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

That's awesome man, they look great and will be fun for sure

 

Nice. I need to add a set of speakers and cup holders to mine.

 

Before I pull the trigger, anyone have anything to say about the TC rear shock relocation kit? Spoke with @austinmtb and he likes his set up, I’d basically be going with the exact same thing. The kit paired with ADS shocks that I will order once I get the kit to take measurements. My only real concern is my frame Reinforcements add 3/16” to the frame. TC said it shouldn’t be an issue.

Anyway, just seeing if anyone else has any feed back.

 

Damnit I wish Toyota had outboarded the shocks to begin with. I would do one of these kits but I don’t want to add spacers.

 

Yeah I’m already running spacers, so it seems like a great option. I can’t even imagine how much better it will handle

 

I was on vacation this week and with Covid I didn’t plan anything and just focused on the collection of parts for the Tacoma. I replaced the steering rack, tie rods, upper control arms, lower control arm bushings, lower ball joints, replaced the needle bearing in the front diff with the ecgs bushing to eliminate vibration, replaced the axle shaft seals, replaced the cv axles, and then put my new tires and wheels on.

Also scored on a one owner T4R v8 4x4 limited with 136k for $6k yesterday

 

i'm real tempted by one of these but, like @Shortman5 i don't want to run spacers. if I were going to do it, i would cut out that section of the frame reinforcements and then weld on the shock mount, tying it in with the reinforcement. in an ideal world of course, you would wait and do the reinforcements at the same time, but i'd imagine it would work the same, just a little more work the other way.

 

Yeah reinforcements are welded in place. And would be a pain to cut out. I’ve been running wheel spacers for 30k miles, no issues for me, doesn’t bother me to run them.

 

You stole that 4Runner. They are nice nice rigs, very well made.

 

Thing drives like a dream, I couldn’t believe it when I saw the flyer at the mechanic shop I was at, they were asking $7k and I didn’t want to lowball because knew it was well worth what they were asking so I just asked his bottom dollar and he said 6k haha. I jumped on it. Needs a good wax/detail and some light hail damage but other than that it’s great. I want to put a sport hood on it.

but the taco on the other hand drives better than it ever has since I’ve owned it in the past 7 years! I love it.

 

real downside to that kit is running 2.0 shock bodies vs 2.5.

 

My 04 auto is whining too. Was told it’s probably the transmission pump. Had the full monty fluid flush and made no difference.

I’m curious about your attempt as resolving it.

 

Thats dope.

Wonder how many Gatorade bottles are going to jettison on the highway

 

I dont usually drink that stuff, just while I was rushing to get the doors done. It fits a Corona perfectly. That's usually what's in there!

 

Ads is 2.125 and Austinmtb is running them with no issue.

would the difference be big? I planned on getting shocks with reservoirs.

 

Got this thing delivered yesterday. Wrecking yard I bought it from only had it listed as a transmission, was very surprised to see a j-shift on the back of it.

 

i know he is and i know they are.

But yes, thats where you gain the most oil capacity.

Resi's don't really hold oil. It's about keeping the oil separate from the nitro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEqmHknBJM


That said, I'm still likely going to go this route as well. Have had the kit for years.

 

Hell yeah! Score!

 

Brown santa brought me a box of bolts today, should be all the ones I need to reassemble the back half of my truck. A lot of progress considering I spent the evening drinking and playing trivia on zoom

EDIT: For future reference, BoltDepot.com is amazing. So much cheaper than a hardware store.

 

Yeah, I don’t think that really bothers me. Plus I’ve never had a 2.5 shock, so out of sight out of mind haha