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

SEXY!!!! Money well spent!!

 

no mine are 0k, i was just tyring to help another TW member locate something for his red 95.5

 

Picked up some stuff.

 

Ripper of a setup!

 

I’ve spent most of the day looking for some stickers to put on mine like this.

 

Saris rack? Does it bug you at all being that high up?

 

It’s a RockyMounts monorail. It looks a lot higher due to the steep driveway, but it has good departure angle!

 

well i'm jelly..

 

Changed out my bad knock sensors/harness
And put on a weird new intake that has a goofy idler pulley on it. Runs like a champ now, those knock sensors were killing the power

 

Sanded down and filled in all the scratches chips and dings in my bumper. Finish sanding and a fresh paint job tomorrow.

 

Do you have a build or anymore pics of your bed cap??

 

Anybody have a best guess as to how much an extended cab bed weighs?

I’m about to jump into my rear shock relocation and I don’t really have any bros nearby to help me lift the bed off the frame. I might pick up an engine hoist to do it, but I’d rather not if I don’t have to. Anyway, just trying to get a feel for what I’ll be dealing with.

 

Well, after a couple years of running a bed rack and RTT, the cracks in the bed were a testament to the abuse the truck has been through. So, time to try to fix up the body panels and make a few modifications to the bed rack so the cracks don't come back. Hopefully.

And boy, sheet metal welding sucks. Kudos to the guys who do it for a living!

Full story, photos: Bed Rack v2 - Stopping the Bed Cracks

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I'd guess about 300 lbs. Two guys can lift it reasonably easily, it's just a bit unwieldy getting it over the fill tube.

 

zane used a hoist to do it by himself. @Speedytech7

 

I can give you a hand... I work weekdays though and tonight I'm finishing my pinch weld hammering...

 

Yikes, I'm always afraid of the day I eventually discover cracks in my bed from my bed rack/tent.

I'm simply running a low profile Avid bed rack which is just two bars with a basket in between...works great for my smallish 2 person RTT but I wonder if the lack of multiple spread out mounting points is going to speed up the damage process. Haven't noticed anything bad yet. I don't do a lot of high speed stuff but I do get pretty flexy in 4lo quite often.

I do think if anything fails 'first' it will be the thin metal of the bed rails where it was drilled to mount the rack. Feels so thin and brittle.

 

yes. It will.

This is why I always recommend a front bar like he added.

 

Yeah sounds like the only real solution.

Going to be needing a bigger tent setup in the future anyhow, so I'll prioritize finding a better bed rack system first. @turbodb I might be hitting you up in the not so distant future haha.