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

This week is going by slow! I want my truck backkkkkk with new gears already lol

 

Tell me about it

 

Lc regear?

 

Nah not yet. Most LC folks don't regear until 35s if towing and 37s if not.

 

Pressed out my old ass OEM LCA bushings in preparation for new Whiteline poly units. Used the bottle jack and torch trick that I saw in @Timmah! ‘s video and it worked like a champ!

I also removed my spherical bearings from my coilovers so that I can swap in new bearings and clips from Wheelers. Super easy to do.

 

I’ll have to remember that! I’ll replace mine at my 100k front end face lift.

 

@Blackdawg Id have to buy tires first haha. If I regear now my RPM on the highway would be through the roof. With 4.10s and 32s I sit at 3000rpm at 80mph. She only revs to 5k, and has assloads of torque

 

I hope my 4.88s and 32s isn’t too bad. I hope to wait a few months to get new tires

 

You don't have anything to worry about, your rpm will be higher for sure but you've got less torque and an engine that revs higher and your auto is a bit more parasitic.

 

Nice, you'll love the whitelines. I noticed a definite improvement in how solid the front end felt, and less clunking noises to boot!

 

^^^This^^^

 

Cant wait to do mine. My rockauto lca's blow. The bushings are shot already. Someone on here told me not to do it, i did, and regret it.

 

Good lord, no kidding, right?

 

Brilliant! I am going to have to file this away for future use.

 

He already got mad at me, everyone leave him alone or he’ll have to go to the campus quiet place and calm down.

 

Bed frames have so many uses, props on the crafty thinking.

 

Glad everybody is fine. But I'd try and find something wrong with your truck so you can get a nice fat check. My buddy had somebody rear end him (he had a plate bumper) told them he needed to get it repainted and got a check for it. Went and spray painted over the spot and bought a Prinsu rack and had a few bucks left over

 

Sorry but THAT is what the fuck is wrong with us as people and a society. Trying to get a free dollar out of nothing.

Coming from a small Wyo town and moving to St louis I was completely appalled at the amount of lawyers dedicated to making sure you got the highest payout possible on any tiny traffic occurrence. I rear ended someone...okay not really, more like tapped them at a stop. Was literally no damage to anyone's stuff. The paint wasn't even scratched. They told my insurance the motor was bad, and this and that blah blah blah. Trying to get every penny possible from nothing.

I find that disgusting. And morally shallow.

Where Im from. That would be a hand shake, an apology, and making sure everyone was safe and uninjured.

 

Glad your ok. Were did you mount the rear camera?

 

And that’s why insurance rates are out of sight. People always lying to get something they feel entitled to