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

Well I got my low range offroad trail gear order and I’m terribly disappointed.

Here’s a few photos of the damage. Shipping box appears intact and it was well packaged.

This seal is fucked.


Mounting surfaced marred and needs to be smoothed.



Entire unit had been dropped and adapter is damaged. And a chunk is missing.



Also found a loose bolt on the assembly. Which robs me of any confidence I had in this product.


Called marlin crawler to place an order for one of their assemblies, but they’ve been waiting months already, and with new trump tarriffs causing steel availability to be greatly reduced, they are months out too.

 

No worries it is. You've got a huge project and I'm sure you're finding things that you weren't expecting. My tank is the least of my worries right now.

 

That sucks Marlin makes good stuff kinda surprised
@BigMike

 

Damn...this sucks..

 

How many cans of Fluid Film should someone expect to go through when spraying the frame and such?

 

Truck got a new accessory.
Kuat racks are really practical, on my old rack i couldnt open my tailgate or get into my bed drawers with my bike on the rack. this rack also has a built in repair stand. In the future i want to get the 2 bike add on and swing out arm so i can fully pull out the drawers. With the tilt feature i can only access the first half of the drawer.

 

You will have a hard time using more than 4.

 

Can probably coat the rear axle and front suspension.

 

Fun stuff....
20180823_194003 by Ryan Heintzelman - Flickr2BBcode

 

Perfect

 

Holy shit that stuff isn’t cheap

 

No sir, but its worth it.

 

I found 53$ for 6

 

I know, that's why I buy it in the gallon can and spray it myself.

 

Beast with that search engine.

 

You betcha, it’ll probably be out of stock by the tkme I order

 

Be aware, it has a pretty bad smell for a few days. Freshly applied it reminds me of a cat litter box that is a couple days past being cleaned.

 

Do you really need that in UT?

I have zero frame rust on my '01 and it's never been coated in anything. I wouldn't bother.

 

My 99’s frame says yes

 

i just replaced mine a few weeks ago. passenger side needed the torch. driver side popped out with just the bottle jack