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

Made a cool little mod today, melted battery mod which in turn makes fire/smoke in engine bay!!!

Battery tilted and fell over while driving, which then fried my amp wire. Was wondering WTF my truck died and doing wierd electrical shit. Me and buddy seen smoke, jumped out, seen the battery hanging, clipped wires, placed battery back in place in a course of 45-60 seconds, didn't miss a red light at 5 O'clock traffic. Drove to starbucks, seen that the hold down hinge came loose, tied it down and drove away (with milkshake, F frappacinos)

My battery is now melted a bit where the amp wire caught fire, but will be a constant reminder to me to always check it while I am doing maintenance.

Will check in the morning to do a full check on all systems, but drove it for 2 hours after everything and seems to be ok. Go Go lil tacoma that could!

 

got a few things tinted on her today. let me know what you think of them. also thinking about putting bed linner on my tool box.. any thoughts or suggestions on how to make it black?

 

I hate when I cant see peoples brake lights....I would be a nervous wreck if I tinted mine. Its right up there with insurance fraud. $0.02

 

you can still see the brake lights very well with my tint. the only thing is they do look very black so i hope i dont get pulled for them. the law says you need to see the brake light from 1000 feet but cops can be assholes in richmond

 

Got a good deal on an Optima Yellow top, came home and installed it tonight.

 

I think that he is saying that it bothers him as much as insurance fraud.

 

All bad. Third brake light blockage/tinting doesn't bother me. Making the main tail lights less visible is kinda annoying though.

 

Agreed, I've come close to rear-ending a few people with their lights darkened... Makes them really tough to see in bright sunlight...

 

What did you paint your back bumper with?? Did you sand it before you painted it I want mine black might paint it with bed liner...

 

I know right

Elite rear bumper here we come! and bed rack..and maybe a locker..

 

Looks good to me and just like my truck, i can see mine fine from a long ways away...the only thing id say is it looks alot better with the reverse light un tinted...and as for the toolbox i used rustoleum bedliner on mine and havent had any issues and it looks a ton better than the chrome imo

I love mine! was yours a direct replacement for the truck or did you have to modify the fusebox for the white wire to reach?

 

I'm not talking about the third brake light. I was talking about the dark tinting of the primary brake lights. Thought you might be able to figure that one on your own there...

And I was not saying it WAS insurance fraud, I compared it to it.

 

Fire/EMS

 

my dad said i should sand the bumper first. but i wasnt at his house and i didnt feel like waiting two weeks till i was going there so i just used rust-oleum simi gloss i figured if it started coming off then i would sand blast it and bed line it. but its been hoolding up fine. If you have the tools and time to sand it and bedline it i would do that.

 

Since I dont have my truck right now I am bored and figured I'd start planning the next projects and ordered some things.


LED's above
4X Innovation sliders
Ultra Gauge

 

16' canoe---F#CK that...go for a 19' canoe.

 

Decided to go another route...... just sold the arb

 

looks like there is carpet or a towel or something under it....

 

I had a couple of towels laid out on top of my roof.