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

i would drive that

 

Yea I just made some jumper wires and stuck them into the factory plug off of one of the lower cig lighters. So right now one of them doesn't work but I plan to do away with them soon anyway.

I got mine from sierra expeditions

Thanks

Yea man. Thanks for the idea. Ever since I saw you put one there, I've been wanting to do it and finally got around to getting it done.

 

Boxrocket: I love your truck... what did you do with your camper shell, and do u find the bed cage more practical?

PC: thanks =) --those setups are common in Hi. They look fun to drive!

Bandit: x2 ahaHAH!

 

How hard was the install? I currently have a 1" body lift that I want to remove but am clueless as to where to start...

 

Get the energy bushing kit for stock tacomas. Then you need shorter body and bed bolts

edit: I just recently took my 3" bl off. Let me know if you want some more detailed info

 

Why the body lift?

 

Helped with any slight rubbing he had with the tires and fixed his issues with his armor hitting the body of his truck when he flexed.

 

Yeah I thought it wasn't cool to do those

 

A 1" body lift just has longer bushings, vs a 2"-3" body lift which has hard plastic cylinders to lift it.

 

Body lifts are perfectly fine

 

Nothing wrong with body lifts. In fact, Im thinking about getting a 1" myself. Looks good Adam! What kind of time did you invest to install it?

 

Finally body working my USB charger

 

I'm debating on getting a body lift now.... Haha

 

There is nothing wrong with body lifts as long as you stick with a 1''. A 2'' or 3'' body lift is plain unsafe and make the truck ride like shit, and look like shit.

 

That the clock trim piece?

 

Nope. It's the one down by the 12v outlets.

 

Ran a 3" on my ranger. Didn't look like shit. Rode fine and wheel the shit out of it. No issues with 90k on that BL

 

Working on a skid plate. Waiting on quotes right now.

 

you cant tell me this:



doesn't look a lot worse than this:





And 3'' body lifts are proven to be unsafe. It increases the shear forces on the body mount bolts, increasing the chance for failure or damage. Plus the potential damage to the cab mount pads. There is no way you can tell me that replacing flat rubber bushings with hard 2 or 3'' lift spacers is a good idea. Because it isn't.

You CANNOT make a positive argument for a large body lift. Anyone who runs one who is fine with it is ignorant, or uneducated.

There is a reason why you see a ton of people on TW removing their large body lifts...then breathing a huge sigh or relief once its finally gone.

 

pretty sure the TRD logo is copy write protected and if someone makes that for you can be sued.

Painting it on something is one thing... but having a shop machine it is totally different.