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

Drill out if you wanna be difficult

 

The real question is how many times are you gonna ask this

 

No air down?

 

I gave it a bath...

 

Fck no, ain’t nobody got time for that,
Locked the axle and let’er eat.

 

I thought this was a grommet:

 

the bag of them i got from Camelback says grommets, so i idk

i also bot chinese made ones since i will most likely need to rip them off again next year to redo this and that
it was most time consuming to take these off, at least 1/2 hour per wheel well = 2 hours!

idk, there must be an easier way to remove them out of there, i tried a variety of hand tools i had on hand
there must be a better way to remove them in less time!
there must!!

 

Just have extras on hand. They will rip and tear for the most part when removing. Its normal.

I start with one of these -


and end up using one of these -

 

i was using a nylon prytool
a mini channel locks pliers to pull far enough away to snip behind
a paint can opener
and a crude old side snips to cut into smaller pieces so i could push it through the hole
it still took 1/2 hour each corner to get most of them out
that is a crap ton of wasted time!
and it was below 40 degrees out

 

Fucking savage

 

Flipped my pods around , now the floods are on the ditch brackets and the spots are in the bumper , rewired the new switches and installed a little locker motor armor.

 

what do those look like
i have never seen one

 

do those allow to ratchet back in the wheel arch molding bolts?

 

My son bought a 3rd Gen T4R... (close enough to a 1st Gen in my opinion)




Brought it home last night... but didn't have a chance to do anything, because I was doing stupid shit to my truck.

 

Nice! Love the 3rd gen T4Rs. Same son that also has Zane's old Tacoma?

 

No, this is my middle son. @RobertsT4R

My youngest son @GuideWithVegvisir has @Speedytech7 old truck.

 

How's that thing doing? Still tearing it up?

 

Yup... Everything is runnin fine. He's been deployed twice since he got it, so It's spending a bunch of time parked right now though.

 

Nice.
My younger daughter has a '98. She loves that thing.