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

Thats right. Forgot about those.

 

Ah shit! @SCSPerformance 17x8.5 SR8s in matte gun metal wrapped in 255/75 bfg muds

 

Those early first gens sure look sharp when they've been well maintained

 

Boy that turned out really well. I can appreciate that you take the time to execute your mods thoroughly and completely. Especially on something like that steering wheel, there is no mechanical improvement or whatever for restoring it. So it was really getting it done the right way just because you wanted to and have the ability. Looks good man. I'm impressed with your attention to detail with your work

 

I may not go all out with modding my truck, but what I do to it, I want to do it right. Otherwise Id drive my CDO insane.

 

Maybe if you don't have a receiver hitch, but if you've got a hitch, it will drag way before the tire ever will. I've drug my reciever hard tons of times, but never even put a mark on the tire. That's with a 10.5 wide tire. If you are running a super wide spare, it might hang low enough to drag.

 

I laugh and like seeing you and bartmaster go at it, always trying to one up each other on the perfection of the mod or execution of the mod

 

I dont think Im as ocd as he is, and we do have different tastes/ways of doing stuff. Got a lot of respect for the dude though.

 

This suggests otherwise

 

Gotta be in alphabetical order man!

 

Your what?

And for the love of god people, the past tense of "drag" is "dragged", not "drug".

/grammar nazi rant

 

Yes, I know, but that's the most information still around on the seemingly defunct company.

 

I drug my friends all the time on the trail, what's wrong with that

 

I had a thread on frame plates a while back when I was shopping for mine. I went with the CBI ones.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rear-frame-reinforcement-what-are-the-options.590837/

 

OCD but the letters are in the correct, alphabetical order.

 

Not to mention a ton of weight up high

 

This look right?



@eon_blue

 

Today I swapped in a new drivers seat cushion after 200k miles (expensive, PITA, but my back thanks me)
Tightened down my hood latch to keep it from bouncing
Mounted my wireless charging phone dock on the dash above the clock and hid the wires behind the facia

 

I went with the FROR plates. 3/16 thick and they lined up really well on the frame but any one of the handful of options is probably just fine.

I will say that reinforcement for the rear frame improved stiffness much more than what I was expecting. I can still see the bed move, twist, and vibrate, but it’s much less than it was before.

 

More maintenance today, rear diff oil.