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

Wow you ran 5125 with stock height or with the AAL?

 

Holy shit that's some major flexing going on. And thanks I will do that once I can put my truck back together.

 

I have LED parking lights that are amber as well and they are faint during the day, but you can definitely see them at night. They aren't particularly important for daytime driving, I don't even have mine on unless the headlights are on anyway. But you can always go brighter if you are worried about it.

 

Which bushings did you end up with? If energy suspension, I strongly recommend getting some Whiteline's on hand in case you mess up a sleeve. Also have new cam bolts on hard in case you have to cut them.

Pliny had a helpful writeup before he deleted his account. What he did was use the OEM bottle jack to press out the bushing. I tried to emulate him, and failed. My sleeves were just too rusted into the arms. Ended up cutting a slot in the sleeves after the bottle jack pushed out the rest of the bushings, and then was able to get them to come free with the jack. Here's some thoughts and pictures from my build, not a writeup, but it might help:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...f-a-build-thread.261534/page-29#post-10043468

 

You have a light that works as a corner light as well as a blinker light?

 

Yes, I did a write up somewhere on here

 

the problem is 5125 doesn't mean anything. They come in lots and lots of different lengths. So he may have a different size than you.

 

I applied the 1st coat of primer onto my BAMF sliders.



Upgraded my camper shell clamps.



Put my few tailgate protector on.

 

Cool thx.

Yeah I have the ES bushings. I didn't hear about Whitelines until just recently. Last I checked they didn't make them for the first gen Tacoma. I think somebody said that you have to select the 4Runner ones.

Edit: Yikes the Whitelines are like $150. I think I will check this weekend if the bolts will come loose. If it looks like I will have problems I can always wait another week or two for Whitelines.

 

LEDs are the brightest bulb you can get

 

Time for some HID running lights lol

 

There are brighter LEDs, look on SuperbrightLEDs.com

 

Is there even a brighter bulb than LEDs? But I was taking about seeing them during the day with them flashing like a blinker would.

 

Yes, there are different brightness LEDs, some are brighter than others. LEDs have a wattage rating just like other bulbs and some are higher than others. For example the LEDs in my light pods are 3 watts, and are extremely bright compared to an LED in my gauge cluster.

 

There are different brightness's of LEDs. As in all things in life..size does matter..

 

In Phoenix, AZ for the week. I took the Tacoma for some bad ass BBQ.

 

I got bright LEDs don't know if they compre to superbrightLEDs but they are pretty close.

 

you're missing the point..

 

I'm saying they list the brightness' of different LED types on superbrightleds.com

 

Your basically saying 5125 shocks aren't really that different from 5100?