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

A lot of times they’ll stick the bushings in for easier packaging/shipping.

 

Lesson learned only took about an hour and a half start to finish to grease them, but woulda took less than a minute if I would have checked a few weeks ago when installed them lol

 

Sweet set up. What kind of tires are those

 

mickey thompson mtz p3 265 75 r16 i love them there not bad in terms of road noise and traction i havent had problems with mud, snow and ice.

 

You have too much slack in all of those throttle cables. They should be firm, no visible slack. That will give you better throttle response, and the transmission won't hesitate before kicking down when you accelerate (which it probably hasn't been doing because that's the one that is disconnected).

 

I replaced my driver side interior door handle. Probably should have gone OEM, but I wanted to save 30$ and went with cheapo version from Taiwan. Yeah, the color doesn't match, but who cares. Armrest replacement coming soon(ish).


Also, does anyone know if you need to remove the entire door panel to remove these electronic window armrests? Or can I just unscrew and pop it out like the handle? Gonna try to tackle that tomorrow if it doesn't rain.

 

It's depressing.

 

My brother is in Gunisson going to school. Says all the snow on Crested butte is man made. Thats crazy.

 

My dad has received almost as much snow as I have.

He lives in Florida.

 

Here where we stand on our mountain from this storm.

5 inch’s in town.

 

Optical illusion. Did have a minor freak out when I realized I had no power steering adjustor lock nut. See my post below.

Yeah they seemed pretty loose to me. Only had the truck for about a month and still catching up on maintenance. I'll go back and tighten them tomorrow, thanks.

 

Followed this write-up, https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/problem-solved-the-led-headlights-glare-guard-mod.395222/

Only took an hour or so with the dremel and cut off wheel to fabricate two of the guards. Must say they really do make the OPT7 bulbs work in the first gen housings. I had bought the bulbs last summer, but removed them due to the glare they were giving oncoming drivers. This mod cured the problem.

 

Welp that was an interesting day. As I posted earlier, I found my alternator belt was breaking into two pieces:



Went to the dealership and bought new drive belts. Started pulling the PS belt and found out I had no adjustor lock nut, somehow got lucky and the bolt just stayed in place:



Ran back and forth to the hardware store until I found the right nut and got that secure, pulled the rest of the belts and tensioned them, let it run and checked tension. I don't have a belt tension gauge so I measured ~1/2" for the alternator and 1/4" for the PS and AC belts. I think I'll drive a little bit and then go to the parts store and rent a gauge if they have one. Torqued everything to spec and have Timmy the Toolman's great video to thank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1XfFUOjKc

While I had everything out I figured, why the hell not, I'll replace brakes and rotors too. 5 hours later, here I am.




My only real mission to start the day was change the oil on my wife's Accord and chase my CEL code, but alas, this is how it goes sometimes.

 

Put on these heavy fuckerz

 

Jesus. Why did you plate them so damn much? Haha

 

That doesn't look very enjoyable to drag across rocks....

 

Yeah should have done the inside.

 

My pops did. I guess he got tired of me asking him to bend them back...lol

Why do people keep saying that? Its another 3/16 on top. I highly doubt i will get stuck because of that

Or maybe i missed something? Being honest here

 

Its to close to shit. Then i wouldnt be able to mount them due to clearance

 

You went from a smooth surface to drag across rocks to a surface with multiple ridges. It certainly will not help you any.

Haha fair enough. That's a lot of extra weight