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

Nice, is that the Apex bumper?

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

 

So what are you wheeling these days?

 

Finally got to use my new welder.

Also it's the first time I've used flux core, I'm used to using stick an gas shielded.


Im still trying to figure out why I'm getting porosity on the stars of my weld. But I'll be sticking with flux cmore until I can afford a
argon bottle.

 

Also gave the truck a new paint job last night.

 

Driver wheel bearing replaced.

Driver coilover shaft replaced.

 

Redid my wiring to clean it up with a bussbar and mil sped terminals



Cleaned up some new-to-me fender flares w/ SEM trim black ultra spray and 3m trim-lok edge trim to replace the top rubber liner.

Covers more of my wheel and fills out the body nicely with my installed armor imo

 

how easy was it doing the wheel bearings. Were they the factory ones?

 

Used a GPS Speedometer Phone App to see if there was an error to adjust MPG calculations.

It turned out that the Speedometer and GPS are reporting same MPH. Tires are new 255R70 16s.

 

If you have a buddy ( @foxrcing07 ) that has the press, and sleeves, and plates... it's not too bad.

No, it wasn't the factory one. This bearing was pressed when I did my 4x swap last year. I'm pretty sure it failed because the nut on the back did not get seated properly when we pressed it the last time.

 

I have access to a press, but that's about it. Haven't ever done wheel bearings before, but I was just curious for when the time comes eventually.

 

https://youtu.be/TZ2sOfVrnhU

https://youtu.be/1TpOYj0sUpA

This goes over swapping from ADD hubs to manual hubs... but it goes over the process of pressing the bearings. The ADD hubs are slightly different with the nut on the CV instead of the nut on the back of the hub, but the actual pressing of the bearing, then hub, is basically the same.

 

Oh cool thanks. Didn't know timmy had a video of that process

 

Wait did you not wrap the shaft in anything before putting it in a vice?!

 

Got the new LCA bushings installed, realized I never ordered a new UCA bolt and nut, and then started looking for the new alignment bolt sets, looked for the alignment bolts/sleeves for 2.5 hours and called it quits, I found the box they came in but never them, FML.
Ordered new alignment bolts/sleeves, they're supposed to be here the 26th and I'm hoping the local dealer has the UCA bolt and nut, I need to have my truck back by the 1st of the year.

 

Is it just me or does it look like it was ground flat?

 

That's the old shaft. We ground it flat on 2 sides and put it in the vise.

 

That's because it was ground flat.

 

Ah okay cool