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

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Looks like you sucked in a bunch o snow and it all stuck together.

 

powder day!

 

That's wild. Buncha snow or something must have made it all the way through your intake tube in the fender well and into the air box

 

Powder week

been bouncing around 8-10” + whatever drifts are for hundreds of miles this week


I guess the coldest it got today was -15°F

 

when you drive in lots of powder it just gets sucked in.

that'll do it. We didn't get that much.

 

Re-greasing the manual hub bodies




Pro tip... You're wife will be extremely happy when you do this job on her kitchen counter. Especially during the Holidays.

Just tell her you're just trying to spend more time closer to the family.

 

Added a bit more lift

 

Drain and fill for the rear diff, transfer case, and engine oil. Was planning on doing the front diff as well, but the god damn drain plug on the front diff is seized on there like a MF. 2’ breaker bar couldn’t crack it loose, gonna call around and pay for someone else to deal with it. I have Lexus hex head drain and fill plugs to swap in while they’re at it. I’m tired of these damn allen heads haha

Oil for the other 3 all looked pretty good. Those capri-sun Amsoil gear oil pouches are a god send and worth the extra few bucks. No more leaky hands pumps for this guy.

 

Installed HID headlights and wired fogs and new wheels

 

Smack it with a hammer a few times.

 

Hit it with the impact. Works every time for me.

 

get a chizel or a strike tool and try to get it off with a hammer, or just fo with the breaker bar balls to the wall, torque gun last resort who cares if you strip it, then call the welder to weld sthe nut on and get her off and eeplace

 

Tried smacking the a hammer and attempted with my 1/2 Milwaukee impact and no dice. Even confirmed multiple times I was loosening and not tightening. It’s not stripped out yet so I’m just not gonna mess with it and make it worse. Really surprised the impact didn’t even budge it at all, that thing rips off axle nuts like it’s nothing.

Figure it’s been a while since something defeated me on this truck so I’m overdue for a problem haha. Not gonna loose to much sleep over it, just surprised it was that stuck.

 

@45acp brought me a rocker for the 02 and some newer style mirrors plus a center console that will end up in the 95 or 98. All in exchange for the original wheels off the 2002.
Going to clean up the rocker and get everything ready to hopefully get it onto the red truck relatively soon. This will allow me to do the frame swap much easier. Frame may be here by the end of the year. Time to get moving on the trucks since I’ve acquired 3 this year.

 

So I recently painted my truck and now afterwards I realized that the 98 emblems are impossible to get. I have a 3d printer and do molds and casting. Gonna make some OEM looking ones. Dose anyone have the exact measurements or could take some of all the emblems so i can make em?

if there’s any interest let me know as well, i can do custom stuff too

 

Are the 98 emblems different than the 01-04 ones?

 

98-04 should be the same for tailgate
95-04 for the doors and sr5

 

Alcans installed.

Haven't driven it yet, but I'm liking what I see already.



I have 410 pounds of concrete in the bed in that picture. It's still sitting at a 2 inch rake, and I have 5.5 inches of shock shaft showing.

 

I just started prepping mine this weekend for paint in a couple weeks and realized that those the badges were impossible to find . I'd be interested in another set. Still have the "Toyota Tacoma" plastic ones on the side still in tact that I can measure, the others got destroyed on removal as they were made of a softer rubber.