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

We camp Medano every year and do backpacks in the area.

beautiful area

 

Well I did this today!

 

What seat covers are those?

 

Look like Wet Okole covers

 

Went and picked up my transmission from my GF's work on my lunch hour JDM off ebay, for the manual swap. Still waiting for the seals from Toyota before I can stuff it in. Rest of the stuff needed for install I have. It's always something lol


On the plus side everything seems to work and sounds smooth. Their ad suggests they are quite sure to only sell good used units. This one has 85k or so they say.

 

In full restoration mode with my latest package from McGeorge. Replacing a whole lot of rusty stuff. Picked up 4 new seat bolts, new screws and bolts for the center console, new clamps for the air intake assembly, cleaned 16 years worth of crud from under the airbox. Also replaced the window trim.

 

wet okole

 

I haven't posted pictures yet. I was waiting for the coilovers to settle and get them adjusted up before I did. I'll try to get a pic tomorrow even though I'm not adjusting the coilovers up for another couple of weeks.

 

indeed they are

 

Cool, if you need it let me know.

 

Did i sell you that? I had one with the same holes. I just can't find it. Lol

 

But no worries bro, its on the way already

 

I have driven through Medano once straight to the dunes but never camped. we are camping at the dunes this time.

I really want to do Ouray to Telluride via Imogene but ima be loaded with camping gear and the family. Power and turning radius are not great on my truck so hence the hesitation.

 

*Solved* I said fuck it 5min into trying to get them to fit, used some 20ga stainless wire and it worked perfectly



Probably a stupid question, but I’ll ask anyway. Regarding 555 ubj install

How the heck do you get these flat spring type clamps over the boot without destroying them. Just to clarify, it’s not the snap rings, but where the oem uses wire that is circled around and the spun to secure the bottom of the boot

Should I just got get some thin gauge wire (thinking picture wire) and do it oem style and ditch these things?

 

On Medano, campsite 1.8 (mile marker) is my favorite.

 

Wrapping up bed repairs. Now onto raptor lining, cleaning up/painting the rear frame area, and putting it back together.

 

18” Borla Pro XS and Vibrant ultra quiet. Sounds pretty good. Definitely a deeper tone to it. 2.25” all the way.

 

Little more progress on the mount, it’s so flipping hot when I get off work I can only get a little bit done a day.

 

Looking good! Like the bottle opener on the bumper. What bumper is that, or did you build it?

 

Thanks! Bottle opener is a must haha the rear bumper is the north west trail innovations DIY kit.