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

Yep, cheapest I've found them

 

Why not just spend the extra 150 the first time for uniball uppers. And not worry about ball joints

 

You don't own a 1st gen...you don't belong here anymore.


Traitor!

 

The cheapest ive seen the TC uppers was around $600 which is quite a bit more expensive but if I find a good deal on a set I will absolutely jump on it over the light racing ones

 

Forgive my stupidity... but is that your front brake line?

 

It is his front brake line.

 

Curious to see how that works out.

Me, Old Brett, Young Brett and Old Brett's friend couldn't get the rubber line off to save our lives. I still have Wheelers brake lines in my garage.

 

You've made my day. It put a stop to my tundra brake upgrade.... I feel better now lol.

 

I fought those brake lines too. In the end I won. I was able to use pb blaster and some freeze stuff to get one side off with ease. The other side... well, I had to remove the short steel line that the rubber connects to. I went to the local parts store and bought a $3 steel line and bent it to match the line I took out. The steel line that the rubber connects to is really short and goes to a mounted 90 degree fitting, that one was much easier to disconnect.

 

Looks so good. If only you could dye all the vinyl black

 

Maybe we were going at it all wrong. After all it was at the end of a day where we installed my lift, extended rear brake line, etc.

But we were trying to remove the c-clip in order to get the rubber line off. Couldn't even get that thing off. So we threw in the towel.

 

Replaced my LCA bushings, upper ball joints, lower ball joints, and struts over the last couple of days. Details in my build.

 

Because not everyone wants uni-balls. If you live in a dry climate where they don't salt the roads in the winters then uni-balls will probably be better. But I've found that the uni-balls just don't hold up as well around here in Utah in the winters and require being rebuilt or replaced frequently. Not worth the hassle or the extra expense. And uniballs are much noisier.

I've got LR arms and so far no issues to speak of. I got mine used from ponethousand but they are the new style. There was a change to the sleeved bushings on the new ones that was the primary change.

 

We live in AZ. All it is is desert. So that's why I suggested it for Alex.

 

Does anyone happen to know what this is? It is sitting under my driver seat and plugs into the seat. Its only on the driver side, I was thinking its a seat heater but i don't know how to tell and find out? Any help would be rad..

Thanks

 

Seat belt buckle warning switch

 

Air bag sensor

 

As far as I know it's for the seat belt light in the dash.