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

Did you Bob your bed? Because double cabs have 5' beds..

More than enough storage for long trips. I actually like packing my 5' bed over my 6' bed. Somehow always packs nicer and more effectively

 

Yeah he took something like 10in out.

 

Ha nice!

 

No just some minor body work


That was the pun, no trailer needed

 

Meh go for it, just set some extra traps for the cats to get some more dough lol

 

Looks good. Will sure be easier to reduce/find your ground issues

 

No ground issues right now luckily, I made a few ground straps so the frame has a 2 gauge strap going to the engine block, body has a 2 gauge strap going to battery, and block has a 2 gauge strap going to battery. I just wanted to reduce the number of inline fuse holders and random positive side wires running amok haha. Nice to have everything consolidated and run simply to the switches. Let me get rid of some relays just sitting around too which is also nice for keeping things organized. Got a lot of suspension stuff to do this weekend so I wanted this stuff out of the way because wiring is slow going for me, like to do it once and avoid making messes.

 

Yeah, I meant in general - I just remember how several of us were fighting a bit on the Tour with comms, wondering if it was ground. And yeah, I hear you on having nice wiring. That's why I told the diff guys to leave the front unwired when they put it in, so I could do it

 

Speaking of which I don't know if I ever told you why I couldn't tune my damn antenna on that trip. The thing was open somewhere, no continuity from base to tip, new antenna and she's back at 1.2 SWR, guess the old one did break in the rollover

 

Can't say I'm that surprised haha

 

The weird part was zero physical damage, like not even a scratch

 

I must've goof'd up my alignment when I had the front end apart to do my 4WD swap. I have to hold the steering wheel at about 5-10 degrees Left to keep the truck going straight.

It's funny because I aligned it myself back in June and it was completely fine until I took the stock front end off last month.

 

Not just road crown?

 

I don't think so. I've been driving down the same boulevard for the past four years and it's pretty flat - yet I still have to turn the steering wheel slightly.

 

Mine started doing that when slop in the steering column got bad... tac weld the slip joint, and i did an alignment... damn thing feels like a race car (well not really.. but way better)

 

Finally got some new struts a few months back and haven't gotten a good pic yet but it raised my front a couple inches

 

when you get ready to buy a bunch of stuff for your tacoma and then your truck starts smoking like a chimney out the exhuast and miss firing like crazy.....not the way i wanted to start off my day.

 

ouch..head gasket?

 

im praying its not a something simple but more thank likely it is....only upside to this i get all my toyota parts at cost. So if it is indeed a head gasket ill get all the parts ordered up and maybe use my income tax to buy a supercharger since the motor will be out lol

 

Some metal and a new metal melter for this weekend's shenanigans. Also have an appt to have all my shocks rebuilt Just need to go get a bottle of argon and Co2.