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

Haha. I dont mind.. There is actually a restaurant called sol in woodland. Thought you might have reffered to that. We should do beers, i mean "lunch"..lol

 

Beers are lunch in my book. I'd be up for hoisting a pint of two. We can compare mods.

 

building a tool kit for a friend to get him started

What size wrenches/other tools have you found to be invaluable while on the trail?

 

Did some shit.




And found this under the stock soundproofing shit.



Going to order a vinyl floor so I never need to deal with moldy carpet again. Also going to strip and paint all the rust spots. Also took photos for a carpet removal write up since the one that used to exist is now gone.

 

I'll be looking for that write up. I want to bedline my floor and then just put the carpet back over it, I do like the idea of vinyl though.

 

10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21mm sockets and end wrenches. Breaker bar as well as ratchets. Also 35 or 36mm socket for changing cv's (depending on the year). Pliers, hammer, pry bar or several. Wd-40, starting fluid, assorted vehicle fluids. Vice grips. Screw drivers. This is getting random. I'm sure I can think of more.

 

That about how mine looked after the flood, still need to steam cleam my carpets to get that stank out.

 

Yeah I also found some spots water came in at, surprisingly not from the tub. Going to re-seal everything inside anyway lol.

 

oddly enough for me it is a purple piece of 30mm pipe named barney that slips over the handle of my ratchet/vice-grips/ect... the extra leverage has saved my bacon more times than I can count... the other odd ones I carry and use frequently but I don't often see others with; the well used shag carpet and a cheap magnetic light...

 

I have a full ratchet set under passanger seat. Screwdriver set and big thumb wrench in one cubby. And loads of miscellaneous things in the other (wire strippers, spare bulbs, tape, epoxy, wire, zip ties, washers nuts and bolts, electrical wire etc..)

 

Going to be buying the toytec/eiabach kit in a couple days and was wondering if anyone on here is running this kit? My truck now has a skyjacker lift kit put on by previous owner and I think it is shot my truck bounces really bad and rides awful, trying to smooth out my ride

 

I had the Toytec Boss kit and it was shot after a few years....honestly never rode that well to begin with. I would highly recommend going with ADS, King, Fox, or Icon if you are truly looking for a upgrade worthwhile

 

I don't wanna go with coilovers not looking to spend that much money, or I would get king coilovers but I'm looking for a full kit.

 

I previously ran the skyjacker shocks before going with the Bilsteins. Huge improvement.

 

Why not OME then?

 

I was just looking at the ome kit I may do that one cause Toytec sais the bilstien kit is out of stock and will go on back order

 

Fixed my loose steering column shaft today. Used a roll pin and the original hole. Just drilled it out to 1/8 inch.



Also my steering wheel didn't tilt as far as my other taco. So I filled the stop area to get one more tilt notch out of it.

 

I'm quickly coming to the realization that a TRD Supercharger is damn near impossible to find.

I've been looking for months and they just never surface.

 

You can buy them new still from LCE

 

I saw the Magnuson, same as the TRD? That price...I was reading through forums from a few years ago where guys were getting the TRD for less than half that before it was discontinued. For that price I'll have to just keep scouring Craigslist. Thanks for the heads up man.