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

Yup, it's not a bad way to do it if you have something on your bed to grab by

 

What did you end up deciding, centering the pinion unequal shaft legnth, or offcenter and equal shafts?
Keep up the good work, curious to see what you'll do with the brakelines and rounting. Thats where i'm stuck at right now

 

Centered pinion and different length shafts. The way I figured it out to be was I can get 300m shafts for the cost of getting a spare shaft. I’d hope I never break a 300m shaft but if I do I’ll just pull it since it’ll be full float.

For brake lines on the old axle I re made hardlines and it worked but didn’t look good so I think this time I’m just going to spend the money and run steel braided lines the length of the axle with a t in the middle to connect to the frame brake line. That way I can run them how I want and just use some tabs like what ruffstuff sells. Unless I find something better but I didn’t care for redoing hardlines.

 

Any time man, just let me know.

 

Paint day for my silver truck, the wreck rehab. I had replaced the hood, LH fender, and the roof and bed cover were faded really bad. Bought Nason paint. Not sure why I even bother to give the paint code, since I knew it would be darker from fade on the rest of the truck... and it is pretty different. No suspense there. Just too lazy to prep the entire truck. Maybe later if the mismatch bugs me bad enough.

Yeah, outside and I'm gonna have dust in it. But it's a 24 year old truck with 255,000 and been wrecked, twice.

BTW, usually borrow my nephews high end gun, but this time I used the $9.95 HF HVLP at 35-40 PSI. Water filter at compressor and at the gun. Total supply cost was $230.00 for 2 qts paint, 2 qts clear, and about 20oz of activator. I had some reducer from painting my green truck.

Base Coat

Clear Coat x 2

Base Coat

Clear Coat x 2



No homespun paint job is complete without some sort of mishap....

Darn it! Oh well, I can fix that. I'll do it after I put it back on the truck. Nice, easy to reach location. This is what happens when you crowd your parts together and try to paint. I "stuttered" trying not to bump into my bed cover. Only takes a second with the clear coat and your screwed.



UPDATE:
Pulled it out in the sun. No, I can't live with that. Hard to believe how much they fade. That fender was mixed to original 196 code.

I am going to have to paint the rest of the left side. Then, who knows on right side....

 

Thanks for the quick responses, gents! That helps a ton.

I appreciate that, Jason! I’ll definitely keep your offer in mind!

 

Try an 8ft bed..

Taco beds are easy. We lift them off at work all the time

 

Thats where I'm at, pickuped weld on tabs and going to use stainless steel ties vs plastic zipties. Just rounting around the spring perches is not being convient with how the calipers sit and the brakelines coming off of them. Using all stainless braided lines as well.

 

What symptoms were you getting with a bad knock sensor or wire?

 

And the reason why my supercharger seized up and my engine wouldn’t start is... my dumbass left eight paper towels inside the intake runners.

Monte called it.

Thank god the engine never turned over, otherwise this would be a much sadder post.

 

He gave us each one free shot at him in the other thread, might save it for a rainy day...

 

Yeah yeah yeah, get it all out. I deserve it.

 

Get some of those blue shop towels next time, harder to miss those unless they were all stuffed that far in from the get go

 

Its the internet. Pretty sure we all get unlimited shots at each other. Unless youre a snowflake who loves the report button.

 

I was going to use those, I used my last roll on cleaning up Coolant.

 

I still think the 'report' button needs to be renamed to the "I'm telling" button, might discourage it's use. Probably not though.

It's one thing to get rustled jimmies over internet comments, its another thing to report them.

Unless it's to report genuinely dangerous info or something.

 

I buy them in bulk from Horrible Freight, they sell them fairly cheap there

 

Blue tape over the holes, can't miss that when reinstalling the intake or sc. I can see myself pulling that shit as well. I constantly start bolts to notice I didn't put a washer on or have a wire wrapped in it.

 

Well @BartMaster1234 I for one am looking forward to the first test run, I think we all deserve a video clip of it once you get her all bolted up again