What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

i doubt he has any rust since it says he in the south east..my frame on my 96 and body is spotless...

 

I drove to Missouri to pick mine up and when I went to paint my flares there was rust underneath so now im going to have to cut my bedside fenders That's awesome though you don't have any rust issues, would like to see some Toyotas around here without any

 

replaced my body mount bushings

 

Yeah but Missouri gets snow..we havent had snow in South GA where Im at since 1989

 

hmm, might need to move to Georgia kidding I like the snow, makes it more fun to hunt water foul and call coyotes.

 

Nope, Rmodel65 is right. No rust at all. All of it wiped off with some dish soap and elbow grease haha. Also, my frame and body are rust free too. That's one good thing about living down south, no salt on the roads here. We do get "snow" every couple of years here though, but only once or twice can I remember it really sticking. It's a huge deal when it does though haha.

 

Lucky...

 

Haha I know man. But where I'm at, there's hardly any places to wheel. No hills haha. Most of it's just mud. Which is great, and really fun.. until time for clean-up. My frame and suspension (Hell, really my whole underbody) are filthy. That's my next project, to degrease and clean my underbody and suspension and the engine bay. My engine bay looks like a dust devil went through.

 

you northern guys should see the panic at the grocery stores lol youd think it was the second coming and people are starving

 

Sounds just like my old truck I had in Texas. Didn't have a bit of rust, but was covered in a red film from the clay dirt! Haha

Now I have a Northern truck that has surface rust....

 

Ya mud is our game too, not a whole lot to do, we do have a sand excavation place me and a friend go to where we hunt dove at though heres a couple pics from when I got my truck back from the transmission shop:

 

what was your texas truck?

 

The first one was a 96 Tacoma, then I had an 02 Silverado.

 

Haha so true. Also, it's funny how much camo you see around here when it snows or when it's freezing (20's or low 30's ). For most of us around here, the only really warm jackets and stuff we have are camo for hunting lol.

 

Not a big fan of the early 00's silverados. Did you mod at all?

 

That's the way me and my buddies are, and then you have all the "normal people" dressed in booty shorts and a light jacket and cant figure out why there cold

This is what we look like when we someone complain:

 

It was more or less the fact that I got it just because it was a cheap 4x4 haha

Mod the Tacoma or Silverado?

This was my build thread for the Tacoma. Wrecked and it wasn't reliable for a DD so I got the Chevy.
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/165751-pcbuilders-1996-tacoma-build.html

Found my current Tacoma on base, bought it, and sold the chevy for exactly what I paid for it 4,000 miles later haha

 

Gotta love when that happens! I bought my first tacoma for $5500. 6 years and 40k miles later I sold it for $5500 haha

 

Haha man you nailed it.

 

hey guys maybe yall can help me understand something. I posted my question in the backspacing and offset thread but no one seems to be interested in helping me out. how can a 16x8" wheel have a 4" backspacing and an offset of -12mm? it seems to me that a 4" backspacing would put the mounting surface smack dab in the center of the wheel (because 4 is half of 8). it just doesn't seem to be mathematically possible. please help?