1996 3.4l m 4x4 extra cab taco restoration

What cup holder? Not me. Not sure if it’s worth it. Doesn’t feel particularly sporty with it. It’s shorter. If you want shorter get it.

 

Gorgeous rebuild my friend, you're doing almost exactly what I want to do to mine, but you've accomplished 3x as much as I have in only 6 months

It took me 2 years to pull rebuild and reinstall the motor and trans lol

 

hopefully those are the two parts I don’t need to replace any time soon

 

These showed up from deaver today

 

Throttle body polish update

engine bay overall looking shiny

 

Looking good! Really nice work as always. Any more details on the re-bore of the TB? I think I may need to do this? I can see a ring of light around mine while it's closed. Bigger fish to fry first though.

 

worth the effort. $160 to your door quick turn around and flawless operation

 

what kind of fish you frying?
i have an ongoing frame rehab that is going to take me ongoing 4 or 5 months to tackle

OP, i have no clue when i would ever get around to cleaning the humidity out of the engine bay like this, can i outsource it somewhere and take a load off?

 

Ive had to sneak off to my argosy airstream trailer restoration or my wife yells at me to do something productive. Little by little it gets clean

 

More goodies showing up around here. Installing in the next few weeks

 

CarPlay makes all the difference

 

When they tell you “95-97 Tacoma’s have different leaf springs than the rest of the first gens” and you custom order a spring set from deaver because that’s the only real option for a full progressive pack and it turns out to be 6” too short—leading me to believe that my spring perches are the same as the 98-04

 

Maybe that was a regular cab size? That’s strange I think they just measured incorrectly.
What’s the length from eye to eye? On the deaver set?
I’ve thought about getting a set

 

Sent the measurements and photos to Jeff who designed the springs. He’s sending a new set out on monday

 

Measurements

 

nice unit!
they (car audio place) tried so hard to sell me something like that, but..
i told them i cannot lose my 'precious' pocket where i store gum and coffee card right there

 

This is my third head unit in a year. The original aftermarket one had a dead plate where the pocket should be. No loss here. Glad to have navigation on a real screen

 

i had bot an aftermarket cassette tape deck unit connected to a 6 disc mag changer under passenger seat the year after i got my truck, that cassette deck burnt out in 2oo7 and i could not find a unit that would also work with the changer at bestBuy, which sucked, its dangerous to swap out CDs while on the move, i enjoyed the disc changer, plus the power antenna likes to go up then back down when i change discs, more wear and tear

 

noob95.5
do you have those new floormats in? what do they look like, front and back
i've been needing a new driver side one but no luck getting something nice yet
i did find a place that may be able to customize carpet floor mat

 

I still have the aftermarket mats in. The fresh matts look way better, thick stitching around the edges and the color matches.

Waiting to get the suspension squared away and then doing trail gear gas skid and rear brakes, front and rear camera and a plate rear bumper