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

That's actually not too bad for satellite... At least your ping times are under 700

 

I'm glad I made the decision to rebuild the rear. So glad

 

I have to admit I'm a little disappointed.

 

Sitting here in SLC wishing I had my Tacoma. I hear there’s a place four hours or so south of here thats fun to take a truck. Beautiful views out here though.

 

I know a place 3 hours South More east of there that’s pretty neat.




Got the kings out, but the kid that helped me put together my struts and I are dumb and the top hat holes don’t align with the holes in the mount... so probably at a stand still for the night.


Also, on of the spacer deals at bottom of my kings rusted to the bolt, so I had to cut it (bolt), which sucked ass.

 

Sorry to disappoint. Haha

 

If you paid that 1,800 are those reinforced to support a tent on top.... someone mentioned you can ask that or they did that , idk ?

 

how many miles last the original transmission ? did you changed fluids on the original , some said that is when trouble start , some others said you should change fluids every 30K miles but never remove the pan filter were metal deposits are because that is reason to trouble, etc , etc , to much versions of the knowledge on transmissions, I did change mine original fluid for BG synthetic fluid at the 63K mark, now about 73K works flawless so far

 

I bought the truck last year with 224k.
Transmission died at 233k. I didn’t personally do any maintenance with the transmission sense purchase of the truck but I have records and receipts from the previous owner that show he had it serviced periodically. I can’t recall how often.

 

I was referencing my lack of punctuation. Or proper sentence structure. Lol

 

You win

 

Got the door open when I got home. Inner and outer sheet metal separated. Rocker panel is pushed in a good bit.

 

Bought my topper years ago, and the best thing that I did was buy the optional flip-up side windows! Gives access to the whole of the bed!!

 

How much were your windows? I'm thinking of doing this.

 

If you can or if you choose to fix it. Take a 2x4 cut off and 4lbs ball peen use it to adjust the area interfering with the door.

I had to do a emegency fix 3hrs from a town before my sliders

 

That's a great idea. I'll just buy a new one and rebuild this one for a spare.

 

Camelback Toyota.


And got them installed tonight. Truck should hopefully be ready for another season's worth of adventures.

 

Runs in my mind that it was an extra $150, but that was back in '05. Whole thing was only $1,100 apprx. Replacements were $300 each last year.

 

Went to regrease my drive shaft. Noticed the output shaft on the tcase moves a lot when I shake the drive shaft....that can't be good.