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

Lol well for now my truck is mostly stock..I've done a few mods here and there but planning on getting a topper and I really need new struts for the front and new rear shocks. I'll probably get 5100's and just make my own AAL. I work for Toyota so the springs for the E02 recall for the newer tacos I'll just cut those down to size and make it myself. Other than that I have FJ coils up front which gave me about an inch and a half!

 

Don't be this guy... he's on here somewhere

 

Trust me. I would never own a 3rd gen even if someone gifted it to me. I'm a tech for Toyota and know first hand all the problems with them. Couple guys at my work have already had to do front cover reseals on them...no thanks.

 

I also wouldn't pay $32k+ for a go pro mount...I can pick that up on Amazon and mount it wherever I want.

 

Nothing wrong with stock. I always drive my mom's stock 95 and it's still the funnest taco at my house to drive out of the 4 we have.






Granted that statement isn't true once you hit the dirt...but you know what I mean.

 

Oh monte, I've been following your builds for a couple of years. Frank is a legend. And Igor is igor. Pretty crazy how far frank has come in the last handful of years. I remember when he was grey...

 

Good color.

Good times!


No regrets at all.

But nothing wrong with a nice runnin stock 1st gen. 1st gen is best gen.

 

i'm not familiar with that praticular one, for all i know it could be a dud. is it set within the 0-5 range? normally they are opposites so you have to twist it, and that would explain why reverse pushes air and forward is going very slow.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty lucky to have come across this truck. Last year I wasn't really looking for a new truck...and this one came in on trade for a 16 and I got it within 3 days. 203k miles. My wife had a heart attack when I told her how many miles it had..but I shrugged and said, it's a Toyota.

 

Bennett

 

New brake pads, some paint touch up, next is to get my limit straps welded on.

 

looking good

hola

 

Thanks for the help, I think I'm going to exchange it. Knowing it's HF it's probably a dud.

 

How much pressure is in the tank? You need at least 90 psi for the most efficient operation of that gun.

Second, have you oiled it. You need a few drops of very light oil in the gun on a daily basis.

 

Looks great man!!

 

That beam pattern and scatter is not good buddy

 

Looks good buddy. Where you located?

 

Pretty sure I had it at 90 PSI, I'll double check. I did not oil it, I will have to do that.

 

Added a bed bar from Low Range Off-road. I welded on some mounts similar to a high lift to securely mount my bikes in the bed.

Anyone have any suggestions for some inexpensive lights to mount on here as well?
I'm Looking for something to work as bed lighting as well a little extra reverse lighting

 

Not sure about lights for the bed, but flush mounted led lights are super cheap on Amazon, they are like 17 bucks for two. You can mount them in your bumper and wire them to your reverse lights. Planning on doing this myself