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

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

 

Exactly, it just isn't worth it to me to sell it. Too sentimental and I have maintained the entire truck myself and know its history. It is funny trying to explain that to people I know. I normally get responses like "you know they sell trucks that are 4 wheel drive"

 

Not perfect but thats going to have to work

 

I bought a battery for a quad I rebuilt from Batt + and it was definitely a rebadged high end battery. I was shocked they wanted so much for a little quad battery, but soon realized how high end it was.
Batt+ store was just really close, normally wouldn't have spent 80 bucks on a lil batt. But if you don't wanna wait, like I didn't, they get their money

 

The high gloss look is kinda cool looking man

 

Do you give em the wide eyes look and yell 'NO WAY ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?'

 

Yeah, why not drop $40,000 on a truck, pay full coverage insurance, watch your annual registration/tax bill skyrocket? Then you can have a truck that you can barely work on yourself and are scared to have any fun with. Makes sense.

 

Excited to get it running again today and see the red valve covers with it coming soon.

 

I sold my pre runner for a 4wd. She was a great truck. I dont think i could have done the swap, no patience what so ever. Lol. Reason im glad i did is because the new truck has the v6. That 4cyl was a dog on the hills

 

Has anybody seen the american flag decals for a double cab rear doors? Im looking all over Amazon and ebay with no luck. Maybe get them custom made?

Got the idea from little critter i believe his screen name is. But his is access cab

Thanks y'all

 

I was snickering about this too. The second gen thread is better than the the third, but not by much.

 

Since I mentioned it here - not today exactly, but recently added a small bit of solar to the truck, turned out great!

Infinite Free Power - Adding Solar to the Tacoma

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Infinite Free Power - Adding Solar to the Tacoma

 

What tool set did you use to swap the bearings? I had to replace a spindle and it's got an older bearing in and I have pretty new ones in my on spindle. Would like to swap it but don't have a press. Looks like you used an impact so curious to know what you did there.

 

Pulled all the plastic and prepped the bed for monstaliner tomorrow. Very excited to finally have all this finished. Attached photos for the hell of it




Kind of looks cool without the flares

 

They may be more comfortable to drive and ride but damn I love our simplicity and durability (and looks).

 

Anyone got any good retrofit kit suggestions for headlight upgrade?