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

No shortcuts taken there. I like it!

 

Don't waste your time hammering the pinch weld because it will be in the way eventually.

Cut all the liner out of the bottom of the fenderwell, take an angle grinder or something and cut as much as the pinch weld off as possible, and then relieve some stress by taking a BFH to the lower firewall and pound it back a bit. This is what my mess looked like for a while:



I've also had to pound some in the upper front of the wheel wells. After about three sessions of doing that, getting tired of rubbing, cutting as much away from the firewall as possible, smashing it with a bigger BFH, and finally when you stop a majority of the rubbing, take some seam sealer and clean the pinch weld up. This is what I have now:

 

I've done a cold air intake and custom headlights and tail lights

 

For those that have done a valve cover gasket replacement on your 3.4, I'm wondering what kind of time frame I'm looking at for that.

 

I had mine all done in less than a half hour since the supercharger takes less time to take off.

 

Fairly easy?

 

Ok good to know. I'm removing my SC and need to do the VC as well since they have been leaking for a while. Hardest part will be putting the stock intake back on and figuring out the air hosing routes.

 

Is that the bulb that lights up the "A/C" lettering when the parking/head lights are on? Or is that the light that lights up the indicator bar when the switch is engaged?

How hard was it to get out? I want to change the "A/C" lettering to red.

 

My skid row skid is similarly bent. Plan is to bend it back and gusset the fuck out of it in the rear but don't think I need to put in a crossmember. Won't know until I tinker and beat tinker and beat.

 

Sounds like my typical Friday night when I was single for a couple of years.

 

I can take some pictures of mine if you need them

 

Yeah, took about 4 hours with help. Just getting the brake lines off was probably the hardest part.

 

Thanks for the offer, but I might be good. I remembered I have a Haynes manual I got a long time ago that I've never used. I'll see if it has diagrams and go from there. I'll let you know if I do need the pics!

 

It came out of the switch its right next to.

 

Those aren't conversion lights..those are just regalr ol lights that I got from marlin crawler a while back

 

Which transmission? Most auto tannys had no gasket, only red permatex gasket sealant.

 

look like conversions to me... They dont use a bulb?

 

Hmm from marlin, they technically are conversions from sealed beam H6054 to changeable H4. Not retros though.

Edit: Just looked them up, no wonder they look like good quality stuff. They're Vision X brand. Those will most likely be my choice when my sealed beams burn out.

 

Yes it is the bulb that lights up only the A/C lettering, however it doesn't influence the color on that switch. It is a thin film of green or orange (depending on year) that cannot be removed without scraping the A/C lettering off (ask me how I know) that actually makes it colored. So unless you know a good translucent decal printer and have a super steady hand there isn't much that can be done to change the color. I tried to make mine light up white and ended up making a couple small scratch marks that now light up in the former black area surrounding the A/C lettering.

Hope that helps a bit :/

 

I see that. But is that the only light in the switch? If so, it would appear that there is a green film behind the "A/C" lettering and the indicator bar.