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

Thanks James! I did order them just a couple minutes ago, along with OEM rotors cause the aftermarket ones warped... from my aftermarket calipers deciding to stay locked up.. but I cant afford the OEM calipers at the moment

But dude ya, I order everything from Boch...its pretty much next day! Camelback is great, but fuck waiting for parts to ship across country. I'm too impatient when it comes to the Yota

Have fun wheelin' this weekend, don't go climbing gravel piles without me

 

I have no idea..but my neighbor described hers being a loud metal on metal grinding/scraping sound that happened briefly and very intermittently, usually in the morning when she left for work. I drove her truck down the street to see what it was, and the fucker never made a peep. truck felt and drove completely solid and quiet...I was actually a little jealous. Now, not so much

 

Mine mad a clunk going over bumps slow

 

Clunking/popping coming from that area. Best way to check your LBJ's is to jack up the front end as closely to the ball joint as you can (bottle jack right under the lower control arm works well), just high enough to get the wheel off the ground. Then use a long metal rod like a long screwdriver to check for play in the ball joint. Take the screwdriver and place it between the ball joint and the spindle so you can get leverage against the ball joint and try to move it up and down, if there's any play in it then it's bad. You can also try moving the wheel up/down or side to side to see if there's any play in the wheel, that can also mean you have a bad LBJ or possible bad wheel bearing.

 

Here's a video showing what a bad LBJ looks like when you leverage against it to check for play...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqw85L_sMgE

 

Cleaned off 13 years of oil/junk and repainted my factory skid

 

Looks nice! My factory skid looks like a crushed tin can, picking up an aftermarket steel skid next week.

 

Damn that looks brand new.

 

I'm with ya on that, mines not good for much. what aftermarket one did you find? I'm trying to decide in the next couple weeks..

 

Well that's not exactly good.

 

I plan on picking up a Budbilt hopefully before the new year. If only you guys knew how much work went into pounding out all the dents and powerwashing all of the garbage off this bastard...

 

Just in case anyone's interested.

 

Interesting...why the reduction to 4:30's? Why not trade for 4:56's. Great price for ECGS 4.88's though, damn

 

I dunno would a guy run these with 255s?

 

You mean static tensioner . Yep it's working great as a nose cone support! I still think all kits should include some type of nose cone support for the superchargers.

 

Found a Budbilt one on here actually in the for sale section, local.

 

I guess it wouldn't hurt, 4:30's just such a rare beast it seems I run 33's with 4:10's, manual trans and rarely feel under powered, but plan to add armor and more weight.. so I'm trying to decide between 4:56 and 4:88's ( the two standard ratio's when upgrading, right?), thats why I'm curious. With the research so far...4:56's seem adequate for 33's/weight/ man. trans; 4:88's for larger wheels/more weight/ auto trans...

 

Not to much here in Az. It's just becoming wheeling season here. Seems like theres some local trail planned every weekend.

That's how I feel. Finally getting my truck figured out and now its going to be during school. Haha. Just means I have more time.

 

Personally I don't think I'd go less than 4.88s on 33s but then again my truck weighs a lot and it's missing 2 cylinders and most of my driving is above 8000ft.

 

Brett and I found that 4.88s with a MT and 33s is practically the same as 5.29s with 35s and a MT.

If you Offroad a lot. 4.88s all day. If your an auto Id even consider 5.29s. With 33s

More of a dd. 4.56. With a mt is fine.