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

Derped it. It's holding up pretty well. I've been thinking about mounting a winch behind the factory bumper. I'd like to order an aftermarket bumper, but I just got engaged so I had to drop some coin on the ring. And now I have to save for the wedding.

 

Installed a 4runner 4.30 front diff and new cv axles. I had to swap the electric ADD on my diff to the 4runner diff since it had vacuum, but that went smoothly. I also put in a diff drop at the same time.

 

Pulled this trailer full of my stuff. Poor old truck had a hard time getting up hills


IMG_3305 by Lamoureux33, on Flickr

 

Damn that looks like a lot of work..

Got my RAT skid painted finally lol. Finished my ebrake extenders so the brake cable will clear the leaf pack. Also finished grinding down the weld on my bed bob and finished bondoing.. Hopefully get the diff drop in 2night. So glad to be done grinding..

 

Grinding welds is soooooo much fun!

 

I have perfected the art of grinding down shitty welds and shitty mistakes, along with filling holes from a combination of the first two

 

First step is admitting it

 

Got all of my led strips cut and soldered with wires.

So tomorrow I will get the quick removeavle door mod done and then hopefully I'll get to wiring in the rest of my rock lights and under hood lights

 

Never did get around to washing the truck. But, I did manage to remove most of the bits that needed removing in order to install my 1" bodylift.

 

Trust me it gets old, especially doing what I do. Though in some weird way I do like it on certain projects.

 

I had to cut full welded creeper joints off my frame twice...the second time that was just the most annoying thing. I was running out of material on the hanger I cut so much. And cleaning the frame both times sucked as well

 

let's just say I did about 10x that much grinding over these last 6 days. It was alright at first but got old by the time I was done.. Ended up using 8x cutting wheels and 2 1/2x grinding wheels (4 1/2"wheels).. Fun fun. That's not including all the wire brushing I did w/ the grinder..

 

Well only got 5 hours of sleep last two days but I got the suspension on, now just need to head into the shwabs to get an alignment and a new set of raceline raptor 17x9 wheels and federal couragia 285/70r17.

Hope they fit...

 

truck wouldn't start the other day after leaving walmart. thinking the battery was totally dead. purchased a new batt and installed. engine does turn over though, but won't start. anyone know what might be the issue . . .

 

Truck throwing any codes?

Check the basics, air, fuel, and spark, it it's missing any one of those 3 or one of those 3 is being applied in the wrong amount it won't start/run.

 

how does one find out if and what codes the truck is throwing out?
yeah I found out those 3 things today, but am not real knowledgeable about it all. thanx for input

 

It should have a check engine light on if there is a code. But I've heard there can be codes thrown without a check engine too. Go to autozone or w/e and I think they will scan it with an obd scanner for free (unless ur in Cali).

 

I don't understand, how do I find out if there is a code? I cant bring it to autozone or anywhere for that matter, it wont start. its been sitting parked in the auto section of walmart.

 

I don't work in a production shop most everything is one off, it's architectural metal work. I actually like most of the grinding we do it's super precise stuff but I like to complain. When I build stuff for myself I tend to not care as much which is weird.

Wire wheels suck, I like the non woven wheels best, I hardly ever use wire wheels.

 

Oh yea.. Hmm that's a tough one.. You don't have AAA or anything? You might just have to get it towed to a shop..
There is a special scanning tool. That's how you find out if there are codes

I'll have to try one of those when this wire wheel is done. Thanks for the suggestion.