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

Snow stage2 kit? Mine should be coming in the mail this week.

 

Yeah the 20010 kit. Hopefully yours comes with instructions

 

Shoot Did yours not? I watched a ton of videos and went through forum threads before buying. Seems pretty straightforward, but Im pretty use to having to tinker and diy aftermarket stuff

 

Thanks bro.

 

No, it didn’t. There are directions online but they weren’t as descriptive as I thought they should be. So I did the YouTube and forum searches. It wasn’t bad, just didn’t have the parts that the instructions or some members listed.

Hardest part was finding the room for the controller and pump, go figure.

 

Got some patches today

 

installed an arb bumper and did the end cap mod... not fun at all

 

New carrier bearing and 4 u joints.

 

Anyone have a 3.010 valve shim they wouldn't mind dropping in an envelop and mailing? Came so close to not needing to adjust anything!



Parts washer at work is the shit!

 

I changed my valve covers and put everything back together with an annoing high idle.. turns out this was my problem. Can you see it??

 

The bulb in the switch is replaceable..

 

I can get you a list of what I used. I’ll just have to figure it out again since I bought the stuff almost a year ago.

That is a paranoid bracket. I used another one of his brackets for my bussman box too

 

You ever hear what it was for sure? Typically in the front diff the spiders blow before a ring and pinion.

Yeah but I totally copied @Reh5108 first. Mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDJdlKbfuBo&feature=youtu.be

Where did you get those switch backs from? I'd love some of those to clean up the hot mess express I am running in the cab. Though I am not sure I have the depth to make it happen.

Been a while since I worked on my own truck lately. I realized I likely installed the wheelers brake lines wrong after I saw I had a bent bracket (I think it hit the coilover):

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Also fluid filmed the fuck out of the frame for winter.

 

Paint prep is the worst easy job.

 

Had to give in and buy this intake tube. Nevertheless it looks decent.

 

I see a barb with no hose and a hose with a crack.

It was his ring and pinion. Spiders look fine from the picture I saw.

 

no way! I cant find shit. I remember a website that had all the switches...only i dont remember the website

 

There’s a fab business in Idaho saying he’s gonna weld up an see aux tank for that location this winter sometime. I’ll send you a link when I see it if you want.

 

dealer can find it under relay and swtich. its a neowedge, forget the size though. superbrightleds sells some that will fit once someone chimes in the size

 

Well after replacing the four 194 bulbs in the dash this past weekend, and changing the oil. I took her down to NTB and had the brake systems flushed with Prestone synthetic Dot 3 brake fluid. Really made a difference on how the brakes feel and operate. Thursday, I'm going to do the Timmah the Toolman Power Steering flush and grease the drive train. Trying to get everything done for a possible emergency road trip to Arkansas in the next 30 days, to visit my twin sister who's health is failing rapidly. Sad time these days. She's way to young to be dying, and a miserable way to die at that.