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

I came from expos as well. I had a similar experience. Around town the expos were great(with my high top camper self and bed plate form) but once I added my camping gear and tools my ass sagged pretty hard and felt terrible off-road.

Your front coilovers will help overall as well. I’m stepping down from 700lb springs on my icons this week back to 650 ADS coilovers tho as the 700 lbs feel really stiff to me. I have similar specs but no dual battery’s

 

Used the Megs heavy duty headlight restoration kit to take off 20 years of fogging

 

sneak peak

 

Took a page out of @Blackdawg 's build thread.

Dual battery tray jusssttt about installed. Some minor tweaking needed here and there. Next comes the wiring!

 

I have a feeling today is going to go by very slow. Both my front and rear suspension is out for delivery!

 

$280 Alpine ILX W650 Digital Multimedia Receiver with CarPlay and Android Auto Compatibility

Alpine ILX W650 has front and back camera capability. Has anyone ever done a front camera on a 1st gen?

 

New OEM headlights with SilverStar Ultra bulbs, side marker lights, OME suspension (NitroCharger Sport shocks, coilovers, top hats, 5+2 leafs), carrier bearing, steering bushings.
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After:





Whole new driving experience now, kind of surprising how far out of tolerance I thought OK was.

 

installed a new tailgate latch (old one's bolts were frozen in place)

 

I like the debadged tailgate, I’ve been thinking about pulling my badges off

 

Anyone ever have an issue with an aftermarket back-up light switch being too short? Was having an intermittent issue with the reverse lights, ruled out wiring, bulbs and fuse. Removed switch, (not original) and installed an AutoZone special. Same issues. Removed the switch, plugged it in and lights went on when I manually depressed switch. Reinstalled, this time without the crush washer, tighten all the way down and now it works...with the old switch. Seems like both switches are not making contact with whatever they're supposed to make contact with. Tempted to just get an OEM switch. Just curious to see if anyone else has had a similar issue. 2004 TRD Off-Road, 3.4, manual.

 

installed a new tailgate latch (old one's bolts were frozen in place)

happy accident of ... lots of bodywork, but I think I do like how it looks fairly clean

 

they're big ... knowing what I know now and if I were to start over I might have gone a diff direction than buying someone else's project so it wasn't body lifted and running spacers. But overall I like how it rides and can always change it up later I guess. still very excited to be close to having things back together and back on the road!

 

So what can happen if your uniballs need to be changed but you keep driving on them like that?

Asking for a friend

 

Excessive play in the steering, possible failure. It doesn’t take long to swap them out

 

But $$$

 

What do you mean failure? Like seize up?

 

I haven't experienced the issue, but have heard of it. People have replaced just the crush washer with a thinner washer and worked fine.

I went with intermotor on mine and it's worked for a few months now.

 

Second day in a row I’ve had a beer before 9 a.m. The contributing factor is that I’ve dealt with insurance for my pickup both days.

 

Good info. Just ordered an OEM one, got a state inspection coming up, don’t want to take any chances.

 

I just bought some, I think $100 bucks ain’t that bad