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

Sounds like main bearing in starter is going out. Same thing happened to mine.

 

Let me know if you pull the trigger on this and you need another set of hands. I’m not far from the PRB!

 

Hell yeah.

I'm pretty sure you've been to my house. Or maybe I stalked you on 287 once.

Something like that.

 

Haha!

You bought one of my stock bumpers to add to your menagerie

But seriously, once I get my garage office build done, you’re welcome to cruise over and do the swap in the shop. I haven’t done it myself, but we could always bug @TMFF for pro tips.

 

Oh yeah, we met at the hospital or something. Good lord... getting old sucks.

And yeah Tim is godsent. I was thinking about dropping my truck off in his garage with all the parts, stack of cash and a note saying, "please swap." Or just chaining myself to his DCLB as the first step of negotiating its purchase. Or at least until he started to drag me down the road.

 

I feel you on the getting old shit... everything hurts.

I'm down, but I am driving not flying. That way I can bring my tools and shit! I don't see any reason we couldn't get it done over a long weekend man

 

If you're any where near for real I'll make it worth your time with cash and also becoming your new best friend.

And yeah... spent the better part of 5 hours laying/crawling on my driveway, with Jon, under this truck and my body was pretty jacked that evening and into the morning.

 

What are you trying to get done?

You know you're always welcome in my garage. I've got angle grinders, sawzalls, BFHs, and a welder. There's nothing we can't fix. Look at my truck, its a perfect example!

 

Looking to swap the R150F transmission into the 04.

And I’m totally down to drive up and ensure my truck makes it into the “what’s gonna break now?” thread

 

Haha, I'd never take your cash man. Food and place to crash is one thing... Now friends I can always use more of, especially Tacoma friends

It sounds like everyone is ripe for one hell of a "mod day" and I'd dig meeting some fellow TW members. Sounds like you need to get busy getting all your parts together mate

 

UPS just dropped off the CV axles from CVJ.

@Digiratus - Yep they are indeed painted green from them, so that adds up. Good to know!


extended travel on the inners and OEM on the outers. Going to be interesting to see what my CV angle ends up looking like.

 

No joke, I'd take any excuse to visit Colorado again. But really, it's hard to screw it up. The most complicated part is the clutch, and the hardest part physically is de pinning. Other than that I don't remember anything to screw up that'd put you out of commission, just waiting on parts.

 

What did those cost you?

 

Im sourcing the appropriate ECU so hopefully depinning isn’t a thing.

Just waiting in confirmation from @osterhagen to see if the ECU swap works. Seems like it will from all my research.

 

Well for real that’d be friggen fantastic.

 

That would be pretty awesome. Swap in a manual and celebrate with a bit of wheeling!

 

Hopefully it all goes well. Will save a few hours, and sore body from all the contorting.

 

$281.00 each. (Paid extra for OEM boots)

I am eating the core charge ($95.00) because I want to keep my OEM's and reboot them for trail spares.

 

WTF I am I pro tipping? Fill me in so whoever gets the appropriate "tips" on what they need to know about and not just the "tip"

 

Progress continues on the makeover/paint job. Today, was getting the bed ready to come off. Had to disconnect and remove my second battery and inverter, then pull all of the wiring that I had coming up into the bed, which seems like a lot, with lights inside topper, brake light, high mounted backup light, and light bar on my rack. Then I pulled out the bed liner. It hasn't been out in roughly 15 years. I was anxious to see how well the bed had faired under it. I had painted a coating of wheel bearing grease on all of the surfaces of the bed. I am pleased to say that there was virtually no rust under the liner, just a little bit along one of the seams, and I think that migrated up from underneath rather than from top down. Last thing was pulling the bed bolts. I put off the two rear ones, as they are hard to reach, rather starting with the other four. Even though those bolts had only been in place for about three years since my frame replacement, they were absolute bears to get out, every one had rust on the portion that extended through the welded nut. At that point, I thought I would never get those remaining two out, since less leverage, etc. But to my surprise, the tech had, per my instructions, put a liberal coating of anti-seize on those two, and they came out quite easily. I had instructed him to use it on every bolt in the reassembly, but for some reason those four bed bolts were missed. (My guess is that he had someone helping, and he did the rears, they the others.) Anyway, the bed is ready to be lifted off, and I will be giving everything a good cleaning and painting while it is off. Again, here is my plug for always reassembling with anti-seize!! It pays huge dividends.