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

I went with Moog. I bought the majority of my stuff from RockAuto. The price was great, but the only down side was waiting almost a week for delivery. I also found out you aren't supposed to press the upper control arm bushings in. RockAuto, pep boys, and my buddy's shop both tried to sell me the same part number from Moog for the upper control arm and it did not fit. Spoke with a Toyota certified tech and he said you need to buy the control arm. It was about $70 on RockAuto but I couldnt wait for delivery so I got pepboys to price match their website and paid $130 each.
I also tried to knock out my own bushings by renting the tool to save money... Big mistake, better off taking it somewhere and save yourself the headache. I was able to press in my bushings myself though

 

Started making my custom grill.

Cutting wheel on a dremel to cut the grill out, then a grinding bit smoothed it flush. Bent the bottom factory cut edge of the 16 gauge steel so it catches on the grill edge and lines the holes up nice and straight when it gets zip-tied down. Rolled it over a scrap of ABS pipe to match the curvature of the grill surround. Will add more pics once I'm finished. Need to still fill the cutout areas, prep, prime and paint. Planning to move my led light bar on my bumper to behind this grill after, or just remove it and put some bright fog light style lamps behind the grill.

I'm going to paint the whole grill/surround matte black. I'm looking to put a ~1990 Toyota 4Runner grill emblem on it once it's finished. PM me if you've got one you're willing to part with. Will pay a fair price plus shipping.

 

If that comes out good, you may be able to sell those on here. I like the way it looks so far....

 

Might think about it, but I'd have to find the time between work, but time is more plentiful in the winter for me at least

 

What have I been doing without a plasma cutter?!?!

 

You are fake news


Should work

 

now lets see the welds

 

All I see are boxes with blue question marks

you can see the photos?

 

At Toyota, having my buddy install my UCA’s (and replacing my 15 year old lbj’s )

 

yes

 

Finally got rid of the 14" wheels!

 

Sadly I can never see Spoonmans photos....

 

I can see them just fine

 

What springs are those?

 

I asked the same.... does this need new upper arms too ?

 

If you mean the leaf springs, they look like Dakars to me but I could be wrong.

Actually maybe not, I don't recognize the spring clamps on those vs the Dakars I used to have. Maybe those are the Wheeler's brand leaf springs, not sure who makes them though

 

Wheelers hasnt had any of their 5 packs for sale in months. Those look like dakars to me with the double overload setup.

 

you'll be replacing that front $hit in about 1.5 years...

 

Love it when people give absolutley piss poor advice on this site, especially when they give no proof of anything to back up their claim.

Love my 5100's paired with 880's. Had them for almost a year and they feel as good as the day I got them.