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

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by SlimDigg, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. May 10, 2021 at 1:55 PM
    Tour991

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    They were off @se7enine old truck. I think most of its life was in Reno and some Tahoe. Not 100% sure it's full time line.
     
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    se7enine

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    It was a San Diego truck some of it's life. Beach rust got the best of it.
     
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    turbodb

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    Nice. Shipping always seems to bite me on the online dealer orders. These are expensive and light enough though that it's :thumbsup:

    I need to do those too. All four corners of the truck are really squeaky right now. I was going to go Alcan, and order a new set of leafs at the same time (but install them later when mine wear out).
     
  4. May 10, 2021 at 1:59 PM
    Squeaky Penguin

    Squeaky Penguin Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

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    Lots of dust and custom dents, Check Build

    Alcan uses engery suspension bushings. Just order a 1st gen leaf spring bushing set and you should be good to go.
     
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    JKO1998

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    I’ll call them tomorrow and see what hey they want for a set.
    Energy Suspension 8.2108R - Hyper-Flex Rear Leaf Spring Bushings https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003CSWSM0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_6C69K4B35SED7791P8TA

    I’m thinking one of these is for the shackle?





    sorry for all the questions, I’ll go back to clogging the LT thread soon
     
  6. May 10, 2021 at 2:02 PM
    Digiratus

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    Yeah, shipping can be the downside, but in this case, the pricepoint differences for the parts (Amazon $205, McGeorge $150) is significant enough to make it work.
     
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  7. May 10, 2021 at 2:04 PM
    Squeaky Penguin

    Squeaky Penguin Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

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    Yeah, those are them. The smaller diameter bushing is for the shackle to frame pivot, which wear the quickest out of any of those in my experience, so a good thing to replace at the same time.
     
  8. May 10, 2021 at 2:34 PM
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    The 1st Gen: All pro 3” lift (650 lbs coils, expedition rears with bilstiens),Timbren rear bumpstops, ubolt flip, diff drop, carrier bearing drop, 33’s on beadlocks ,ARB Bumper, winch, hand throttle, ARE canopy, roof bars, poly bushings all around minus the body mounts. The 2nd Gen: Leveling kit, roll up tonneau cover. 265/75/16’s
    Wire wheeling the frame. What a pain! Fuel tank and axle will come out tomorrow to get the rest of it. My hands are nice and tingley from the wire wheel.167F972C-53EE-4467-AB03-875B4B1DF676.jpg
     
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    What kind of lifetime are people getting out of leaf spring poly bushings anyways?

    When I took out my leafs to put in an AAL, the fronts looks pretty haggered on the outer faces, but the rears seemed in good shape for ~34k
     
  10. May 10, 2021 at 2:37 PM
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    Little late now but you should look up DIY sand blasters. I plan on making one when I have to do extensive frame work/welding
     
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    I would love to blast the frame. I bought a sand blaster for this project but have since moved to where I don’t have a large enough air compressor to push it. Also looked into pressure washer blasters, but I don’t think my pump will run one effectively. Using the tools I didn’t have to spend money on.
     
  12. May 10, 2021 at 2:47 PM
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    The poly bushings on my SPC UCAs lasted about 4 years/50k miles. The Spec Ride poly bushings, not the new x-axis ones. Although I probably should have replaced them sooner.

    Could tell they were bad due to play in the arm, after pulling them out the sleeves were pitted and bushings sort of wallowed out a bit. They were also pretty noisy, but not the usually poly squeak noisy...more like a 100 year old barn door opening kind of noisy.

    Looking at them when installed though you wouldn't have been able to tell by the outer lip of the bushing, that looked fine. Inside they were all jacked up though.
     
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    arent we still waiting on a solo lowers write up from you? :rofl:
     
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    quiet you haha
     
  15. May 10, 2021 at 3:29 PM
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    Cleaning up my rear axle and flipped it over to find this :/

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    Looks like those E-locker motor guards are good for something apparently
     
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    Better lighting. Looks like I’m shopping.

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    Speaking of.... I have a spare! Accidentally ordered 2 if anyone is interested. :thumbsup:
     
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    $?
     
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    PM’d!
     

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