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

Oh yeah... that's definitely my truck. Who knew Bing Maps would end up being the one to save me.

 

That's lame. I had my uncle who is an Indiana State Trooper run the plates on the sketchy mobile "body shop" guy. I can always count on him to run plates when I need them lol.

 

What ended up happening with that sketchy body shop guy?

 

My first real write-up of any kind, hopefully it helps someone looking to relocate their rear shocks...

[HOW-TO] - 1st Gen Tacoma Rear Shock Relocate

 

My next door neighbor I used to run from cops with on crotch rockets is now a cop, he looks stuff up if legit. Law says not suppose to but laws are meant to be broken lol

 

Got in a huge argument with the guy and he called me thief who never intended to pay for his "hard work". Guy was a joke. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt but in the end he cost me roughly $200 because he dented the cab which was perfectly fine before hand. During the argument he told me to punch him in the face, dude was absolutely insane. I gave him $20 so he would just get the hell off my property. When I went inside to grab the $20 my dad said he kept going off about how I was a shitty person and I stole from him, I made sure to put my daily carry on when I went back out since he seemed like a loose cannon. Gonna cost me $1,350 for a real body shop to do the repairs the right way.

 

Fuck. Threw a p2112 code. Truck will barely move

 

Christ it was that bad huh... where the hell did you even find this guy?

 

Sounds like a faulty TPS 03/04 trucks are so famous for.

 

New throttle body time if I'm not mistake, since yours has an electronic throttle. Flooring it should give you 1/4 of the usual throttle movement though if you need to limp

 

How much did you use?

 

Better question is how did he fine me... Oh probably just the big ass dent in my door. My thinking was "What the hell why not? The door likely needs replaces anyways and so does the rocker but if he can make the door work and the whole thing look half decent then sure what the hell it's worth my $180 that he wants." I couldn't have been more wrong about that whole situation. Live and learn. I'm tempted to call the guy since he gave my dad his number he wouldn't give it to me since I was a thief Oh I forgot to mention the part where he threatened to call the cops on me for not paying him.

 

Wow... what was the extent of his repairs?

 

Last pic is where he bashed the door with a hammer for some reason and all the damage he did to the cab.

 

And this is why i hate anyone else working on my stuff... even though i cant do body work... eek

 

Hahaha that is terrible. Bet I could do better than that...

You know you can fix that relatively easy if the rocker is unsalvagable. Find a donor truck and cut the rocker out from that truck and cut and weld it to your truck. Grind over the welds, bondo if needed, and get a new door. Good as new.

@Shubin Fixed his cab that was in a side impact but using a cut from a cab and cut and welded it to the truck.

 

Yeah pretty much. I can do most mechanical things but body work isn’t in my repertoire yet. I took it to a real body shop for estimates today and am gonna get it fixed right

 

Yeah if I had the time and knew how to weld I’d do it myself but unfortunately I have neither. New shop is gonna cut the rocker out and weld in a nice new one. Then they are gonna put on a donor door that I’m getting from Ohio for $50.

 

My truck is a garage queen. It's OEM as fuck and I like it that way. I take my wife on a "date night" every Friday night with the Taco to make sure that all the lubes get moved etc. Tonight I decided on bowling. Here's what we came out to after we were done...



Fire in a building close by, we got out of there quick.