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

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by SlimDigg, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. Apr 8, 2016 at 12:47 PM
    Adventurer_Alex

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    Ive got quite a bit of rust forming on my rear bumper. Whats the best way to take care of/fix this?

    Will something like the rustoleum rust reformer work?
     
  2. Apr 8, 2016 at 12:50 PM
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    That's the way they do it in the 3rd gen forum... Oh, wait....
     
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  3. Apr 8, 2016 at 12:56 PM
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  4. Apr 8, 2016 at 12:57 PM
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    Is that powdercoat or paint?

    Take grinding wheel to the parts you can reach and hand sand everywhere else. It looks like mostly surface rust. Then spray the exposed metal with a good primer before reapplying paint.
     
  5. Apr 8, 2016 at 1:04 PM
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    Grinding wheel might be a bit extreme, a wire wheel or a palm sander would do the trick and not eat into the metal. But otherwise: Yeah, what he said. You have to get it down to bare metal before you do anything else, otherwise the paint is just going to flake off and it will start rusting all over again.
     
  6. Apr 8, 2016 at 1:05 PM
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    Is it better to spray Bedliner directly on metal without a primer? How about plastic?
     
  7. Apr 8, 2016 at 1:09 PM
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    You can spray monstaliner on plastic, but you have to apply bulldog adhesion promoter fist. I put some on my fuse panel cover in the cab just to see what it looks/feels like and if it would stay. Its stayed so far
     
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  8. Apr 8, 2016 at 1:10 PM
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    I always use primer first on bare metal, regardless of what finish paint you use. Primer acts as a rust barrier.

    The exception to this is powdercoat. A proper powdercoat job, meaning proper prep of the metal surface, also prevents rust like above.
     
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  9. Apr 8, 2016 at 1:29 PM
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    where is this.
     
  10. Apr 8, 2016 at 1:35 PM
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    Its east of Moscow. I think it's in the St. Joe NF.
     
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    looks like hes on the south end. I learned to google :/
     
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    So I was cleaning things up the other day and noticed these Leather type covers under the front wheel wells that keeps dust and dirt from the engine bay.

    Do you guys know the official part name and do you guys keep these on?
     
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    Reserected from the dead.
    About 10 or more pages back, a member posted a pattern to make your own. Happy hunting.
     
  15. Apr 8, 2016 at 2:38 PM
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  16. Apr 8, 2016 at 2:38 PM
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    Yes sir. 85 toyota axle with the front range widening kit to make it match the rear axle
     
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    Nice!!! I thought those solid axles stopped in 83?
     
  18. Apr 8, 2016 at 2:47 PM
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    They went from 79-85. 84-85 are the better ones to start with since they came with a full truss along the bottom
     
  19. Apr 8, 2016 at 2:48 PM
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    Hmmm didn't know that! Thats convenient that they are trussed already!
     
  20. Apr 8, 2016 at 2:49 PM
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    Yeah one less thing I had to weld on it lol
     
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