I worked as a heavy equipment mechanic for years. Any QC department with any shop would write ✍️ that steering rack up as "seepage." Meaning no leak. Just keep an eye on it. You never know you may have spilled a little bit of oil when filling your engine. Or when you've serviced your power steering fluid. So I wouldn't be too worried about that steering rack. Just keep an eye on it 👍. And that tube of Grease will probably last you a lifetime 😂. Cody 🐕 sure is adorable 😀. Great video Chloe 👍. ♥️🌮🐶🐾
Good info on the higher charging voltage required for optimum charging of AGM batteries. I haven't heard about this before and it explains why my battery charger has an AGM setting. I guess I've lucked out and avoided the problem simply by being too cheap to spend the extra $$ for an AGM.
A couple of things I like to do. 1)Install a Voltmeter. Either cigarette lighter, under dash or in dash. Whatever works best. 2) Buy a service manual. Whether in book form or DVD, it is great reading. It can give you an idea of what is involved in a job, and then you can judge if you want to take on that task. I have them for most cars I've had. 1961 Corvair to 2013 Transit Connect 😎
Walmart has that box of oil listed for $33.94 …..pretty reasonable. I like that it is the PERFECT amount… I hate filling, starting, checking dipstick, refilling, starting, rechecking dipstick…pita
Check out the Fumoto oil drain valve. It replaces the oil drain plug and has a spring-loaded lever valve the drains the oil out of a nipple to which you can connect a hose to direct the used oil directly into the hole in the catch can. I have one on my Tacoma and Corolla and it makes oil changes easier and neater.
Girl I got to give you all the credit in the world. This stuff can be overwhelming but you carry it off with real professionalism. You learn and grow enough to pass the knowledge on. Thank you.
Had great performance with with Mobile 1 full synthetic oil in my 2020 Tundra for the first couple oil changes but switched to AMSOIL with the Toyota TRD filter every 5k. Switched all fluids to AMSOIL before 25k. Well worth it. Also the Motiv X oil tools are a must!
I just cleaned the battery terminals on my 2020 TRDPRO so I had the battery disconnected for about an hour. I was surprised that there were almost no consequences to doing this. The only thing that changed were a few navigation preferences. Radio presets and even the clock setting was preserved. I have also picked up 1-2 MPG in fuel economy and the vehicle seems to shift and run slighty better. I actually have one of those memory preservtion devices and chose not to use it. Don't be afraid to disconnect the battery. Nothing negative will happen. You are grossly over lubing those u-joints.
Around 1970 my friend's sister had one of those new Toyota things. The dealer told her it needed $450 for a new front end--which was serious rent money! We asked around, sent her to an honest tire/front end shop. All it needed was a $35 alignment. That shop gained 3 very long term customers on that day. Finding an honest and competent shop is damned hard.
Chloe, sound advice all the thanks again for sharing.. Greatly appreciate the ECU memory saver pointer. It was Always a thorn to reprogram all the the different channels for the radio and Sirius selections. We appreciate you, thank you!
I have a 2nd gen Tacoma and i have used AGM batteries over the years.What I did to insure a full charge was to upgrade my alternator it keeps my AGM battery at full charge.
Can't say I've had any issues with settings and memory being reset with a battery disconnected in modern vehicles. My 1998 Mustang had that issue, but about the only thing I've lost on my 2008 Canyon or 2017 Tacoma was my trip readings.
my original lead acid battery on my 2018 Sierra lasted 5 years. I was thinking about an AGM, but the parts counter suggested I stay with what the vehicle had originally. I guess he was right. I hadn't thought about the charging aspect of it.
@cookieboy7102 know what it's pretty damn difficult the first time you do it getting into temperature check mode just doesn't make much sense. torque wrenches? The drain plugs go to like 7lbs. Just use your gf or wife to tighten it. Or left hand. (I jerk right) so to much wrist strength
I heard the batteries die pretty quickly on the 3g tacos, to me that means days from the first sign, but it was actually hours, and even after a 3hr drive. It jump started fine and I used the key to lock/unlock the doors when going into stores to avoid shutting it off....helpful to know. Installed a new battery on the way home without using any kind of memory-saver and didn’t lose any settings except the trip odometers again. 17 OR with the original battery, oddly the dealer said it was fine a few months prior....I know better but rolled the dice and lost! Anything past 4 years is pushing it!
The battery saver definitely wouldn't have worked if you plugged the other end in the cigarette lighter that's powered by your battery... That oil filter wrench is the best one out there in my opinion. Toyota care sucks. Toyota Carlsbad didn't change the oil filter on my wife's RAV4. I know because it still had my writing on it from one "I" put on six months earlier. Had I not noticed this and followed their maintenance schedule, her car wouldn't of had the first filter change for two years! Who knows if they would have even changed it then? Then they refuse to do the second oil change because I was 11 days late. Which is only because the first time they told me I was too early. If BMW changed my transmission out of warranty in "good faith", I'm sure Toyota could have certainly done an oil change. Then they waaay overfilled it. Like at least a half inch over the full mark. Probably because they didn't change the filter. So I had to redo their work after I got home. Probably did the same on my Tacoma but harder to prove with a cartridge filter. Sorry but in my opinion, Toyota care is a joke. At least at Toyota Carlsbad it is. Keep on filming!
To be clear. The tacoma alternator will fully charge a group 24F battery regardless if its Lead or AGM. Its only when you go above to a 27F group that you will need more voltage to charge the battery 100%. Tacoma World has extensive information on this subject.
Great tips!! And it's great that you went to Mossy Toyota and they helped you out. I lived right down the street from them in PB and their customer service was always top-notch.
I just added the holtz easy grease fitting grabber thingy ma-jig from harbor freight. It’s so worth it. I grease my tractor loader and my Tacoma driveshaft, so not much greasing but man does it make it easy peasy
I just saw a video from Scotty Kilmer, and he had mentioned that an AGM battery might not be a perfect match for your vehicle. Not saying he's perfect, but it did make some kind of sense in matching the battery with the vehicle.
If you want to pay for the expense of the AGM battery and the ECU tune I guess it would be a good idea. Also any accessory that you put on your vehicle would also have to be run through your main computer as well. I would just buy a new lead acid battery ever 4 or 5 years like I always do. I don’t have any sponsors to help pay for my mods.
@@bullgamer7343 I won't say that I disagree LOL and sometimes I wonder if he's going to fly away since his arms are always flapping around when he's talking😆, but he is a Toyota guy and a pretty good mechanic.
I want one of these, but they are SO over priced in canada right now, you can build one for $52,000 online but then the dealership qoutes $60,000+.... Toyota needs to get their shit together.
AGM batteries are good because they can be at a partial state of charge for a long time without being damaged. Lead acid has to be topped off at all times to last. That’s why AGM are used for auto start stop. They run in a partial state of charge for very long periods.
I diy car audio. Plenty of mistakes done over the years. But now my build has gotten several compliments. Agm batteries are better because they are designed for deep cycling so you can run the battery dead many times. A regular lead acid battery will be bad after going dead 2-3 times
@@231mac I had two go bad on me but I bought a more reputable brand. I have two xs power d3400 series. They are expensive but worth it. The one she got is just a basic agm. I had a 2020 rav 4 and it came with a agm. Manufacturers are starting to put agm in cars now with the start stop technology
I'm old school back in my day if a battery didn't last over 10 years it was not any good the last good battery I had went from 1987-2004 it was a Deka battery my Tractor Battery lasted 9 years Mahindra. and my 23 Tacoma dont have grease fittings on my U joints great videos
My battery about 3 weeks or so ago was starting to give me signs that it needed to be replaced and I do drive a 2000 jeep wrangler and on those if the battery dies and after it sits with a dead battery it's a pain in the butt to get started and idling so I immediately went to oreilly's to have a new one installed and this is common on the wrangler tjs and I know this about your tacoma but I just wanted to talk about my experience with a dead battery was and learned from it. Oh by the way the old battery that was in my Jeep was 12 years old.
Chloe , if you plan to keep your truck a long time and don’t want engine issues , make it a point to change your oil and filter every 5000 miles and rotate your tires as well. Trying to stretch it to 10k miles is asking for problems. Oil is cheap compared to paying thousands and thousands for a new engine block plus the labor. Kudos to you for trying to perform your maintenance.
My gen-3 (2001) 4Runner came with a Panasonic battery from the Hiroshima factory. It lasted 13 years, and likely could have been used for at least another year, but with winter coming, I decided to replace it with a Sears DieHard (no Panasonic car batteries are sold in the U.S.) that lasted another 8 years. So I'm surprised that your battery had a lifespan of only 4 years. Maybe Toyota is cost-cutting with its battery selection, anymore.
You can add diodes to your alternator which will increase alternator voltage. The car audio community regularly does this because lithium batteries require a 15 volt charge and amplifiers run more efficiently at higher voltage unless you get sundown audios salt amps
Had to deal with battery manufactures when I used to do backup battery plants for phone equipment. They always said the standard life of a lead acid is 4-5 years. I usually replace mine at 4 years because living in a cold climate you don't want a fail to start on a freezing winter morning. Going past 5 years is living on borrowed time.
Just to comment on your rear end gear ratio, I never would have gone w. the 4.56 gears. simply because they are almost for drag racing, very low ratio gears also might feel great off the jump but you will have no top end seeing that you drive to work and back too and not to mention poor gas mileage after the install. Maybe ok for the trails only. Those guys at the shop should have more explaining for you first. Thats my opion anyway.
I don’t trust anyone but myself to change my oil. Don’t even care if it’s free. Last time a dealership changed my oil they left the oil cap off. Found it 2800 miles later in the engine bay. Ain’t worth it.
I will have my Tacoma for 3 years this November but it only has 9,xxx miles on it. The oil has only been changed once and I bought the truck new. I was going to take your advice on the oil brand you use (havoline pro-rs). My question is, how often should I change my oil since it doesn’t meet the mileage for the oil change?
Dang, 4 years on a battery, that doesn’t seem that long… but eeh, don’t got an OBD2 port on my car, so that trick of yours ain’t gonna work for my car😅. I have to admit that the journey you’ve been making is a nice one to follow, I’m elbows deep into my own first car for the past two years and all I do is listen to it and look underneath it once in a while, and that way I’ve been finding out all sorts of things about my car and been fixing lots of stuff, my entire front suspension is new (and placed new wheelbearings) there’s a new gas tank underneath it, there are new tires, headlights and a new master cilinder in there, and all this was just the first MOT (except for the front suspension), there’s also a new coolant pump, alternator and battery in it, and I also mounted a towbar on it. Ohw, I noticed I’m bragging on about my car again. Sorry…😅 Anyway, lovely videos! I subscribed and will be following! Bye!
I have 20k miles and have been taking it in for the free oil changes but i have been doing mid service oil changes to have a 5k mile oil change interval. I see it as oil is cheap and engines are not. Plus, Toyota has had problems with extended oil changes as they begin to burn oil when they age.
I think there are lots of other factors in oil burning. But I do agree that oil is cheaper than an engine. Even my dealership suggests 5k miles despite Toyota saying 10k.
@@RedWingsninetyone I had a 09 Camry that I followed the 10k oil changes. Around 100k it started being oil at about 1/2 quart per oil change. By 130k it went to 2 quarts. We found out that the oil rings were basically stuck from carbon due to 10k mile extended oil changes. Ended up trading it in for a 2020 Camry.
u mentioed ur battery pooped at work. does the toyota let you know beforehand that voltage is low or something or did it just die and leave u stranded :O
Yeah usually struggles to start you'll get maybe two of those the third time it won't start just happened to me get four and a half years of the Toyota factory battery
You are a great communicator, but I would love to see more content and less standing there talking. I like your excitement and watching you learn about vehicles. One suggestion I did for my garage - when working on or storing your vehicle in the garage you need to ventilate fumes out. I keep an old air quality monitor out there to make sure I’m not breathing a ridiculous amount of fumes. I actually installed a basic ventilation system in my garage to help with that issue. One end of the garage has an 8” exhaust fan grill with inline duct fan and the other end of the garage has a duct going to outside to let in fresh air. It works well with the mini split A/C out there to keep it healthy. 😊. You can also open a door or window when needed.
it wont affect the tune since its your computer that is flashed! so its just normal changing and everything should be fine. but if you were going to go for an AGM battery you probably need to contact Q to wonder if the tune needs to be changed to help the alternator shoot more power towards these batteries since they use more energy. i got an AGM before my tune and he tuned it to the battery as well.
started buying the tools and everything to help me change my oil on my own, last thing i really need is oil, is that oil truly the best for our trucks? is my best bet is to order 2 of the boxes ? thanks in adavance!
hi Chloe I have a question for you if you don't mind I have a 2019 off road tacoma with 30,000 miles and I want to do transmission fluid change and don't know where to take my truck for that particular service toyota dealership or regular mechanic shop. thanks Chloe have a good day
If you trust your dealership I’d go to them and you’d be looking to get a fluid exchange vs a flush. I did the exchange at 50k and plan on doing it again at 70k. It’s a bummer there isn’t a dipstick like the old days.
Yea no doubt that dipstick made everything more easy to check the oil level and to put new oil in it now is hard to do it is more complicated. When you did you transmission oil exchange you did it yourself or somebody did it for you
AT 205 is an excellent product I first heard of it from a Scotty Kilmer video he said he has been using it for 30 yrs for leaks especially engine rear seals
I’m 53, I’ve maintained and rebuilt my own vehicles all my life. One of the reasons to buy a new Tacoma was to let some other m-f’er do the damned maintenance for a change. 😂 I’m tired of crawling under cars.
I’m 26 and don’t have the knowledge to work on anything more complicated than a Tacoma 😂 Still bought a new one this year before the 4th Gen, so I hopefully don’t have to learn too soon haha
@@sullivan9191 Well, my daily drivers when I was your age were a ‘72 Bug and a ‘67 Ford F100, primarily the Bug. You don’t have a choice with a Bug, if you want it to run, you’re doing CONSTANT maintenance. The Ford is a good deal easier, but nobody but me touches her. She’s my baby.
@@corneliuscrewe677 very nice, I’ve actually helped a couple buddies rebuild both a early 70’s super beetle and a 68 or 69 f100 back in high school. The f100 is still trucking along doing fishing trips to Baja, idk about the beetle though lol
I guarantee that “ ever start “ battery won’t last as long as the oem Toyota battery. Always use the oil that Toyota recommends, not what others think will be ok.
