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

yea especially when people are impatient

 

I did experience my first slammed traffic with a manual when picking up the reg cab. Was not that fun.

 

yea my first manual driving lesson was with my dad's f-350 on a country road in the winter with ice and snow drifts at the age of 13. taught me alot on throttle control and steering correction

 

For a ham antenna? I want one lol!

 

Totally agree. Have an auto right now since my wife refuses to be thrown in. I learned on the hills of SF. Burned out a clutch real fast but I don’t have any trouble with traffic or hills now. I miss it. Gonna have to do a manual swap when we get another AWD suv for her.

 

I taught my girlfriend to drive stick in my first taco. Now she drives a 5 speed Yaris! She loves having a manual car.

Also her sisters cant drive it so they never try to borrow it

 

yeah im a bit worried my GF won't ever give me back my new truck once she gets the hang of it haha

 

How secure is it? I'd be worried that I'd catch my antenna on something and rip out the light bracket...

 

I drove a manual Forester for years. Tons of fun, especially off-roading. Really wish the first-gen double-cabs had come with manuals.

 

Yep!

 

if they did i would have a 2004 dc manual v6 instead of a nissan

 

Better than drilling a hole and having it tear a hole in the roof.

That being said, my buddy drives a full sized and has 2 holes drilled, on for a long range gps and the other for his radio and he’s never had a problem.

It’s his hunting truck so it gues used and abused year round with low hanging branches and whatever.

 

Just replaced my 15 year old stock suspension for some Fox 2.0’s front and rears!

 

not THAT hard to make it so yourself..

 

I have a lack of tools and space at my current place. I'm working on it though! My tool set has been growing steadily. I need to sell my high lift and get a different jack now though. The taco had bumpers and sliders to lift from. This doesn't, yet.

 

I have a hole in my roof already, but wouldn't mind putting a second antenna up there. The hole in the roof is really secure - the antenna would have to pull a 1" disc through a 3/8" hole...and that seems like it might be harder than pulling out a couple screws that hold in the brake light. But I say might because I haven't actually looked into how that's attached.

 

If you had a 95-97 you wouldn't even want to bother cause taking out the headliner to remove the light housing is a nightmare and a half with the faux leather. Actually putting any holes in the roof on a early 1st Gen blows.

 

That actually looks legit! Well done.

 

I’m going to be throwing some 2.0s in the rear in the next couple weeks. How you liking them? Noticeable in the rear?

 

Got the first cut on the plasma table done. Still some fine tuning to do but I can smell the bumpers already!