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

My google-fu has failed me this time lol

That'll work! Thanks for the link!

 

This is it or very close. Nearly identical in appearance.

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Dirt dobbers or something layed eggs in my exposed evap tubes. Nothing an air compressor and pipe cleaners can’t handle. Glad the didn’t invade my fuel lines.

 

Some of those got to my Honda last summer

 

Lower ball joints just showed up via the big brown truck. Was getting ready to put the knuckles back on and noticed this with the front diff... WTAF? Is it supposed to be flush or not and wtf happened to my durobump bushing on the driver's side? It wasn't like this before when I first installed the front diff a few days ago. Truck has been on stands ever since waiting for the LBJs. Diff mounts were all torqued down. Should I loosen up the mounts, try to reseat everything then proceed with installing the knuckles?

Originally (note: hadn't torqued to spec the mounts yet) -




Today -

Passenger side:


Driver side:

 

You're missing the bushing that goes on top, which isn't supplied with the replacement durobump set.

 

No I had ordered all of that from Toyota. I used this as a reference -



Oh WTF. I know what I did. At least I think I do. Need to go out there and check. I might have put 41653B on top of the damn cross member. Will check and report back. lol

 

That's exactly what happened. I put it on top of the crossmember and bolted it down. FFS. Well, in my defense lol, didn't have a front diff before and it was the first time installing one. Oh well, will loosen it up and hopefully I didn't screw myself here.

EDIT:

Mistake fixed. Good to go.

 

LOL... mistakes happen bro. You don't have to defend anything. You're doing more than most right now. Keep it up.

 

time to get the rear back up and stiff

 

Yup.

 

Added ditch lights. Now dark country roads won’t look like I’m driving with candles for headlights! New headlights are the next purchase.

 

Much better!

 

Basically the same shit that HF moving blankets are made of too if you want a massive sheet of it locally for like $4 with a coupon haha

 

only difference is the thickness and I imagine trying to remove that chemical laden blue HF fabric but yep, good point.

 

i wouldnt even remove the fabric haha, but yeah if you get the blue ones they're thicker, the black ones are a bit thinner

 

Swap Update -

Buttoned up the front end today. Double checked CVs were seated correctly inboard. Dropped the truck off stands and I think the driver side was not seated fully. I'll put it back on stands tomorrow and pull the wheel. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and I can just tap it in without busting everything loose again (LBJ, Outer tie rod, etc.).

Also I wonder if I should've went the diff drop route. Seems those CV boots are pretty bunched up. Then again, what do I know? lol.

Driver side, I think its not seated fully


Driver side:


WTF inboard BOOT?


Passenger side:


Also I'm kind of liking the no center piece look -


vs -

 

I thought about running mine that way. I like the look on the front wheels. Not so much on rear wheels.

 

You did a ton of work! Enjoy a few cold ones tonight man!