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

Do it yourself? How'd it go?

 

Nah, took it to my friends' shop and had them do it.

It was going to be somewhat of a PITA doing it myself with my 6 year old daughter helping so I took it to the shop. This way, throwing them a bone every once in a while also allows me to use their shop after hours to do jobs with their tools and assistance.

Total cost parts/labor wss $125 so it's not too damaging to the bank account.

 

Third AutoZone alternator installed.

 

Reman or gold(new)? The next time they will probably just refund your money, there's only so many times you can return something even though t
It's lifetime warranty.

 

how long has yours lasted? I have had my autozone alty in for almost a year without issue.

 

Better, but not back to normal. Thursday I'm riding over there and they're going to take it down and see whats what.

 

anyone got the driver's side blinker lens for my '01 ? mine's F'd up and fills w/ water when its pouring out Thanks!

 

Take it off the truck, dry it out, reseal all edges and check for rust on the electronics.

I did the same thing to my corner lights that I converted to turn signals.

Works like a charm.

 

Put on a new water pump and timing belt.

It took my 10 hours from pulling my tools out to having the celebratory cigar and everything in between but i got it done!!!


New stuff is on and I'm putting the AC bracket back on.


Crank pulley tool I made


The beer helps.

 

My dealer quoted me $616 to replace both lower ball joints and $386 for a complete tranny flush and refil with new filter. Does this sound reasonable? I've never paid for service like that before.

 

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!

Buy some Moog Lower ball joints and have a mechanic replace them.

And I doubt you need a flush.. just drain and refill...

Hit up rockauto.com also.

 

Yea that really does sound high. Rockauto.com is the place to go to good replacement parts. Don't do a tranny flush if the trucks got over 150k on it. Just drain it and replace the filter and refill it.

 

I thought that was a little steep...the original LBJs were replaced at 30k miles I believe for the original recall. I'm at 69,xxx miles now.

 

Thats it? I have put 60k miles on my truck in 3 years..

Did they rust away?

Mine didnt even need to be replaced but I figured it was free so why not.

I had mine done at 140k miles or so.

 

I don't even know if they're bad. I have quite a bit of play in my tire from top to bottom. That's what I'm going off of. I looked at them but nothing seemed rusted out or out of place. The truck wanders all over the place at highway speeds as well.

 

my upper on the right side of my 96 has a slight amount of play...all the joints look original at 174k miles

 

take it to an alignment shop and have them determine whats bad.

 

I tried that once.. Left it in the oven too long and warped the lense I'll try some more silicone i guess and see if that does the trick..

Blinker

 

Nice work. Thats about how long it took me. Was my first tbelt install