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

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.

 

Old cat was toast. 2.25” Cherry Bomb for a resonator with 2.25” piping into a FlowMaster copy of the DynoMax.

 

Yeah, I've considered it. The closest harbor freight is about 1.5 hours away. I could probably find a way to get it done, but am probably just going to hope for the best and see if it'll get me home on Sunday. It currently clicks a few times then starts. I'm not going to drive it and hope it still has 2 or 3 more starts left in it for the journey home.

 

Is your truck a manual? HF or Lowes isn't a whole lot more expensive.

 

Today isn’t to hot 95° only but for here that’s good!

 

It's a manual, so roll starts could be an option. Yeah, I've considered a few possibilities, including purchasing the tools so that I have them if need be. That way, if I need them, I have them. If not, I could return them.

 

lol just park on a hill - remember I did that when push came to shove in the day lol Good idea w/ the tools as a backup plan - of course if you go buy them it will die in the parking lot and if you don't it will go another 40k miles.

 

Drop the spindles off with new bearings and seals to get pressed in at the dealer. Passenger side front bearing was going out and sounded like I had mud tires. Decided to just replace them both and do the lower BJs while I’m in there (have about 110,000 miles on them). Noticed my driver side inner tie rod has some play. Planning on replacing my leaking rack and all tie rods within the next 6 months. Probably do the lca bushings and then consider the whole front end complete.

 

Sometimes just pulling it apart and cleaning it is all it needs.

Why's that thing hang 2ft from the bumper?

 

Part 4: The Last Full Day

...It was at that point that we were waylaid by the fishery folks who were back at the tent we'd investigated the night before - there to count how many fish they'd caught in their Archimedes-screw trap during the night. We chatted each other up for a few minutes - us curious about their operation; they curious how we even found this place - before setting off downstream.

Hike along with us to the confluence of the Snake and Imnaha Rivers in
Hells Canyon Part 4 - Eureka Bar and a Miscalculation​

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Hells Canyon Part 4 - Eureka Bar and a Miscalculation​

see the whole trip report: [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]

and of course, many more trips at adventuretaco.com

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Do it. How hot can it be?

 

When I worked at Toyota a lube tech had the driver door open and backed out of the shop.....caught the door on the pillar that blocks the garage door...I about shit..brand new tundra...

 

Zane, you sell your hoopdy??

 

Truck's gone to its next owner. Still have my Land Cruiser and 300zx

 

Dang, who bought it?

 

My kid

@GuideWithVegvisir

 

@GuideWithVegvisir, hopefully he's out having fun with it.

 

Glad to see it went to someone here.

 

Haven't heard any bad news. (No news is good news with a knucklehead Private creeping around his first duty station lol)