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

Looks like a tip off the ring gear. Definitely pull it

 

does this make sense to anyone? Or am I gonna be wasting money?

 

Ive bled my brakes a few times now without issue but on one occasion
i had trouble bleeding mine because of the abs module. ended up having to crack open line up top. early year abs system was different than yours though.

 

No abs, but this isn’t too bad.

gotta figure out the bench bleed part

 

Did you just install a new master? You have to bench bleed it. Alternatively, I have had success by hooking up a new master and then bleeding it at the fittings, but it takes a little bit before it will flow out fluid. If you try to bleed at the calipers before doing so, nothing will be pushed out until all the line is primed.

 

I installed new calipers, couldn’t get the brake to bleed.

booster/master has been leaking air for awhile so I’m just gonna replace them too.

but they won’t be here till Wednesday.

 

It is 1/4" in length by 3/16" wide.

 

Made an intake tube shield for when my deck plate is capped on trails, to prevent this:



And undercoated my wheel wells bc i sledged the shit out of em and need protection there as well

 

I'm thinking gear, pull that diff!

 

Does anybody have any idea of the bolt size that comes with this? I can’t find them anywhere…

https://sptool.com/products/64300-lexus-toyota-harmonic-damper-pulley-holding-tool

 

Threw a winch on


Couple a lights coming and then I’m done for awhile.


After I got the brakes working anyway

 

Not 1st Gen Tacoma, but my kid's 3rd Gen T4R is close enough to the same thing. lol

First thing we noticed when we started on Robert's truck today was the brake line was too short.

And I should have known that. I would say I'm a dumbass for not remembering this. But I'm not a dumbass... this is why I told him to get a 3rd Gen T4R... because I have spare parts



+3 @Wheeler's Off-Road Inc brake line. I didn't end up needing it because I'm running a +6 line in back.

Got everything else disconnected. Dropped the axle and pulled the coils.




Thinking he's gunna have a bit of rake till we get a rear swingout on here, and hang the spare off the back.



Cleaned up the panhard brackets to prep for welding in @eimkeith relocate kit.

 

Front diff oil change, Transfer Case oil change, transmission oil change. Plus replaced a few cracked old hoses. I didn't pull the rear diff out as suggested but tomorrow I will be pulling the drive shaft off to do the center support bearing and the u-joints. I suppose I will pull the rear diff out then.

 

What coils did you guys use? We put the OME soft ones in the back of my son's. It rides really nice but there not gonna hold any weight.

 

It's not difficult, but a pain in the ass. You've got to pull the axles to pull the diff. And.... might as well replace the seals and possibly bearings if they are original. At least that's usually my though process, which always leads me down a path of craziness

 

OME 861

They ride good. But he has no weight back there. So his truck is going to have quite a rake till we do his rear bumper, and add some weight back there.

They are specifically for lift + added weight.

 

Don't forget the gears and locker since you have it out and open anyways. Because let be honest who wants to pull it a second time. Oh it's also way easier to change the motor mounts with the diff out.

 

Also, finally got my son's T4R legal.

Replaced the Cat with a Walker Evens cat. Legal for CA install on his truck. Has a CA Executive Order number for most 3rd Gen 4 Runners and some 1st Gen Tacomas.

Around 400 bucks from Summit.



Made quite a difference in the numbers.

Before


After

 

Totally.

And sounds like a good time to do a refresh on the drums. Well shit time to do u joints as well.

Edit
I'm pissed I didn't do the mounts when I pulled the front, but I went down that rabbit hole of since I'm in there and spent way too much time at the time doing other things. I think the truck was out of commission for over a month.

 

I have a 96 in my 01 and all i needed to swap over was the neutral safety switch