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

I've been lucky enough to have a winch and been able to use it several times over the last month to rescue a couple of friends, a couple of strangers and a self rescue as well. I had not done any cleaning or neat re-spooling of the line between uses and my self rescue was on an extremely red clay-ish muddy hill so I knew the line was dirty and had particles in the fibers which cannot be optimal for longevity. So... decided to pull it out a little past the start of the red warning zone, and clean it up.

I walked the line with a hose and sponge lightly scrubbing off the mud, sand, grass and any other foreign material on the line. My tree strap was embedded with crap as well so did that too.
I then rewalked the line several times with a towel tightly gripped around the line to wipe/squeegy it as much as possible. Not wanting to spool up a wet line I hooked it to a tree and draped it out over a couple of chairs to dry for the rest of the sunny day in (not really sunny that often this time of year) Humboldt County.

Once it dried out I knelt at the fairlead with a headlamp on and neatly respooled the line back onto the drum.

A bit of deferred maintenance now completed I celebrated with a frosty adult beverage.

PS - several of the rescues were of the lengthier variety and I think I want/need a winch line extension. At least 25 feet. I've seen the Bubba rope offerings but want any other suggestions the TW hive mind might know of.

 

A buddies old line

 

Finally replaced my busted Extracab rear window latch pivot hinges. Should have done it years ago, but I've hardly ever popped them open.
Good as new now...metal hinges instead of crappy OEM plastic.
Easy install.
8 bucks and change from Amazon.

 

I got everything put back together filled up the tank and reset the codes (P0442 / PO446). Here's to hoping the problems have all been resolved

 

Unlike almost every mention I've seen on here I broke my Extracab rear window latch but not at the hinge. Instead it broke on the piece of metal that attaches to the interior sheet metal behind the plastic trim. Pay no attention the frustrated screwdriver marks.


Broken piece and new OEM hinge

Bit of a PITA to pop loose a bit of the interior plastic to get to the two 10mm (I think) bolts. Taking off the rear seatbelt and the coat hanger hook was enough to be able to pop of some clips and gain access to the 2 bolts. Local dealer quoted me $65 for the part so I instead got it through toyotapartsdeal.com for under $40

Got the old part out with only a bit of frustration marks.

New part on. Works as expected.

Now knowing how often that plastic hinge breaks I was no dummy and disassembled the old part by driving out the roll pins and now have the non-broken parts in my parts bin.

 

Waxed the paint and shined up the tires over the weekend

 

Very clean

 

Checked valve clearances, weird that the inside of the passenger valve cover looks worse than the driver side.

 

Didn't happen today but I hit 180k on the odometer back on the 15th. closer to 182k now as I just got back from seeing family over thanksgiving.

apologies for the bad picture, it was a bit hard to take a good one while keeping an eye out for deer on the highway

 

I got the full valve cover gasket set from YOTASHOP, didn’t realize I also needed manifold gaskets. On Timmy‘s video it said I needed two of 1717662040, so I ordered those. I just noticed that the upper and lower have different part numbers at Toyota? Will the 2 I ordered work?

 

parts.toyota.com says 1717675010 and 1717662040, not two of the same?

 

They are the same, you are good

 

Awesome, thanks

 

Installed some new speakers and dyna mat /dyna liner the doors. Eventually will do the whole cab.

 

3397 miles later, the trip went great. Truck performed flawlessly. Crawled up a bunch of stuff on 4lo, in the dark sometimes, and did my best rally impression on a nice dirt road

Did an oil change, now it needs a bath.

 

From what I understand this is normal due to the PCV being on that side. My passenger valve cover looked the same.

 

Finished my install of the Rostra 250-1872 seat heater kit after a week of off and on work. Remediated some rust in the center console bracket, cut some brass sleeves to serve as bushings to let the seat belt receivers rotate properly like the OE setup. Re-did my amp wiring runs. Took me a lot longer than expected, probably near 15 hours but the results are worth it. Wanted to say thanks to @reallifeonhold for 3D printing the switch adapter for the coin tray and @turbodb for documenting the brass bushing install.

 

Where did you tap power from?

 

Added a fuse tap to the 20A wiper circuit.

 

Ah so same as @reallifeonhold. I am hoping to tap the power seat circuit that is already under the drivers side.