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

A set of pliers, there is a lip on the clip, watch for bloody knuckles.

 

Lol

 

This was the only victory I can claim when wrenching with Viking Brett. Yours looks a bit different than my 98 but I used a breaker bar as a fulcrum and pried the clip out of the bracket using a needle nose vise grip. Easy Peasy.

I attempted to remove it another time with with 45acp just using pliers, months earlier, and we gave up. Even stumped me and Viking Brett months later when we were replacing my LBJs... until I had a fleeting moment of genius.

 

Id advise using needle nose vice grips.

or a screw driver to rotate it.

 

Look at the clip that holds the lock on your gas door, same deal.

 

There is a clip behind here right where the red arrow is, then you have to pry it up. BUT!!

I would remove the hard line first. It’s a 10mm nut that would be best to get a brake line wrench on.

Then remove the clip and the line will pull right out.

 

The gods must been smiling on me because I just pushed on it and got it to angle up and it came right off super easy I probably shouldn’t post this cause the passenger side clip probably won’t come off so nicelyThanks for the fast response guys you guys are awesome

 

Was she hot?

 

Put some struts on the bed rack door today! Much better now?

 

I dunno if someone was trying to mess with me, very seriously, or if it’s just an accident, I’m hoping/ thinking the latter. Guess I’ll have to do some pre trip safety checks every now and again, should do that anyway.

 

Interesting. I can't tell from the picture but do you have plexi (or something) on all four sides of the rack?

 

Right, to scared I’m gonna find something I can afford to fix

 

Its some hippy that knows you kill cats..lol

 

Well, a thought that crossed my mind was another hunter. I know I’ve been frustrating some other people this winter.

 

No it’s open I can see how the bars make it look like that .

 

Interesting. What's your thinking for having the door on the bed rack?

 

We put it on to keep our unruly dogs from getting out mainly and to keep honest people honest

 

Put my tweeters in today, need to clean all the shit from the snow off now