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

Started cleaning some of the parts for the 4x4 swap today.

The hubs were coated with baked on grease.

Ended up taking the manual locks apart. Glad I did. The O ring for the dial face was completely rotted. Need to order a new set.

The dials were pretty worked over. Cleaned them up but ran out of day light. Tomorrow I'll spray the dial and trim ring with a bit of spray paint.

Got everything as clean as I need it. Got rid of the better majority of the old grease. I think this will do for me.

Also went to the stealership and ordered the:
CV snap rings
CV bolts/washers
Diff seal
Manual axle shaft seal
Diff fill plug
Diff fill crush gasket
Diff drain plug
Diff drain crush gasket

And ordered the Inner boots

 

Looks like its all starting to come together - nice work!

 

Cons? Go on....

 

I think the photo above about sums it up haha

 

Cons. "I'm not touching that Monte." --MissBlackdawg

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Still worth it haha

 

You're impossible.

 

I was going to say 2.75 would be my sweet spot. Sitting at 3.25 currently and still rub frame at full lock. I would love to find 2.75 wheels so I don't need spacers. Spacers make changing CV's slower.

 

Yes the courtesy lights are in the doors on 95-00 Tacomas. They activate when the door is opened. I changed to 01-04 door panels so I no longer had the courtesy lights, so I reused that circuit for the puddle lights on the mirrros.

 

Had a mechanic friend tell me yesterday he thinks my input shaft bearing is starting to go out. When I release the clutch and just sitting at idle truck is making a whirling/whining noise. Push clutch in and it stops. Been doing it for a couple years I’d guess hasn’t gotten worse and shifts and runs great.

Is that bearing something that goes out commonly on our trucks? I’ve got 168,500 miles. Read a little on here that some say they often make noise but rarely go out and others say replace immediately. Also I’m not sure if I have original clutch or not, I’ve had the truck since around 124k

 

mm not sure its the input shaft bearing. Sounds like the more typical throwout bearing. Which chirps all the time on these trucks.

 

I freakin hate mud, I hate cleaning it, I hate touching it, I hate how sticky it is, and I hate how many different kinds of mud there is.

I cant imagine having a 12.5 tire on top of LT.

That’s a solid knope for me.

 

Oh I know, my damn 10.5’s throw that shit everywhere.

Can’t wait for it to freeze.

 

Also, when you see it day after day on an adventure, it gets on everything. There is no way to stay completely clean (unless you're Dan). It gets on your clothes, in the cab and in the RTT because its on the outside of the truck. Not to mention having to handle your gear that is in the truck bed. I even found a dollop of mud in my fridge. I have no idea how that got in there.

 

It’s not bad when it’s just muddy water, it’s when it’s that thick ass clay shit that sucks ass, I’ve had that stuff make my wheel well liners fall off, shitty.

 

Yeah he said throw out at first then seemed to think input shaft. I know mine has made noise for some time and hasn’t gotten worse

 

Looking for radiator replacement input. I have an ‘04, 3.4, 4WD, 5 sp, and 20 3/4” between the tanks. Rock auto has a Spectra premium for $82, a Denso (automatic) no measurement given for 92 and Amazon has a Mishimoto AT, no measurements given for $135. Not my daily driver, but my pride and joy. Input welcomed.

 

Have you ever done something so fucking stupid in life you don’t even know how you’ve made it this far