01Tac0ma Build

Finally got off my ass and bedlined my skid today!

 

I need to do some of that.

It looks good!

 

Haha, one day ill get around to cleaning off everything under the truck and getting some paint on the axle and some other parts to "look" a little cleaner but im gonna wait till it gets warmer out!

 

Truck is awesome dude! did you do the led dash?

 

Thanks alot!

Yea its a pretty easy and cheap mod to do and changes the whole look of the inside of the cab!

The blue is actually the 3rd swap if you dont count the original orange, so i can have this thing apart with my eyes closed in about 10 minutes lol

 

did you follow someones write up and if so whos? if not is the dash not hard to take out....i am pretty willing and able to take my ruck apart i just dont see how to take the instrament panal out.....or what bulbs to use

 

You just pop the top of the radio and AC control bezel loose then pop out the clock and key piece and looosen all the bolts on the plastic under the column and a screw i believe then there are 2 screws up in the top of the black piece of plastic that is around teh gauges, and once thats all off there are 4 screw holding the cluster in, once they are out simply twist the 194 bulb housing out replace bulbs with LED's and re install but make sure you have the polarity right before you go boltin stuff back together & yes they still dim down, JIC you were wondering!


FOund that one ur build so nvm....what bulbs and where do i get? i will be getting blue if available

 

Optima Yellowtop and finally got around to fixing the missing AC control LED and knob

 

I want a yellow top so bad....I just had a second interstate battery take a shit, both were less than a year old.

 

I had to give the original battery my uncle put in it when i bought it up to my moms taco cause hers took a dump and she needed one worst than me since i havent been working in a while cause of school but i managed to sell a few things and went ahead and jumped on it since i was plannign on it after christmas anyway...I hope this thing last a long time, so far it seems to be a hell of a lot better than the one that was in there before.

MY only concern is i had to take out the fuse box to unbolt one of the power source wires from the batt to fuse box so it would reach the posts since they are in the middle of the batter instead of right up next to the fuse box, and i also had to make a longer batt to body ground but its not to bad and worth it IMO....If that made any since at all?

 

Took some ghey driveway poser shots while visiting family
but also did finally set my toolbox straight on both sides and worked on my cb antenna a bit (no pics of this), and found some rock rash on my wheels which im guessing is from gulches idk looks pretty sexy IMO Guess its time for some bigger meats!

 

LED corners and tag lights



Willl probably replace the corners with amber at some point but for now its a ton better than the stock bulbs in there

 

very nice! where did you get the LED corners, how much $, and what bulb #?

I just got clear corner light housings and the incandescent bulbs look shitty in them

 

dude yes! my wheels look exactly like that! sexy forsure lol

 

They are 194 and i got them on egay for $10 for 4 so i used 2 up front and 2 in the tag

mhm didnt even notice it for about 2 weeks when i finally washed the thin layer of mud from gulches off, gonna be cleanin her up nice for the meet and greet coming up!

 

Awesome, thanks.

 

I will be installing the Fumoto valve here shortly so expect a review on how i like it and it may help some people out that have aftermaket skids where they didnt want the oil drain hole cut into it!

 

Got the same one. Are you going to put a drain tube on the end of the nipple? Let me know what you do for that. Thanks