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

Who says you can't polish a turd?

Spent ~6 hours doing probably the first compound and polish this thing has ever seen. Replaced the door weatherstrip with Fairchild from Rockauto (near perfect fit) and this weekend is new fuel injectors and LCE header.

 

Didn't you hit a deer with Igor, which is what led to the steel bumper in the first place?

 

yep that it. So yeah it died ha

 

Are you swapping on a new cab and bed? Or why the removal of the black cab?

 

New frame. Cab is staying at the shop while everything else is getting swapped to the new frame

this ones rotted pretty bad at the back leaf hangers

 

New 4600s, front and rear springs, frame, wheel bearings, mounts, etc. it’s getting the works

 

Transmission is out, transfer case if outc, painted the spindles. I’ll toss the spindles together tomorrow at work and get them on the truck so I can spin the frame around and get the engine transferred over. Then t belt, drive belts, and valve cover gaskets are next

 

Went to the local TJ Maxx parking lot this weekend. These curbs are getting out of control.


IMG_7658 by Cory Bechtold, on Flickr

 

231mm tundra brake upgrade complete. Wasn't planning on doing it today, but the parts showed up at the door this morning.

 

One of my favorite mods

 

Replaced headlight, parking and tail light assemblies and replaced sliding glass latch.

 

Going back and forth from driving this, and my 3rd gen 4runner that I did the mod on 10 years ago, the difference is pretty dramatic. Felt like I needed to stand on the brake pedal to get stopped going down steep roads

 

2002 - thinking about ditching the "invisible" dash clock for a usb/12v mod. whats the wires that will be available to me there?

 

Rocknob shifter, wheelskins leather steering wheel wrap, husky floor mats. Amazing how a few simple things transform the feel of the cockpit.

 

12v and ground. Should be a pretty simple job

 

Is that a potato?

 

I thought there was a dimmer wire too?

 

Front diff is out, transmission in the bed of the white 02 to clean up at work, and spindles assembled. Tomorrow maybe we’ll get the engine moved over and on the new frame?

 

It appears to be a rock, says rocknob shifter

 

He's from Idaho, everything is a Potato to him