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

thanks! so do I, gives it a more complete look imo, looked empty without it

 

Installed my Trail Gear bumper this weekend. It, along with the front guts of my truck will get painted black after I get the light hoop welded on.

The blinkers will get moved up to the corner lights hopefully this weekend.

Also, that cross member was a BITCH to get on.

 

Did you build in some type of supports underneath the plate up against the grille n fenders areas? What Guage plate did you use?

Looks great. I want to go this route as well.

 

Same here

 

Every time I see your truck, I think to myself, I want to drive down and see this beauty in person

 

Ordered a Detroit locker for my 02 DC Pre Runner

 

Haha thanks man! I'll be at the Belching Beaver meet in December, prefect excuse to head down!

 

Thanks! mainly did it for looks, not expecting to carry more than a few pounds on top of it really, I've sat on it before and it hardly moved though, feels solid. I used 3/16". If I was gonna do this again Id probably have set the plates down a bit more rather than on top of the tubing, I found that it went under the grille just fine but when it wrapped around the sides I needed to actually cut it out around the body because the bumper is tilted slightly forward (I think all of them are like this). Had I set it down further I could've just made a simple plate that sits under the body and everything.

 

Finally got to change out the lower ball joints this evening after work. Defiantly feel more comfortable driving around now haha.






If all goes as planned I'll be picking up a camper shell this Saturday finally

 

Washed my poverty spec double cab. It has the interior of the single cab tacos base model, since most Double cabbed are guessied up with options. Not mine. No clock, no nothing!

Also appreciated my 225. Skinny bitches unite.

 

Don't know anything about it, will look it up.

Not sure if my poverty spec stock rig is even allowed to come to a meet

 

whats the part number for those? looking to buy some tonight there seems to be different kinds or something?

 

I got them from Camelback Toyota. Bolts come separately btw.
Here is the price they quoted me along with part numbers

 

The link below shows how to swap Scion seats but it will work for 4Runner sets too, I put the 4Runner seats in my truck
https://vimeo.com/25126120

 

New battery installed

The Exide battery plant had a 24FX in stock, 800 CCA.

 

I might need one. Its going on 4 years old. No issues yet, but in case it dies.

 

Ya when I installed mine I found the same issue of it not sitting 'level' and tiled forward. When I was looking to do it I was thinking of using 1/8" but with that thin of metal I think I would definitely need some kind of small supports to catch it against the front end and body panels. 3/16" sounds like it's thick enough to not be floppy or flimsy?

Do you wheel your truck at all? Just wondering with any amount of body flex, if the fenders and so on would make contact with the plate. Also Do you plan to install a winch in the future?

 

Mines also not level and is tilted forward...

 

Ya someone dropped the ball when the where mocking these up for production. Or the truck they used had some issues with it.

 

I was also told that our trucks aren't the most symmetrical things in the world...