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

Just picked this up yesterday for $500; great shape, carpeted inside, brake light, inside light, just one little crack by hinge on the back.

 

looking sick man! meanest exo ive seen

 

Hot damn, a fellow engineer and Tacoma owner (has 3) just picked up a tube bender and we are going to exo his crawling rig. That look sweet!

 

No more snorkel? Or are you gonna modify it to fit somehow?

 

Got these today for $30. painting them soon thinking about a metallic gun metal

 

Oh its going back on... never wheel with no snorkel again. Too risky

 

Also I updated my build, check it out... Aton of pictures.

 

wheeled it! and oh boy do i like my new seats! no back pain at all!

 

Added a couple more LED's into the door handles of my truck to shine on the floor beneath my feet...



And the token night shot - it's a little brighter than the camera shows, but not much - which is nice because it'd be too much if it was any brighter... The one's under the water bottles I did last weekend.

 

I will. Thinking of doing a write-up. And you are correct. I need something with more grit. May use the 1k/2k as the finish in some spots. Think I'll pick up something with more teeth tomorrow.

 

Depending on how bad your paint is, I'd go lower than 320 - when I painted my truck, I tried 320, but ended up dropping down to 100 grit with a palm sander and then an random orbital sander (air powered) before spraying primer on...

And, as everyone will tell you, it's all in the PREP!!! You can check out my write up on it by checking out my build thread... click on link in sig below...


My final grit that I sanded with was 1200... I wasn't going for super glossy though...

 

Only creeped around the block yesterday after finishing the install. I drove it more, farther, faster today. Went and hit some speed bumps hard. No wheels fell of off so that is good.

These UCAs will fix the lack of caster, tho I haven't aligned it yet. I will some time latter this week. My truck is not my DD so I plan to do some more things to it before aligning it.

I haven't driven it too much yet so too soon to say much. I did notice that the front is now lower than it was. Seriously, it has more rake in it after the install. I lost at least a 1/2" in height in the front. I am speculating that some of that is the camber being off so an alignment will raise it a bit. Might take this opportunity to crank in some more lift into it too.

Yup.

 

Brings back fond memories of my childhood when watching Mad Max

 

Woot! Thank you! Goinig to check out your writeup and pick up some more sandpaper. Looks like the weather is supposed to be good all week here in Atlanta, so hope to get it started and wrapped up this week.

 

You crank up for more lift Whaaaa??? hahaha

that is interesting..well let me know for sure, I'm interested in how big a difference they really make.

 

just got these bad boys in the mail
can't install right now cause its about to rain

 

Installed new front rotors/pads from wheelers, and replaced steering rack bushings (what a bitch). Next up is HID lights, and new suspensions (probably 3" lift)