If you ended up here just looking for a Cabin Air Filter for early model Tacoma, 4Runner, Tundra, or Sequoia trucks and don't want to read the story of its development, you can pick one up here: I've been working on a thing. When I first got the Tacoma that I still drive today - brand new, off the lot at the very end of 1999 - I didn't even know what a cabin air filter was. And, for the first 16 years of ownership, I never gave it a second thought. I drove around on pavement, mostly in the…
Let's see, how did this start last time. Ahh, right... For two years now, my A/C hasn't really worked. At some point - 17 years after it was originally installed - it developed a slow leak. As spring turned to summer in 2018, I noticed that - as Nelly might say - "it's getting hot in herre," even as I cranked up the cold.from It's Too Damn Hot In Here - Fixing the A/C Evap Core Well, I replaced the A/C evap core and things worked well for all of one week. While that sounds bad - and I guess…
For two years now, my A/C hasn't really worked. At some point - 17 years after it was originally installed - it developed a slow leak. As spring turned to summer in 2018, I noticed that - as Nelly might say - "it's getting hot in herre," even as I cranked up the cold. For a while, I ignored it. There was no way I was ready to tackle the A/C system from a skills perspective - or so I thought at the time - and I knew that taking it to a shop was going to be rather expensive.…
