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

Nice job! i'm still debating about fabbing either a plate or tube bumper

 

psh, winch takes away approach angle!!! I would love to take off my trail gear bumper and make a lower profile bumper without a winch... bigger stinger than jon's though!! lol jk

 

Thanks Kat

 

Thanks bud! Actually that's the old crossmember. Was trying to work with what I had to keep costs low. But yeah, the budbuilt will bolt up to it.

I put a receiver there so I could make the winch portable and use it on the front or back. I also wanted to get this bumper to hug the front as close as possible for better approach angles.

 

Liking your new tube bender I see. I need to get one for myself. Bumper is looking good.

 

ah i see

 

wow...good work.

Reminds me a bit of my 4Xbumper

 

Love it! Biggest PITA is not having a tube notcher. Definitely gonna get one now haha

 

you sr, have wierd facial hair

 

Dude driver was the shiz. Only thing I hated (of course I was playing this game when I was like 8) was that you couldn't run over people haha. They always somehow managed to get out of the way in time.

 

This is fixable ......but EXPENSIVE! I had a guy hit me in my previous truck (F250) Had very similar damage...ripped open the bottom of the rocker. The body shop had to cut the whole rocker out, re-weld a new one in and the sand, blend and finish. They had the dAmn thing for over a week. All in all....over $8K in repairs.]


Also, today I took my topper off and installed new dbl bubble weather seal along the bottom (hoping to get it more weather tight), then re installed and washed the shit out of the whole truck. 1st good bath of the spring. Yesterday...paid in full for my ELITE front bumper....can't wait.

 

Well started loading stuff from my dorm to my new house!

And also I swear this truck is following me and mocking me



Some day white Tacoma... Some day

 

damn! 8k is alot. when i bought it last summer the value was at 10k.

May just be totalled.

4x4 4x4 4x4

 

Okay it's dark enough now to compare my new LED light fixture to the stock incandescent in my cap.

Stock:

Truck Cap with Stock Light by Kathy / Analog Soul Photography, on Flickr
LED:

Truck cap with LED light by Kathy / Analog Soul Photography, on Flickr

The LED fixture attaches quite nicely with the hook velcro to the carpeted liner of the cap. It also has a swivel so that I can aim it towards the front or the back of the bed. So now I can use the stock one when the keys are in the ignition (since I wired it to the hitch plug) and LED when they aren't. Or I can blast both when I need LOTS of light!

Both:

IMAG4887 by Kathy / Analog Soul Photography, on Flickr

 

Yeah, get that 4x4 and install some wicked sliders

 

Not MY Tacoma, but just saw this when I was googling...





It's by a company called HeftyFabworks

 

I have the height adjustable billstien 5100 up front on my 02 tacoma could i put the OME 886 coils on them even though its a first gen or would they be to long? And if so should i set the shock at 0 or 2.5 inches?

 

Haha perfect