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

Unless you don't have one

 

Its not really that bad from the experience I had with my 99, but I just took it apart enough to get to get a ratchet in there.

 

The early headliner is vinyl and glued on AR the edges and tucked under places you can't get too. Sucks

 

A sad, sad day folks. Have to put the Tacoma up for sale (what I did today).

I would go on a rant but.... I think I'll just pour another drink instead.

 

It's a pain in the dick with the pleather 95-97 one, if you don't want to damage it you have to remove the rear window and use a heat gun to loosen the resin garbage that holds the sides up.

 

My rock sliders saved my truck after a sentra backed up into it today... RIP sentra bumper.

Also, flushed the clutch fluid out this weekend. Did about 1000 clutch burpees between loosening and tightening the bleed screw and pushing the pedal.

 

I’ll be swapping in some 4.88’s this weekend

Has anybody got any tips for setting up the gears in the clamshell? I hear it’s a PITA

 

It died at 998,000?

What a kick in the nuts.

 

Nope! Still going (I presume) the truck didn't die, it looks like the OP did. He never replied to the thread after the photo of the odo and truck was posted at 998k

Man imagine if that thing died at 999,998.

 

https://youtu.be/_asNhzXq72w

 

I'd have pushed it for 2 miles.

 

That may warrant a kick to the fender.

 

Right, even with that little bracket you still have to get back there to run the wires, if I remember right.

 

Someone really needs to stick this thread

 

I just got them put on today. Tomorrow I’ll be driving to New Orleans from Dallas so I’ll have a little bit more feel for them during and after the trip but from the drive home from 4WD it was noticeably better than what I had.

 

My front differential never came with a breather and I wanted to extend my rear one up to the gas tank filler cap.

I totally forgot, which one is which?



Totally confused on how the top one works. It's just a hallow tube with no cap on it. I believe the top one is for the rear.

 

Well the bottom one is threaded so that wouldn't work. Never seen the top one before, mine just looked like both of those combined lol

you're going to want

$6 90930-03136 Toyota Breather Plug - 90930-03136

90930-03136, which has a nipple for the hose and a closed breather like the bottom one.

 

Totally should have done my research before ordering. Darn.

 

have you ever set gears before? DO you have extra washer plates for the rear?

You need a 90 degree micrometer for the front. Its a major bitch to get it set right. I HIGHLY recommend having a pro do them if you never have. NOT a first time project or even an intermediate one.

top tube goes in the clamshell. Then a small piece of tube runs to a hard line on the diff.

as seen here:

Front Locker-11.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr


the blue tube is covering most of it.


Or you can see it here in the middle.

Front Locker.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr



The bottom...not sure. I mean its the actual breather. But i didn't think it threaded in. But there is a tube that is supposed to run up the driver wheel well that the tcase and front diff breather mount to.

 

How did I not see that... I completely did not realize that's what that looked like. I was looking for the actual breather cap that terminates that line.

Guess I'm making another order, lol. Think I can still make use of the bottom one?