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

Got my tranny cooler today. Not sure when I'll install it. Its so hot outside..

 

Washed my engine bay once.. Never again!!! Ended up being the ignitor plug getting moisture in it causing a miss fire.

 

He deleted it and his account.

Never had a bed rack anyways. He built half a soft topper.

Now I think he has just a simple low pro one for the RTT. Nothing fancy.

 

I think mine is about 2.5 degrees each side, maybe 2.8. That is a good amount as it rides nice and the tires aren't stuffed in the back of the wheel well. Toe and Camber should be 0 or toe can be a bit more.

 

Went to VatoZone for some Lucas synthetic 75-90 gear oil. And I asked for redline mt90 and got a derp face.

Would it be OK to use that Lucas in my 5 speed manual transmission and transfer?

 

Well thats too bad. He seemed cool

 

the alignment made my truck feel great.. Steering wheel is now officially straight too

They said caster was already maxed out, my toe was pretty far off.. Guess I didn't do a good job when I changed my rack haha..

Wonder if my mpg's will go up at all.

 

Made a y pipe and ran duals out into 5 inch rolled tips 45d out sounds a whole lot deeper now really brought out the sound of the magnaflow I love it. Will get some pictures tomorrow

 

Ah. Ok. I had a pic of his softopper on my computer, wanted to see how his truck was looking

 

Where did u get it? I need one. Mine is broken but still works.

 

Weird... I noticed he was giving off a weird vibe recently. Too bad, I enjoyed him and his build.

 

I am geared up to replace lbj tomorrow, and it all Looks easy breezy, but I have one lingering question.. what is preferred method of attaching the tie rod and ball joint back in? Do I just use the puller tool? Sounds like a dumb question, maybe I'm over thinking it.

 

Nope. Tightening the castle nut will suck it in for you

 

Nice, wonder why these handles stiffen up over time. I did the exact same thing to my 96 driver side handle.

My passenger side handle continuously gets harder to open, only a matter of time before it breaks since it's already cracked. Keep putting it off though...

 

U can grease some of the door latch and the other mechanisms in there. It helps with the stiffness.

Not like u can see the other side with oem one at the a same time.

 

Mines looking a little shorter

 

Hey guys trying to come across a 98-04 cluster for a 4 cyl tach. Any good places to watch for one? I wanna replace it and use the led cluster mod before I put it all together again. Or should I just build my own cluster like one of the older sr5 clusters that have volt and oil temp? Would like to hear some thoughts.

 

^^^Nice job, looks great!

 

Alignment and tire balance with balancing beads. Anyone else using the beads in their tires? If so, do they work well? I've heard good things about them and decided to try them so they wouldn't have to stick 6oz of weights on each wheel. Possibly even throw some of the weights off the rims.

 

Hint, it's somewhere on the upper half of the windshield