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

Replaced the sway bar bushings which were shot.

I’m getting too old to lay on a driveway and work on shit.

 

(Almost) Full droop

 

3.5 inches of up travel seems good

 

Well, that front sensor I pulled from that 02 4Runner turned out to be wrong for my truck (Toyota 89465-35360) need a Denso 192400-8000. Out $7, no biggie. Honestly, didn’t put much homework into it. Just figured parts were interchangeable. I’m actually surprised they aren’t considering same drivetrain.

New sensor will be here Monday. Finally will have that CEL off after 5 years...shameful.

 

Notice your bed is empty and no tent... What's that neutral level at with the usual wheeling weight?

 

The boxes are pretty much full. The only thing the truck is missing from full wheeling weight is the tent. It's only 115 pounds.

 

Also bought new tires and wrapped them around the finished T4R wheels.

Just waiting on black lugs to come in to mount them on the truck.

 

So much better



minus the missing badge

 

Looking nice

 

Done spending money on it for the summer.


Unless I get the go ahead to trash the 99

 

Is like a general height the headlights should be aim to?

 

Not sure for the v6 but the 2.7 changed to an afr at some point. Good chance that is the difference.

 

What's wrong with the 99?

 

Everything

 

Hmm... Tempting. That's what I look for in a taco.

 

The front diffs new, to it. Pretty sure you’ve owned it before though.

 

Interesting. Strange they wouldn’t switch the 3.4 in the 4Runner over to an AfR as well, when that’s what was in the Tacoma 5vz

 

So that 02 4Runner had a narrowband o2 sensor up front? That can’t be right. Someone must have mixed it up.

 

Hell, I guess. They also had different plugs. I thought I got one over on the truck, in the end, I did not and the wallet paid for it again.



Top sensor is the one off my truck. Below the 4runner

 

Are those 10" shocks? I've personally found (since I had to do this twice, hahahaha) that uptravel is more valuable than droop when it comes to the rear. At rest (loaded), I now have about 5-5.75" of shaft for uptravel and I wish I had more. (If those are 8" though, makes sense that you've got about half.)

...could just be my style of driving though. I find that at speed, hitting whoops, etc. are much more likely to compress the rear than extend it. But, I'm not jumping the truck (at least as much as I can help it).

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In the what have I done today... these arrived.

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