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

Yea my truck is that extra cab and my buddies is the double cab leafs against links haha

 

that would be absolute blast! thanks for sharing!

 

The TRD one was a joke.... for how much they were selling them for. NLA, discontinued years ago, but doesn't matter, that's why many of us went with the

$52 Hayden 678 Universal Rapid-Cool 9.5” x 11” Add-On Transmission Cooler – Not for Direct Replacement of the OE Cooler

Hayden 678 which is basically the same size for a fraction of the cost of the TRD kit. Plus the intended mounting location of the TRD one sucked too and is why I mounted mine the way I did.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/hayden-transmission-oil-cooler-install.108470/

 

Do you go through the stock cooler first, or the aftermarket cooler?

 

There really isn't a stock one per se, I'm assuming you mean the stock heat exchanger in the radiator. I don't consider that a cooler. It's more to bring trans oil up to operating temp quicker in cold climates. Too cold of oil temp will affect shifting as you probably know.

I ran mine after the radiator. For some people who run big aftermarket coolers in very cold climates they have to disconnect it or block airflow when not needed or run it before the stock heat exchanger which i find kind of pointless. Here in SoCal I've never had that problem on my Tacoma.

 

Saturday!!! Toy drive up hwy 50 to Uncle Toms Cabin. then lots of drifting after Lets go

so sexy...my dream setup....which can be done

 

Got some goodies, just waiting on some more

 

255/85r16? I have the STMaxx in that size, great tires

 

Yep! Exactly!!
On my 2015 I had 285 KO2s I got from another TW member for a deal that I couldn’t pass up but ever since I had wished I got the 255 Maxx’s

 

Nice, mine rubbed like crazy just a forewarning lol. But I think it's my aftermarket wheels with the wrong backspacing. Had to trim quite a bit.

 

What bs did you have?

 

I still haven't measured it to be honest...they were wheels the previous owner put on. I didn't have any rubbing issues on the street but when they stuff the wheel wells they rubbed bad.

Got it mostly taken care of by trimming back the pinch weld quite a bit and hammering it back.

 

Ah gotcha. Yeah I should be good. I had 285s on my old set up and didn’t rub and these wheels have the same same backspace @ 4”
I’m not worried

 

Fucking nice install man!

 

List of projects is piling up.

Fed Ex guy showed up today
Valve cover, plenum, and other assorted gaskets and shit.


A couple more things to do while doing the 4x conversion.


And a set of nice looking ditch light brackets I found on eBay.



And there may or may not be a transmission, transfer case, and front driveline headed my way for delivery tomorrow

 

Bet your ups guy loves you. Mine left my leaf springs out on the front lawn. Too heavy for him to carry to the porch lol.

 

Not the UPS guy for the trans/tcase drive shaft. There's a pretty nice salvage yard that deals predominantly with Toyota, Lexus, Scion in Rancho Cordova. I called them to pay a deposit so they could get it ready to pick up on Saturday... He told me they would deliver it to me for 50 bucks... And I said he'll fuvkin ya, do that!

 

Snow wheeling ?

 

Yup

 

What front axle did you snag? Or did you narrow down 1 ton?