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

Tell me more about the broken winch. I'm considering the XRC8 but maybe I should rethink that?

 

That just a bit of mud

 

Just noticed this a couple days ago. If any of you are familiar with the Golden Spike trail in Moab, Utah you know that there are countless ledges to climb and drop off of on that trail. There was one ledge that I dropped off of that bit me. I came down HARD, and I mean HARD on my driver side slider. I got out to check everything and the slider was scratched and had just the slightest dent. It wasn't until I got home and was doing a more thorough check of stuff on the truck that i noticed the small dent in my rocket panel. My sliders have a little bit of clearance under the rockers but are pretty tight to the body. I've come down on them hard before but they've never flexed into the body. Just more evidence of how hard I hit this time. Oh well, you pay to play.

 

Bummer... and yep, you pay to play. No biggie.....

Should've put on some hybrid sliders.

 

i don't see how hybrids woulda saved him from that..

 

Ouch!!

Get some grease or fluid film on the damaged rocker and lower fender to slow the rust before winter...you did bang it hard because your sliders look really heavy duty!

 

stirring the pot for sure.

Agreed. I'm positive that hybrids would have done exactly the same thing.

I have some color matched paint. It's already been touched up. And yes as I said in my post I hit the slider REALLY HARD. I've been wheeling a long time and taken some hard hits, but I think this one was the hardest. Honestly I'm pretty happy with how well the slider held up considering the hard blow. No complaints here.

 

Just a squirt of WD-40. Don't have any zerks on those shackles so had to use that.

 

yeah hybrids would have done the same thing, if not worse depending on wall thickness.

 

See now if you had a SAS with lockers...

 

I don't think a SAC would help there...

Now lockers are always better.

 

locker definitely woulda helped lol..SAS..prolly not.

 

Got the LED signals mod finished finally!

 

that sucks. How many miles on it?

 

wow, it lasted quite a while. Might as well get the water pump and idler pulleys replaced too.

 

theyre not too expensive. I know there is a kit on ebay from time to time that has everything you need. I did mine at 146k miles and left the pulleys. I got the belt and water pump/thermostat at NAPA.

 

get the battery checked

 

I would rethink it. When I purchased it, the controller only allowed it to spool in, the switch was broken and didn't spool out. I called smittybilt and they said they'd replace it and that was back in July and I haven't seen it yet. I've used the winch a total of like 3 times and then the toggle switch to free spool jammed in the 'engaged' position. Tried and tried but couldn't get it to move.

 

there ya go, get those plugs changed. Im on stock wires with 175k miles now, still runs great but I should probably replace them soon.