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

Feels pretty great to have nice new plastic. Looks great! I was so happy with mine until I had to peel it back to replace the exterior door handle, had me thinking of redoing it yet again.

 

Because it's not feasible within the bounds of financial sense? At this rate my only option looks to be to have a spring shop pull a leaf out of the alcans and run it as is. I just need a longer shock to run in the stock locations but I'm baffled that there isn't a decent off the shelf option for a shock with a 3-4" lift in the rear. I would have liked adjustable ads front and rear but that isn't an option since their "direct fit" line of products don't fit. I guess it didn't seem like a crazy ask for them to weld on different eyelets on the end of the shock to allow the use of the larger diameter shock mount stud.

And based on the fact others here are getting ghosted, I think they have poor customer service right now and it has nothing to do with the what I'm asking. Are you suggesting they are ignoring @treyus30 for similar reasons?

 

I went with Fox 2.0 remote reservoir shocks for the rear of my Tacoma. They have been great.

 

What is the part number? I have the fox 2.0IPF in the rear and they aren't long enough, they top out all the time in town.

 

I will have to crawl under my truck tomorrow and find the part number.

Found it!

Fox

$192 980-24-032 Eyelet and Body Cap

980-24-032

 

I can crawl under it in a couple weeks, not an urgent ask, thought maybe you had it handy. All the ADS money I dumped into the van instead

 

The red lights I used for the glove box and shift indicator have been junk and burn out after about a year

 

Those might actually work. Mine are 13-20". Those being 16-26" might fit the bill. Do you recall who you bought them through?

 

Are you the glorious recipient of my position sensor converter?

 

LED?

 

$192 Fox 980-24-032 Eyelet and Body Cap

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009X1TN6O?ie=UTF8

 

Sheesh Amazon? Really!?

 

In the essence of fairness, I should state it took them 7 days to response to my simple request for an install picture (I finally got one this morning that was a 5/10). That being said, in my line of work, over a 2 BD lapse in response would be considered unprofessional.

 

I hear you. I've gotten shit by the peanut gallery here for not calling them and instead using their email address. I come from a profession where that excuse would never fly, so it is hard to come to terms with.

 

Reminds me of restaurants who respond to doordash before in-store customers

 

Can confirm those work in stock location. I had to get different hourglass eyelet bushings for mine though to make them work with the stock mounts. Then ditch the inner metal sleeve. P/N: FOX-014-11-002-A
Make sure your bumpstops are at least 3.5 inches.
I have them relocated and revalved now and they're solid. I wouldn't hesitate to get them from Amazon. I got my set used from a ranger forum iirc.

@Phessor are you running the out of the box valving?

 

Curious your thoughts on the performance once you get some more seat time.
Same performance/behavior compared to stock?

 

Lol when your standing at the counter and they take the phone call instead of putting it on hold...

Hmm, I'm sure Bob can provide some more details on making them fit when I see him here in a couple weeks. I just need a longer bolt on option at this point. I'm way over spring and don't think I could collapse a shock with my current setup, but I literally have no droop from ride height.

When you say 3.5" bumpstops, do you mean that much over stock? The stock ones are already about that tall.

 

Yeah I agree that what you’re asking for doesn’t seem unreasonable, I’m just providing a counterpoint that their customer service has always been excellent in my experience.
I don’t know what others have asked them, so I have no idea if those are reasonable requests or not. I will say that they’ve been growing a ton, which makes it much harder to take one-off requests and do oddball stuff for people than a little custom shop.

 

Yessir, I am. Seems to be functioning as expected. Thank you.

First impressions is there is a significant improvement in how the A340 is working. They did make a lot of changes in the Haltech. NSP is amazing. Looking forward to the drive home from Spokane tomorrow. I will post again when I have some miles under the belt.