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

Drove my 1st Gen to the flooring store and made my wife happy.



Is it bad that all I can think of is how many mods I could have done with that money???






... Like re-gear and front locker...






I get to go shopping for carpet tomorrow

 

I had by bearing die and two balls were missing and most the abs wheel. Just ground down to a fine powder.

 

yeeep


and correction..looks like 3 balls were missing

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hmm I can't quite remember that..

maybe though.

We never found any of the balls. Was a lot of sludge though. Plus the ABS sensor was basically worn down to nothing.

 

Isn't that pic of a 2nd gen front wheel bearing? A true apples to turds comparison right there...

 

Every fucken time my rig or the wifes car has to go into the shop brotha. I been wanting seats for so long. And better speakers in the doors. Wouldn't mind doimg the same to my DD too. And lowering her car.....list goes on. I coulda SAS'd by now tbh

 

Oil and plug. Pretty much everywhere.

When I left camp and limped to grand junction it was one of the tense drives of my life the noises it was making. It was not fun.

Well the other difference here is front bearings are sealed with no "access" I guess for oil when the seals go bad haha So naturally they will fail from heat first and crumble vs just grinding away while being lubed up by the oil.

 

Body work. I dont mess with that shit. Some kid hit her and had no license or insurance.

My rear locker is still not worki g and since the shop said it was good to go, they are pulling it apart on there dime. No if the locker is toast, then thats on me.

 

New flooring, gonna wait for it to warm up to install it.

 

Very good idea or you will hate your life.


Been working on remaking the base for my bed rack since it was originally made for a second gen tacoma. Profile is much cleaner now, and the way it is designed it will keep the bed more square and likely strengthen it.

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The biggest purpose is to create a better side profile since the second gens have a taper that the first gens do not.

New:

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Old:

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Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Some good conversations with @6 gearT444E and @planters15 have me rethinking a fast back style support that goes to the end of the bed. a notched straight tube would be easiest, but something with a little bit of a bend might be nicer.

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I'll likely add that later though, current priority is finish welding the rack, cut out the center bars for what I am thinking about for my rack/dual sport project, and welding that all up.

 

I thought about just pulling into the shop and doing it but eh.


Husky’s don’t help enough

 

I have been toying with the idea of making a tarp for my rack.

 

So good news is that the diff did end up being totally fine, however the guy said he found two of the missing ball bearings at the bottom of the diff, so I'm very fortunate they didn't chew up the gears!

 

Just put on my new wheels and tires...
16s dark Anthracite wheels off a 2018 tacoma
On some Falken Wildpeaks 265/70/16
Love the way they look

 

sticks added to complete the taco

 

I installed a new OEM washer fluid reservoir, cleaned the plastic shield that protects the reservoir before reinstalling that and then replaced the interior rear view mirror with a clean used one. Cleaned and Lubricated the hood release latch and lubricated both door hinges.

 

So i have the plastic drop in bed liner. Removed it once and the bed looks solid. No rust, so i put it back on. Im getting a nasty rumble from the bedliner since i had the crawl box crossmember done with poly mounts. Think its a good move to ditch the bedliner? I know i should raptor line it or bed line it. But for the time being???

 

I would, get some thick rubber stuff like cattle or horse stall mats from Tractor Supply and cut a bed mat out if you’re worried about hurting it.

Then bed line it when you can

 

Finished up another 30k interval maintenance (transmission, tcase, diffs, plugs) and greased the drive shaft last week and then took the first gen on one last taco run before I ship it to California.

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