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

For some reason I have the sudden urge to buy a Double Cab bed and turn it into a trailer.

 

Little closer up

 

Ive wanted to do this, but a long bed, mainly just because I think it’d be fun haha. Having a RTT and not having to worry about taking it down before driving anywhere.

 

I was thinking of doing a long bed and then I realized it would be way too long for off-roading. Taking a look at other off-road trailers they're all about the size of the double cab bed - a good comparison is the Military M101 trailer size.

 

Ah I can see that. My would just be to leave at a camp. Around me the lock a lot of gates right before hunting season and unlock them after.

I think it’d be awesome to haul a trailer like that with a tent loaded with food, water and other supplies for base camp in the “back country”.

 

I tell myself I want a trailer but I have nowhere to put it, lol.

 

I really don’t have a use for one. But it’d have to give me some sort points in the expo world.

A small camp trailer would be much for suitable for my uses.

 

All trailers are a bit too much for anything more than a fire road. It's true you can drag them through technical stuff but I think we can all agree that's a pain in the ass.

 

I assume you're doing the headliner and floor as well? For the floor are you going with a mass loaded vinyl?

I have a feeling you're going to be extremely happy with the results of the sound deadening project.

Are you satisfied with the exhaust sound now? Does it still have more of a throaty note than stock?

 

So today while outside when my truck was in idle I could smell the fuel, like it was a stronger smell than when around my gf parents tundra for example.. anyone know the reason? Also thinking about getting a flow master or straight piping it.

 

You a v6 or 4cyl?

 

V6 my good sir, I was thinking maybe rust rot? Or spark plugs @Speedytech7

 

Plugs won't cause a raw gas smell but if you have rot in an evap lime that could. Are all your vacuum lines solid? Any codes? Also I'd vote you go to an exhaust shop with a full mandrel bender so not a place on Broadway or Baseline haha and have them try a couple mufflers on for ya. Lots of folks like the 16 and 18 inch Magnaflows for the V6.

 

Where did you get those bucket seats?! I need to get rid of the 60/40 split bench in mine.

 

Mini Mexico! Haha no I don't have any codes at all, I'm going to have to look for a leak but don't think I have one, you know of a good muffler shop? I've heard good things about Scottsdale muffler but not too sure about it

 

I love it down there, lots of cool stores and junkyards but I'm not sure I'd ever get any auto work done there. I haven't heard anything about Scottsdale muffler, probably good if they have a pipe bender on site (some places only have pre bent pipe and that doesn't come out so nice). Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll notice if you have any holes in evap or fuel return lines. Possible to get a fuel smell if the fuel regulator fails too.

 

Going to do the headliner and floor, but didn't get any mass loaded vinyl. Got two packs of this:

$166 Noico 80 mil (2 mm) 36 sqft (3.4 sqm) car Sound deadening mat, Butyl Automotive Sound Deadener, Audio Noise Insulation and dampening

https://www.amazon.com/Noico-deaden...?ie=UTF8&qid=1517281769&sr=8-3&keywords=noico

and a roll of their closed cell foam. Looks nearly identical to the raamaudio stuff and quite a bit cheaper.

Will report back on the exhaust after I get to listen to more than moving the truck from the garage to the backyard. Seems like it will have a little noise when you get on it, but very quiet the rest of the time, guessing I'll be really happy.

That being said, after spending $150 on the muffler, and then $70 on the resonator, don't know why I didn't just leave the stock muffler on...

That's a Sparco R100. I had to weld the stock feet onto a Sparco bracket to get it to work. IIRC, Corbeau makes brackets for the 1st gen if you want bolt in.

 

Yeah that would be really tough with anything but a rolling hotdog stand haha. I'm pretty decent at backing trailers and I wouldn't want anything to do with one on a shelf road like that.

 

Looks clean. I have a collection of engine harnesses and body harnesses that have been warrantied that I'm slowly getting made into harnesses for stuff I'm adding... talk about a chore, you sir are patient

 

It is indeed is a chore. My first harness took six months, this one took probably a weekend.