasket. I don't have the symptoms that were pointed out earlier, but that does not rule out the possibility.

Yup, will burp as soon as off work

Is this the right pic?

Thanks for the pic Slick, I wasn't trying to burp the rad from the a/c. I'm not that dumb. But from the pic that you showed me I think that the one I have to burp her from should be the hose next to the pcv hose right? Heres the pics. This is the one I was trying to open

Oops :o I feel dumb! Thanks for point that out to me, duh.

Yup, unless maybe I can turn the a/c on to have her run at a higher temp sitting at idle.

i saw the little plastic screw you were talking about, but not along the upper hose, it was on the opposite side of the lower hose. It was really hard to budge. It was attached to a hose that runs downward.

No yo-yo effect here, checked the resevoir and there is no boiling water either, let her ran about 1o min with out the rad cap on. Temp did not go down remained the same.

I haven't checked this out yet, but I do not see any overflow dripping. I'll double check it though.

Cool.......How do I do that?

The fan is working properly, it has a e-fan, no wires look disconnected. I pulled apart the whole set up to see it the thermostat was installed properly, everything looked in tip top shape, put everything in it's place. Haven't checked the relay, but I can smell the heat from the engine when i park my car. I didn't use to smell it before. Sonsor rod? where can I find that? I hear the fan turn on and off correctly. i will replace the clutch fan and remove the e-fan to see any changes.

As most of you know I had my t-belt changed a couple of weeks ago, since then i have noticed that the temperature gauge gets to the mid point very quickly. I placed a new 170 degree t-stat and changed the radiator cap on it. But the temperature is still at the half way mark. I was in line coming back from Mexico on Wednesday for about 30 minutes and it started to heat up, it was porbably 3/4 or a little more from the high side. Before when I was in line it didn't heat up, but cool down. I saw the temp fall, now it increases, I'm actually pretty worried about it. Could the t-belt have anything to do with this?

Cool, you should post a write up! Post any problems and short cuts in installing the lift. I'm thinking of purchasing this lift too.

Got the timming fixed Wensday. Now it really runs great! I ment to post this earlier, but I couldn't cause npora kicked me out for almost a week. I couldn't view anything.