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

Is it still solid? Mine looked like similar but was still strong. At least the driver side. Other rusted and broke going over train tracks. Damn shock banging the bottom of my bed. I would’ve laughed if I hadn’t been so mad lol

 

Lol. They're both seemingly solid, but I want to reinforce them and see if I can do a better job than Toyota at making this frame cleanable, which might be easier if I just moved them.

 

All the junk is out of the way, let the cleaning continue.

 

relocate the frame.

 

I have a soft spot for fellow lost causes.

 

No gaping holes in critical places.

 

This red painting is no easy job to get the R done correctly

 

Came home little early this week and made some more progress preparing for my 4x4 swap.
Front differential cleaned, prepped, and painted with POR 15

 

Also have all of my parts to do the tundra brake upgrade tomorrow, but first needed to check fitment into wheels that will be going on the truck once 4x4 swap is done.

 

Pulled some ADD spindles off of a 2wd 4runner a few weeks ago. I was able to press the hubs and bearings out today and got the spindles prepped. Plan on painting them with POR 15 in the morning and hopefully press in new bearings and manual hubs in the evening after I'm done installing new tundra brakes

 

Lookin fantastic.

How far along are you in gathering the rest of the parts? That took a while for me, but I think the search for the parts was one of the best parts of the swap. And I learned a lot about the swap during that process.

 

More progress on Satochi grille today. Posted a bunch of images in my build thread. Tomorrow it gets paint.

 

Only big thing I'm missing is a rear drive shaft and need to order Manual CVs or find some to rebuild.

I have a J-Shift transfer case and the automatic transmission, unfortunately I am going to have to swap the output shaft into my A340E because the donor is pre 2003.

I plan on changing out most of the seals on like the diff and transfer case.

The rest is small stuff like wiring 4x4 light and acquiring an interior trim piece for the jshift.

 

How much was the coupon?

 

The northstars are a lot of battery. Well worth the extra coin.

I am on my 5th year on my set. Hopefully they have anther 5 in them.

 

Right on man... seems like you're makin big progress.

 

Those things don't show any signs of slowing down, hell the starter sounded like it had enough juice to rip itself right off the damn engine.

 

Yeah Im really enjoying learning more and more while preparing!

Moving to NC near the Appalachian mountains in December so that's how I finally came up with the excuse to go for it

 

It's definately worth it for anyone with a little patience and some mechanical know how.

You'd never be able to sell the truck and buy a comperable 4wd for less than the swap. And my thinking is it's a great way to know a lot more about your truck. I feel like people who want to actually wheel their truck, owe it to themselves to know as much about it as possible.

 

I need to do this but know i wont get further than walmart paint and reinstalling them before drying