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

I'm gonna do a little photo shoot tomorrow
Haha Jrider aka Eagle Eyes.

Yeah that's my Dad's rig. He loves putting new mods into it, but mostly old man mods: new stereo, custom garage door opener, cushioned center console top, handy kydex Glock 19 holster lol and a few others.

Here's his set up (under 100,000 miles, 5-speed, TRD/SR5, 3.4L v6):

Ha! You wish

Yes sir. An OTRATTW switch, like so:




and the diagram of the switch:

 

Alright! Dad with a taco! Trust me..won't be long before he mods it like you mine did..now..his is a beast..haha

Yea for those switches you'll wire a power wire from a wire in the truck that turns on with your dash lights to positive post #6 if I'm reading that right..

 

I picked up my Tacoma after I totaled my Ford Explorer and got the insurance money... a couple weeks later likes my 1st Gen so much he sells his Ford Expedition and begins the search/finds one and drives it back from San Francisco.

Ah gotcha, okay I'll figure that on out and see what's happening with that. If all else fails I'll get at the wiring Dr.

 

Nice. clean truck, if only I had a v6 trd. I have nothing against your dad but where I live almost every 1st gen trd like that one^(super clean) is driven by an older person who wont use the locker or doesn't know what it is. It makes me soo mad.

I wish my dad had a taco, but at least has got a lifted tundra and likes to go off-road. ur dads truck is sweet

 

ha! awesome! I pretty much converted my entire family to toyota..haha My dad love his now and is always looking for new mods. hilarious. Fun to build stuff with him though. For a while before i went to work..all we did was work on eachother trucks haha was awesome.

yea ill be here

dude..i know..my Aunt that lives with us had a CHERRY gold 03..with 32k on it!! yes..32k! 5 speed TRD offroad. I couldn't afford it when she sold it. Some kid has it now..doesn't even know what the locker is for..so sad..was such an awesome truck.

Yea its fun. Makes for funny competition on who's truck is the coolest hahahahaha His is pretty freaking awesome though..i love driving it with the SC..so fun.

 

32K?? wow. my dad doesn't really have the time to mod his truck, but he did buy a tubing bender to make bumpers and stuff which has sat for 2 years now. when I drive the v8 tundra then get in my 2.7 its soo depressing. I also convinced my mom into getting a 3rd gen 4 runner and an ome lift, love that thing

 

yea was a cherry truck..spent most its time in an old couples garage..was awesome..

Steal that tube bender!! haha yea even geting in my truck compared to most is depressing..mine is pig now..But it also took me 2-3 years to get him to do anything major to his truck haha he lifted it when he first got it and dual exhaust and thats how it was for a longgg time. Just in the last year has he started pouring money into it.

id love a 1st gen 4runner, 3rd gens tho are my next fav. Hopefully my bro can find one. He wants one.

 

Lol no offense taken, I see other trucks and go oh that looks like my Dad's rig-- sure enough it's either a.) an old white guy driving it or b.) a middle aged asian guy driving it. That's Seattle for ya... at least my Dad knows that the rear locker is, but rarely gets into situations where he needs it haha where's the fun in that?!

I know right? My Mom always laughs at my Dad cause before it was "we're not buying that Jap crap!" and now we've become a Toyota (Dad and I)/Lexus (Mom) family. I always get a kick out of it thinking back and poking fun at my Dad when he used to say that


Holy crap, 32k would be a DREAM

 

he got the bender for both of us to use but ive yet to have money and time to use it.
with my 2.7 and 255 85s its soo slow. I bet urs is the about the same. the

1st gens are my favorite too. but the 3rd gens are nice. the auto in the runner isn't too bad I was against it but sticks are hard to find an the auto is quicker.

 

I was gonna say steal his rear axel but.... I realized urs is a trd also

 

mines a dog due to wind drag and weight. Before i got totally armored up it wasn't to bad as i am a v6 manual. But definitely not peppy haha hills on the hwy SUCK haha 4.88s and 35s are gonna be more peppy then what i have now lol

the autos aren't bad. My double cab is nice to drive. just not as fun.

 

$40 plus whatever shipping would be. I'm not trying to make any money off 'em.

So when he paypals me it will just go directly into my checking? My account is already linked and I've bought stuff just not sold anything.

 

Well I got rear ended the other day and as of right now I'm getting about 500 to replace the rear bumper do I think I'm getting a trail gear bumper!

 

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Slight bumper damage and rocker damage, $4,200 to fix. Luckily, I'm not at fault so no cost to me. I'm springing for an aftermarket rear bumper and am paying the additional cost over the OEM (which up here is ~$700).

 

Almost time for that oil change at 65,000 miles. Pretty damn good for an 04!!

 

Some bedracks i made!

 

no it'll go first to just your paypal account. You'll have to go to paypal's site and actually transfer the funds to your account. But its easy to do if you have linked an account already. just a few clicks.

 

nice. hows ur spare mounted?

 

Looks like it's a tire with no rim bungied to the bed bar.

 

I see a factory steel rim and two bungies.