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

Sat in an hour worth of city traffic to grab them, last thing I want to do is work on the truck right now. This whole getting pitch dark at 530pm now isn't helping my motivation

 

Finally started prepping these suckers.

 

Custom gussets for the lower arms or does someone make those?

 

@eimkeith makes them

 

Ah, interesting.

 

Curious if those are actually needed. Was pretty sure our LCAs were already pretty damn stout

 

I've bent mine before
but then again I did something stupid.

 

Hard abuse usually leads to cracking around the rivets and shock mount. Limit straps should hopefully prevent the shock mount cracks though. I’m trying to get ahead of it all.

Plus a flatter sliding surface on the lca ftw.

 

BTW...

@Blackdawg good call on the pre-load on my coilovers. You said 7 or 8 threads driver 5 or 6 threads passenger. That's where I set them. I wanted to lift about .5 inch from where I was at (with the Bilstiens), because I had lost about that much adding bumper, winch, skids etc.

8 threads nailed it perfectly on driver. I ended up cranking the passenger to 8 threads too because 6 threads dropped me about .5 inch.

My truck has always been weird where it doesn't "Taco lean" so I ended up having to set both sides equal.

 

Awesome! Odd about the taco lean..haha consider yourself blessed

 

Yeah, mine are cracking all over the place.


Looking to have a more permanent solution to that problem though.

 

Sawzall® solvesall™

 

https://www.solomotorsports.com/sho...er/toyota-lower-control-arm-kit-stock-length/

 

Seems like it makes it hang lower to me inducing more dragging.

well...you say that...

until your LBJs won't tighten down in them...and you find out 800 miles from home after wheeling on it for a full summer.

 

Egged out the stud hole I'm the arm? If you have a drill press I can probably get you the right tapered ream. You'd just need to clad weld it up and drill a new pilot bore.

 

At this point in my build, I don't think I'm going to drop that much money to end up at the same place I left off.


Same thoughts for fixing my cracked rear axle housing.

 

I wouldn't even fix a bad axle bearing or seal on these axles. They're not worth the effort.

 

So .... SAS finally with FJ80 axles?

 

nope. was fine. Thankfully

 

Marlin RCLT when it (never) comes out for 1st gens?