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

Cool, you have a pretty light vehicle so I can imagine if it is generically valved for the Taco then an Ext cab or Dbl cab would feel a bit softer. So if they purpose valved for an 80 then it is probably medium to medium stiff with its 5000lbs haha. The 80 rarely leaves pavement and right now it is getting really floaty over cracks and bumps, like the axle is walking sideways when it jumps. Took a shock off and I could compress it with one finger.... problem found

 

lol yeah new shocks will help!

I love how light this truck is. Be a fun desert runner.

 

I would toss the NGKs in the garbage. Especially if they are single ground. It calls for dual only. I know someone brought this up earlier.
My 04 had a bad miss fire with them, it was bad enough to rob power. They only lasted 800 miles. You can get the Densos on Amazon for around 2$ each.

 

Orbital eyes

 

You wouldn’t by chance have the link on Amazon?

 

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.