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

What are you getting in to?

 

lovin that sand color

 

Damn. I liked that truck. Then again I liked your old truck too. So what now?

 

looks like he got it repainted with the new toyota trucks color which i kinda wanted to do

 

Tried to take some darkish picture... didn't turn out

 

Looks good to me

 

I just wish you could see the color of the truck more...

 

Got a chance to use the tent again, hopefully once I get longer brackets made I'll be able to put on top of the camper shell

 

Good to proceed?







Edit - I am an idiot. I was putting the left mark on the belt on the right cam and the right mark on the left cam. Had to fight it to get the crank shaft mark to line up.

Fixed it, but in doing so I had rotated the right camshaft slightly and then had to crank it around a few times to get it back into position so now the belt and timing marks are lined up all around. The crank never moved. The left cam had enough play to go clockwise back into lining up. Like I said I rotated the right cam clockwise with my ratchet and it would jump due to the lobes. I got it close and moved it to match up with my timing mark and got the belt on. Does the cam return to the same place every time when it's pointed at the timing mark?

 

I was almost to that point the other night and I was torquing down the number 2 idler pulley, my torque wrench broke and the bolt snapped... New bolt should be in on Tuesday.... I can't work on anything without something breaking.

 

Is that the top or the bottom one?

 

Top. My torque wrench wasn't clicking and then the bolt snapped...

 

That sucks! Did the bolt break off in the block?

 

It did, I was so glad that it at least wasn't stuck. I was able to get it out by hand.

 

This man must have gorilla hands

 

Wrapped the O-Shit handles in paracord... Sounds dumb but it added a great cosmetic effect, and now my passengers have nice grip when I'm basically thrashing them around the cab

 

Gonna buy house and build my 4Runner

 

Don't feel too bad - I had my timing belt on backwards.

 

Been there done that. such an easy mistake to make lol Arrows point outwards