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

@eon_blue plus you have more weight already and if u plan on bumpers and other upgrades even more, the upgrade is worth it. LOVE my tundra brakes, massive upgrade.

 

Before I knew about the Tundra swap (right when I got my truck), I paid a shop to bleed my brakes, install new Tacoma rotors and front pads. This cost me $100 more than buying (calipers, brake lines, pads, rotors), installing and bleeding to do the Tundra swap myself.

 

Today I took advantage of the nice sunny day to touch up some chips in the paint that have been rusting. One on the roof, many on the hood and a few on top of the front fenders. I also realized that I should plastidip or bed line the rocker panels since there are so many chips in the paint from not having front mudflaps.

 

Bedline. Derp won't hold up for long there.

 

Made a little more progress on the timing belt/water pump job.

Got the crank pulley and lower timing cover off...


Tensioner, timing belt and water pump removed and surface cleaned...



Cam pullies and rear timing cover removed...


Time for a beer break before getting back to it.

 

Installed a new carrier bearing today, tip to everyone: make sure you have a 24 mm socket before removing your driveshaft lol

 

Today I cleaned the throttle body and flushed the radiator

 

If you don’t mind I’ll piggy back,
Today I replaced the fuel filter in my 2.7, and my fuel filter replaced my sanity with a temporary state of

 

Oh did you get sprayed? I did when I replaced mine in my last truck lol

 

Fortunately I did not. My headache was brought on by navigating in and around the intake manifold to access the blasted thing.
Chears to completed taco projects

 

Anybody here live on or near the coast in Texas?

 

Made some more progress today! Big thanks to @Pella for the help!

@Pella stackin dimes

Frenched in the tabs for the bushings (hinges).
Almost done.

 

I’m curious is being on the coast with the salty air causes minor surface rust. My truck came out of Montgomery and Houston area and while it’s not bad by any means the paint didn’t hold up real great. Surface rust showing through all over. My last 02 had a near perfect frame being in GA it’s whole life.

 

Finished but the resi mounting plates from Fox do not clear tires.
Custom fabbed a mount out of aluminum angle.

Bye Bye 5100 crap

Hello pricey bits

Had to disconnect the sway bar and drop down the uniballs.

 

Time to let that sway bar meet up with your stock radiator! Im around for 1 more week if needed.

 

My cork gasket is holding up like a champ, although it’s for my transmission pan not oil pan. But I did put some silicon gasket between the pan and gasket before I bolted it back up to the transmission.

 

You might wanna not put your resis up there...right @drr ? LOL

 

I am about to do new axle seals and bearings next weekend as well. What is the stud delete portion you are talking about?

Also, seals and bearings are one of those things if you find you need to do one, might as well go ahead and do them both.

I installed the Champion aluminium radiator in my truck yesterday. Did some wiring on the alarm system, and helped my son break lose all the control arm hardware on his vehicle. Then at about an hour before dark, found the wife's ZJ had a worn water pump. Never leaked a drop but the bearing was pooched. Wrapped that up about 9pm.

 

I'll just leave this here for y'all's consideration. Feel free to vote by "likes" and join in the contest yourselves!

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...o-challenge-march.597665/page-3#post-20076786

 

I had the same problem about 15 years ago when I ordered a bumper for my S10 from "Kennesaw Mountain Offroad" (aka Tactical Armor Group, aka Blue Lake Offroad, and may have changed their name since, last I? found was 2012). They expected me to ship it back, both ways, for them to fix their screwup... AFTER taking 6 months to get it to me.

What did I do? Bought a welder and started learning.