FREE Service Guide & Vehicle History PDF Glove Box Booklet

[hack6500]

greetings everyone, i would like to request your comments on the following ...

i recently purchased a 2006 tacoma x-runner and i love it dearly, i will be doing all the service work on this vehicle as it will most likely be normal driveway work, so i wanted to put together a service log booklet for the truck. i was unsatisfied with the service book the dealer gave me, and wanted something more compact than what toyota had available for print on toyotaowners.com. i have made these for myself in the past and have found them very simple and very useful! i decided this time that i would expand upon my simple service log.

i have gathered together all the service schedule information into a handful of concise pages, included information about capacities, general sizes and expendable service items. i have also included remote key fob programming, stereo/starter/alarm wiring information, and a wonderful color code chart that some kind sole has made. this booklet is mostly complete, but i would like to verify the information contained within.

if you have any further information that i could include in this booklet i would greatly appreciate hearing from you, in addition please verify any part numbers etc.

i will be posting this across a handful of tacoma forums, and would like to thank the community as a whole for the wealth of information available for these great machines.
if anyone should feel that i have not given credit where credit is due, please contact me as that is not my intention.

i thank you for your time and hope you enjoy what i have made...

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P.S. this pdf is intended to be printed on two sides and folded in half producing a 6x4.25" booklet stapled in the middle. if you do not have a duplex printer, print all odd pages first, ensure they are in the proper pulling order and put them back through your printer to print all the even pages.

[Cubic]

Nice!

[MikeX]

Good work. For a suggestion I would add under the Torques section the wheel lug torque, which is I believe 95 ft-lbs (but please check in manual first, I don't have mine handy). When I checked mine with my own torque wrench many were not tight enough, so it's a good thing to check.

[NJNUT]

Real Nice!!

[hack6500]

It is actually 85 ft-lbs!! and thanks for the suggestion, i am updating the guide, and it will be made available soon!!

** Keep the suggestions and CORRECTIONS coming! **

hack6500

Originally Posted by MikeX

Good work. For a suggestion I would add under the Torques section the wheel lug torque, which is I believe 95 ft-lbs (but please check in manual first, I don't have mine handy). When I checked mine with my own torque wrench many were not tight enough, so it's a good thing to check.

[hack6500]

I have updated my 05+ Tacoma Service Guide & Vehicle History pdf to include a number of additional information items.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions and corrections, I will continue to update this guide accordingly. If you have any further suggestions please let me know.

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[taco9]

Originally Posted by hack6500

I have updated my 05+ Tacoma Service Guide & Vehicle History pdf to include a number of additional information items.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions and corrections, I will continue to update this guide accordingly. If you have any further suggestions please let me know.

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hack6500

I think your link is broke. I tried to access it and nothing...just wanted to let you know.

[hack6500]

the links should all work, there was some issues with a domain transfer on my site, those issues should be corrected as of today! (dns is a pain the rear)

Originally Posted by taco9

I think your link is broke. I tried to access it and nothing...just wanted to let you know.

[Enola Gaia]

Ex-cel-lent!...

Some comments / notes / suggestions:

* If it were me, I'd place all the reference info together rather than spacing it out interspersed with blank service log tables. This way there'd be one section of the document with all the reference data and you wouldn't have to page back and forth. I like interspersing the scheduled maintenance info with blank log forms, so I'd leave that section 'as is'.

* It wouldn't hurt to include recommended tire pressure spec's. That's the kind of data you might need to know so infrequently you forget it from one time to the next.

* Are the designated 3rd party oil filters the same for the 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder engines? Your Toyota / TRD listings are broken out by engine type, but the others aren't. If there's a difference, I'd recommend at least specifying which engine the listed aftermarket filter is for.

* Minor nitpick: It's 'Mobil' (no 'e' on the end)

* I'd recommend being more specific about the spec's (SAE rating / whatever...) that Toyota requires for some of the fluids (e.g., tranny oil; ATF). There's more to the requirement than (e.g.) weight alone.

* Brake fluid spec / capacity?

* Differential drain plug torque spec?

* Spark plug torque / gap spec's?

* The color chart was adopted from a Scion site (scionlife?...), and may be copyrighted. I'd recommend adding a citation to the source.

* I'd recommend adding a 'link' mention to Tundra Solutions (who have a lot of 2005+ Tacoma info).

Great work!.....

[hack6500]

**UPDATE** v1.4 2005+ Tacoma Service Guide & Vehicle History

I have released a new update for my guide, updating items which have been asked for, contributed to, and questioned. I would like everyone to continue to question, and double check my work as I will correct any mistakes and hope to continue to keep this document updated.

I want to stress that while Genuine Toyota parts are often better than generic OEM parts, there are many OEM part manufactures who produce excellent parts. I want to catalog these items in this guide, so that when I go to the parts store I know what will work and make my own decision based on my needs. Take for example the different oil filter and oil drain plug parts I discovered work on my 4.0L this weekend!

Updates:

- i found a new oversized oil filter that works on my 4.0L V6, the FRAM 3600. its reasonable, larger sized, and fits perfectly in my engine. I would like to know what you 2.7L guys are using so I can include them.

- i found an alternative oil drain plug gasket which is metal on the outer rim and rubber on the inside. it was cheap, appears that it will last a while, and an alternative.

- got Toyota part number for the rear diff fill plug gaskets (please confirm)

- got Toyota part number for manual transmission fill/drain plug gaskets (please confirm).

- included spark plug gap specs

- got permission & credited the excellent color chart!

- included tire pressure statement. i think it will be better practice to teach people to look for the tire pressure sticker for their truck, rather than include spec's for all of the different available tires.

- while a zerk fitting location picture & oil drain plug location picture is helpful, i do not feel it appropriate to include in this guide. if you cannot find the oil drain plug, you shouldn't be changing your oil. the same might be said for the zerks but just remember 2 upper & 2 lower ball joints, 2 ends of the steering linkage, and 1 on the idler arm, and 1 on the pitman arm.

- i would like to remind everyone that this guide is intended to be printed on both sides of a sheet of paper, folded and stapled as to form a booklet. this will group all sections together properly.

i still need some help guys & gals, so please keep sending feedback and comments!

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