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

Fuckkk dude. Good luck.

 

I dug it. The hardest part i have is cutting it down to 5 minutes or so. Current one I'm working on is around 10 mins long mostly because I feel bad cutting my buddies trucks out.

 

I have. You will be fine

That looks killer!

 

I try to keep it to one song because people get bored unless you have a bunch of different fancy camera angles

 

I don't usually drive my truck to work, but when I do and I'm walking away, I cant help but say out loud "damn your a sexy b*tch"!

 

Changed it's oil, a few thousand overdue but I wasn't low and I haven't added any since it's last change.
Looked like straight coffee when it came out though, the new oil was almost invisible on the dipstick compared to the old.

 

Got some goodies in the mail today (gallon 85w/140 Lucas, 5quarts 5w/30 redline, and an OEM front diff drain plug). Might wait a week or two to change the oil since I got it a little early.

 

What are you planning to use the 85w-140 with?

 

diffs IIRC???

 

unless im wrong... which happens.. our trucks take

$30 75w-90 Synthetic Gear Lube - 1 Quart (Pack of 2)

75w-90. and you can go a little higher in the rear diff with 75w-140

 

your probably right!

 

ECGS recommends using 85/140 non synthetic with their gear setups/ARB. I was using 75/90 redline before but I figured I better use what they recommend. (Bayareataco uses 85/140 too iirc)

 

ahh, I was right. I remember this conversation many pages back...lol

 

Got everything back together after installing my Doug thorley headers. Easily one of the worst jobs I've done on my truck. Removing the stock manifolds and cross over pipe is the hardest part. If I wouldn't have gotten them for so cheap or didn't have a SC, I probably wouldn't have bothered with them. However, they look great and give the exhaust a bit of a deeper tone. I still have my stock cat and a 18" magnaflow dumped before the axle. Throttle response feels better. I need to really start doing some tuning now...

 

headers would be nice to have.....but I aint digging in that engine bay, no thanks!

They look good man

 

Thanks man. Yea it was a PITA. Especially the driver side. Some of the bolts look impossible to get to. Glad it's over with! Now time to enjoy them.

 

Removed my bed to look in my tank and see why my fuel was cutting out. The plug on the fuel pump somehow worked itself loose. That solved part of the problem but I still have surging at 2000 rpm.

 

Time to Cage it Ryan

Hammerdown!

 

If I ever get my tube bender done, maybe. I found a couple built axles I would like to buy, but I don't know.

 

Looks like I need some spacers. I'm just barely rubbing my resivor in the front. What's a good spacer brand and the smallest size I can get?