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

Thanks! What are the dimensions? I might think about another solution if it's bigger than I anticipated.

 

Damn dude. Nice work. So much cleaner.

 

He could run a 1/4 spacer up front as well

 

Haven't had the opportunity to hit something hard with it yet. But it certainly looks like it will hold up.

Im a sucker for the classic arb design. My next choice was relentless, which is an awesome looking bumper. I just couldn't justify the cost of freight and customs into Canada.

 

Yea relentless was my first choice but just shipping alone was $400 felt like it was to much.maybe if it was 2 day shipping lol

 

You can do it if you have the properly gauge wire for voltage drop.

You'll have to run a big cable up front anyways to connect to the oem stuff. So I'd just put the buss man where the oem battery went and call it a day. Only be like two large power wires one for each battery running from the front to the back. If you out the buss man in the back with the batteries then you'll have all of its sending wires starting from there and switch wires.

Be much easier to wire things from the front imo.

 

Man I'd feel like I was sleeping in a hearse with those curtains.

 

Nice looking radiator, Yea the Toyota plastic ones are garbage and crack easily, I have had to replace mine twice from a cracked tank, plastic long term will break down from heat and age, let me know the temp difference and if it's all plug and play with the use of the stock fan and shroud cover.

 

Sounds like this is a better idea then what I was thinking. I have 2 gauge running to the rear. Should of went with 0. So place both batteries in the back right behind the fuel cell. Run 0 gauge for + to the front. The 2guage should be good for ground right? Add a braker or fuse? on the + off of the battery to the front. Can I place the blue sea isolator in the engine compartment or would I have to run that close to the battery too?

 

MCL needs to go between the batteries. So it'll be in the back isolating the batteries.

O gauge from the alt to the first battery. 2 gauge be fine between batteries with MCL.

Run two more 0 gauge one from each + from each battery back up front. Only be 3 big wires running back and forth. Super easy to wrap in tech flex and zip tie together and along the frame.

Can then run the aux battery power to where ever is easiest and most convenient to place the relay box.

 

I'm sure we all agree that most parts are better OEM and we can all agree that a lot of OEM parts suck.
1st gen brakes and rotors suck
1st gen rear leaf springs suck
1st gen seats suck
This radiator looks like a good option if you don't want plastic.

 

We put an end to this conversation last night; let's keep it that way for say, 24 hours?

Speaking of which - where the F did my post go where I suggested we get back on topic? @tcBob

I'm actually a bit offended that it seems to have been removed. It was this post: https://www.tacomaworld.com/goto/post?id=17055473#post-17055473 which now returns an error.

You can see it quoted a few posts above by @JBTacoma: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...st-gen-edition.138573/page-7002#post-17055530

 

The post I deleted was about who made the radiator and I saw it later posted, I haven't been on this thread for awhile and came in late.

 

Someone flagged it. Mods did a clean up. Not sure why that post is the one that got taken down though..

 

Not just that one, I see a mod or two liked some posts while they worked their magic last night haha

 

My favorite way is to put up some velcro above the window and then sew velcro into the top of the curtains. Pop them on when you want to sleep, pull them off and stow out of the way when you're driving. I'll see if I have any pictures of my old shell but you probably get the idea.

 

I've seen some folks do something similar with riveted snaps on the window frame and a piece of canvas that can be snapped in place

 

Definitely the more permanent solution. My Wildernest has built in curtains. There are two pieces of fabric that zip together up top to keep all of the tent parts stowed away, and when they're unzipped they fall down and block the windows. Pretty smart stuff.

 

That's pretty clever, always cool to have an aesthetic part be a functional one as well. Those wildernests are really cool, still only ever seen one in the wild so to speak.

 

Wildernest are super cool. Still think if someone could get the patent and recreate it with modern materials it would be amazing.