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

OK so not "what have I done today", but what am I planning, today-

A headache rack. But not the geegaw you normally see on a truck that will never carry equipment, and not so much for rear window protection, as I don't intend to do any logging or the like with this truck...

rather, it would be permanently mounted in the same fashion as a normal headache rack, and I'd build a crossbar of the same height to go on the end of the bed, which will tie into my unistrut load system (can post pics of that if need be). This will give me a modular rack system to carry my kayak, while not having to be on the truck all the time.

I got the idea from a Ford Ranger in the area. The guy is a volunteer Firefighter, and his is made of aluminum extrusions. It provides a good location to mount his fore and aft work lights, antenna, and strobes. I don't need the strobes, but think this might be a viable solution for a roof rack. Anyone seen or done similar?

EDIT- or hell, I could just build a knockdown bed rack, and leave it up for most of the time. Decisions....

 

After reading mixed reviews on replacement locking tailgate handles, I came up with this cheap & easy alternative. Installed a rotating padlock hasp on the inside of the tailgate, and loop a cable lock through it and the factory bed tie down. Not completely secure, but much better than no lock. I found one side to be sufficient, but both sides could be done if you wanted to. I have a camper shell with a locking rear window, so this set up is not exposed to the elements.

 

They are coming. But I pulled an all nighter to finish it. So sleeping today after work. Photos tomorrow.

 

I'd set a 2 am curfew myself..but I finished welding at 1am...figure what the hell can take that long to out it all back together....I was wrong haha

Put the tires on at 8:05am and drove to the tire shop. Took a short nap while they aligned it. Then drove 2 hours to work. Fixing to leave for home now. Pretty sure I'm gonna pass out instantly at home lol

 

The guys at solo are awesome. I called just to ask a question a while back and the dude on the phone was super nice and asked me about everything I did to my truck even though it’s nothing crazy.

 

I have a separate wideband wired in. I'm just curious if 12.06 is the limit of the factory sensor. It's not often my truck kicks down into 12s under boost unless I'm damn near redline.

I use torque to get an estimate of what is happening by doing logs so I can focus on driving and what's going on with the ecu. It has a 1 second refresh rate which is good enough. I'm only on 5 psi so I'm not super worried about anything yet, more just trying to get a grasp for how things work. I just want to confirm that if I see 12.06 I'm likely going richer when looking back at the log since I can't always be watching the afr guage.

 

Yeah both times I was on the phone they were super cool. Nice guys. I'll be ordering some spindles hopefully this year from them too

 

Got my brembos, 13WL caliper, and wheelers brake lines.

Just finished my Switch-Pros 9100

Pioneer AVH-1440

AP rock sliders last weekend

NWTI plate bumper needs some last second grinding and then off to paint

 

I got some nice used used leaf springs with only 30K miles on them from a local guy.

 

Ran over to ADS after work (I work 20 minutes away from the shop) and picked up my new front boingers, fresh out of the oven.



Fancy new mounting plates for the reservoirs.



The new hotness.



I might go ahead and install these this coming weekend. My Bilstein 5100s are just about shot. But I also need to finish welding the rear bumper and build the swing out. So we'll see how things progress. Fortunately, I have a spare vehicle to drive if I need to.

 

What does the back side look like?

 

Very nice, what did those cost you?

 

After tax $1700. I know you can probably get them a couple hundred cheaper thru the likes of Wheelers or some other place but I wanted to go directly through ADS to get these. Got to see the shop and where they build all the shocks and met Tyler who seems to be the man in the know for the 1st gen Tacoma stuff.

 

Getting closer

 

So, I finished the grill, emblem, headlight, marker light, install over the weekend.

Decided to wire the LED strips under the headlights a little differently.




And added this "official" certification to the rear window.


100% mostly, official... ish

 

Which bumper is this I like it

 

His own design but based off other designs.

 

Damn pretty nice having a hard Tim figuring out what style to go with the arb isnt too bad but not exactly what I want only benefit is not havi g to wait 3 to 4 months for it but I need a rear too so still stuck waiting on one lol the 4x innovations want to terrible either just dont care for the large round d holes for which access especially since I plan on using led cube lights vs round

 

I do like the move bumper kits just dont have anyone near me to weld it up with out going to an actual fan shop with them

 

Punctuation, it's not very difficult and it makes your words easier for everyone else to understand.