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

All I see around here is black wheels on trucks. Everyone blacks everything out these days and I'm not about that life so I decided to go this route.

 

Yeah i have black rattle can tundra wheels and im starting to get sick of them. Curious how the bronze would look on a rad red extra cab!

 

It's fun running obstacles with jeeps. They look at your IFS rig and whisper to each other. Then you run an obstacle and they stop whispering and stand there dumb founded.

 

Subaru does red and bronze. Their bronze is a little more gold, but it still looks good.

 

New lights and painted grill.. Love the results
Sorry for all the pictures!




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Oh and detailed the engine..
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red and gold this car all others

Gt350 hertz in red and gold

 

These look just like the Remaned that I got from autozone recently. Funny because I have 4 autozone remaned and only one looks like that. Figure they must be running out of good parts to reman with and are using parts from aftermarket CV's that got turned in for cores. That would explain the inch shorter also.

 

Wow that's an awesome looking wheel! Good tire choice too! Well done

 

Thanks. The km2s are my first mud terrain on any truck so they are a little louder than I'm used to, but they seem nice so far.

I see a lot of people that claim you need to regear with 33s, but I don't notice a drastic loss of power with these. I can still accelerate plenty fast for how I drive. I did order new Hawk HPS brake pads though, since stopping feels a little weak. The pads are about due anyway.

 

I bought the tool

Schley Products 88250 Valve Adjusting Tools

http://www.amazon.com/Valve-Adjusting-Tools-Toyota-Lexus/dp/B0014DF1AG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

I don't know why the product image is a plastic knife but it is the right tool.

If you only have to do the exhaust side, I would just remove the exhaust cam. If you need to do the intake side, buy the tool because to remove that camshaft you need to unbolt the timing sprocket and chain (pita).

I bought the shims from LCE, and upon measuring them, they all are 0.05mm under sized from the label (2700 measures 2.65mm)... now I need to buy 3 more and play musical shims to get them set up right.

 

New (to me) bed bar.

 

Just wait till your on the high way..and hit a little hill..

 

Yah you will start getting passed by transport trucks, it's sad...

 

Good thing Iowa is flat... I don't encounter a single hill on the highway on my normal drive. Only when I go back home and that's maybe 4 times a year.

 

Coilovers on

 

Installed. Light is just mocked up. Need a fuses box before I install any more lights. Will get it powder coated soon. Then ham and CB antennas coming.







Had to move my CO2 tank.

 

Anyone ever get the Autozone front calipers? I just replaced both my originals with them, but it seems like the copper sealing washers that came with them for the banjo bolt are a lot thicker than the ones that were on before. Anyone have any problems with them? They seem to work fine, just odd that they are so much thicker than the thin copper ones that were on there before.

 

Put my components in today

 

awe man you shoulda got those 4runner tweeter pod thats go up on the triangle cover piece by the mirrors. Angle the tweeters anyways.

jealous tho.

 

I wanted to but I have manual mirrors that have the little arm that comes through the sail panel so I would have had to convert to power mirrors do it that way. The tweeter swivels in the flush mount and I have both of them angled to the driver's seat. They sound sooo go, so clear! I tried hooking my amp up to them but they were really muffled, like you had turned the treble all the way down. I flipped the RCA's around and played with the setting on the amp and got nothing so I have them running of my head unit right now. I have no idea what I did wrong though. I wanna get them running off the amp