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

Yeah the foam is so insignificant, I doubt it'll matter. I already planned on adding sound deadening to the truck at some point. and now seeing how easy it is for at least the door panels, I'm most definitely going to be doing that.
Yeah I don't know it's quiet and I really only hear it when I'm listening for it. It's super low on the list.

 

Timing belt and AC refill time. $600 with parts and labor aint bad huh

 

I would like too do sound deadening...truck is so loud when rolling down the hwy. I dont mind it but its a bitch when im on a phone call

 

@mechanicjon is working on a bad ass project for sound deadening

 

I'm curious what difference it makes, especially if you pull out all the lining on the back and doors and ceiling and floor. But I doubt I'll ever do all of that haha. Doors I'll definitely do though.

 

That doesnt sound fun...lol

 

Not in the slightest. I've seen people do it on here, ripping out damn near everything and adding weather proofing and sound deadening. I bet it's awesome. But I don't have the resolve to do it lol

 

Replaced my sway bar end links and all bushings.

Few questions/concerns:

1. Prior to the swap out I used to be able to articulate the sway bar by hand. Was this an obvious sign of worn out bushings?

2. After the swap out I couldn't make the facking thing budge if my life depended on it. Is this the way it's supposed to be or is it too tight? See the first picture. In order to manipulate the second side swap into place I had to wedge the breaker bar on the sway bar and literally lay all 200 lbs of my big hunk of love on top of it while I placed the top bushing, washer and nut.

3. The big "D" bushings is where I'm concerned. After much searching here and talking with Energy Suspension, I ordered the 26mm kit (rather than the 27mm). However the stock bushing I took off has "26.4" stamped on it. I'm assuming that's 26.4mm. Also the same bushings that Tim gave me off his 2004 has "27" stamped on it... again assuming that means 27 mm. Did I get too small of a bushing when I got the 26mm? See second picture for the gap that does not exist with the 26.4mm stock bushing. I did grease the hell out of the inner diameter of the bushing.

All in all it feels 1000x better on the road. No body roll, solid tracking, etc.

I'm just concerned for very little articulation when off road compared to the stock set up. Or am I overthinking this too much because the lower control arm and force will make that sway bar move?

 

White guages
Tripometer
Tach
Digital odometer

Some people living the life

 

It's one of the best things I did for my truck. For $150 and a few hours of your time it's an incredible difference.

 

What deadner did you use? I want to do my floor and door panels soon.

 

Raamaudio's BXT II (dynomat equivalent) and Ensolite.

Just so you know putting the BXT II or dynomat on your floor is going to yield very little to no results. The function of these products is to stiffen panels that are otherwise very resonant. Our floors are already pretty stiff given all the bracing, seats bolted to it, etc. For best results on the floor you want to use a mass loaded vinyl type of product. That will cut down on the frequencies coming through the floor.

But the vast majority of the road/tire noise that infiltrates our cabs comes from the rear wall and door panels (and behind the kick panels). Doing those areas will drastically reduce the amount of noise... and make your audio system sound so much better too.

 

Thanks! And yea I understand that, when I said floor I really meant in and around my driver and passender foot well. After my tub job thats my main source of tire/ engine noise into cab.
After I do that region hpefully Ill be able to see how much noise I am getting from the rest of the cab.

 

Oh yea, that'll help a lot too.

I highly recommend the raamaudio products. More effective than Dynomat at a cheaper cost.

Great write up on there website too. Explore their website but here's a good start:

http://www.raamaudio.com/pages/How%2dTo.html

 

A genuine TRD package sway bar takes the 27mm bushings. Standard is 26mm, that might be making it on the snug side.

 

Son of...

Thanks. I might get the 27mm ones and replace them.

Where the fack was this information when I was searching the forums endlessly for the size?

 

Bumper went on about a week ago and after a bit of a mounting issues with the control box on the winch...had the shop relocate it. Been waiting for the new grill to show up since the other one got cut up...finally all black in the front...tomorrow rear bumper and pretensions the winch


Finally loaded my winch n put on my yota symbol

 

Thank you sir! Ill do some reading. I like the price for it compared to dynamat

 

not sure I like the look without flares, the holes aren't very appealing

also discovered this under my front flares
at least its under the flares, Im gonna probably sand it down and bondo and paint it or something idk

 

Stop it