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

He has a 98-00 grill..

 

Yeah Im not sure either! I think the 00 radiator is a lot closer. I drilled some holes in the radiator support and the back of the lights just dont fit and slant upward. I guess I can fabricate something that extends from the support... Hmm because I really want them behind the grille because you can see right behind the mesh when it is day

 

I made some brackets out of angle iron that bolted to the rad support then the light bolted to that so it gives about an inch more room forward too

 

Oh yeah I remember you telling me that. Ill try something like that with a buddy of mine because I don't have access to anything

 

Picked these up for me and my wife at Costco, only $8 per blade, cost ~$15 on Amazon. Heard they were great.

 

Schweet. Good to know. Just get frost, not ice down here, unless we go up into the Sierras, which I haven't had time to do lately...dammit.

 

I've got them on my 4runner and on my tacoma. So far I'm neither impressed, nor disappointed. I've had better blades, and also far worse. For the price though they're solid.

 

Yeah, I've been buying cheap RainX and Ancos. Sick of them turning to shit after a short while, so I thought I'd give these a try. But they're even less expensive than the others for what Costco sells them at.

 

Last blades I ran on the Tacoma were some of the Bosch that look just like these, lasted a full year which is pretty good in my eyes.
Liked them a little better, but then again they probably cost me twice as much since I didnt buy them at costco.
These goodyears definitely do the job on my Tacoma, but for some reason they like to chatter a bit and past 60mph they start lifting off the windshield on my 4runner.

 

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Door is new..but the cab and bed have been painted

 

had to get a new door but i could only find one in white so im painting the whole truck to match

 

the door got replaced only because i had it and was in better shape than the original door was and im painting the whole truck any way.

 

For the price they can't be beat.

Weren't you the one that convinced me to put 19" on the driver and 18" on the passenger though?

 

FWIW i've got that same beam style wiper from Anco - i'm in the same boat, they're not bad, not amazing... but they work.

 

So this weekend i got a bit over work done on the truck for my new treadwright M/t's. Last week i got some stock length Shackle arms from 4-Crawler to replace my 1-3/4" longer shackle arms so Saturday i installed them, which took abnout 45mins..super easy and i also pounded the shit out of the pinch welds and i added my 1.25" BORA Spacers. then right as i finished these puppies arrived

Sooo Sunday i got them mounted up at firestone so heres a picture of how she sat with the old crappy 265's and the 1-3/4" shackles from AP and AP 3" lift

And here she is now with the new Treadwright Guad Dog M/Ts in 285/75/16 and with the stock length 4-Crawleer shackles which lowered the back about 1 to 3/4".

 

Here the UV kills them over the summer.

Now that Ol Red is garaged maybe they'll last longer than the 6-8 months I change them.

I'm hyperanal about wiper blades/windshields though...

 

Good thing at only $7.99 each (sometimes buy one get one free) at Costco, it's affordable to replace.

 

Your gonna love the white