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

Yeah theyre just sitting around right now

 

Finally did the grey wire mod today! It's going to come in really handy Saturday! It was actually warm outside so I figured I would spend the afternoon working on my truck Also reorganized my tool box and interior.

 

Rebuilt my AC ilder pulley

Green bearing is the DAYCO one from orielly (not nearly as well built as TOYOTA OEM one) Blue one is the TOYOTA one with a new bearing ($6, $3 of which were for shipping from NJ to WA)

This is the AC idle pulley. Someone on another toyota thread did a write up on this but I dont currently have the link. Very easy to do hardest part was driving to the hobby shop (on military base) to quickly use their snap ring pliers twice (which sucked) one time for dissasseembly and once for assembly.

Bearing P/N ALLBALLS 6301

 

Didn't do anything but re-clean the block to get the rest of the crap out since I'm waiting on the parts, but here's the picture I promised. Rod bearings are shot, Jack!

 

the left two look ok, the others are pretty bad haha.

 

The only one that I could not feel the scoring on was the first one. They're getting replaced for sure, haha! Just waiting on everything I ordered to come in to start work- the only thing in so far is the timing kit. Everything else is supposed to be in on the second. Five more days...

 

Installed CREE Q5 LED reverse bulbs and daaaaaamn look at the difference!!

Stock reverse bulbs output


CREE Q5 led reverse bulbs output

 

Holy shit. Link?

 

$20 here --->> http://www.ebay.com/itm/300677968148?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

U.S. company too. Ordered 3/26, got to me today 3/28!!

 

Installed my husky liners and afe pro dry s air filter

 

Very tempted, but $20 is pretty expensive...

 

Well... if you think about it, I wanted to and was about to pull the trigger on some led's from csjumper2003 and reverse lights would have cost me $40 and I couldn't shell out that much for those bulbs. So I got these. Safe to say it's definitely worth the price.

 

True, they are very bright! I'll probably end up getting some since I want brighter reverse lights and won't be getting aux. reverse lights anytime soon.

 

Yea I thought about getting some aux reverse ones too but didn't wanna have to deal with having to wire em up and stuff. Simple bulb swap is OK with me

 

Haha the wiring isn't a problem. It's finding somewhere to mount them where they won't get destroyed! I'm just going to wait on aux. reverse lights until I get an offroad bumper.

 

Oh yea that too! Haha.

 

Dont make me spend lol

 

Gave my truck a wash, filled it up with 89 octane fuel, and put a new air filter in.

Over the weekend I've gotta get an oil change and tires rotated.

 

It didn't rain there today?

 

It did briefly, but I just wanted to get all the filth off of it. Not worried about the shine too much