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

Not cheap. Around $120 I think.

 

Any other cheap yet quality replacements minus paying oem?

 

Think that’s what I paid for mine 4ish years ago. Still holding up good.

The mis alignment of them I remember frustrating me think I used a punch and tried to stretch em to the right place. The push clip things that everyone uses for everything now days definitely frustrated me.

 

I don't think so. I tried the $65 yotaliners and they looked great and the clips were the best things about them. The liners themselves hardened and cracked after just a few months. If you're gonna do it and don't want to drop the $$ for the ARK ones, I'd go OEM.

 

I have oem ones but im missing the clips. I need to find clips that actually fit. Ebay ones are trash and oem is pricey lol.

 

I bought a few different size of plastic rivets. They seem to fit in some places, but not others. I don't really recommend wasting time on the plastic rivets.

 

I need new mudflaps on my 96 but don’t have the brackets, what have you guys done?

 

Touched the frame today. Moved some mounts around with the help of my dad with his grinding and welding expertise.

Some things to note: Double Cab Frames have different Bed Mounts. So we had two spare rails left and right from a 1999 extra cab which we borrowed the bed and cab mounts from. Rear Cab Mounts are slightly different.



Plasma cutters are awesome however we dont have strong enough electric in the house to run it for very long so it kept shutting down on us so unfortunately had to result in using an angle grinder like a redneck for the job. Took hours this way lol.



Welded on some new sway bar brackets and cut a hole out where there was rust forming near the leaf spring bracket. Frame is perfect otherwise.














I forgot a pic of all the mounts we cut off they are now chillen in my sandblast cabinet for another day. I have to purchase one bed mount from Toyota.

Old Cab Mount Bushings from both frames, pretty shot. I ordered a Energy Suspension Replacement kit which is significantly cheaper than sourcing OEM ones.



Next post will be welding new body and cab mounts into the proper places. Might not get around to that til next week.