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

I tried to fit bucket seats out of my 2nd gen T4R into my base Taco. Didn't work out.

That's what I did to my Tacoma today.

 

Thanks!

Looks great on the truck. Clearly the Greyhound folks left it out in the rain a bit on the cross-country voyage to see all that rust on there; bummer. Was sparkley when it left the depot here. Should clean up nicely though, and then paint well.

As far as paint vs. PC - totally up to you but I've seen racks with no paint at all, and they hold up fine. Not worth the cost of PC IMO.

 

If I cut and splice my blinkers over to these led markers, will they still work?

 

yes. Will hyper blink due to the LEDs lower resistance. You can just swap out your blinker for a new one from the parts store for like 10 bucks and you'll be good.

 

Swap it out with what?

 

EP-35 flasher

 

Anyone have pictures of how they reinforced their ifs skids? Planning on adding some before I paint mine and I remember pictures of people adding angle iron.

 

Oh so it doesn’t hyper flash?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/1st-gen-led-flasher-relay-ep-35.382533/

 

yeah. Or just live with the hyper flash is fine too.

 

Thanks. Got the contacts and plunger ordered from the dealership, should be here first thing tomorrow morning. I'm hoping the starter will last a few more days before it stops working all together. I don't have any tools and really don't want to deal with dropping the budbuilt skids alone by hand.

 

Thanks man.

 

I thought you just reach in behind the passenger wheel, unclip the rubber cover between the frame and inner fender well, unbolt two bolts and the start pops off of the V6 models ...

 

Do I dare to touch this shifter!!

 

off to S. Padre with the fam. i couldnt fit the kitchen sink or else i woulda. ridin looooowww!!

 

@Anthony250's been in Fresno working for the past month, sounds like it's not cold there!

 

The videos I watched indicate that the bolts aren't easy to get to from the side. The easiest way looks to get it from the rear with the skids removed using a bunch of extensions. I literally have no tools so I'd have to buy any that I would need too. Talk about inconvenient timing.

 

Why don't you have any tools?

 

Wish I had a good answer for that. I have a small tool kit that I usually keep in the truck, but moved it to the wife's car last week. Was going to put it back in my truck right before we left, but I had a lapse in judgement. Was hoping that legendary Toyota dependability would carry me through.

 

You can get a set of 3/8 metric sockets and a set of 3/8 wobble extensions from Harbor Freight that should get you through the job. or There might be something else you need that I'm not aware of, but these should get you most of the way.