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

Nice!! Where was that?

 

Went around the back side of Mt Lemmon to Peppersauce Cave and then up Mt Lemmon Rd (backside) as far as we could. Lots of snow up there so they had the lower gate closed and locked. Then drove down to Redington Rd and took that back into town.

 

So I pulled the trigger and ordered me some LT265/75/16s for the Taco got them at Discount Tire for $98 a tire. Should be here next week! Also found a used bed for $200! Now I have an excuse for the wife on why I need to #Raptorliner the Taco! LOL!







This is the look I am gonna go for with color setup using the #raptorliner. Shout out to @AKsavanaman for the inspiration!

 

Found the problem with my kids power steering. Rack is shot. Pulled the dust boots off the ITREs and a quart of power steering fluid dumped out.

2 problems with that... The dust boots are to keep shit out, not in... our power steering racks take ATF (red) fluid, not Power steering (yellow) fluid.




Used rack off a 2001 Tacoma will be here on Tuesday (better rack guide than the pre 00s had)

 

My center climate control bulb had burned out, so I replaced all three with LEDs. Also replaced the ash tray and glove box bulbs.

 

Realized pretty quickly that me and the lil’ lady were not going to be able to put on this 111 lb. son of a bitch so it’s bumperless until I can get reinforcements tomorrow.

 

NICE bumper man!

Wish you were on the Left side of the Country... I'd be there in a heartbeat to help.

Actually no... I wish I was on the right side of the Country. I'd never wish for anyone to be in this shit hole. lol

 

Haha, thanks man. I’ve been out there a few times, beautiful part of the country. Too expensive for me though. Hoping to have this thing on by tomorrow.

 

I used my floor jack and a stack of 2x4 blocks to very sketchily get my bumper in place.

 

I had my floor jack under it and a couple jack stands but it was not balanced well and I had her trying to steady while I lined it up. I could see it dropping on toes so I’ll hold off until I get a couple of guys to help in the morning.

Things are piling up in the garage to sell. Got some 265/70R16 Duratracs with about 2/3 life left, stock wheels, a battery, a roll up toneau cover and now a Curt receiver, hitch and trailer light harness.

 

That should all sell pretty quick aside from the wheels. I practically had to give my stock wheels away.

 

Can you remind me what size LED the climate control takes?

also what size bulbs for the map lights and dome lights?

 

Are those the LEDs? How hard was it???

 

Not today but yesterday I pretty much finished up my LCA bushing replacement, not much left.
I hate to say it but my truck will get sold before I have to replace the LCA bushings again.

 

The climate control uses three NEO 4mm whip style bulb, I bought the warm white color from superbrightleds:

https://www.superbrightleds.com/mor...ulb-high-power-instrument-panel-led/221/1001/

I swapped the map and dome lights earlier this year, used DE3175 bulbs with resistors soldered on.

They are, and not bad at all. Took about an hour. You have to take the black plastic stereo bezel off and the plastic piece below it to unhook the climate control unit.

LED bulbs care about polarity, so if they don't work the first time you plug them in, you probably just need to flip them around. The hardest bulb to get back in was the one above the glove box. It took more force than I expected.

 

Report back on those climate control lights.

I've tried like 3 different kinds of NEO4 leds and can't get any to work right. None of them fit right in the circuit board just right, and they end up flickering and going out quickly.

 

Got out today and cleaned the MAF thanks to the thread on here leading me to sorting that out and also changed all the serpentine belts. Also used a thread on here for that as well. Just wanna give a huge thanks to all the guys who took the time to list it all out.

 

Nice. Everything work out as expected? Notice any difference in how it runs from the MAF cleaning?

 

I need to do that too. Have one that is out. What is the number for those bulbs?

 

Looks like the same color as mine.