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

I've been trying to escape this hell hole of Chicago for 15yrs now, it's like a prison camp I can't break out of glad you were able to. That's funny the winters are the only thing I like about it here, the summers here are miserable.

 

I can't speak for any where really but the south, it is where I have spent my life. I really like the south, I have visited a lot of places but always good to go back home. I hear people talk about the south and it always makes me wonder if they really know the south.

 

Too much salt on the roads everything east of the Rockies.

Reno seems almost perfect. I dig the Rubicon is 40 min away, Fordyce is an hour, Moon Rocks is 10. Twister, Bronco Canyon, Bud Canyon, Prison Hill, and Eldorado Canyon all day trips.

Just mentioning all these spots is making me wish I had just grabbed an old axle and went SAS on 37s.

Except the money part of crawling... That pain is real.

 

If I recall when I did my last oil change on the transmission and tcase I was wondering why my oil plugs
we’re not magnetic? And I think the rear differential was magnetic

Are yours magnetic?

 

My Transmission was already magnetic. The old Tcase drain plug was not magnetic. The Trail Toys plugs are magnetic.

 

The tcase has a big magnet internally...

 

Led a trail run today, the one thing that sucks most about being the trail leader is that you don't really get any action photos of yourself

And yes, we had a Ford Raptor with us

 

The other day:
- Flushed the radiator.

Today:
- New power steering fluid.
- New sway bar bushings.
- New sway bar end links and bushings.
- New lower differential mount bushings (Durobumps, plus new Toyota top insulator/bushing).

The truck drives like new! Amazing difference, quite surprising since the bushings seemed better than expected. The sway bar end link bushings were shot. The driver side diff mount bushing was squishier than the passenger side. Otherwise everything else looked really good. I changed it anyway and wow the front end is nice.

As of now the truck has nothing wrong with it and all maintenance is up-to-date. Now what will I do with my spare time?!

 

The magnets were just a bonus. I got the Trail Toys plugs because those original one are absolute shit.

I had to get a new fill plug because the original one was siezed and you can't get a wrench on it for shit. I had to mangle it with a bolt extractor.

The Trail Toys plugs are a 19mm and the head on them is big enough to get a good purchase on it with a socket.

 

I give him credit actually, he picked the harder optional lines that most bypassed

 

I got trail gear ones, they're okay but they're 10mm allen

 

I wouldn't have had a problem with a 10mm allen. I think that's the same as the diff, isn't it?

I keep a 10mm and 12mm allen in my bag of tools... I know I have both on my truck... I just can't remember which goes to what.

 

Actually your wrong I asked who lives in Georgia not ca as ca is where I currently live and I'm thinking of moving away to ga it's to damn expensive to raise a family in ca

 

Looks like it will be pretty solid! Did you cut the rear bedside to get it to fit flush?

 

Ya... well I think we covered that about 4 hours ago. I miss read the post.

 

Sorry 4 hours ago after my post I was spending time with my mom and dad that came to visit from Arizona

 

Cool

Tell your Mom Happy Mother's Day.



You're WAY better off thinking about AZ than GA.

 

Arizona is pretty awesome!!

 

Finished Product.



And this is as far as I’ve gotten tonight. Step 21 of 96. Boy that EGR pipe bracket bolt is a bitch to get to.

 

No, this just wraps around the bedside. No cutting required. I did paint those panels with bed liner, after making a bit of repair work. A lady backed into the truck, and ruined the chrome bumper, and dinged the corner of the bed. Her insurance is paying for this bumper, plus a DIY CBI plate bumper for the front and an inexpensive winch. In the side picture, you can see a piece of 1 inch Styrofoam that I used as a spacer. I chose this bumper because the wraparound lines up with the lines in the panel. Most don't.