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

finally found some TRD Limited "chrome" door handles
$20/set @ a local truck dismantler



sorry for lrg pic size

 

rotated my tires thats bout it.

 

I think one major thing to consider is if you have the time to take your truck out of commission to do the job. If all went well, you should be able to do it in a weekend... but I wouldn't count on that. If you have the time and want the experience... do it. If not, than start shopping.

 

pretty much the bottom line

i'd save the time & shop. It'll prob take a while to find all the parts needed for the swap anyway

 

I have manual locking hubs for sale if u decide to swap

 

i'm wanting to repaint my center console, what paint should i go with? right now it's plasti-dipped and peeling badly.

 

Thanks guys...i guess it does make sense. well, i think ima make my for sale ad...BRB

 

This morning one of my BAMF sliders saved me from acquiring a fat door dent!

Details to the story via my build thread here

Here's a shot I simulated where I carefully opened our sienna's wide passenger door next to the driver's side of my taco. Notice the edge of the Sienna's door would have impact into the slider and not my taco's side door. There is so much win here!

 

Finally cleaned up the truck. Also I dipped the fender trim and painted the lock cylinder on the tank lid black a few weeks ago but this pic shows both.

 

It's a rare option to have an auto and 4 banger. But it's totally possible. Same auto as a v6.

Tricky part could be finding gears for your truck in a diff that is set up. You'll have to check you diff code to see if you have 4.10s, 4.30s, or rare 4.56s

Really shouldn't be that hard. Pretty much everything will bolt right up. Wiring and ecu swap will be a tad tricky..

But totally do able.

Now if you can't afford to have the truck on jack stands for like 4 months then yea. Just sell it.

 

Talk to afroman. He converted his prerunner to a 4x4. Not sure what he has for engine and transmission though.

 

these pictures are not in order, the tow pictures were at the end of the day 6km before the end of the trail

went to hale creek/lookout lake on sunday








met this guy on the trail, hopfully he is on here, we have quite a few picture of him haha

 

V6 and manual I believe.

Silas would be a good one too(Slogetto) but he was v6 and auto.

 

What caused the need to tow?

 

Oo yeah how could I forget one of my favorite trucks on here! Looking at his truck it's hard to believe that beast was ever a whimpy little 2wd haha

ps. When are the 35's going on??? I can't wait to see the after pics

 

Not till winter. I'm stuck in AK for work till last week of July. Then have my wy trip then go to school. Won't get time to do it till Xmas break.

I can't wait. Gonna be awesome.

 

I'd be so pissed if I already had the tires but had to wait that long! Sooo if you wanna ship me the km2's I'll gladly take care of shipping

 

If you pay for em too all yours haha

 

Actually, a bound-up shackle occured to me, too.

They will settle. Go flex the shit out of them some more.

 

Finally got around to installing my Pioneer SPH-DA100 (AppRadio 2) head unit Am I the only one here running this on a 1st gen? I've seen a few who have them on their 2nd gens.

I currently have mine running using WAZE as my car navigation. I love the real time police alerts, traffic alerts, etc. It works really nice with this head unit and plan to hook up a backup camera to this Pioneer.

I hope to have a first impressions review of this unit on my build shortly.