1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I could of but I got the 5 ton cause I have a CDL cause of my job a few years ago and just kept renewing it. I remember the day it came in lol arrived on train and I drove it home lol

 

I will tell you though suprising your wife or girlfriend with it is not recommended lol especially if they have no idea what it is. I told her "I'm getting a truck today" and I come in with a 5 ton. yea! Not a good idea

 

You could also look at it this way, I've owned 8 different trucks and had the pleasure of driving just about every truck available on the market over the years. Some new, some used, some mini, some big... Now I've settled on a 1st Gen Tacoma and it is my favorite.

 

Important question where do you rank the 3rd Jen tacoma and ridgeline

 

Toyota 1KZ-TE Factory Intercooled Turbodiesel

Think Philippine Airlines will let me carry it on the plane?

It has the freakin’ A340E mated to it! That’s pretty damn cool. I can mate it directly to my A340F with that bellhousing.

They sold it to the Philippine Army for 135,000 PHP, or $2,500 USD. Straight from a Toyota Gradia imported from Japan.

I’m very jealous.

 

An engine with a seat belt

 

You haven’t seen that before? Every time I’m at Pick-n-Pull that’s how people pull the engine. They even do it here, that’s how well it works.

 

Do they use the to mate the engine and transmission instead of bolts

 

Which one?

 

Sorry f'n phone. Do they use seat belts to mate the engine and transmission up

 

Lol wut

No the seatbelt was just holding up the engine and tranny up. That’s a quick way to remove the engine combo at the junkyard with things that you find.

 

Pretty sure we’ve told it that from day one

 

I've done that one wheelbarrow load at a time. I should have just rented a skid steer

 

I dropped by the car scrapping district of Manila called Banawe, and this place is freakin' amazing. There's store that sell transmissions, to engines, to cv axles, to headlights, to every thing in between.

I was really searching hard for a Hilux inclinometer just because of how cool they look - plus they're asking like $300 on eBay for them. Didn't end up finding one, but I found a cooler one out of a Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero. Remember how I was trying to put in an artificial horizon out of a Boeing 737? This one has one built in already! It's a unit with three gauges - an altimeter, an inclinometer, and a compass/temperature gauge.

Trying to figure out where I want to mount it now. Paid 1,500 PHP, or about $28 USD. The same unit is going on eBay for about $300.

 

I'm an it? Nobody told me this lol. How I afford everything is simple I go to work and so does my gf, no kids helps majorly and we do have some farmland that the government pays us to not plant anything. We are trying to bring back pheasants and the like back.

 

That is pretty cool nice find

 

I really wish I found a Hilux inclinometer. They're more appropriate. People are just asking way too much for them on eBay, one went for sale on here for $45 and I missed it by 10 minutes.

 

You can get those here in the Mitsubishi Montero for $20 at PicknPull. I have one waiting for install in my 4Runner.

 

Can get a boat compass to if all else fails lol won't tell you altitude though

 

With the altimeter and artificial horizon? I know there’s a couple different variations.