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

Lets fix that!

 

Finished this little project up today that I've been working on over the last couple of weekends.

 

In due time buddy

 

Greased my u-joints and did a few other odds and ends.

 

thank you sir. i was trying to check the plugs but it started pissing on me. no garage i'll give it a shot 2morrow. damn i hope its a quick fix!! i was getting ready to purchase sliders and skid plates this week. and new tires

 

I want one! out of curiosity, about how much did it cost you in materials to make that?

 

Painted my stock skids. Looking at my skids in the sunlight I realized they are doing their job, dents all over. Gonna need new/ thicker ones soon

 

I'm probably into it for just shy of $300.

Tubing was around $70
I think I spent about $100 at DIY4x4.com on the bushings, the tabs for the bushings, pre-cut gussets, the mounting plate for the spare to bolt to, some tube end caps. Figured they were all precut and cheap enough saved tons of time.
I also bought a harbor freight tubing notcher. $40
Misc things at home depot spray paint, cut off wheels, sanding disks etc.

First big welding project I've ever done really. Learned a lot and for the most part enjoyed doing it. Even in this 100°+ Az heat! Haha

 

Got rid of all the lame harley davidson and surf stickers from the previous owner. Hell yeah

 

Plastidip'd fenders today!

 

Looks good. I painted mine a couple months back. Makes a huge difference. Did you hit the plasti dip with the clear?

 

Well I didn't do this, but my brother did.

 

It may not have showed up.



Here goes again.

 

Ouch.

Sorry man. Hope your brother and everyone involved are okay.

 

Everyone was okay. I wasn't with him. This was while he was in Norman, OK. He was being stupid with friends and wasn't paying attention and plowed into a Silverado. I think he may have totaled the Silverado, but I didn't see it. Airbags pretty much saved his life.



At what speed do the seatbelt tensioners lockup and permanently stay locked? Like, keeping the seatbelt from retracting.

 

I don't know about the exact speed, but I hit a little jump on a trail this weekend and only got a little bit of air and the person in my passenger seat couldn't get it to unlock for about 30 seconds.

 

I think it's more of a function of how much, and how quickly, force being applied to the seatbelt itself.

I can get it to "lock up" by merely reaching for the stereo too sharply... and then it won't release until I ease up on belt.

That's how I always thought it worked.

FWIW, there are no sensors or wires etc in the seat belt retractor assembly. As far as I could see when I had my interior torn apart.

 

wheeled a lil over the weekend on a tight trail i hadn't been on before.. learned two things:

my rig is MUCH longer than a Jeep, and my BAMF kickout sliders cannot get here fast enough!!!

tree got me good.

but its not scratched too bad at all, and looks like i can pop the dent out pretty easily, we'l see

 

I would castrate my brother if he wrecked Frankenstein..

 

Im really surprised that it lasted that long, i have a aluminum boat with live well that plugged off and was going to fill it full of ice to keep fish on and the first time i tried it the damn ice almost completely melted in about an hour. Awesome idea glad it worked for ya.