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

Did my knock sensors and harness this morning.

 

Been there done that no T shirt to prove it

 

Started painting the frame with some Eastwood frame paint and rust encapsulator in the areas that have any surface rust. This will be the first winter in salt country so I'd prefer not to take any chances. I already gave the frame an internal coating.

Would've been nice to pull the bed off but I don't have the time/tools/space/labor to do it, so I'll just be covering what I can access by removing the wheels and crawling underneath. It's hard to see but I painted the brake drum as well while I had the wheel off since it had a lot of surface rust, and I sprayed the exhaust tip with some hi-temp flat black paint. In hindsight, using the rust encapsulating rattle can primer is probably easier than using the brush-on rust encapsulator for the brake drums, so I'll probably use that on the other side.

Rest of the vehicle is tomorrow, maybe into Monday if it takes that long.

 

Did the same.

 

perhaps? that jack is probably twice as old as you are lol (no offense intended)
it was a hand-me-down from my Dad, he probably got it used somewhere sometime, i have rarely used it over the decades

 

To start, I have an '03 Pre runner with a 2.7 motor and auto trans.
On Friday, I installed a hi flow Magna Flow catalytic converter, part #447184. There are good/ bad things about it.
The good is, more bottom end and getting better fuel mileage.

The bad... the finish is bad. The collector tubes were not the same length and crooked, same for the single tube after the cat. I fixed these and that was good. The O2 sensor location sucks bad. The O2 flange has 2 threaded lengths welded onto it... they were crooked and askew from each other and are too close together to allow both the gasket and sensor to slide onto it and the flange is not welded directly over the hole for the sensor push in. As for the gaskets, the 2 at the collector were not the same, but close enough to use.
Finally, I had to TIG the heat shield as the spot welds were garbage. I now have an exhaust leak that I will remedy next weekend.

For once, I'd like to purchase an aftermarket part and have it function as advertised. I'll speak to a rep at SEMA next month.
Has anyone else had issues with this?

 

this looks good
what did you use for the internal frame coating?
i had my drums blasted and powder coated a couple months ago for a reasonable price, just a few days of down time is all
they were not bad, just a little dust no major crust, but they are smokin black now and will see how they handle the first winter

 

@Black DOG Lila, did you get my query from yesterday that i was curious about?

 

After two months down I finally got my truck running again. It running like nothing even happened. On a side note someone did go it to the truck and stole my molle panel took off with my winch remote, air down tool, and my cables for my jumper pack.

 

stupid thieves!

 

That’s what I said! Can’t have anything nice anymore.

 

Ever since they bought bosal their quality has dropped on some products that they've offloaded to the Bosal facility to build. Same thing happened with Land Cruiser headers. The MagnaFlow ones used to be nice beautiful stainless parts. and now that usually come to you still stainless but not polished was poorly welded collectors and misaligned flanges.

 

Got new tires and wheels recently. ( don’t mind the duck tape around the window broke the mechanism but fixed it recently)

 

Another shot

 

Drove her to the stix. Gonna go have some fun on the rocks!

 

Put in my new AEM oilless air filter. Tired of replacing fiber ones every six months cuz of the dirt road I live on. Also cleaned and lubed the hood release cable at the latch mechanism up front. Kept getting stuck. A little scrub and some bike component lube and working better than ever.

 

Question for all y’all. What’s elocker diffs in need of rebuilds (3.73 ratio too) without actuators worth?

 

Just a few cans of Eastwood internal frame coating. Had to wait a bit for the black to come back in stock but I wasn't interested in the other green color.

 

Finally put my shocks on. And spindles (still gotta get the diff cleaned up and in the truck so I can put cv axles in)

 

About 2 yrs in the making. Finally switch the OEM radio to Axxera AV6118Bi DVD receiver, w/ integrated 6.2" touchscreen. Built-in Bluetooth for hands-free calling and audio streaming. Still playing around with it, but pretty good for the price.