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

Nice man! Those will look sweet. I'm wanting to move up in tire size but I'm waiting to hear back from a job opportunity.. ugh.

 

Mounted 4 of my rock lights today. I was unsure of how they would turn out but I'm pretty impressed! Pretty excited to get the other 16 mounted now!

 

Took the softopper off...



No real mods as of late. Waiting on my BAMF sliders

 

So clean!

 

What vender would I contact for a bracket to mount my PIAA lights behind the grille?

 

I dig it. Courious how long it will hold up.

 

I did the same thing to my front and rear bumpers. Has held up great overall, but somebody stepped on my rear bumper and kind of dragged his shoe on it getting off, and the dip started to peel off in that area. Other than that, very pleased

 

I sure hope so! I think I'll do the pinch weld mod early tomorrow and hope to get them installed later in the day. I'll post pics regardless... of course

Yeah, once it starts peeling in a spot it's pretty much game over unless you shoot it again and hope it doesn't peel... never will look as good if you have to go back and touch up though.

My rear bumper has been going solid since May.

 

Yeah definitely doesn't look as good touched up. You can still see the spot where it peeled... I'm thinking of getting some sort of rubber or plastic step for it like the rest of the bumper has

 

Orrrrrr just peel the rubber and shoot it with a more permanent solution, say... Rustoleum Bed Liner?

 

Jerry at BAMF makes a light mounting bar. I've got one and it works great.

 

LOL, we can't say anything bad about you Bob?

Anyways, will be gald to get that decal!

 

Made a 1/8" thick IFS skid with additional steering rack coverage for a customer. It weighs about 42 lbs (18 lbs less than 3/16") so it's a good replacement for guys who don't wheel hard and want to save a few lbs. It's still pretty strong too.

 

Wow, I'm surprised they actually deleted all of that

 

called them again, they said they dont carry aftermarket parts and these are originals. 71$ lower ball joint. part # 0437160070

I still think they have the wrong part number.. asked him to put them on hold ill grab them tomorrow hopefully.

 

Yeah woah. That was like 10 posts which weren't even bad.... unless there was something I missed?

 

Nope nothing bad at all. Just discussing people's dealings with getting a TW sticker.

I said I usually got mine in 3-4 weeks and Gear Head said that he's been asking for one since he joined. Don't see what was delete-able about that?

 

Lol okay anyways. When is a re-gear necessary? I'll be switching to 285s here in a day or two.... I doubt I'll need to with a 5-speed but back to my initial question, when is it necessary? Pros of doing it/Cons of putting it off?

 

Honestly in my opinion it isn't worth spending that much money on it unless you go 35's or bigger.

When switching to a 33" tire the gains of gearing enough to bring it near stock is too much money in my opinion. This is all for daily driving purposes for me.

The almighty Bob has spoken!

I knew if we talked about it enough we'd get an explanation or pm...

 

Re-gearing essentially just gives you more power, or giddy up-- correct? I've heard from a few people you really only need to re-gear when upping your tires if you have an auto tranny..