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

So, what I did was make 2 adapter lines

1 - Bubble flare at the prop valve to the master cylinder inverted (double) flare

2 - Bubble flare at the prop valve to an inverted (double) flare with an inverted (double) flare union to the pressure line to the back.

Plugged the return line on the frame.

At this point you could just use an Inverted (double) flare union to connect the pressure line (that was in the LSPV) to the brake line out (that was in the LSPV) and throw the return line away.

I had to make an extension line so my brake line didn't stretch when I went to limit on down travel.

That probably makes no sense, but it made sense while I was doing it, and my brakes work

 

ugh it can't just be easy can it lol.

Can't seem to find any M10 male bubble flare to M10 female inverted flare adapters.
So I guess I'll have some hoses made for that part. Or try and flare the factory hard lines to be bubble flare.

 

Here's the part numbers from one of my Summit orders.

You'd still need a 10mm bleeder (to plug return line) and 10mm inverted flare unions.

There won't be an "adapter." You would make a line with a bubble flare on one end and with an inverted flare on the other end.

 

I don't remember if your truck has ABS, but if it doesn't it's a lot easier without than with. At least on my truck I needed the non-ABS brake lines for the front, and to build a few new ones as well for both the front and rear. I was able to just run the line I kept into the soft line that runs down to the axle.


PXL_20221025_210714878 by Cory Bechtold, on Flickr

I'll be honest, I wouldn't put the wilwood valve under the truck. If the threads get any rust on them, it's basically good luck adjusting it. I've read of a few people who've just had them seize up and need replacement because of the rust. I put mine under the hood to hopefully prevent that as much as possible.


PXL_20221025_225250082.PORTRAIT by Cory Bechtold, on Flickr

 

Write up I followed for the mirror
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ap-homelink-temp-compass-auto-dimming.553041/

If doing it again I’d have kept the 7 inches or so of the wire length on the pigtail included with the mirror and made my connections back further in the headliner.

The sunglass holder is from a 3rd gen 4Runner with no sunroof controls. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/has-anyone-put-an-overhead-console-in-your-1st-gen.50567/

Both 4Runners and Tacomas had 3 interior colors, the blue grey (moon mist) matches 95.5-00 Tacomas, the lighter grey matches 01-04 Tacomas, and oak matches all Tacoma years.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/interior-color-id.96355/page-3

Don’t know what year 4Runners had what colors, they stopped production of 3rd gens in 02, I found mine on eBay and mistakenly first bought the lighter gray that matches later models.

Only thing unique I did on the sunglass console was use a weld nut tacked to a 2” diameter piece of 14 gauge and epoxied that to the roof for larger surface area, others who epoxied something with a smaller footprint said it caused a distortion in the roof as they tightened things up. There’s a mounting bracket that comes in a 4Runner that’s not easy to track down.

 

yea I"m deciced on putting it under the hood at this point. Have some parts coming that I think I'll be able to do it all with.

 

Nice, thank you. After i get thru my list of maintenance work on the vehicles....!

 

DM sent

 

vice grip line lock mod

 

Added steering wheel controls for the radio with a Sienna steering wheel. Gray is slightly different but close enough! Love it!

 

looks like your brake line rusted through?

 

yes. they were cheap lines i put in 10 years ago when i did manual proportioning valve. already replaced them.

 

stuffed some 8” L7s in my extra cab. Believe it or not I actually managed to track down all the rattles. Now just gotta get the “ grills “ mounted

 

I like that. But surely that's not efficient for the woofer with no box..

 

That was my original concern so I ended up sealing the compartment behind the speaker with dynomat and a queen size 2” memory foam mattress. I left an empty pocket just behind the subs to the manufactures sealed box square footage spec. Hits harder, cleaner and louder than my old single 12 I used to have in a sealed box.

 

Here’s a few more pictures from the project. I ended up stripping the entire interior to Matt and foam everything

You can see that foam trying to bust out from every hole/opening .I took that picture during a little test fit, so ended up sealing the sub bracket to the body of the truck with more killahmat

 

SWEET!

 

Here's how I did mine with the stock mirror at first and then later using a master tailgaters mirror

 

Took some pics

 

Add JBA to the list of companies that have gone to shit. I wanted to get the cab on today. But no. The crossover pipe runs into the other header and the y pipe points towards the transmission. Fucking trash