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

Yea it wld b sick looking tho

 

So I'm sanding down my fiberglass fenders before I paint them and I had a question, should I sand all of the paint off? Like to the point where it's white?

 

If they were already painted, you just need to scuff the old paint surface enough so that the new paint can bond better. It's called "keying."

 

Put 2 tacomas on a unimog frame

 

Ordered some Hella 500ff's and an HID kit, as well as welded up my sliders and painted them.

 

Just make it an offroad limo lol

 

Got my "special order" spark plugs from Advance Auto Parts today.


Tune-Up Time! by Kathy / Analog Soul Photography, on Flickr

FYI, the numbers on the plugs are

$18 K16TR11 Spark Plugs, Pack of 4

K16TR11 and 3194.

Prices weren't too bad...and good to know they have or can order stuff if you don't have a stealership nearby. The plugs were $4.29 each and the wires were $39.79...not too bad.

And still looking for self etching primer for my wheels...going to paint them with the Duplicolor graphite wheel paint. Any hints on where to look? I've been to a smaller Advance Auto Parts (will check their bigger location down the street too) and Walmart. I did find "clean metal" primer at Walmart, but wasn't sure if it would be good for wheels or not.

 

ordered my 5100's from DSM and 2 inch aal, diff drop from toytec the other day. im so pumped!!!

 

Not sure what you have out there, but in Calofornia, O'Reilly (formerly Kragen out here) stocks the green self-etching Duplicolor primer.

 

Do it man! I did mine graphite a little bit ago and posted on here. The only place I found the graphite was a local parts store called parks. I didn't see it at Walmart or anything

 

Nice, your truck is like my mini-me.

 

I found the graphite wheel paint and clear coat...I'm just looking for the primer now. I'm not positive if it's needed, but it seems that my rims are just bare right now...they seem to have no finish at all. I guess a primer would be good in that regard and that's why I was leaning towards the one for metal since I haven't seen the "self etching" one around. Will look at a couple more places around and see.

We only have Advance Auto Parts, Autozone, Napa, and Bennett Auto Supply for automobile related stuff. Maybe I'll check those others tomorrow.

 

Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart are some other places too look too. I found that the wheel paint chips and peels easy.

 

I got mine at Lowe's, and I know the AutoZone has the self etching as well. I would definitely put self etching primer on (self etching adheres to aluminum and gives a base coat).

 

Got my 10" travel fox 2.0's with resis mounted

 

Home Depot has Rustoleum self-etching primer.

 

I had a bad experience with self-etching primer paired with Rustoleum High Performance Enamel on my stock wheels.

Though the self-etching primer worked well with Rustoleum bed coating on my rear bumper.

 

Nice.

Get some 4-5" bump stop or you'll over compress them. Would hate to ruin those things.

 

Yo someone needs a BPV relocation^^

 

That too.