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

Hmm, my truck was rummaged through last night, not sure what they were looking for, they cleaned out the center console, which was mostly junk and everything else looks to be in place. Which im grateful for, my tool box was in there, compressor, K-bar knife and thats really it. I wonder if they got spooked by someone or something. Im usually good about not leaving anything in my truck, but ive been camping alot so I got tired of taking things out to put them right back in, but I guess ill get back to doing it.

 

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Appreciate it thanks!

 

As long as it's not a double cab. Those the tank has to come down.

 

hmmm... about to drop the rear driveshafts and took a second look first.

1) at the transfer case & at the rear diff the UJoints appear to be “inside” clips, there are no ring clips outside. Same on both ends of the front driveshaft. ???

2) both UJoints at the Cardon Joint are outside ring clips. That’s cool, except I didn’t track down those UJoints (unless they are the same as the other 4) & I’m changine the center support bearing.

3) all 6 zerks on the UJoints come out the face & 90, not in the same plane as the caps/rollers.

The 4 UJoints I have for the diff/driveshaft ends (front & rear) are outside clips with zerks coming out offset from the cap/rollers.

grrrr... wtf?

Ok... this thread helped... https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/u-joint-replacement-no-spring-clips.387129/

And opening the boxes helped... but still strange the zerk is thru one of the caps.

Alright... going with 4x Moog #387 and 2x Moog #367

 

I need to flush my fluids bad! PS and brake both look gross.

Lol we did 3/4 of a mile of saran wrap to a friends car in high school... Now that was funny.

 

Would anyone happen to have that clip that holds the clutch fork to the pivot ball in the r150? Dealer says I have to order a whole clutch fork

 

Did they break the window?

 

No, must have left the door unlocked or they popped the lock. Im assuming I left it unlocked, I had my hands full on the way in the house last night.

 

They didn’t take a garage opener or anything? What I usually see is people taking a copy of the registration or GPS unit with your address on it and showing up at your house and unlocking the doors while you’re not around.

 

No, didnt have any extra keys or anything. Garage door is manual and locked from the inside. I need to double check for my registration tho.

 

This is why I don't have spare keys and keep them on my person at all times. As of the registration that is scary that people do that shit.

 

You can cheat the keys on our truck pretty dang easy anyway, takes like four screws to get to the part of the harness you need to jump with paperclips to start it.

 

Or you can just take the 2 screws holding the ignition switch and use a flat head screw driver.

And to get into a lock truck only takes like 5 minutes if you have the right tools already. An extended cab anyway.

 

Or a rock, and 10 seconds.

 

I was trying to keep things nice when I did it though.

 

than to these two no first gen is safe.........great thanks guys

 

There's a reason V6 second gens come standard with immobilizers.

 

Wellll, if it’s standard it’s safe..... for me anyway

 

I'm guilty of this, my neighbors don't like looking at the Tacoma. Had one of my neighbors tell me it was looking pretty scary before I put it away. It's a truck though, I don't think it is worthy of a long term garage space.

 

as a man who lives in the country and his closest neighbor is 5 miles from me........no lol