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

So tell me again how great the grappler is for wheel bearings?

 

I "heard stories" about them hub grapplers.

 

I like that can’t steering wheel. Looks really good.

 

Took the dc for a good wash, got it ready to weld up. Definitely have some work ahead of me to get this thing solid again, but once done, she’ll be good for a while. Fuck is a prerunner without a box useless in fresh snow. Even locked with ice/snow tires!!

 

She’s pretty rusty!

 

They’re not hard to straighten out with a large punch and taking the Sending unit out..

 

It's difficult to get to the front of the tank though. I used a bottle jack to open mine back up a little.

 

Yea it can be tight. But I’ve managed before. Crazy how many people destroy
Gas tanks around here on trucks.

 

A lot of surface rust. I’ll coat that. But definitely some gross holes.

 

What year Camry is that wheel from?

 

It was either a 2002 or 2003 SE. Had to swap out airbag units to make sure plugs worked since the ‘02 had dual stage.

 

Decided having it my tool box is more fun than having it on my shopping list

 

Replaced the single bulb light on the shell with 2 LED light bars.

 

It looks like my IS300 wheel just without the stupid up/down shift buttons. Off to the junkyard monday...

 

Wedding project is coming together nicely.

 

Can confirm I wasn't able to do it with a 12 ton press though.

Hopefully the shiny new 20t does the trick tomorrow.

 

Did some Light work today. I used to have some cheap halogen aux lights behind the grill but I decided to upgrade because they just weren't producing the light output I wanted (my hi-beams were brighter). I upgraded to some Hella LED spot lights. Cut the expanded metal so they would come through the grill a little bit.

 

That looks really nice!

 

Thanks! #MakeRoundLightsGreatAgain

 

That sucks. Have dealt with stuff like that before. Now I have a surveillance cam (or cams) prominently displayed on every house my family owns. Have caught several porch pirates on "tape" and then decided to put up alarm signs and a little red arrow pointing to the camera and nothing has been "disappeared" since