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

Let her sit on the beach for a while.

 

That is one sharp looking taco. Great job

 

Ordered my eibachs, 5125s for the rear, OMD springs, brake line, and retrofit projector kit

 

For your viewing pleasure, Kigmob's new rear bumper.

 

^ now see, doesn't that look so much better?

 

so this happened


i replaced the fan already, anyone have any suggestions on radiators? I've used oreilys in the past with no problems. anything else i should do while I'm replacing it?

 

Depends on what you're going for. Different strokes for different folks. I do dig this one though.

 

No I didn't tint my windshield. I was thinking about getting a 5%, or 20% strip from the ASI line up but decided against it... if I want I can go back but they'll stiff me $50. Probably isn't worth it since it's cloudy 250 days out of the year here in Seattle

lol what the heck happened?

 

don't know, possibilities that I've come up with are, blade was cracked broke off and took the rest with it, stick or something from the trail(, no evidence of anything) broken motor moun(neither are broken) the bottom of the fan shroud came off, or i don't know what the fuck. i didn't hear a thing.

 

Well hopefully that plastic fan isn't too expensive... but then again everything Toyota is expensive if it isn't toward your newest mod

 

lol, agreed! would have been a few hundred probably.

got it from oreilys for $72 didn't really have any other choice, i was on a trail when it happened and had to change it in their parking lot.

 

Finally got my CB tuned. After many frustrations I ended up drilling out the pretty hole in my powder coated BAMF mount to get a proper ground on my antenna. I redid a coax connection as well but I don't think that was the issue. Got it to an SWR reading of 1.5 on channels 1 and 40. Good enough for me.

 

Soooooo it was the BAMF mount ground connection huh?
Interesting......

 

No doubt it's a solid CB mount, my Dad and I were both impressed with it

 

Well I sanded it and my truck before and it still had issues. Then I drilled out the hole and it fixed it. The Threads on the stud were contacting the mount as it went through the hole. So drilling it out allowed the shoulder on the nylon washer to fit in the hole and insulate it from the mount.....at least that's what I figured.

 

Glad you got that figured out cause it seemed to be stumping you pretty good lol

 

no kidding haha. Crisis averted! I did get a lot more proficient using a multimeter and a hair better with a soldering iron, that's for sure. I took a break from my CB and used the multimeter to figure out what was wrong with my dads shrimp pot puller motor. Then he proceeded to break the circuit board clean in half instead of soldering a new wire on it...face palm haha.

 

That's right, not a whole lot of other options for that particular mounting area. I know what you mean, my 3' antenna & spring make it wiggle, though not much... but still

 

Yeah I only have a 3 footer and it does flex it a little. Nothing bad at all though. I think it's perfect for my application. I am getting a ham radio in the future though. So this has been a ton of work for no reason basically lol.

 

A day working on your truck is not a day wasted IMO
I love these damn trucks... well I love mine, everyone else's truck is alright