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

Jeesus fuck how hard did you back up, I don't think I've ever even gone fast enough in reverse to do that. I can't even see over my tent, get a backup camera or something. Also check that you didn't bend your frame in, might have dovetailed it now

 

2x4 on top and hit it with a mallet should put that top crease down some

 

Meh. Cut it down the middle. Add hinges to either side and you now have a one of a kind truck.

 

Frame is fine the bumper is pretty rotted so it just crumbled like a beer can then the tailgate took the brunt

 

That's one way to get a dual swing out lmao

 

Yeah, I've taken them off before. Won't hurt anything. Not sure about offroad though. With them off now the rocks will hit your rotors?

 

I need my head examined lol.

 

I cut mine out because I was tired of them bending into the rotor. No problems for many miles. The way I see it is better brake cooling and anything that would crunch the rotor would do so even with the “shield.” Little rocks in the brakes might be the only issue but haven’t had that come up as a problem personally

 

I think the main purpose is to protect the rotors from mud or water splashing on the breaks especially when you have really hot rotors you dont want that to happen

 

Damn

 

Shit that's the one thing I don't want to have a failure on. Saw guy had a brake failure on slick rock going down it. He flipped and luckily over did his roll cage and he was fine.

 

I mean as long a your wheels dont have so much bs that the rotors are exposed i dont think its really a problem. I dont run those shields and never had a problem

 

yea, I can't imagine the feeling of hearing your disc breaking like that.

 

Yeah it’s probably mad scary

 

https://youtu.be/fpbkTncjEOs here's a video of where my buddy wreked. It's not him but pretty much the same thing on what happened

 

I think you'd be fine. Look at trophy trucks, rock crawlers, & other race trucks/buggies, they don't run dust shields.

 

This was mine right after I bought it a little over two years ago. She was so clean....nothing like that now. I did just hose it down tonight but it never looks as good as that no matter what I do.

 

Mine permanently looks like ass :/

 

But those aren't daily drivers....... I want a trophy truck as a DD lol but yeah the engineering for a DD is way more difficult compared to a race truck. Cause in a race truck a transmission just has to last a race. While in our trucks they have to last for 20+ years. P

 

That footage looks like it was shot in the late 90s