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

Looks really nice!!!!
I just did the WE caliper upgrade and I absolutely love it. It's a night and day difference.

 

Noted for future reference. I tried using a ball joint press as seen in a write up, but quickly turned to the dead blow hammer and socket method when that wasn't working. It was a lot of work, but it's done and squeak free so I'm happy

 

I used vise and hammer. Takes me a few mins per joint

 

Do you know of a writeup or guide to changing rear driveshaft U-Joints?

Thanks,
Charlie

 

I tried the hammer method once and gave up qiuckly, lol. I use a 2 jaw puller and old socket to push it through and then use a 4 1/2" grinder and cut off wheel to cut the shaft and pull it out. The cap always seems to gouge trying to push it back out the other way so I just cut it.

 

No vise. Would have made things a thousand times easier/faster

 

How much do you need to smash the wheel well for 33's?

 

Got it dirty First time ever going off road in this truck. It was a blast, need to do that more often

 

Hammer on the pinch weld a little, cut some plastic. Don't have to do anything if it stays on the pavement

 

Finished the other side of my brake rebuild.

 

Shampooed my seats and and carpet

 

Picked up a new transmission pan ($30) from pick n pull.. last guy stripped the bolt so i decided to replace the whole shebang. just need to pick up a new gasket and filter for my 2.4.

 

No vise. Would have made things a thousand times easier/faster

*edit: whoops didn't mean to repost

 

You bastard

Again...

you bastard

I bet his won't go on and off easy anymore..if at all..

 

Where'd you get access to a shampoo machine, I was thinking about doing the same to my trucks carpet. It's either that or get a new eBay carpet.

 

Got vinyl floor in mine. no need to shampoo

 

Getting ground loop noise from new stereo (alternator whine), so i put in a new ground line. I made a Y at the head unit harness and ran an extra wire to the ground point for the amp. Shit be thumpin now. Also, what is the bulb size for the A/C switch (last pic)?

 

Oh gotcha, mine is a Group 34R. 55Ah (I think) and 770CCA

 

Wiring is one of my favorite pastimes, nice job! The bulb in the A/C switch and also the hazards switch is the 3mm option on this page if I remember correctly.

 

Thank you. I picked up a Portosol Superpro 125 soldering iron for this project, its made the process so much more efficient. Probably one of the better tool investments ive made.

I want to install a blue LED to match the blue LEDs on the HVAC display. I changed out the dome top LED's in the panel with these three LED lights:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/391219040085?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

The light spread is much better now.