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

Washed my baby. She cleans up well

 

Completely agree. If I were him I’d just purchase a new ECU. Too many things can go wrong.

 

There’s a freakin’ hood seal?

 

On 01-04

You have one too but it's set farther in to seal the rad up to the roof

 

Figured. That’s cool.

 

Any of you guys have experience with the performance of the toytec BOSS coil overs? Reason being is my OME struts have about 70k on them with the lower shock mount rubber being almost completely gone and causing abnormal tire wear. Found a set on CL for 500 with a fresh rebuild. Around 10k miles with less than 2k in the rebuild. Any input is appreciated.

 

You're alive! Also @turbodb has more experience with them than anyone else I know

 

Hahaha yes I am! Just been bustin my ass workin! Ran a trail up north here in CO and noticed my front end problems and also caused another...rear bearing was shot and wore out the seals causing diff fluid to be flung everywhere...fml lol. Trying to find a reputable person to do the press work who knows about the whole flipping the retainer for the newer style inner seal and what not so I don’t have this shit happen again! Better it happen now rather than when I’m back at school I guess lol

 

You're in CO, maybe @Squeaky Penguin could recommend someone... I think he has the press tool too

 

True. I thought about that but he’s all the way in Steamboat I believe...could be worth it though to have it done right

 

Bulk of the cage is in. Now just a bunch of little things to get done.

 

Ill bring mine over next week

 

Someone posted wheel bearing part nimbers recently? Got them handy? Bout to replace the driver side spindle....hope this helps my crappy alignment. Gonna do inner and outer TR's too. And UCA bushings. Hope she floats like a caddi after

 

for a budget. They are okay. At that price Id say they are worth it probably. But..id just get a better CO to begin with..just me.

 

Saw some for sale in the fs thread

 

I've been running mine for about two years now (install here); they've been reasonably good in that time - holding up lots of weight with all my armor and a full load out (I'm at 2700 lbs on the front and 5520 overall according to my weigh-in two weeks ago).

I've put about 40K miles on them in that time - lots of dirt in that as well (15K or so); they've never let me down, and I've never noticed them fatiguing.

That said, my next set won't be the BOSSes - I'm going to go for something a bit higher end and more easily tunable and rebuildable. ADS or Kings likely. I think the ToyTec's are a great "starter" set or "light-use" set...but I'm not sure that describes your use .

...for $500, you're looking at a great price though, even if you just use those for a year, that's not bad.

Yep, this. ^^^ Except that I didn't get a better set to begin with; I got the BOSS's and now I'm going to get a better CO. LOL.

 

Finally replaced my original upper ball joints on the workhorse (04 5lugg)
These are the original with 170k on them
Replaced with some Japanese 555s

 

That’s what my mind says but that’s not what my bank account wants right now haha. If I could I would. I need these to hold me over till next spring/summer till I can afford a nice mid travel setup.

That’s what I like to hear. Like I said to Monte, just to keep me goin for another 8 months or so. Thanks for your input much appreciated! I agreed with the guy on 450 for em

 

Oh yeah! Lookin good!

I worked on the bob job, and rubbed one front firewall