New Mexico Owners BS Thread

So... Cloudy. Looking for something simple. Somewhere around 1" tubing with brackets on each end so it can mount up on the bed rails and stretch across the bed. Needs to support a hilift, maybe some lights and a CB antenna.

I'm still looking for mounting brackets that would make the installation drill-less.

 

Odd, my handle has been feeling odd the last few days. Maybe I should look into it.

 

you could use the drill-less toolbox mounts but i would reccomend drilling though because it is harder to steal your hi-lift/lights if they are bolted down. afterall, we do live in burque....

but thats just my $.02

 

Apparently, they break most often when it's very cold out, which makes sense. Mine broke this morning; it was around 25 degrees out.

Mines been going bad for awhile, as I said; I should have replaced it before it broke. Oh well. It felt like something inside was bending when the door handle was lifted, and got worse over time.

Most of the vehicles I've owned have had issues w/ the door handles as they aged; you'd think that on something like this that gets used constantly, they'd have made it of better material.

I'd blame the bean counters, but they just do what management tells them to. Toyota probably saved $00.0000001 on each handle by making them out of cheap material, which adds up when a bazillion Tacomas are built.

 

My truck is for sale! 20k
Built motor on a big snail. Pushes 450 on a daily tune. About 15k invested. Truck has almost 100k on the odo but the built engine only has at most 8k. Still brand new.
Built engine - $5k
Sts turbo kit with upgraded turbonetics 64 mm billet wheel and ball bearing - $3600
Aem ems standalone first one and only one so far with 2005-2008 plug and play harness - $2k
Motiva tuned - $1k (re tune for more power is $150)
Stage 4 competition clutch and fidanza flywheel - $1200
Custom trd short shifter - $350
Retro fit headlights with e46 projectors - $500
Urd 668cc injectors - $350
Urd y pipe - $500
Doug thorley long tubes - $500
Gaylord speedsturr bed cover $2k
And the list goes on... as you can tell its got quite a bit of money into it.

 

^looking good. What are you gonna get?

 

Not sure. Haven't decided.

 

I've always liked your Sig haha

 

It caught my attention early on, for sure. That young lady is a trusting soul.


So I ordered my new door handle today. Yay!


Looks like I'll be driving the Audi until I get that fixed.

 

Hey pigger, the door handle replacement isn't that bad I've taken my door apart quite a few times now. I'm pretty much a pro at it. Had to replace my door handles a few times due to cheap materials but my current ones are holding up fine. You could spray some WD40 or your choice of lube (hehehe) to the door latch mechanism area on the door itself to make it easier for the doors to open. Just my .02

 

That's a good idea.

I'm hoping that the new handle lasts at least as long as the first one. Eight years isn't too bad, I guess.

I also need to take my skidplates off and beat them flat again; I have to do this every few years as they (well, the rear one; the front one is stout as heck!) get all bashed up and rattle against things down there. Sounds like hell. I'll probably wait for warmer weather and a better-healed pelvis for that, though.

Stupid pelvis.

 

Fixed it for ya

 

I go by that intersection every day on the way home from work. I'm getting over the worst of the aftermath, though, I think.

Applecookie has some pretty bad drivers.

 

Try Korea. Where tiny little cars would play chicken with big rigs. Seen it happen

 

Were you stationed there?

 

Anyone running without a sway bar? How bad is the lean?

 

Yes and no. I was there for a month of training that ended up being a show of force for when the war in Iraq started off just in case N. Korea wanted to get squirrelly. Only group of US soldiers to visit the DMZ in uniform.

Feels crazy at first, but I got used to it. Little more flex off road and a butt dyno'd feel of a smoother ride.

 

Wheeled (kinda) today I feel bad for my 12 year old stock suspension hopefully I get billies soon.
Don't judge

 

Flexing FTW!!!! Your suspension is most likely fine at that age, other than the usual weak leafs. Mine is original, and still works great after 9 years. It's nothing like the sweet rigs most here have, though, of course.

Have you had any time to explore any of the places we told you about?

 

I'm intimidated by most of the trucks on here because I'm always looking at peoples builds but I'm really happy with my taco, it gets the job done

And no, not yet, I want to though I just don't want to get stuck out there by myself since I'm new at this