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

I just retrofit some headlights! Made a video let me know what you guys think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vWeeUSp10

 

i'll just stick with SOA setup. need to get all the gear and weight it. but i dont plan on removing most of the stuff anyways besides water and fuel. but im still in the early stages of the plan.

 

You're planning mods that you don't understand the purposes of. I'd consider reading about other's setup on places like RaceDezert or Pirate4x4 before you just decide that's what you want. The extreme flex of a linked coilover setup looks cool, but are you going to make use of that travel, can you deal with taking a lighter load with you? Just because it costs a whole hell of a lot more doesn't mean it is without drawbacks too. SUA has some awesome benefits but are you prepared to give the specs of your truck's weight and common uses to a spring manufacturer? Prepared to essentially be lower slung by 2-3" that you can only regain with more spring arch at the cost of ride comfort? See what I mean, ups and downs for all of them. I could have a front and rear linked Land Cruiser on 14" King coilovers all around, but for the kind of thing I'm into that's not necessary and doesn't really make my wheeling any easier. What would actually make your truck more usable for what you like to do?

 

Love the chipmunk fenders on it, looks like a decent survivor. How's the interior?

 

I was thinking second shock actually, my bad haha. Figure for controlling that weight one likely wouldn't be enough at speed with possible bottoming out.

 

when i get sober i'll probably go "WTF was i thinking"

 

I have 700s up front right now. Rides great.

 

yea but you have shorter coils like 14" if memory is right? if you had 18" you could get by with 600's ya?

 

TT's got one bigass coilover with dual rate springs and a bypass w/ a hydro bump.

 

That's not how linear springs work. If it is spec'd at 700lbs per inch of compression that'll be the same regardless of spring length.

 

ah his preload would be 0 i need to stop drinking

 

Not great. A couple hours of wandering the pick a part and a couple bucks and it will be good. Biggest pain in the ass is gonna be new tires and rims. It's got a 315/70/17 on the front left, 33/12.5/15 on the front right, and 265/70/16s on the back.

 

Check the wheels and tires for sale section on here... I got brand new tires and (almost) new wheels for $450.... I know you probably don't want stock ones like I bought, but guys unload 33's with wheels a lot too.

 

I'm looking for 35s on 15 inch rims. It's been hard to find haha

 

Not knowing what your usual "avenues" are - check FB groups - there's a couple good ones with "dezert / desert deals" in the title, offer up, and race-dezert classifieds if those aren't already in your usual suspects lol

 

I usually use FB, Craigslist and OfferUp

 

Had the 50-J LBJ safety recall done on my taco this past weekend...13 years after it was issued. It's been seen a number of times by dealerships in that time. Kinda incredulous that they hadn't done it already, but oh well now I've got fresh new OEM ball joints for free.

Also had the parking brake cable adjusted. It was loose as old balls and wouldn't disengage enough to turn the Brake light off on the dash.

Then spent the rest of the weekend changing diff fluid and gaskets in my mom's jeep and helping my brother install a 2 inch suspension lift to his new (old) forrester. Busy as shit.

 

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Great find!