Oh NO! Even Nissan has recalls! What is this world coming to???!!!

The way zombies drive, I doubt they pay attention to things like the oil light indicating loss of pressure...

I remember seeing that light click on once back in the early 1990's during some really cold weather driving down the backroads...

It did not take one second for me to spot that indicator light on and I shut the motor down and pulled off the road, checked oil level and looked for leaks and re-fired the motor and all was fine...

The oil wasn't quite warmed up and massive amounts of brutal cold air was also enetering the engine bay not helping matters...

I blocked some of that airflow later that day with good ol cardboard. Darn bodi-lifts let in more cold air than usual, hehehe

Typical oxi. Thinks he's got it all figured out. The Frontier has no oil pressure gauge so there will be no advanced warning if your losing oil pressure. If your going down the highway and that light comes on, its to late.
Merry Christmas everyone.

"I remember seeing that light click on once back in the early 1990's during some really cold weather driving down the backroads..."

@oxi,

Great story, bro! I remember too and you are 100% correct. Those were the days back in the 1990's...

Check your guages because knowing is half the battle...

George

@ jordan L

ummmm OXI said "light" not gauge. If it doesnt have a light that illuminates to inform you of no oil pressure than you need to rethink what you drive. EVERY car, truck, SUV should have at a minimum of a "dummy light".

BTW, i HAVE driven a vehicle when oil pressure fell and it wasnt slowly it just dropped from 60 to 10psi at 70mph. the light would illuminate just as fast as the gauge dropping like a brick so its not always "too late". Merry Christmas back to ya

Thanks to oxi now I know to use cardboard in the egine bay to prevent faulty check engine lights...

And knowing is half the battle...

Thanks, oxi!

oxi for President!

The way zombies drive, I doubt they pay attention to things like the oil light indicating loss of pressure...

I remember seeing that light click on once back in the early 1990's during some really cold weather driving down the backroads...

It did not take one second for me to spot that indicator light on and I shut the motor down and pulled off the road, checked oil level and looked for leaks and re-fired the motor and all was fine...

The oil wasn't quite warmed up and massive amounts of brutal cold air was also enetering the engine bay not helping matters...

I blocked some of that airflow later that day with good ol cardboard. Darn bodi-lifts let in more cold air than usual, hehehe

Posted by: oxi | Dec 26, 2011 1:42:19 PM

I agree....

"The way zombies drive, I doubt they pay attention to things like the oil light indicating loss of pressure...

It did not take one second for me to spot that indicator light on and I shut the motor down and pulled off the road, checked oil level and looked for leaks and re-fired the motor and all was fine..."

@oxi,

Goood post...

This reminds me of the attention to details Toyota has for their trucks today:

Bigger bolts! The Tacoma bolts are bigger than the Frontier bolts...

This means they won't break and will have better reliability than the competition and less down time...

Attention to details...

Wow. You guys have oficially set some sort of rcord for dumbest comments on a thread. Congratulations!

@ hemi lol Every car, truck, and van I've ever driven has had a "dummy light". Perhaps I was being a little dramatic but in most cases, from my own experience working with customers vehicles, when the light comes on its too late. Not everyone is can be as amazing as oxi. 10 psi should be enough pressure to keep the engine alive even at highway speed. And to have pressure drop that fast but stop at a safe level is a little unusual. Normally when it drops fast it just keeps going. By the time you hear the warning chime and find out what light is on then shut the engine off.......
Not trying to start an arguement but oxi's preaching is getting old.

"I blocked some of that airflow later that day with good ol cardboard."

@oxi,

Do you have instructions on how to install the cardboard? Do you use the cardboard just in certain areas or all over your truck?

Thanks...

@Jordan L,

What do you meam its too late after the light turns on?

I still drove into work that day and home, no issues!

Though I had the legendary 22R under the hood!

Amazing Oxi! You have SEVEN alternate personalities who are all interested in you! Maybe someday you will find someone who cares that doesn't share your keyboard

I like little boys Pee Pee's.

And this one time in band camp our vans oil light came on. I instantly jumped to action. Immediately, I found a huge oil puddle under the van. I quickly used my legendary lung capacity (from years of playing the skin flute) sucked all the oil up from the ground, plugged the hole with a reed from my best friends trumpet and spit all the oil back into the engine!!! The van got us all the way back home from band camp without another problem. Those Chevy vans are truly incredible.

@Oxi - if it was cold like you say, the engine oil viscosity may of been too thick due to the cold to give the oil pressure sensor an accurate reading. Letting the engine get up to operating temperature would of solved the problem. If one does extensive driving in cold weather, a winter front would be a good idea. Cardboard works, but I would of thought king Oxi would of been more expert about it all and done a proper intervention.
I've seen the pics of his new truck. there is so much metal on the thing that the opposite would be a more likely problem.

@Lou,

I just started to drive pickups afterthe Marines, so needless to say I learned quite a bit that winter!

On my current ride, yes lightweight steel plates up front with heavier steel plates underneath, do not want small trees and branches causing havoc or stumps and rocks underneath!

In the high humidity and heat of the summer, even with the snatch strap hooked up, no cooling issues whatsoever!

It's nice to have a 4-cylinder!

@ oxi Obviously you weren't dealing with a total loss of oil pressure. Otherwise your lengendary 4 banger wouldn't have made it.

@oxi:
I have a 6.0 liter LQ4 in my Jeep. It runs as cool as a cucumber and makes almost 400 horsepower. Griffin aluminum radiator...engine oil cooler...Flex-a-light Black Magic 150. It's nice to have a V-8.

...Just trying to say that a well-designed cooling system is much more important than a little engine. (You'd think a hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool offroader such as yourself would already know this!)

Oh, and if you're putting cardboard on something to fix an oil pressure problem, you've got something else SERIOUSLY wrong with the design of your truck. Or maybe you're running 80-90 weight like Lou suggested.

@ Jason H Sounds like a sweet ride. Is it streetable or trail only?

@Jason H,

I will stick with my lower maintenance of a 4-cylinder any day over a V8...

With my old 85 2wd pre-runner with 32's, I switched from a clutch fan driven by the crank to a 14 inch electric fan. Funny thing was I did not need to turn the fan on at all in town, air cooled was sufficient with the 22R...

Note: I kept stock radiator and engines in my pickups, no need to modify those much and I can off-road with the best with just a low maintenance 4-cylinder!

So why do you need those extra 4-cylinders again? For show off or is it because your vehicle is not properly geared and you need that extra power to overcome obstacles off-road or is it your vehicle weighs too much? I hope your drivetrain is up to the task?

I have seen guys place foreign motors under their hoods to keep on breaking drivetrain parts, etc...

@oxi:
You are clearly not as knowledgable about these things as you're letting on...

How is a 4-banger any "lower maintenance" than a V8? An engine is an engine. Fewer cylinders don't mean you have to change the oil any less.

My Heep is geared at a very conservative 4.27:1 at the axles. Both front and rear axles are Dana 44s out of a Grand Wagoneer. I can get away with the gearing because the tires are only 35s and the transmission is an early Chevy NV4500 with a 6.34:1 granny low gear and overdrive 5th. So with an NP241 (Chevy 3/4-ton) transfer case, it's got a crawl ratio of over 73:1 and still purrs down the highway at 1800 RPM at 60.

I've been running a V-8 with this drivetrain on 35s for TEN YEARS. I beat on this thing hard every time I take it out (it ain't one of those "pretty" Jeeps). The only part I've ever broken is the short side front drive axle and technically, that was with the previous V8 I had in there...a Ramjet 350. I replaced it myself with an alloy shaft. Cost $350. Big deal. I only switched to the 6.0L (out of a 2007 3/4 ton Silverado Classic) in 2008.

As for weight, this engine is LIGHTER than the stock 258 inline-6 by over 100 pounds!

Plus, my Jeep gets better mileage (with the same size tires) with the 6.0L under the hood than it EVER did with the stock 258...I can get 17 MPG on the road if I baby it. And it will about wheelie out from under me just by breathing on the gas pedal.

Oh, and before you brand me a Toyota hater, my previous truck was a 2000 Tacoma V6 SR5 and I loved it. I only sold it and bought the rusty 99 Silverado I drive now because Toyota offered to buy it back (for $120 less than I'd paid 6 years before that) because the frame had rusted through.

I've driven one of those new Tacomas like yours with the four-banger. The engine just about dies when the A/C kicks on and you can pretty much FORGET passing anybody without having your own lane. (Seriously, the AC would kick on and the engine would stumble and have to throttle up just to stay running...brand new truck.)

And I'd also like to point out that I BUILT my vehicle from the frame up. There is literally NOTHING stock left on it besides the frame and tub. ...I didn't just bolt on some boat anchor abortion of a front bumper and maybe a lift kit and then go all over the internet claiming it was the awesomest off road vehicle on earth like you.

So tell me again why I should be suffering with a ball-less 4-popper that barely makes enough power to run the air conditioner? I mean, okay...we get it...you love your truck, but all of your bragging about it and making stupid statements that betray the bottomless depths of your ignorance just makes you come off looking like an ass.

Oxi's history:

1) 1985 Toyota pickup: Major suspension damage and a hole in the rear dif after one Baja run.
Source, page 7: http://www.worldsbestoil.ca/Amsoil-Image-Files/Amsoil-PDF-Files/Racing%20Testimonials%20Brochure.pdf

I thought Toyota pickup truck suspensions were the best for off-roading? It is also interesting that this document states that a George Papageorge is the actual owner, probably oxi's brother? oxi may have been a driver.

2) 2005 Tacoma: Tranny blew at less than 60k, replaced tranny and sold truck.

3) 2010 Tacoma: Ok so far.

I guess 1 out of 3 is great for a Toyota pickup.

@ Jason H

+1

@Alex:

From your link about Oxi's testimonial:

"I can guarantee that we never would have finished that
race without AMSOIL gear lube.”

LOL! ...Yeah, because he tried it with SO many other gear oils before making that asinine statement. Way to shill it Oxi! Shake that moneymaker!

@Jason H,

Haters gonna hate.

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/haters-gonna-hate-2.jpg?w=500&h=642

@Alex,

Can you STOP posting personal information!

@Mike,

Can you please address this with members and posters via email!

@Jason H.,

Like I said before, I do not need a V8 to off-road, I use what I have and skill to off-road, you need a bigger engine that really does nothing for you off-road but breaks drivetrain components...

I raced down in Baja with just the 22R turning 35 inch tires and she ran fine past 80 mph in low-4!

Until you have raced down in Baja, you really do not know shyt about off-roading, how to prepare a vehicle and make it survive the toughest races in the world and known to man-kind! And trust me I have crawled on rocks, hills, sand, deep mud, etc... in slower speeds likewise...

Hybrid vehicles are kool and fine, but they are NOT original thus cannot claim to be anything but a mut...

Well, well. What have we here?

1) major suspension damage
2) oil leaks
3) blown tranny

Oxi and his 20 years of nothing matches their toughness and reliability has been exposed!

@Oxi - what was your crawl ratio? Correct me where i'm wrong but you probably had 2.7:1 t-case + 4.88:1 diff gears if you were turning 35" tires. That means in 4th (I'm assuming a 5-speed trans) you had 13:1 gear reduction.

In this scenario if you had the motor pegged wide-open screaming at 6000rpm with those gears and 35" tires you would only be getting about 45-50mph assuming your tires were fully inflated which they wouldn't be if you were running off-road.

Perhaps you would like to explain where the missing 30mph came from?

@ oxi For someone so concerned about privacy, you sure have posted a lot of personal info, stories, and pics on the internet. On that subject, how is an interview with Amsoil for marketing purposes personal information? Your always preaching on how to buy a basic machine and then mod it. Thats what Jason H has done. How can you give him a hard time about his machine? Your hypocricy is asounding.

@Oxi:

"you need a bigger engine that really does nothing for you off-road but breaks drivetrain components"

Ever heard of MUD? Didn't think so.

@oxi - you are the one that had your pictures all over the net. If it is on the world wide web, it is public information. It is fare game.
If you don't believe me - google Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.

Oxi - can the crap. You do this all of the time. You gloat and brag, but when you get cornered, you change the parameters to suite your narrow view, and go all "butt hurt" about haters.

I've said this multiple times - you are not the only guy on this site that knows how to offroad, drive fast, or drive with any skill. You are not the only guy on this site that knows how to pull a wrench.

@Tim,

Blown tranny? Where?

Oil leaks are common in Baja, ever raced your personal pickup before?

@Lou,

I can post MY personal information but when others do it, it falls into "copyright infringement" and I can prosecute those individuals. I did not give permission!

We have rights in the U.S. maybe Canada does not when it comes to privacy!

These mother f#$%ers that not only publish personal informatin without owners consent and falsely impersonate somebody they are not are liable for prosecution.

Thankfully Mike knows who these jokers are by their postings from IP addresses. The burdern of proof is not on me but on the jokers that are most likely under age children!

Back to off-roading: don't hate mebecause I can back up what I say and have the actual experiance! I been to Baja and raced my personal pickup and raced another on road courses, sorry but I know what I am talking about and this is a pickup truck forum right?

@Jason H,

Mud? Mud sucks, hate that crap but it is fact of life off-roading and you have to deal with it...

The key is properly cleaning the mud underneath and from within the frame, that takes patience and time!

@Jordan L,

When I OWN the pictures, I can post as I please!

When somebody else posts them, it falls into a creep category of partial "harassment" and "stalking" ad yes even "invasion of privacy" plus I did not give permission to publish MY pictures so "copyright infringement" would apply also!

Any questions or are you one of those internet "stalkers" like they are?

@oxi - you posted pictures and information on a public domain. The site you posted explicitly states that anything posted is public and can be used by anyone or any business as they see fit. Please post your proof of copyright. I don't see a circled C © next to any of your pictures. It is not "invasion of privacy". It is not as if someone hacked your home PC and "stole" your data.

I don't hate you because you have offroad experience. Try self aggrandizing posts with arrogance and condescension thrown in for good measure.

The fact that you are accusing people of being "internet stalkers" proves my point rather nicely.

Try to be civil to your fellow blog readers.

Stay on topic. We want to hear your opinions and thoughts, but please only comment about the specified topic in the blog post

guess nobody reads that at the bottom of the page...

oxi, You said that your '05 Tacoma had a blown tranny and it was replaced. I forgot one more -- cardboard.

1) major suspension damage
2) oil leaks
3) blown tranny
4) cardboard insulation

Oxi and his 20 years of nothing matches their toughness and reliability has been exposed. Oxi can dish it but he can't take it.

@oxi You really know how to shoot yourself in the foot.

Notice oxi blasts any vehicle that off-roads or runs in the baja that is not his own/or doesn't fit his criteria. But when when oxi has oil leaks and "major suspension damage" down that is ok and normal. Isn't that being a bit hypocritical?

Maybe if you really knew how to drive off-road you wouldn't have had major suspension damage, or maybe you are right that there is no pickup that can match a Tacoma's toughness as there are pickups that are tougher.

The link Alex posted stated that George Papageorge is the owner and manager of the truck that ran down in the baja.
Oxi aka Pete Papageroge (name publicly confirmed by oxi on pickuptrucks.com) said it was his truck. So somebody is lying. I believe that oxi aka Pete Papageorge may be exagerating again. It was not oxi's truck that "started it all." It was a family pickup. Maybe that is the reason why oxi hates family pickups. He wants his pickups all to himself.

http://protouringtruck.lefora.com/2010/02/08/my-2005-tacoma-road-racing-pickup/

@Oxi - It's "Mark Williams", not "Mike", try paying more attention. And I'm still waiting to hear what rpm your motor was turning to be able to hit 80mph in 4low. Was it 12,000 or 15,000 rpm? Or are Toyota pickups so darn good that they are above the laws of physics?

@Seriously? - That parts seems to be a bit blurry and hard to read for many posters on this forum.

oxi has owned two Toyota pickups from start to finish.

1) 2005 Tacoma: blown tranny

2) 2010 Tacoma: no problems

If my calculations are correct, that is a 50% reliability rating and below average, and only 6-7 years of sole ownership experience, not over 20 years that oxi claims.

@Jason T - It actually all makes sense now! Pete (oxi) is actually George's 13 year old son! He has lots of racing experience with his hot wheels on an imaginary baja course in his sand box. As such, he's always relating stories he's heard as if they were his own, but of course he scrambles them as typically happens when stories are retold by a third person. He shares pictures of his father's trucks, but of course his posts are seriously flawed because he hasn't done the things he speaks of, has no real experience, and therefore cannot backup his big mouth (keyboard).

@Jason T./toycrusher84:
THAT'S IT! It's got to be!

I SO called this a month or two ago when I accuse oxi of acting like a 13-yr old!

That would put oxi at about 15 to 21 years old from 1990 to 1995 which is still a kid.

I'm going to go out on a pretty firm limb here and say that oxi's off-road and baja experience is probably 50% talk and 50% reality. Mark Williams was the editor of Four Wheeler Magazine back in the 80's and was off-roading when oxi was pooping in his diapers.

@Lou,

So you have joined the "internet stalkers" that probably have no girlfriends?

I am shocked!