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

IT LIVES!

Picked it up from the shop today two flexplates and a torque converter later. Boy oh boy what a roller coaster the past two weeks have been. Shifts fine and no more squealing from a broken flexplate.

The eight months that have passed since I started collecting parts to do this conversion have been chaotic, I'm not truly four wheel drive yet (no rear driveshaft) but hey it says 4WD on the mudflaps and that's good enough for me.

I also get to try my new rollbar!

 

No, the rust will continue to spread.

 

Sarcasm

 

Figured but couldn’t tell, unfortunately most people would think that would be fine

 

I bet, thanks for looking out!

 

To truly beat the rust you must build a frame out of aluminum or stainless steel.i would say carbon fiber but can you imagine wheeling with that lol

 

Placed an order with King.
Estimated time: 8weeks

 

Dang but there worth the wait

 

Go ads..better

 

Hell yeah!

 

Happy for ya man!

 

Stainless still rusts. Unless is 300 series... but you’d have to have deep pockets to afford that. And you’d have the heaviest taco known to man. Lol

Galvanising the frame would make it pretty rust resistant. Works for the Land Rover folks pretty damn well

 

Plus many of those alloys lack the strength of carbon steel.

 

Ya know.... if you’re gonna keep the chrome mirrors, the chrome rack doesn’t look terrible, in those pictures, in my opinion.

 

That’s what I hear.
Planning to get some fox 2.0s in the back corners before the kings come in.

 

Yea, I can't decide on ads extended travel or fox extended travel coil overs

 

You know the chrome on the roll bar is growing on me. Unfortunately the chrome is beyond repair - the original owner had it plastered with decals and it's baked in the sun since 1985. It's also flaking off in some places.

I'd totally keep it Chrome if I could

 

Well damn.

 

That's easy


Ads

 

Lol figure you would say that there both about same price. but why are they better monte (probably going to regret asking that)