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

Nice, do you ride the trails?
tomorrow will be the first time i have the ability to ride flat out with my sis, last time we rode together (dumont, president day weekend) she still had her 250ex, and that thing had no suspension or speed compared to the Z.

 

Afroman, do you just ride local trails? I had a nice 400ex that I sold after I totaled my first tacoma. I might be getting a new job soon and if I do I'm going to pick up either a yfz450 or ltr450. We can meet up and I'll take you to West Virginia. Best place I've ridden hands down. We could ride all weekend and never hit the same trail. When me and my dad used to go a lot there were weekends when we'd do 120 miles. My old 400ex..

 

I had a raptor 700 for a while. That thing ripped hard. Too hard. I sold it before I killed myself doing wheelies and stupid shit.

 

Hmm. The hilift thing is a tricky one. I place the studs in the right location to fit my hilift, but there are differences in jacks even though they look identical. Like they get cast at different factories. I have a buddy with a jack that is identical to mine and you can't tell the difference looking at them side by side, but his holes are spaced about .5" differently. Sorry.

Let me know if I can help out.

 

Mainly just ride at sandpits right now we make trips out to Busco every now and then though

 

Rotated the rubber and changed my oil today. 68,500 miles.


This was my first time getting to verify the oil change hole in my skid plate works.

 

How messy was removing the filter?

 

I have his skids and they are great. Removing the filter is no more or less messy than with anything else. I have a fumoto valve and tubing for the main oil drain...works great.

 

It was fairly messy since my paper towel wasn't under the filter enough. If you put some paper towels on the skid plate on the driver side of the drain hole, you should be able to absorb most or all of the oil before it runs much. Or some people put a plastic bag around the filter when unscrewing it to catch the oil.

This. I don't have the fumoto so the hole has plenty of room to get a hand in there to turn the plug.

 

Installed/hooked up my PA to my CB (yesterday).

 

Found a coolant leak on the Yoto today...
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-tacomas/293356-coolant-leak-found.html

 

Bought a libtech sticker for the new camper.

Installed fire extinguisher mount and maglite mount, now I'm going to take of the rack and clean it up and mod it a little bit

 

Changed my oil today after 3 weeks of putting it off. I don't have to worry bout oil on my skid plates cuz I don't have any haha

 

Not today but yesterday, took my sway bar off and messed around a little.



Also did a little wheelin Saturday, ended up kiddin a tree with the drivers door. Hit the skids a couple times as well but it did fairly well to be stock.

 

swapped out the wheels from the 4runner to the tacoma. 4runner is for sale and had brand new 265/75/16 yokohama geolander AT/S tires, and i liked the rims from the 4runner better anyway. Also had 1" wheel spacers on the 4runner from when i had 285 tires, moved those over to the tacoma as well.

I also took the odyssey battery out of the 4runner and installed her it in the new to me tacoma.

 

took her to the local offroad park...

and yikes!! My 4wd is not engaging. The little green light doesn't come on. So i had my wife drive in 4wd and i see the front drive shaft rotating. So i thought, maybe the bulb is out in the cluster. Nope, I go to go over an obstacle and nothing. only the rear wheels are kicking....any ideas??? i tried going in reverse and forward a few times in 4wd to see if it would engage...nothing!! I'm lost here

 

Gotta be a wiring plug somewhere that needs cleaning, its manual but partially electrical also.

 

i got her pretty muddy the first week i had her. haven't used the 4wd since.....i really hope its an easy fix

 

Not the best info, but kinda gives you an idea. Id check and clean all plugs on transfercase and any you may see on or around front diff. Check any vacum lines also.

 

Mounted me some Rear Lighting , didn't want to damage the Factory wiring , so I ran me a Toggle switch. So now in Reverse or just need Lighting in the Rear , I have it handy now.