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

It's all about valving, @Blackdawg can tell you from driving my pile, revalved Icons don't ride rough.

 

People really don't like Icons on here? Huh. Donahoe was bought by... I want to say Icon?

I only have half of my lift on so I can't really compare. I have the stock Tokico coilovers in the front, and Icon shocks and AllPro leafs in the rear.

 

You're gonna love your icons compared to your dead stock suspension haha

 

Thanks, I'll lok into that when I get my Donhaoes rebuilt.

 

I just have to find time to install them. With that whole Sienna water pump thing, and my whole side operation, it's hard to find any time to do it with the limited time I have.

 

Takes like 30min per side the first time. The longest portion is getting the alignment after you dial in the height.

 

Yeah people seem to talk shit about Icons here but whatever I'm running them & have no regrets.

The guys who worked at Donahoe basically bought the company & continued on when William Donahoe got arrested for, well you can look up the news articles online.

 

Oh I know the coilovers are easy. I'm worried about the SPC UCA's.

 

Oh god. I just looked that up.

Jesus Christ.

 

Not much there, just dial em for 2° caster and put em in.

 

WTF you still haven't put em on? Stop making excuses already! If it were me I'd make it a priority!

Hurry up already!

Shit if I lived close to you I'd come over & put em on for you. So easy & quick to do. Easier than doing brakes!

 

Yeah pretty sad & I was really shocked () when it happened. Had no idea who Icon was until many years after. I just assumed Donahoe Racing closed down.

 

I'll be honest I'm not too excited about pressing those upper ball joints out again.

One of the hardest parts of my 4WD swap was pressing them out outside the truck.

 

It's cake with an impact and a ball joint press, or if you have a shop press it's even easier than cake. You just were inexperienced the first time.

 

I still haven't put the clear coat on the SPC UCA's. You have to remember the excellent paint we have in California has little to no hardeners, so it takes forever to cure.

 

Agreed, second time is always easier.

 

I actually broke my impact, if you remember when I posted about it in December. I bought another (cheaper) impact and it just hammered the shit out of it on Christmas Eve 2017.

The hard part was getting leverage since I didn't have them on the truck.

 

What kind of paint did you use? I've never had issues with paint bought here in CA drying.

 

wheres the box from? it looks clean in the engine bay

 

I believe it was Duplicolor wheel paint, however I've had bad experience with clear-coat in the past.

I talk about this thing more than I use it.