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

So the receivers on the seats are from the 4runner?

 

Un-Plastidipped my front bumper and polished it.

 

Removed that malignant growth from my front end (Waag bull bar) in preparation for a little sum sum from Homertaco. And gave her a bath too.



Fender-matched my rear bumper with some left over Rust-Oleum bed coating. Went straight over the chrome, so I'm not expecting a durable finish.

 

Do you have a good ground? What did you ground it to? Any paint on either surface the ground wire is mated to?

 

Does anyone know if the 01-04 double cab interior door handles are interchangeable with the front and rear?

I need to order two new ones for the front doors, and the ones made for the rear are 10 dollars cheaper than the ones made for the front door. The rear ones are also shipped with Amazon Prime, lol.



TO RECAP: Will the rear doublecab interior door handles work with the front doors?

 

That wheel tire combo looks bad ass, hombre.

 

Thanks. Looking forward to getting them dirty. Just need a month or so of warm weather to melt the snow. Might not be until the end of May.

 

I parked my truck on the drive way and I noticed some oil on the ground. I look under and I see this is full of oil. This there a thread on more info on it, or the name of it.

 

Anyone ever replaced oem body mount bushings with poly's? Noticed my cab is sagging 1/4"+ compared to the bed by body line comaprison. Removing the front bumper necessary?

 

Yes you must remove the bumper to reach them, actually with the relentless it may be possible to leave it on. I wouldn't do poly though, suspension is fine with poly because high stress and weight makes the impact less noticeable to the driver. But holding the cab I have a feeling unless it was a super soft durometer it would be more jarring. I'd get new rubber mounts.

 

I thought about that also. Energy claims to be better than new oem both with longer life and better ride but i dont know. Need to find someone who has done it

 

I just washed mine Saturday--that's all...

 

Picked her up today. Bone stock.

 

I've got a set of ES body mount bushings that should be going in soon. Will report back.

 

I've had stock mounts, ES poly mounts, and now a poly Daystar 1" body lift (oh noes!) that is integral to the mounts. So far, I definitely prefer the poly, but then again, I don't have any experience with brand new rubber mounts. I'm sure they ride nicely.

One thing I noticed about the poly after the factory rubber was a reduction in higher frequency vibes and noise with a slightly harder feel on sharp hits to the suspension. But the poly also felt more 'planted' on turns, so that helped offset the slightly harsher feel on big hits. YMMV.

 

Bathed it in fluid film.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/what-can-go-wrong-with-my-truck.457350/page-3#post-14872848

 

Proper torque spec for Spidertrax is 85 ft lbs, correct? red or blue Loctite?

 

I always did 90. Never used locktite on my spacers. Would check them time to time..never got loose once.

 

How would you convince someone not to do Moog LBJ's? "They've got a lifetime warrenty"

 

No, have to swap to Tacoma receivers... ordered from dealer online, cost reasonable and easy to swap.