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

@because_minitruck @shelby0808

I think this covers most of it in the OP, and 74s are mentioned in the following posts.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/first-gen-bulb-types-fyi.128857/

 

Here ya go 2001 Toyota Tacoma Car Replacement Light Bulb Chart
Low Beam Headlight Bulb Size: 9003/HB2
High Beam Headlight Bulb Size: 9003/HB2
Parking Light Bulb Size: 168 or4157NALL
Front Turn Signal Bulb Size: 4157NALL
Rear Turn Signal Bulb Size: 1156
Tail Light Bulb Size: 1157
Stop Light Bulb Size: 1157
High Mount Stop Light Bulb Size: 168
License Plate Bulb Size: 194
Back Up Light Bulb Size: 921
Front Sidemarker Bulb Size: 168
Dome Light Bulb Size:

$9 DE3175 31mm LED Interior Dome Light Map Bulb Door Courtesy for Car 1.22" DE3021 DE3022 Festoon Bulbs White Pack of 4

DE3175
Step/Courtesy Light Bulb Size: DE3021 or DE3022
Instrument-General Bulb Size: 194

 

That's the one!

 

A good spray on rust prevention for the underside of all this new plating? Truck doesn't see water often, but like to blast it with the pressure washer after a few off road trips.

edit:
Found this stuff. I'll brush it on.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Magnet-P...wl11=online&wl12=50198415&wl13=&veh=sem#about

 

New brake pads. The indicators on the old ones have been squealing for several months; I just never get time to do it. Today I came home from work earlier and decided to do it. I actually forgot how easy these are since they just slide in from the front. All my other vehicles I have to remove the callippers.

 

Easy? I guess they could be if the caliper pins would come out. Both of mine were seized in. A few methods later, and all I wound up with was pins that had flattened heads that, even if they would finally come out, they couldn't
So new calipers it was.

 

Question: Do you all use shims on the brake pads? Some say it is not needed and some say it is. My previous set had 2 shims on each pad.

 

I would have, but the pads I got (EBC greenstuff) had some sort of pseudo-shim built in and they explicitly say not to use shims with their pads. If the pads come with them, I would suggest using them.

 

Fortunately I am in Florida. Minimal rust. They came right out.

 

mine were seized so bad i broke the casting for one of them.

 

I cannot contain my envy for low-rust environments.

Fucking hell. That must have taken some serious force.

 

I ended up using the solid one. The perforated one came with the previous set (Wagner Thermoquiet) and specifically said it was for noise reduction. The new set (Bosch) did not come with any.

 

Well either way, I can't imagine a shim would cause any harm being there even if it's not needed. But for these types of things, I always research it beforehand, just in case.

 

The set came with a packet of grease, and the only place to use it is between the pads and shims, so I based my decision on that.

 

Good thinking then.
I do think grease can be used on all contact points though. Not just where the pad meets the shim, but any spots where it sits against the caliper.

 

I'm leasing cars as long as I stay in the north east. Fuck dealing with shit rust welded together.

 

I'm largely against leasing vehicles, but the more I work on mine, the more I see the benefit in it. At least for a DD. But my overwhelming desire to...get to know my vehicles would probably stop. I couldn't imagine essentially borrowing a car for a while and getting rid of it. Seems so...normie.

 

I found some rust on my truck. Lower back corner of the skid plate. I am devistated!

 

You can go fuck yourself.

 

my skid plate rusted off literally...