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

Spent an hour or so pulling my steering wheel column to tack weld the slip joint, eliminating the slop in it. Best use of my time ever on this truck. Highly recommend. Here is a link with good pictures, but be sure to go to post 42, , as this whole process only requires removing the plastic clam shell behind the steering wheel, removing the springs for the tilt column, pulling two allen bolts, and one bolt at the floorboard, plus disconnecting the various wiring components at the wheel. You do need some needle nose vise grips to pull the tilt springs (hardest part of the whole process)! A couple of tack welds on the slider, and put her all back together again.

 

Awesome. I really need to do this.

 

Thank you sir!

 

Remove the old speakers before buying new ones, to be sure of the size.

 

Camelback Toyota

I just searched for 1998 4x4 3.4 since your post wasn't specific enough.

 

Thanks man - the question was supposed to be a little more detailed, but since no one replied I had moved on to an odyssey of research last night and wound up here:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lower-ball-joints.476593/page-3#post-14473244

The reason I was asking is because someone offered a pretty good deal on an lbj with a skirt and I was trying to find more info on the skirt and hardware issue since I guess they use different hardware. I never updated my question thinking it got left behind so thanks for not letting a question get left behind Happy Fourth of July

 

Had a good day at cashes valley even though I was the only Toyota there haha the jeeps needed some kinda support!

 

Looks like fun. Nice truck!

 

Will do sir

 

Installed some procomp es9000s Painted my tailgate

 

Let me know how you like the es9000's. Thinking of getting some for my truck.

 

Washed it and put stockers on. Planning on doing alot of pavement driving w/ occasional lava rock and cinder road driving.


And yes i love white letters on tires.

 

Took a pile of spare cv parts and made this.



Old spindles are great for cv assembly.

 

I have em on my 03 dc with an ask. They do the job and didn't break the bank. I'm a prerunner so I don't off road much but when I do it's usually pretty light

 

Took her for a drive and something feels lose up front. Not sure what yet, didn't have time to really diag. Felt like side to side play moslty at slow speed (nearly stopped) specifically if the truck rocked side to side a little bit. Maybe its nothing but I'll look into it tomorrow... All the LBJ fail stories make me hyper sensitive.

 

Love those classic Toyota wheels too

 

. Coming from billies 5100 and honestly feels a lot better off-road . Going the long travel route So until I fork out the money for the fox2.0s I will be using these . Extended length of 34

 

Do you have the shark teeth/mouth painted on the side of your truck? I think you texted me about my bed liner?

 

Mounted my shovel today. Used a cable lock to secure it for now. Anyone know of other ideas for locking gear besides this setup? Enjoy some poser shots while you're at it too!

 

Tore out the seats and carpet.