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

Ya if the console was brown he wouldn't have had it

 

Started installing my OME lift today. I got the the 883's installed and will move to the rear springs tomorrow morning.

 

Did you fix this (try & pound out the dents/touch up the scratches) before you threw the sliders on?

Very cheap, and they look good!

Look up Icons. Haven't read into any of the others, but here's a link to Toytec's website:
http://toyteclifts.3dcartstores.com...oir-Coilovers-for-Total-Chaos-LT-_p_1023.html

 

Pre sliders:

 

Nah, There really isn't any way to get behind that and knock the dents out. And the scratches didn't go all the way to the metal. I slid into a mound of dirt when that happened. A little bit softer than a rock haha

Haha ouch, that's a lot worse than mine....

 

no way to pound that stuff out. Its a double walled section on the body. more like a tube there is the best way to describe it.

 

New MAF sensor... was hoping to clear up some misfiring issues but to no avail

 

With PC Builder14 and Madjik_Man showing closeups of their rocker panels I can see that their trucks also have the "wavy" paint job at the rockers. I noticed my rocker panels had this wavy "not smooth" paint job at the rocker panels and it looks just like the close up pics PC and Madjik posted of theirs. I thought that maybe my ruck had been in an accident and the previous owner had it patched up. Is this on purpose done by toyota or is this overspray that got overlooked?

 

I think there's a special coating underneath the bottom sidepaint?

 

It does kinda feel like a thin layer of bedliner covered in paint

 

Exactly my thoughts, I have it too and seen it on others. Good thing I guess

 

Mines like that too.. im normal

 

yea thats normal.

 

Toyota puts it on most if not all of their vehicles. It's bedliner under paint. The paint chips off, but doesn't go to bare metal as easily.

 

Lol normal

 

Removed this.

 

did you get a softopper? those clamps to the right of the swaybar look like the clamps that came with my softopper

 

I have done some repair on rocker panels like that. The dent is too deep to fix without filler, so you have two choices, either grind it to metal, then drill and use a dent puller, or get one of those tools that can weld small pinpoints onto the metal for pulling it out before using any body filler.

The most common location for rock chips, is the rocker panel. To reduce heavy damage the area is pre-protected, and has an additional layer of thick clear coat on top. that is what causes the "orange peel" finish. I am not sure if there is an actual bedliner finish underneath it though. Would be interesting to have a body shop confirm this. I hadn't thought of that possibility, because it didn't really seem thick enough.

 

Forgot to post my additions to my truck. Finished up this the other day. Light bar is almost exactly the way I wanted it. I had hoped that it would have swung a full 90 degrees down. but even here, it is well protected from rocks on the highway. These LED bars are too expensive to risk damage.









Yes, I know she needs a bath. Hahaha. What do you all think?

 

http://3mcollision.com/3m-rocker-panel-coating-08889.html

goes on before the base coat then top coated with clear