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

Put the engine/trans/case (90k miles, supercharged 5VZ) and body from the red truck on the green truck’s frame/axles/suspension, take all similar parts from green truck (body is beat/falling apart, 340k miles on engine) and put on red truck, sell green truck/keep red truck

 

I think I missed my turn... Is this the way to the mall?

 

This was what we found at the end of Sourgrass trail.

A nice suprising amount of water flow for California in mid August.

 

Finished a week of wheeling and living out of it essentially. Ran fordyce and rubicon with no issues besides the tire grabbing the fender and ripping the headlight out

 

More of the same.

 

The way your bed is packed/shit strapped down gives me anxiety I ended up getting myself a cargo net so I didn't have to freak out when I still had the completely open bed, and kept all my shit for the most part below the bedsides.

 

You would have had a good laugh if you had your reverse lights on and someone spotting you from behind...

 

We where packed to the gills lol. Food and gear for a week for 3 people with rafts and floaties lol. Believe it or not, nothing fell out even bombing down some rough fire roads and bouncing around on the trail. Most stuff had a strap or bungee over it. If we had more to carry a net was the next plan and pile it higher

 

Other angle

 

LMFAO!

That's actually a screen grab from a video. At one point I do have my reverse lights on.

 

Are third gen 4 runner front fenders the same as tacomas?

 

no, different body lines and marker lights (grille likely won't fit), may or may not line up on the inner apron for mounting

 

Fenders, Hood, Radiator support, grill, and lights are all different. We've been researching it. My son has a 3rd Gen T4R and wants to put a Taco front end on it.

 

Thanks. Knew the grills where different. Didn’t know they had a different body line.

 

It's not really the body line (as far as we could tell) It's more because the headlight opening is different on the front of the fender. But then if you change the headlights to fit, then you have to change the radiator support, which makes you change the grill, and that makes the hood not line up... and on down the slippery slope you go... lol

As far as the body lines matching the lines on the door, it seems like those match up.

 

@Blackdawg are these the ones to use for flood light turn signals?

 

yeah. I used those to tap into my markers and blinkers for the back lights on my SS3 C2 lights from Diode Dynamics. Works great.

 

Awesome thanks. My cheap China module failed in the first rain storm we had. Time to do it right.

 

Perfect, looks like they're off by about an 1/8", easy enough to correct for that. Appreciate the info!

 

Today was a day of fixing and installing.
1) Found a crack in the frame at alignment shop and had that fixed.
This was done by previous owner and I never noticed it. But my alignment caster nut was also a little metal tab that was sheered off during some insane off road incident. That was also welded on.

2) Installed hood struts

3) Remove Cipher racing seats and installed Corbeau suspension sport seats.

4) Added Scan Gauge mount and scan gauge to the truck dash