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

Got to get around the welds and repaint the frame.

 

Drove it to the beach.

A dock that broke loose from some port city in Japan during the tsunami floated all the way across the Pacific and ended up on one of our beaches here in Oregon. Kind of eerie.












http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3PIhuXI4yY

 

^^That is just unreal man! Sad. But what a great site to see. Glad you got some good photos of it.

 

Washed.

 

looks good

 

icemann, what brings you to my neck of the woods?

And how the frick does a giant slab of concrete and rebar float across the ocean? Wow. Nice pics too.

 

We have a cabin on Leek Lake just outside of Walker. We go up two are three times a year.

 

Probably hollow? Idk, but I figured it was a unique enough thing to spend some gas money on.

An article on it: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Oregon-asks-volunteers-to-scrape-off-tsunami-dock-3615539.php

 

Ask you what?

 

All the way from GA? Dang. Enjoy.

 

So after 6 years I finally got around to figuring out why my tailgate handle protrudes from the trim by at least 1/2"

When I pulled off the access panel I was surprised to see one of those metal braces (?) just floating around my tailgate. The welds were busted

Driver's side (busted):


Passenger side (fine):


Nothing a wooden shim can't fix:



So now onto the reason why I opened the panel. This is what my tailgate handle has looked like for about 6 years:



Upon inspection I realize that the panel itself was pushing on the back side of the handle mechanism thus making it protrude. Notice how the section of panel behind the handle is concave and not convex:



Yup, it's the panel pushing the handle mechanism out:



So I got out my body repair kit and went to work:



Put every thing back together and voila! Flush:

 

We do. Drove last year. Flying out next Saturday morning. I'll be there in 1:30 flying or driving 21 hrs with the little one

 

Same thing happened to mine about a two months ago. I was picking up a keg with a buddy to restock his kegerator. Didn't use enough tie downs and the keg slammed the back panel, pushing out my handle like yours. Used pretty much the same tools too.

 

Forget about the tailgate...

...was the keg okay?

 

Rotflmao. Forget the tailgate. That's the best thing I've heard all day

 

Lol, yes it was. But we weren't able to tap it that night. We concerned all we would be able to pull is foam. So it became a Jack Daniels night. Thank baby Jesus we carried that up front with us.

 

Always liked your truck. Looks good!

 

Awesome!!!!!!!

 

That's gonna look sick.

Always love the lunar mist color match

 

Yea I got pissed bc ups delivered it but to to USPS. 5 days