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

Likely excuse. Let me guess, you're both just "strawberry blonde"

 

no. hes strawberry blonde, with ginger beard, and im ginger hair with...not a ginger beard (not that i could actually grow one)




also, i apologize for the go pro pics, i need to get a real camera

i was one click away from running out of hi lift, and the tires were still on the ground (one or two more click and they did begin to lift)

when I redo the creepers i should end up with the shackles being more vertical at full droop, thus a bit more droop out of the rear end

 

Took advantage of the beautiful Kansas skies today

 

Damn son! Dat droop looking good already! Can't wait to see one stuffed and one drooped

 

The placement of his shackle hangers. They are too far forward giving him a flat shackle angle at ride height and not reaching the droop it's supposed to with the weight off the rear. With no weight on the rear, the shackles should be close to 90*

 

I apologize if my thinking is incorrect here, remember I am the retard who cant seem to weld them on correctly the first couple tries

but it looks like the springs are at max arch, the eyes cant get any closer together, but the shackle still has some distance to go before it reaches 90 (straight up and down)

so by moving it back and letting it get as close to the bottom of the arc as possible is will let the rear come down a bit more (not quite 90 but close)

but the biggest issue is that its too flat at ride height

 

Went to the muffler shop today


To get this installed, a stock 2013 Tacoma muffler.



So glad to get rid of the annoying MagnaFlow drone. It is nice and quiet now just like this old man likes it.

 

Which muffler shop? Im im Arizona as well.

 

B&M Muffler off of 91st Ave and Van Buren

 

Guess i could have looked closer at the picture. Haha

 

Not sure its worth the .5'' of down travel or whatever really..

You should be more worried about how little up travel you have with the 12'' shocks and how they are mounted.

But..whatevs.

 

Sweet, glad I wasnt totally off haha. Lets just say its not useable off road flat

ill post pictures after i fix it, so i dont get made fun of lol.

that part in bold is what i failed to take into account when I was figuring this out the first time. I just moved it and said it looked good, not taking into account how the weight of the bed and the effect bumps had on it at different locations. as i said, live and learn.

oh no, thats the reason im cutting them and moving them, the lack of up travel. but i figured the droop is a nice excuse too

 

Took a cruise out in the pines. It goes against my grain to keep the truck clean for too long.

 

Did you buy or make the LED bar brackets?

 

from the weekend

 

Duratracs? If so how do you like them?

 

Kelly Safari tsr's. I like them so far!