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

For some reason the link only shows me the HF site and not what you wanted to show. I'm assuming it is a wire brush for an electric drill or electric grinder.

I know we all know better, but do not use anything but hand tools when the solvents are in use. They are stupid flammable! The drill or grinder would ignite the fumes and the result would not be pretty.

Do this work outside.

 

Lacquer thinner wont take factory paint off unless exposed for a really long time. I use lacquer thinner to remove bad touch-up jobs. Just be sure to wax after.

 

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And about the fire, agreed. I would use one method or the other.

 

it will completely kill any rubber shoes or plastic you touch it to and it gave me an unbelievable headache for 2 days, but i used a mix of toluene and 100% acetone at 4 toluene to one acetone to remove my work trucks DIY herculiner that was getting worn so that i could redo it took about 45 min of soaking and then it all came off by swabbing with a scrub brush... note, it also ate through my phone with only the stuff left on my hands- as in it ate through the plastic sides, the rubber buttons, and screen where i touched it.




it is not something i recommend or would willingly repeat , just saying that it works very well and very fast.

 

Shit... how'd your hand turn out? Lol

 

He now only has one hand, but no more bed liner

 

Hate it when parts are 15 min away at the ups store but they are not open on Saturdays......

 

they always change it the last minute out here....to delivery next business day

 

What makes it worst is I drove 4 hours from school so I could put these wheel bearing on my truck this weekend.... Bought them on Monday and if it wouldn't have taken Low Range tell Wednesday just to ship them they would have got here

 

That does suck. I had a ups package get lost once when I had driven home from school for the expected delivery. Tracking even said it had been delivered to doorstep. It Finally showed up for real 2 weeks later.

 

That sucks. I have the worst time with packages..... Had a u bolt flip kit get delivered to an address that didn't even exist, I had typed in the wrong zip code so it was kinda my fault, but still......I think tell this day we don't know where they went or who got them. Toytec just sent us another set.

Then TRS had sent a package to the wrong address twice after sending to the right address multiple times before....

And monstaliner sent me the wrong paint, when the invoice had the right color on it lol.

I get it, people make mistakes.... But man lol

 

you do have bad luck.

 

I had that happen with USPS, but with a twist. It showed delivered then four days later made a boomerang right back to the shipper. I never once saw the package. It gets better because the shipper and eBay basically told me to get bent no refund. It did not matter that the same trackign number showed the item delivered back to the seller. The real buyer protection was my credit card via a charge back.

 

So my fan clutch would not disengage, sounded like a vacuum cleaner all the time, so I replaced the fan clutch and still did the same thing sucking all my power, decided to take the radiator out and guess what, behind the AC condenser, the radiator was packed with
mud and dirt, bugs, leaves, you name it. I couldn't see any of this until I pulled the radiator because of the AC condenser covering 3/4 of the radiator, now runs even better,
Guess after 503,000 miles it time for a new one anyway,

 

Ordered some Trail Gear sliders today.

Also picking up a Softtopper through the group buy once Tuesday rolls around!

 

Well I started changing my exhaust manifold for an LCE header last night and damn near all the exhaust studs are stuck to their nuts. So we'll see how fast LCE can ship a full stud kit. Haha, my fault for thinking that brand new studs and nuts from last year would come out this year. I guess they do come out, but out of the head instead of the nut just coming off. No biggie, just gotta wait for studs...

 

Tundra brakes are done! Bedding in process was fun. Few neighbors think I've lost my mind driving up and down the main road.
And my oem home brewed knockoff 5 stars are painted. Looks waay better

 

Nice work, Rob!

That bed in was kinda fun, I must admit! The smell was pretty friggin strong. Totally worth it, tho, as my rotors had a nice even glaze just as described, and the pedal feel is fantastic.

 

Thanks man I feel ya on that smell. Even going 60 down the road it was hitting me right in the nose. The pedal feel is night and day! Idk how old my fluid was but it was way past its due.

 

Paint the center of your hubs?