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

there shur is....just depends on your fab skills.

 

Well I was going to wash and wax before I posted pics, but if you insist...

It's a 2002 Doublecab SR5 TRD. 48,000 miles. Very clean inside, outside has quite a bit of small scratches/paint chips that I will be taking care of shortly. Runs and drives great. My first Toyota vehicle and I am very excited!

 

Yeah, I'm very glad they found it!

hahaha!! yeah i know, you can see my whole sig if you go to my profile....(it's pretty awesome!) it was even bigger and i couldn't make it work.. I tried making it smaller, but it just wasn't working right. I'll fix it for now, but I'm changing it completely when I can take some good photos of my truck

No, I didn't really notice anything just while driving. To check it, just take the weight off the wheel/strut and use something to try and move the wheel up and down. (Use a pry bar/pipe or something under the tire) Look at the ball joint as you do this, there should be zero movement up and down.

Here's the new ball joint btw

 

Looks great!!

 

man, wish i had done this a couple weeks ago when i was putting in my new front suspenders.

 

Looks good man! wow 48k miles. it's still a baby. what was the otd price if u don't mind me asking? I know AK prices will prob be pretty different from anywhere else but still wondering. That truck would have went for like 17k down here. Doublecab, trd, 4x4 and sub 50k miles. Hell maybe even more like 18 or 19k.

 

June 26th with be the one year mark for me i believe. Im surprised you dont have carpel tunnel with the posts difference between us in one year. And i thought i was on the site a lot.

 

I paid 15k for it. The seller was asking for pretty much right around KBB value up here. It was out in the bush in Nome for the first 6 years of its life so that is why it has such low miles. Came with an extra set of brand new tires, too. I thought I was overpaying, but maybe I didn't.

 

Installed a new cup holder, boat style!

 

Finished most of my bumper project. Still waiting on the tube to come in, once that gets bent i will be putting on a hoop to cover the quarter panel and tail lights.

 

^ looks good man

 

Thanks

 

Put some new tires on today

 

Installed my RI D2's I just need to wire them up and I'm ready to rock.

 

Changed rear end gear oil. Amsoil severe gear oil 75-110. Doing the tranny Saturday.

 

Looks good bro.

 

I didnt do it good enough for a how too. But its pretty straight forward.

1.) Seal off all air flow. with spray foam.
2.) cut wood to fit in whole. Make sure the wood you just cut has a hole for your speaker.
3.) mount sub have fun.

 

installed one of 4 ujoints. the old caps had rusted metal dust in them i think i should do the rest soon

 

SO pretty much the finish product.
I trimmed up the foam. and flipped the carpet back over. the carpet doesnt really look good. but I can deal with it.

So I forgot the foam there the seat belt connects to the body. and not that i think about it i dont know how i would foam it because i think there to big of a gap.

The only thing i dont like is that my JL is to long. so part of it hits one of the ribs that stick up on the floor so its a little cocked. BUT if someone thats local would wanna trade i would be down!

 

looks good man