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

Damn I wish my paint looked like that.. Did they settle over time?

 

Thanks guys. 2nd back surgery of 2017. Im hanging in their. Some days are good, some are not. Lol

Improvise, adapt, & overcome!

 

I'm going see if the backing plate will press on to all of the factory Tacoma wheel bearing parts one day.. might work. might not. we shall see. if it does then its a matter of if it'll all line up and how to reroute the e brake cable.

 

If they did settle it was maybe .5 - .75 of an inch.

Well here's the last good picture of how it looked with all the leafs...



And here it is after I removed some leafs to get it to sit level, this was less than 24 hrs before I rolled it...



Photo credits go to @m3bassman and @Blackdawg respectively as they both take better pictures of my trucks than I do haha

 

That's a shame on rolling it, great looking truck. What coils up front? I got the 883s

 

And it begins

 

I appreciate that, it was a shame, really do miss that truck. But most of it lives on in my new one, swapped the entire drivetrain and wiring harness to the new one.

In the first picture it was on Eibach 620lb coils with Bilstein 5100 shocks and rode terribly but got the job done. The second picture it is on Icon 2.5" Coilovers with 650lb springs and rides very nice. The OME stuff rides nicely when I've felt it but I'm afraid I don't know the spring numbers off the top of my head so I'm not sure what an 883s spring rate is.

 

Whatcha doin?

 

Hmm I though welded rod ends made shocks shorter usually?

You'll be very hard pressed to make leafs in stock location do 12" vertical travel

883's are 590lb coils

 

That's why mine say Billet, they make my shocks a bit longer than just their travel

 

Elaborate more please..

 

Billet aluminum is not a welded rod end, not sure how much more there is to elaborate on this unless you wanna discuss metallurgy. Same thing Brett ran into, if you don't have welded rod ends you end up having to move mounts to accommodate the extra space the billet ends take up.

 

realize what's happening here. I got the two terms confused there for a second. Never mind!

 

Can you drive your truck with the passenger side air bag unplugged? Will it cause a check engine light or any mechanical issues?

 

Probably just set the SRS light off, might disable the rest of the system, don't you have the keyhole to turn that bag off?

 

My “punch”that came with the kings bent, at the nub. Do you use a steel one I assume?

 

Nope. Not on my truck. Maybe because I'm a DC. I'm stripping the inside, getting ready for the cab/roll cage build. If I have to I'll disassemble the air bag from the dash and install it I will. But I really don't want to do that unless I have to.

 

I used 12s with Chevy 63s. Don't think stock leafs pull more than

 

Will just have the air bag light on. Won't cause mechanical issues

 

Finally ditched the 5100s and installed the kings this morning.