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

Rock lights and light bar installed. Ready for some night wheeling this year.

 

Changed the oil and am currently working on getting heated 4R mirrors in.

also put the metal door handle in, it’s neat.

 

Got my rig back finally (should i not say rig cuz i triggers the turd gen owners?) And mounted some new wheels on the wifes 4th gen

 

Where'd you get it back from?

 

Hot metal fab

 

Ok Mr. Vague, what did you have done to it?

 

Almost done with my topper reinforcement
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/1st-gen-topper-rebuild.694546/

 

New wheels and tires! Old ones sat too far out for my liking.

Before and after:

 

Oh. Lol. Fixed my rear end. ARB locking ring was busted from hammering down

 

Dang, thought maybe you had finally SASd...

 

I triple dog dare you to lick it.

 

It’s 43° F


I can do as I please

 

Mirrors took way to much effort to install, mostly cause I had to take them apart to paint.


Idk who at Toyota thought blue loctite was required on the 3 bolts at the mirror hinge, but they need fired.

 

I’m basically an engineer




So I know

 

New bushings and ball joints today for my SPCs, old bushings were in real bad shape. Your can see the pitting all over the old sleeve on the side that was the worst. Was a lot of play in the arms.











Steering feels much better and tighter now. Huge thanks to @GHOST SHIP for his help, knocked out both sides in a couple hours.

 

Finally installed the Kenwood DMX957XR stereo to replace the terrible Blaupaunkt from the PO.
It's mechless with a HD capacitive screen, wireless Android Auto, quality outputs, and tilt. The tilt feature is clutch for the super low viewing angle of our dashes.


And picked up some sliders from Jerry.

 

Personally not a fan of the raptor lights, I think the Tacoma would look better smaller and in white. I like the traditional 3 stripes. Just my thoughts since you asked.

 

Did you just replace them with what came out or update to SPCs latest offering?

 

Are the legs bent plate?

 

I was eyeing that too. Obviously updated since the old square tubing with a gusset on top.

The only issue I see is that they will be filled with mud and shit in no time and impossible to clean.