PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Midnighttaco08 · Feb 5, 2017

Yep... no way to tell how nice your stereo is from the iPhone video OP

PennSilverTaco · Feb 5, 2017

Midnighttaco08 said: ↑

Yep... no way to tell how nice your stereo is from the iPhone video OP
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I will make a video with my 1080p Nikon D5300 SLR tomorrow.

Midnighttaco08 · Feb 5, 2017

Shwaa said: ↑

Man there are some big dudes in here. If I'm in a bar fight I want all of you backing me
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Got you bro

PennSilverTaco · Feb 5, 2017

Blackout14 said: ↑

Hey Charlie I do not have autism but actually have a few friends that do and find it very cool with how social you seem to be. Your right their are all different levels my one freind drive and all and if you diddnt know most would never know. You should definatly come out to some local meet ups we have campfires and hangouts and mod days and just good off and meet up..we have a great group that lives around you
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I'll send you my email address in a private message.

Midnighttaco08 · Feb 5, 2017

ThePattonTank1989 said: ↑

I will make a video with my 1080p Nikon D5300 SLR tomorrow.
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Right on man! Let's hear it!

Midnighttaco08 · Feb 5, 2017

ThePattonTank1989 said: ↑

Pour Some Sugar on Me of course! That's a classic!
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PennSilverTaco · Dec 5, 2017

Midnighttaco08 said: ↑

Right on man! Let's hear it!
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Should I do the same song?

Other songs that really bring out my stereo's true quality are:

Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N Roses
Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf
Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
Mean Streak by Y&T
My all-time favorite, Once Bitten Twice Shy by Great White...

I've got a ton more...

TRDRon14 · Feb 5, 2017

Taking a video for sound is like taking video of a 4k TV with a 1080p camcorder. Not what it's meant to do.

MadDaddy · Feb 5, 2017

lotuscupcar said: ↑

Drunk again ?
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Trying to be funny again?

jmaack · Feb 5, 2017

Make like 3 vids

Hairy Taco · Feb 5, 2017

Maybe play Bad Brains I against I for the next vid

PennSilverTaco · Feb 5, 2017

Midnighttaco08 said: ↑

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"Love Bites" is another Def Leppard song I like to blast while driving around on a nice day with the windows down.

PNW BlueReaper · Feb 6, 2017

Guess i'm the odd man out. I'm only 5'6"

natas1321 · Feb 6, 2017

well all of my friends are under 6'2 so I should be fine, I am only 5'7 so no complaints here.

bullaculla · Feb 6, 2017

ecoterragaia said: ↑

6'2" & 230lbs, only issue is that the rearview mirror gets in my line of site sometimes when I am pulling out of the parking lot at work. Otherwise, I fit just fine!!
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You got the @ImMrYo relocate bracket? One of my first mods on my OR. The 5 lug regular cab doesn't have one yet.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/review-immryo-rear-view-mirror-lift-bracket.210670/page-81

TURDGEN · Feb 6, 2017

Any chance these will work on a '16 Sport?

PNW BlueReaper · Feb 6, 2017

Trying to figure out how you keep backing up into things with a regular cab. It's nearly half the size of a DCSB. Has less blind spots, and more visibility of everything around you.

ecoterragaia · Feb 6, 2017

That's a nice clean looking install on the radio, especially considering what a base truck comes with (my regular cab has the base interior too).

cruxofthebisquit · Feb 6, 2017

Yea, I have an AWD one for a canoe business. My Sienna leaks a lot of Freon also. Lots of connections and 1 compressor to feed 2 evaporators.

taczilla · Feb 6, 2017

ThePattonTank1989 said: ↑

I've had quite a bit of experience with these vans. My parents bought one new in 2000 and owned it 4 years, and the bar where I work had one as a work vehicle/rolling billboard.

My dad was in the Navy for 25 years, and we moved A LOT. In 2000, right before we moved from Virginia Beach to Washington, my parents decided that a conversion van would be the way to go for moving cross-country every 2 to 3 years. Since 1996, I'd been keeping myself entertained with a 9-inch TV/VCR combo and was perfectly content. However, a conversion van had the TV and VCR built in and had a much more comfortable backseat than our 1996 Pathfinder. In May 2000, my parents traded their old 1990 Mazda pickup for a 2000 GMC Safari conversion van at what was then Hall GMC-Pontiac in Virginia Beach. It was blue with gold pinstripes and a tan cloth interior. It was a high-top, converted by a now-defunct company called Glaval.

In terms of reliability and dependability, the van was great. It had the venerable 4.3L V6 under the hood, mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission with a 3.42 open rear differential. The van DID NOT have a G80 locker, but it did have the trailering special package that enabled to tow up to 5,000 pounds. We lived in Washington (state) for the first 2 years we owned the van, and it didn't make a difference having an open rear since the weather there was so mild and it rarely snowed.

We moved back to Virginia, though the DC suburbs in the Northern part of the state, in the summer of 2002. My dad found out quite quickly that a rear-wheel drive van with an open rear was not well-suited to commuting to work in the snow. Luckily we had a 4x4 Pathfinder and just used that in really bad snow.

The worst problem with that van was WITHOUT A DOUBT the air-conditioner! While full-size GM conversion vans typically have rear A/C from the factory, Astros and Safaris just had a upfitter "rear fan." This is one of the reasons I believe Glaval went under...

Apparently, the conversion company tapped into the existing dashboard/front A/C to pipe cold air to the back vents. The van did NOT have rear heat, which wasn't a problem. The dashboard/front heat worked great and was adequate enough for the whole van. The A/C worked great during the first few months of ownership, but when a bunch of my relatives rode in the van during a vacation in Maine, they complained about it being hot in the backseat. My mom had to turn up the front A/C really high to keep them comfortable and made herself very cold in the process.

By the time we'd owned the van for a year, we were living in Washington. It rare gets above 75°F in the SUMMER, but we had one of those occasional unseasonably warm days in the spring of 2001. I turned on the A/C one day when my mom and I went shopping and got warm air. The van had like 15,000 miles on it and was still under warranty, so we took it to the local Chevy dealer and they recharged it for free. The A/C worked for the entire summer, but in spring 2002 it was the same song and dance...

My dad and some Navy colleagues were going to the USS Abraham Lincoln which was docked at a base in mainland Washington. It was unseasonably warm and the A/C wasn't working. I was wearing a T-shirt and shorts and spent the entire trip playing PlayStation. My dad and his friends, on the other hand, were wearing full dress uniforms and were quite uncomfortable.

Aside from the A/C, a recall on the brakes that was taken care of by GM, and some electrical problems, that van was solid. In the summer of 2003, the TV quit working right before a 7-hour drive home from Maine. By this time the warranties from both GM and the conversion company were expired. It was 3-year/36K mile for GM bumper-to-bumper, which was needed to fix the A/C for free; presumably 5-year/60K for powertrain (still good); and unknown for the conversion.

In 2004, my parents finally had enough and traded the GMC for a brand new Honda Odyssey EX in May of that year. The GMC had less than 35K miles on it at the time we sold it and was in immaculate condition, but the TV and A/C did not work. We had the Odyssey for 9 years and 130K+ miles but never had to service the A/C...

My dad recently dug up the window sticker for the Safari and I ran the VIN through CARFAX. According to the report, it was purchased from Koons Honda-GMC (where we traded it for the Odyssey) and wound up in the city of Grundy (in Appalachia region of Virginia). It is currently on it's third owner and resides somewhere in Ohio.
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Good story.

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