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

Yes will go right in if you ahve the ECU and wiring harness.

there will be some SLIGHT differences on the body work for mounting some of the stuff. My new body was a 4 banger body and i have a V6 and some stuff was a bit different but nothing drastic.

 

Everything is back together. This spring I will replace the carpet with a dark charcoal gray option (and then paint the rear cup holder platform) and will definitely take my upper dash panel out and paint that. After that, the entire interior will be blacked out (charcoal for carpet).

I can't get decent pictures of the a-pillars and oh shit handles... just use your imagination

So to recap:

I took out every trim panel in the truck, disassembled them, either painted or dyed them all, sound deadened the rear wall and both door panels (and strategic areas of the rear quarter panels), installed a new head unit, new front speakers and an amp to power them, then put everything back together.























Sound deadened the back of the kicker panel:






Put a thin seal of ensolite foam on the backside of the speaker brackets to prevent rattles:

 

Tomorrow these bad boys are going in... hopefully

 

Looks great man!!

however..if you were going to take the full dash out..should have just done in then man..its a PITA and you have to take all the dash off to get it off. and the steering column.

 

Yeah, well the lower dash panels and steering column trim are semi-gloss (from last year's paint job) and it bothers me. So I was gonna take all that out and make it flat black anyway.

I would have liked to not deal with removing the upper dash panel to paint it, but the fairy-gay-gray color is killing me now that it is in stark contrast to everything else being blacked out.

When you say "and the steering column" what exactly do you mean by that?

 

Oh... why you gotta harsh my mellow, Monte?

Just for that I'm gonna get back at you by flirting with Jon a little extra tonight

 

just flipp'em over Micah, make a cool wheelie bars....

 

Haha! Fuck that's funny haha

And yea the steering wheel at least will ha e to come off. The whole column though will be easier though

 

Sounds like I'll be brushing it on.

 

I opened her up to get at the cabin air pressure vent (no such luck) and found some evidence of a fire in some of the foam behind the speaker I just got it back from the body shop, don't know if it was the body work or what!

 

Blacked out my bumper inserts and grill. Also added my new clear headlights and markers!

 

Holy shit.

As far as I know that's your cabin pressure vent to the right (lower portion of the rear quarter panel) of your speaker cubby in that top picture.

Sorry if I gave ignorant advice the other day

 

Nice.

I foresee clear turn signals in your future

 

Actually I bet you could spray it on if you mask right

 

No Madjik you gave good advice, I can just get a hand on the vent, there is still no way its coming out through the cab. I might just try super gluing it back on for a temp. fix. Thanks again

 

The dash is the one reason I haven't planned for a interior color change. No way in hell I'm pulling that just to paint it! Would you not get brush strokes in the paint that way?

 

New rear bumper courtesy of the kid who rear ended me last week. Now black instead of chrome.

 

put a bumper on till i can afford a plate bumper. still need to weld a skid on.


ill get a better picture tomorrow

 

Took off my softopper and bought this ARE shell.



Crappy cell pics but it was dark when I finally was able to pick it up. Better pics in the daylight tomorrow.

 

What rear bumper is that? I'm looking at getting a plate/tube bumper fabbed and that matches nicely to what I have in my head.