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

gloomy beach day

 

Oh crap!!!

Dude, your rig is sick....who gives a shit if you dont have OMEs or whatever everybody else likes.



But you should switch that lift lol

Good looking rig

 

From today

 

How you liking the new suspension set-up?

 

Offroad, its amazing.......passed the wifey test...my bro in law was super impressed

 

Got the new 3rd member in finally! 5.29s, bitches!

Still stuck in the middle of the tubbing fest

 

Not what I did but what the shop is doing:

 

Well after too many issues (so exactly as many as I'd expected), I got the spark plugs and wires done. Never done them before, on any vehicle, so it was a learning experience. Overall, once I got everything I needed and stopped being a dumbass, it wasn't bad. Another piece of the long list of maintenance items done.

 

Made a cover shot for TRD magazine today at the salt flats out at speed week then climbs some hills an popped some rounds

 

I rarely post here as nothing I have done has been done well. But today, I have accomplished the impossible. Here in Fort Collins CO we have elms everywhere and all those elms have scale and all those scale parasites drop dark sappy droplets over everything that parks under it. It dries into a rock hard crystal bumps. Dark reddish brown and sometimes green. It is impossible to wash off and if you scrape it off you scrape your clear coat or chip your paint off. The previous owner clearly had a elm tree. So, I parked the taco on the lawn, covered it with sheets and towels, and set a sprinkler up pointed at the hood and roof. I turned the sprinkler on and napped most the day.


By 6pm those little rock solid crystals were weak enough to take off with fingernails or a credit card corner. Take that dry elm scale poop crystals!!!! We will see if I scratched the gel coat in the morning.

Early this morning, while contemplating whether to paint Chassis Saver or normal paint on my almost rust free frame, I ate pie and coffee while I SAT under my truck. Because… I CAN. (insert man grunts here celebrating my clearance. I am 6’2”)

Also… I am finally getting a return on investment on my 2 year old.

 

Not bad. Most folks take a decade or more.

 

What guard thing? I don't remember seeing that

 

Black cover for the valve. Plastic

 

Did the first drain and fill on the rear diff (ewwwwww stinky), full fluid exchange on the transmission. oh yeah - also hit 146k miles today.

 

Where could I buy one?

 

This thing?

$10 Fumoto LC-10: Lever Clip for F-Type Valves (Not Compatible with SX Series)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B011...ords=F103N&dpPl=1&dpID=31FJTOim4tL&ref=plSrch

 

Yes

 

Anyone ever had any experience with the Demello hybrid tube/steel bumper before? My buddy has one on his double cab and I feel in love with it. Turns our Demello isn't making these at the moment. I hope they do again some day.

*pic is borrowed from the net

 

3" lift
33x12.5x15 method dbl stndrd / BFG
42" light bar w/ relentless fab low pro mounts
added 4 8" subs and 1000w amp

 

Sub setup? I was on only able to squeeze a 10" low pro behind the back seat.