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

Started perping the truck for Custom Grizzly Grip Liner. Did the whole truck bed inside and out and back of the cab.

 

well the ol girl definitely shows signs in th3 paint of how old she is..... but a little wax helps

 

just noticed the clear coat is peeling on my topper.

time to call up Suburban Toppers and see if they honor their warranty.

 

Razzin' the Heepers and tempting the gods:

 

I think it's time to order up some new corners.



Picked these up from the local hardware store for $36 each. I guess we'll see how good (or bad) they are.

 

Shhhhhhhhh


Don't say that

Do it..I'd place a vote haha

Hmmmm...interesting. Mine in Frankenstein makes a noise after I drive it..was your cracked one?

 

that looks really nice!! to bad it would not fit my 00

 

I need your help everyone. Help me win some tint for my truck! There's only 53 MINUTES left until the contest ends. Please

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/of...3675-help-me-win-free-tint-job-my-tacoma.html

 

Where can I find this??

 

LED lights (order 3 of the 4mm option)

http://www.superbrightleds.com/more...led-bulb-high-power-instrument-panel-led/221/

AC panel

http://www.sfxperformance.com/parts/NUIAC243.htm

 

Member Socaltaco65 (Erik) came by today with a great surprise, Kenwood VHF 2m. & he installed it !! Wow, good to have good friends !!








& just when I thought it couldn't get any better, member DAD0336 (Dave)

came by with some covers for the KC's he gave me earlier.. another awesome friend.. I'm a lucky man indeed...

 

I think I have a set for 01-04 in my garage. I should check.

If so, I'll give them to you

 

I just got one from lowes. Ordered online and need to drive an hour to get it though.

 

remove them and drill a really small hole on the top of the light and the bottom on the backside...most modern lights are vented and normally a really small hole keeps you from build up condensation inside

 

2 days left on my skid plate group buy!

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/gr...steel-plate-ifs-transmission-skid-plates.html

 

If you aren't throwing a code, than I wouldn't mess with it. But as I have read, that is a sign of a bad one when you can hear or see carbon bouncing around.

 

Finally finish scraping the black spray paint off of the rear window of my topper. Upon a recommendation here, I went and purchased a "graffiti remover" from Home Depot.


IMAG4624 by Kathy / Analog Soul Photography, on Flickr

It worked great! I didn't want to just spray it all over the window, so I applied it to a cloth and applied that to a section at a time. It softened the paint so much that I could scrape away very quickly whatever I had soaked with the remover spray.

And here it is after all of the scraping, but before I cleaned all of the residue away with the same remover spray.


IMAG4623 by Kathy / Analog Soul Photography, on Flickr

I can really see how this spray would be great for removing overspray from painting projects...and I have my wheel painting coming up, so it'll come in handy for that

 

And on the subject of removing paint from toppers...has anyone ever removed the side windows from a topper??? I see many hex heads around the perimeter of the windows on the inside...I'm thinking that's what I need to remove to get them out.

I'm also thinking I would like screens since we may be using the truck for camping purposes...wonder if I could install that while I have the windows out for paint removal.

 

Screens are easy to install

Just buy the screen of your choice, cut it to size overlapping a bit on all sides, and spline that fits the groove of the window frame. You can either use a screwdriver or get a spline tool (much easier to use and cheap) and then roll the spline into the groove with the screen getting pinched underneath.

Here's the walkthrough for a patio door... same principle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Isv6RW5G44