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

04tacomaSR5, do the deck plate mod! Pros, I feel like my truck has a better response. And it runs cooler. Cons, I got blue RTV on my shirt haha

 

I "think" he's only a 4cyl in that case I always had better gains with a CAI on the 4 bangers

 

Ahh okay I gotcha

 

Pretty close to the same.

 

I am pretty impartial haha. It does make the truck a little louder, but I have not seen much if any performance gains. I did notice it made the truck not want to downshift on slight inclines like it did before, which I like. Oh also, my air filters need replacing twice as fast. I need to buy an afe filter one of these days...

And btw, I have driven through some deep ass puddles and a few rivers with it out (I know, I am a moron. But it was when I first did it and forgot I had the plate open) and it has never had a drop of water in the airbox...

 

Yesterday I got Weather Tech Digital Fit Floor Liners.

A few people asked for pictures, so here they are. They fit really nicely.

 

A guy was trying to sell some tires from his Tacoma outside his house for a couple weeks now. Well yesterday I drove by and he just decided to give them away for free. They are Regul trailblazer tires 33x12.50x15..so they're pretty wide lol..Not gonna fit my truck, but I have them anyways.

 

put fork mounts on the toolbox.

 

Swapped out my decaying rear bumper for the one 45acp gave to me (thanks Jon!)

Being the moron I am, I forgot to repaint the bumper before I put it on.... even though I was on a spray painting binge for the past few days (see below)



Thought this was a brilliant design by Toyota to get at the rearmost bolts






So since I am on a spray painting binge with sleep deprivation and high on fumes, I decided to paint my ancient action packer to match the two newer ones I have. Formerly green... now black



And to get an idea to see if I want to repaint the rear bumper and door handles semi-gloss or flat black, I decided to paint my tire iron as a sample to move around the truck




I think I'm feeling the semi-gloss for the rear bumper and door handles. Not too shiny but makes it look clean

 

Almost lost this on the freeway. That would have been sweet. Think I need new skids yet?

 

naw man. thats functional

 

I had mine look like that and it put a hole in my rad

 

Finally picked up a torque wrench. Gonna change the fluids in the diffs and transfer case in a couple weeks when I have time.

 

Have you considered what is going to happen if you have to reverse over an object? Looks as if you will get hung up on the skid.

 

finally have some toys installed...



- cover king seat covers ( yes i realize they aren't black... they sent wrong colour)


- jvc 925bt deck


- 10" kicker pro-comp in a ported box


- JL audio jx 500.1 amp (missed vacuuming there)


- compu star 2 way alarm

 

if you look at the trim of the cover and then the colour of the fabric there's a difference... sadly =(

 

Installed my Line-X'd Bushwackers today!

 

That looks awesome!

 

finished my debadge and blackout painting....turned out great and easier than I thought......

 

I think I will do my wheels next?