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

I try not to bounce around on obstacles too much. I'd be willing to bet my bent axle was a direct result of air between the tire and the ground.

 

Thanks! I run a makerspace, so I get to play with all the cool toys.

 

Or pitch the entire sway bar in the garbage where it belongs

 

Weight is an issue for sure. But not a lot of ways around it when you're on a 2 week trip in the middle of no where.

But that's a good point. I know I've made an effort to trim up but still..has saved our ass more than once having spare parts and tools.

I'm low geared enough I don't have to bump anything really. If it kills the truck. I just lock the rear and am fine ha

Same.

 

New tire and wheel day. 37" procomp xtreme mt2 on 17" procomp vapor (real) beadlocks.

 

Scored some color matched buckets from a local member parting out a truck. Gotta admit I was kind of skeptical of how well they'd clean up when I first saw them but I decided to take the chance. Glad I did! The passenger seat looks immaculate, and the driver seat has some thinning fabric but otherwise cleaned up just as good as the passenger seat. I spent maybe 3 hours cleaning them with stuff I bought at autozone. I put my sewing skills to the test to fix a small rip on the drivers seat, me thinks it should hold long enough for me to save for some wet okole seat covers.

When I first got them, uncleaned.
During
After
My attempt at upholstery repair

Now I get to hunt down a set of drivers seat plastic trim pieces and a console setup. Hopefully can get those Monday as the auto salvage place near my work claims to have at least the console on their site.

 

Hank got a new set of shoes...

Before... during... and after.

More mods coming soon. Just bought over a grand worth of new swag.

 

Waiting for my friend Dan to come over to tack this shaft.

 

installed some JBA arms and rotated my coilovers to reach the valve. Time to clean everything up. Any suggestions on what psi i should be running these Camburg 2.5s at???

 

Somewhere between 150-200 psi. I'm sure Camburg states somewhere the exact number.

 

I need a lesson in basic wrenching, because I cannot break free the bolts on my drive shaft. They're 14mm bolts, they shouldn't require this much force to turn. I tried spraying PB Blaster on them, but it helped not at all. The one with the lock washer was very easy to loosen, but the others are tight as hell. I was starting the deform the nut even using a socket. The four bolts on the back end of the shaft are all immovable. My Bro-in-law says I should go rent an impact wrench.

My current technique is 14mm socket on the nut, and a 17mm box end as a hold back on the other side, so as not to torque the gearbox.

 

They're tight. I used a 14mm box end wrench linked to a 17mm wrench to make one long wrench. Kinda sketchy but it worked. Its the reason I asked for a set of extended length wrenches for Christmas last year.

 

Just make sure there is NO lip holding the nut from turning like mine.
Impact might be the next step.

 

Every factory driveline bolt I have removed, needed the Hulk to break loose!

 

Hehe thanks for the laugh, I need it right now! The weird thing is, the two on the transfer case side with lock washers were basically hand tight and required zero force to move. I did have my transmission rebuilt by the dealership 7 years ago... I bet they forgot to tighten those two.

 

If all fails take a grinder and cut them off, but OEM bolts and nuts per set are like 10.00.

I ended cutting mine off

I couldn’t get mine off to save my life.

Rounded the sockets and the bolts

 

if you're gonna be doing your own work regularly invest in an impact, trust me its a good investment. Then go to harbor freight and get a set of metric impact sockets.

 

Got the new low profile methonal nozzle cut into the intake tube.

Looks almost like an OEM fit now

 

Is that the plastic K&N tube, how is that attached?

I welded a bung for my Methanol nozzle.

 

Yeah those are on there real good. I use my big beefy 1/2 pneumatic impact to get those off when I'm working on the driveline.