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

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.

 

Nice, is that the Apex bumper?

Also, your hood looks like my roof. Hood is starting to go also.