June 3, 2016: Bald Mountain (continued)
At this point I had encountered my first two annoying characteristic of the new Tacoma.
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- The V6 flywheel must weigh a full metric ton. If you try jam'n through the gears in low range the RPMs don't fall at nearly a quick enough rate. I have no doubt this was done for better fuel economy as well as less apparent mistakes to novice gear jammers. I already have a simple solution for this in my mind.
Does the engine have a throttle cable/linkage or is it drive-by-wire (ECU controlled) ?
If it's drive-by-wire, you're screwed; as the computer is dropping the revs slowly for emission reasons. (My sister's Saturn VUE manual tranny did that and it drove me nuts....)
Auto-LSD: Sounds like you need 4 switches (one for each wheel) to manually tell the computer to apply the brakes for a specific wheel....[/list]
