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

If the dealership follows the same method as mine, they don't break apart the engine and transmission. Both are affixed to the body, and raised with the body. They only cut brake and fuel lines, separate the exhaust, drive shaft, motor and transmission mounts, etc

 

Much the same as mine, no sign on the outside until I pushed with my thumb, and it crumbled.

 

My warranty is up in october. Im gonna give it a real good look over sometime this month. My truck has been in Roanoke VA most of its life so I doubt anything will show up, but it did get CRC'ed so I guess anything is possible.

 

I need a backup for the moment.

Unrelated...

Does anyone know of a good circuit under the hood that comes on with the ignition? I need to wire my fogs as DRLs to pass the import inspection.

 

I used an add a fuse that piggybacks off the dashboard gauge fuse for my AFR gauge, that way it's on whenever the truck is on.

edit - never mind just saw you mentioned under the hood, this one is inside the cab

 

Yah I think the cig lighter would also be a good one if I have to come through the firewall.

 

Check near the bottom of the fuse box under the hood for any unused pigtails. I found a couple the other day but didn't actually check if they were ignition hot cause I already pulled the battery and other stuff.

 

Got my new tailgate swing out installed last night, @GHOST SHIP makes them for 2nd gens and wanted to try out one for a 1st gen using my truck. Super happy with how it came out and looks, now I can finally get the spare out of my bed and free up some space, with room to mount some jerry cans on the other side of the tire since he designed it to be offset rather than centered.

Anyone local in the southern CA area should hit him up if you're interested in one.

Some pics (unpainted still, going to do that this weekend).










Forgive the parking lot environment, I'm at work

 

I didn’t know you worked at a mall

 

Might as well be one with how big our parking lot is, but nope it's an industrial lot.

 

Its easy to tell you work as a photo editor. Had to doctor up the pics of the truck lol.

What color you planning on painting it?

 

yeah that was just some quick Android photo app filters haha. Not quite deserving of the full blown Capture One/Photoshop treatment seeing as how they're just crappy camera pics.

Just going to paint it black, undecided on whether I'll use a lightly textured bedliner or just do a flat black paint.

I do like the bare metal look actually, though. But it'll need something to keep it from getting surface rust from the elements, especially with some of the places I take the truck.

 

I wouldnt do flat. Satin is what most bumper companies use as a powdercoat, so if you ever go that route up front atleast it will match.

 

How does it attach to the bed sides?

 

It uses three of the mounting holes for the stock tailgate one each side, so 6 bolts total. The one Wilco used to make for our trucks that looks similar uses 6 total as well

 

I like, so what did it set you back?

 

I was his 1st gen guinea pig so I got a solid deal on it, but from what I gather the ones he makes going forward (if he decides to depending on interest) will be priced around the same as the Wilco used to be, which if memory serves was ~ $600 or 700? Would have to hit him up to get an exact price on it though, I don't want to guess and be way off lol. He did say he'd be down to make more after he gauges interest, I'm not sure how shipping would work for those outside of SoCal but it might be able to be arranged

 

@Phessor lets look into this if you are interested. I still haven't been able to get mine built so i'm looking for other options and this one looks pretty good to me. If it works out maybe we can go in on delivery or pick up etc.

 

AZ isn't too far could probably arrange a TW express to get them out there, I got my Avid bed rack from one of the AZ guys that way last year.

 

I might be doing Mojave road next month (Oct). That’ll take me to Bullhead and up to Havasu. Delivery might doable for a couple carriers.