Kemosabe's Little bitty life build thread

2010 Barcelona Red Access cab Tacoma, 4x4 and loaded with the bulletproof 2.7L, bought in 2014 with 116 000 km (72k miles). Now It's at 300k km. The truck is week end warrior and brings me hunting and fishing


List of repairs (with approx km) :

- O2 sensor and everything related to it at 116 000 km.

- Driver side front wheel bearing and hub seal (+- 125 000 km)

- Driver side front wheel bearing and hub seal (again) (dont remember millage but around 100 000 after first time

- nearly complete front end (UCA, LCA, inner/outer tie rods, passenger side wheel bearing, steering intermediate shaft) (around 295 000km)

- A/C hose that was leaking

- Hand brakes cables (seized after first winter)

- Both front axles(217 000km) Driver side boot was leaking so I changed both axles... because the price was good! Note: had to put back oem axle on driver side since replacement had failed (maybe 285 000km)

- Axle seals , How to remove Axle

- Serpentine belt (prevention)

- If my memory is good, that's it for now, wich is pretty good for having the truck in my possession for 3 years now and rolled 100 000 km for 7 years and 184 000km

"Mods"

Suspension

- 1.5" thick spacer lift on stock blue and yellow Bilstein (to be upgraded in 2018)

- 2" blocks in the back with Ranchos RS9000XL shocks

- Front OME 884 with Bilstein 5100 set at 0

- Rear Wheelers 2"AAL in a close to brand new OEM leaf pack, with Bilstein 5100

Exterior

- Home made "satoshie grill" with color match surround

- Apex fabwork (now caliraised LED) amber LED fog lights in ARB bumper w home made brackets

- Toyota bug deflector and AVS rain guard

- Fiberglass cap with cross bars

- LED backup lights on the cap

- LED license plate lights

- Toyota with deer antlers sticker on the tailgate

Interior

- LED dome and map lights

- Dome lights and map light on together

- Husky liner floor mats

- Carhartt seat covers

- Carhartt rear seat organizer

- Rear center console delete

- Dog plateform

Wheels and tire


- OEM TRD offroad 16" alloys plastidipped black (came on my Canadian SR5)

- 235-85-16 E Rated Falken Wildpeaks AT3W

- Set of steelies still on primer for winter

- 245/75/16 Toyo GSi5 winter tires

- OEM T4R 1997 alloys (to become winter tire set) Sold

- 265/70/16 BF Goodrich Long Trail (to be changed) Sold

- 1.25 Spidertrax wheel spacers


Armor

- BPF IFS skid

- Front ARB Deluxe bull bar

Recovery

- Amazon's Maxsa innovation escaper buddy traction boards. to be tested

- Runva 11XP winch

Performance

- URD short throw shifter for 2.7 Tacomas

- AFE Pro dry S drop in air filter

- Second air filter deleted

Communication

- Stock head unit

- Uniden 510 XL CB paired with a 5' firestick antenna, mounted on the tailgate


Misc

- Engine block heater (write up not by me)



List of wants/needs :

 

Pics!

 

Thanks buddy!

 

Been waitin! ​

 

Me too lol don't know why it took so long!

 

Better late than never ​

 

Sooooo! I've just finished washing, hand polishing (first tine of its life), and waxing (first time in a year and a half). Took me 3 hours and a few beers lol its been a while since I had the truck clean like that! Feels good!

 

And also wired my hellas on my fog lights until I have time to wire them on their own switch

(Sorry for crappy pic)

 

So yesterday was cleaning, today is a little mecanic. Passenger side axle seal at the diff is leaking since I put the new shaft in, so my guess is that I damaged it when I pushed the new axle in... So today I am take everything apart again to change that seal. Starting it now

 

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Just took the seal out! That is the hardest part! Used a prybar with tape on the tip as described in this thread : https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/help-with-front-axle-seal.165522/

Really useful! But I highly recommebd to have a seal puller since I had to use my foot to push on the prybar to apply enough pressur! Nearly knocky my face in the spindle when it popped out!

 

Weapon of the crime...

 

Be careful!!!​

 

As always!

Now to put the new seal in... don't know how in hell I'll put it there with all the pressur needed...

 

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New seal in. Now to put all back together and go get a 10mm hex head socket to drain the front diff and fill it up with new oil! Hope the seal won't fail since I didn't had the right tools to put it there... if it leaks again I'll get al the tools! Buying tools is an investment!

 

Afe washable air filter getting ready to go back in the truck lol

 

Noice!

 

Welcome to the thread!