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

Making Lil Red do Igor's work, huh?

Got time to install in the near future?

 

I should do that.

 

Installed the rear 5100$ plan to do the fronts and the aal this weekend

 

Upside down?

 

You right..... Lmao its my second vehicle so I'm sure it'll be fine until I finish up the lift this weekend.... Ooops. Damn instructions

 

Cheap insurance, especially with the sun down here. Solid $8 at tractor supply haha

 

No real biggie, the billies can operate in either direction, it's the UWCS (universal white can shocks) like ProComp, Skyjacker, Rancho, Tuff Country, Rough Country, Country and Western, Blake Shelton, wait a minute.... anyway those cheaper twin tube shocks that you see on every block lifted chevy and ford have to go can down like you put your Billies on, but billies and performance shocks don't care.

 

haha yep!

And will paint it this week and start Igor's tear down. Have a long list of things to do: Timing belt, WP, VC gaskets, Body mount bushings. Plus assess damage and repair the deer hit. Might build some retros..idk.

But yes, hopefully get things back together in the next 2 weeks. The weather has been much nicer hear so I don't need to heat the shop.

 

You will be ok with them mounted that way. I ran my 5100s that way

 

Mine were upside down at first too. When I had them flipped, a bunch of water came out of the boots. Something to be aware of, unless you don't have the boots.

 

Should really run them bootless, the boots will only shorten the life of either the seal or the rod end.

 

Was considering taking the boots off of my 5125s. Guess I will do this!

 

Thought about that. Think I'm swapping them out soon, so I'll let the next owner make that decision.

 

oh yea, my boots came off right away. Im running 5125s now in the correct position and I took the boots off as well.

 

They will come off tonight after work.

 

Mine filled with water/mud/dirt and then froze last winter, pretty neat.

 

Starting Project Make Wheels Prettier tonight.

Was also surprised to find out that my new tires, 255/85/16 weigh 4 pounds less per tire than my current ones, 31/10.5/15

But I have a feeling these wheels will more than make up for it....

 

People should just start hoarding those wheels. If I went that route I'd have them powder coated white or silver.

 

I thought about coloring matching them or like a gunmetal but that sounds like more effort than black.

And I might be going to a different color this summer.

 

I hit mine with duplicolor black semi gloss for my 2nd gen and they turned out awesome. Plus it’s easy to touch up. But I haven’t had them chip yet or anything.