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

damn looks good.

 

Damn, hope you got close to your asking price.

 

Yeah got pretty close to my asking price which was pretty high.

 

The supercharger and exhaust would've been a waste if you didn't, nice.

 

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there is a company that makes a hybrid bearing setup for the nose cone of the supercharger and the rear bearings for the rotors. They are part ceramic and part metal bearings. they give 40% less friction and 60% longer life and they make a heavy duty coupler disc inside thats better than the maguson set up. shit if your wanting more have the intake ported and enlarged. And then have the S\C itself ported and polish in the intake runners. spendy but really different sounding and more power.

 

Not until tonight....im waiting for a positive power block to hook to the battery as i don't like lots of wires on the battery terminal. I want it clean looking when i wire the demon eyes and halo switch backs into the turn signal interrupt prizms.

 

How do you like the new lock nut design?

 

these guys here can make your supercharger make 15% more power.
http://stiegemeier.com/
The supercharger service center!!

 

it is nice and easy... a little tricky to tighten without the whole projector wanting to twist a bit when getting it tight. you have to pay attention so they don't rotate making the cut off at a weird angle if there not straight.

 

Prepare to be underwhelmed...

My bud has these:
bottom row of lights - several burned out in the first several months
water intrusion - multiple reattempts at resealing = fail

 

"This week on Velocity network's Hot Rods and Hillbillies, Cleetus gets the dirt cadillac setup to float"

 

Seemed a shame and a waste to keep my still new KO2 as an unused spare. So got my hands on a "sold out" RR4 from Relations Race Wheels, swapped the OEM steelie spare for it and rotated the 5 wheels/tires.

 

Lol... How did I know someone would say it?

It's ok. I've been underwhelmed by the yellow cracking and leaking stock headlights for 14 years.

 

Started working on the front bumper. The tweaked frame horns are making getting the base of the bumper to fit a bit of a pain. Glad I went with a DIY bumper instead of a built one, would have been a lot more difficult to fit I think.

 

So the metal "PING" sound I get when going from drive to reverse and vice versa is getting louder and more frequent, I can even hear it when accelerating from a stop now. What does this usually point to, u-joints or carrier bearing? I grease the u-joints regularly which does sort of quiet it down for a day or two but then it comes back, so I think it's beyond greasing at this point.

 

Have you checked the ujoints? U know you said you greased them but ya.


Start st the very back one.

 

Thanks Tony!

 

I just greased them again yesterday to see if it would do anything but it didn't, I eyeballed them and though they're dirty AF they don't "look" bad, but then again I don't know what a bad u-joint looks like unless it's on the verge of complete failure. Can't tell which u-joint is making the sound, just that it's coming from the rear.

 

I'm in the same boat. I've replaced both rear u-joints after greasing didn't work. I checked to make sure my transmission bolt isn't loose (pretty sure you told me about that) and it was fine. I was hoping to get a drive shaft for my OSK and swap them to narrow down where my sound is coming from but haven't found one local. Pretty stumped right now but gah damn is it annoying.....