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

I win!


Are you talking about sealing the ABS pipe to itself? Or where it enters the truck?

I wonder if ABS cement is sensor safe?

 

Wheels choked, now lets jack it up and see what I broke!

 

Hallelujah! Looks like I lost one of the caliper bolts. Caliper was swinging free. That could have jammed up the wheel. Only had a 100 miles since brake mod, hadn't retorqued everything yet.

I got to much going on to speed the money for new bearings and seals.

 

I love how he says he can run 34s but that's just not practical haha

 

So i have my bed off to relocate my shocks and figured if is off anyone have any ideas of anything else to do? I thought shit boxing it but there didn't seem to be much need, I'll be putting in two new x members. Any ideas?

 

2 weeks ago:
- Mobile1 and fuel filter
- 2 Toyota Grand Prix tickets scored

Today:
- Clutch-disk, pressure plate, pilot and throw out bearing, straight pins, master and slave cylinder replaced, and rear main seal
- Carrier bearing replaced
- 2 more Grand Prix tickets scored

Clutch is super soft now. Is this normal?

Hopefully no more mechanical maint for a while.

 

Had these show up at my doorstep today

 

Since I can't post this in a thread for some reason I guess I'll ask this here. Does anybody have any experience with Tundra struts? I saw here the other day somebody put them on and gained a little bit of lift. Wondering how they ride, how realiable they are etc. Any help/info is appreciated

 

Well I installed that pioneer double din over the weekend and for the last few days I've been working on installing my sub/amp I've had laying around. Couldn't get the amp to power up so today I re-did the remote turn-on connection at the deck, bought/installed a redtop battery, re-did and extended the chassis ground from my battery with 8ga wire (was only 14ga...) and put on a new terminal stud for the negative post on the battery.

Sub/amp powers up great and sounds amazing for only ~150 amps haha. A coworker gave it to me a while ago and I had it in my last car but it sounded like crap. Before installing in my truck I opened it up and found whoever put it together didn't use any sort of connectors on the terminals. Only wrapped the bare wire with no solder. So I re-did all of that and this thing slams!

 

they look Toyota OEM parts to me. look a lot like mine only newer lol

 

got that right... Toyota sure does take pride in their parts... Even with my employee discount parts cost me out the @$$!!!

 

Ordered them from Rockauto. I believe they cost $40 each. Looks pretty secure to me. I'll let you know if I have any problems. This is not my DD.

 

Box the frame. just do it.

Should be able to just tighten up the joint in that happens.

 

Only three bolts. I'm not sure why the horror stories. Maybe they didn't tighten them??

 

It's not a whole mirror assembly that wobbles, it's the mirror itself. It floats on a plastic piece that is crap in the aftermarket mirrors.

 

Needle and thread is cool, I was thinking more along the lines of adding some thin foam padding to compensate for the slack. Next time my wife forces me to go to Michaels (craft store) I'll finally have a reason.

 

I have seen a few members here sporting the DEPO oem style crystal clear/red OEM tail lights to get rid of the yellow. I ended up snagging a pair off fleabay cause I figured that most of the bulbs on my tail lights are at least 9 years old and overall they look aesthetically clean and not ricey. I'll throw some detailed pics of my install in my build.

Here are the original OEM and DEPO tail lights side by side:




Before install:


After install:

 

THIS ^^

I have a pair of 01-04 mirrors that I got off of RockAuto. Ended up getting refunded for one of em after having to exchange the drivers side mirror due to the mirror (glass) wobbling. I figure what the heck, doesn't bother me much and I only spent about $30 overall on the pair

Oh yea, great customer service.

 

AHH! We will see. It hasn't been out of my driveway yet. But I will post if I have any problems. Thanks

 

my driver side is starting to do the same thing at highway speed, can i take it apart and re-glue it?