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

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!

 

In addition, I log all major improvements, repairs, maintenance, etc. Has saved me a couple of times when I needed to know when something was purchased.

 

My 98 has two tripometers

 

Thanks! Must have been on something when I had my truck running last time lol

 

16''. Still no preload.

 

You're in AZ?