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

Thats what my old retros had.

 

Nice! I've done that before.... Never in the truck though. What happened?

 

Had to do a roadkill style oil change with very limited tools because the drain bolt loosened off from home to college haha

 

I took a bunch of pics before I sell it, 4x4 TRD.

 

I took it out for a short drive. I'm trying to keep it out of the salt until I can repair/reenforce the frame. So it's been in my garage almost all winter. It was nice to go for a drive.

On a side note...Anyone running line locks? If so how well are they working for you? It doesn't look like there is much info on TW about them.

 

Yup. A 120mm back an 80mm for front

 

U could always hit the whole bumper with bedliner? I did that when i was running the stock bumper.....check my build

 

Yeah I was about to that that when I first did my conversion and got the bumper but since I already took the time to color match the plastic parts I'll just paint and do like the looks of color with black valence like 11-15 models

 

Nice...it will look good








So i was gonna go to 4wd parts today. ... Got tied up at work and got out late....fack!

 

Shit happens, good thing it happened to someone prepared to deal with it. Happened to a buddy and I in his Jeep, although a tranny cooler line slipped free in his case.

 

I drove mine practically all day, realized I'm overdue for an oil change... Just spent the entire day exploring roads I drive past all the time but never usually go down... was a lot of fun. Now I know some more shortcuts and cool places to take pictures.

 

That I'm overdue for an oil change? Uh, I don't have a window sticker because I change it myself.... but I have the mileage on my phone somewhere.... lol

I didn't take any pictures while out today because I left my SLR at home, but here is one from before I left when I was taking the bike to go get new tires...

 

I found a nice steering wheel in the junkyard to replace mine. I'm going to replace it anyway at some point with a more race style one but this was only $10 so I grabbed it. A lot better than my nasty one I have now.

 

Pic?

 

Of my nasty one or the good one? haha

 

I'm just curious if they're the same style. I can't ever find Toyota truck parts in the junkyards here... except the high end one where they pull the parts for you (but where's the fun in that)

 

It's just the factory two spoke one, this is just a pic of the internet, but it's the same one. I like the Upull style junkyards but the only thing I HATE is how people destroy other things to get to things. Like cutting wiring harnesses instead of unplugging them.



I was originally in there to pull a rear Tundra axle, but it had ABS. I need to do more research to see if that's doable or not. I don't know if it's any weaker or if it matters in any way. Not sure if anyone who knows about them could chime in.

 

Oh okay...

I think the whole issue with ABS and non-ABS isn't strength but availibilty of axle shafts and bearings.

 

Here's my old one for the giggles...or the vomits lol Nasty

 

It's freaking gross lol Not caused by me. I bought it and it had a steering wheel cover on it. Pulled it and that's what I found. Not only is it loose on it's internal metal thing (it will roll forward and backwards)...it's SOFT. It's like gross and squishy I don't know wtf happened to it lol and it's not dirty, that's its color LOL