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

Upgraded the battery today

 

I have to say I do really like those, if I ever get tired of my SCS I'll probably do D window steelies like those. But I would be wary of any 15in wheel claiming to fit a tundra, they never came with 15" wheels ever and all the evidence says 15" wheels don't fit over tundy calipers. I would say a 16" that you have seen on a tundra or a tundra brake swapped taco or any 17" you like is safer. Should be able to find some 16" steelies and even some 17"

 

https://m.summitracing.com/parts/vsw-84h7883ns

These are 17" and 4.0 backspacing... Plenty of options on Summit if you filter it down to steel wheels with 6x5.5 bolt pattern. Have to make sure the hub bore is correct though.

 

What??? And no beer session?

 

Sorry Mike It was an unplanned trip and I have to run back over the pass early tomorrow to avoid road closure. Hoping it isn't all ice

 

Thats a great looking wheel. totally unbiased opinion

 

Giving the fenders the truck bed coating treatment.

 

details details details please

 

That Duplicolor Bedliner you can get at Oriellys in the blue rattle can does a good job on stuff like this.

 

ok to do it on the truck

i am debating on painting mine

currently its a smooth service with a bit of shine to it

so was wondering if i could do that, or do something like yours

 

After seeing how these attach to the truck on your year I can understand wanting to do it on the truck. Those clips are annoying.... But I would take them off and so you can avoid trying to mask around the truck and the rubber flare edge thing. You have a white truck and this bedliner would have super noticable overspray. The distance at which you spray affects the finishing texture. Looks damn good when it's dry though. I don't have flares but it's on my front bumper and I use it to patch chips on my real bedliner. Also the black portion of my grille is bedlined.

Ignore the lack of a bumper, I masked an painted my grill from about 8-10" distance to give a light texture and this is how it came out. Pic is the only one I have that's close enough to show detail.

 

I'll make sure to check that. Thanks.

Hmm. Mine doesn't sound like it's from there, but with now 2 people mentioning this to me, I'll give it a closer inspection.

 

Rust-Oleum Truck Bed Coating. Works great. Got the idea from @cbechtold's build.

His post on the fender flares is from July '15. And judging from the photo in his first post, it looks like it is holding up fairly well.

 

Watched a video of a guy using Duplicolor on his bed rails. Looked like a very nice finish. Very similar to the Rust-Oleum.

 

Went and checked for play and such again. Now I don't know much about LBJs but this looks exactly like LBJ movement examples I've seen before.
The perspective makes it look like the truck is moving, but I'm moving the tire up and down.

https://youtu.be/uLeVjbEWNW0

 

Check my build. I swear by this stuff. Looks great too

 

That joint is on the verge of failing. Get it replaced before it pulls apart on you while driving.

 

Will do. I'll head to the dealership today.

 

Make sure you get new bolts too.

 

Oh yeah they don't come with new bolts, do they? Or at least not usually, from what I've read.