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

Tires and wheels

 

I so could have gone for a regular cab 4WD if I could have found one when I was looking

 

It took me over a year to find this one. When I bought it, it had 60,000 miles on it. It now has 68,000. I’ve had it for two years. They are so hard to find. But it’s definitely worth it.

 

Finished the battery and Big 3 install finally. Yes, I got a battery with posts flopped around, didn't notice until I was home and starting to set things up. I didn't want to wait for another one so just worked with what I had for now. I'll get another battery with the terminals in the correct place later and redo things. That will give me an excuse to run dual batteries then too.

 

Giti extreme centipede

 

Going to be a tough one but it helps knowing talented fabricators haha

 

Premiere pro wont launch for some reason so I guess the video will come out tomorrow.

 

Well I haven't had a chance to really check into this any more, but I saw a post about a 3rd gen having needle bearing vibes after a lift. Started searching more about that and it fits my symptoms perfectly. Took it for a quick drive and as soon as I heard the vibes I shifted into 4H and immediately noise went away, shifted back in to 2H and noise was back so I'm leaning heavily that I've found my problem. Now to figure out the fix

Looks like ECGS sells a bushing to replace the bearing and do away with it to fix the vibes. Anyone used that?

From what I've read its mainly just noise and doesn't hurt anything?!? Can't really believe that tho

 

I bet you $100 my truck has rust in the same spot. Water will always get trapped under the pinch weld from the rubber door seal. Sand it off, put some rust inhibitor, and call it a day. I believe Toyota puts grease in the door seal channel at the factory to combat moisture.

 

Brown delivered some goodies today. Guess I have some work to do.

 

Shouldn’t hurt to seal the pinch welds with silicone.

 

Was always a bottom-list priority mod for me, but the eBay one was too good of a deal to pass up at $100 after seeing several others on here confirm their quality. I'll be installing mine this weekend hopefully.

 

... and the inside will smell like Fluid Film. I love that stuff...

 

Finally installed the hood shocks that I got from the last group buy. I have to say, can't believe I waited so long to get these. I haven't been this happy about something that I installed on my truck in a loooong time. I must have sat there opening the hood like 20 times like a little kid. The shocks have a soft stop like high end tool boxes. Pop the hood, lift & just let go. I absolutely f'n love these things!

I didn't use the pop rivets & self tapping screws that came with the kit though. Instead I used rivnuts & stainless button head screws.

 

I need those rivnuts for my snorkel!!! link?

 

This is the one I have:

$76 Astro Pneumatic Tool 1442 13" Hand Rivet Nut Setter Kit - Metric & SAE W/ 60pc Rivnuts

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TODXQW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I used these

 

Currently moving it to remove my rear axle and leafs. Used axle and my my leafs will go on it to keep it rolling. My axle and deavers will be on the new frame soon enough. (This is a pain to do by yourself)

 

I can dig some prius sized tires.

 

Lol they’re just burners off my Avalon so I don’t flat spot the maxxs