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

There is almost no difference between my high and low beam

 

Interesting. I don't use my high beams too much as it is. But still, it would be nice to have them working well. Or, I could just use this as an excuse to get a new light bar. The company I work for does sell Rigid Industries products...hmmmmm.

 

Lightbar FTW

 

I want a roof light bar to assist my spots.

 

Got a bunch of parts in. Now to find the time to install them....

 

HA! "The problem solver"

Oh hooray Moog ball joints solved all my rusty LCA problems by immediately rupturing and coating them in oil!

 

Were they uppers or lowers?

My Moog upper ball joints have been doing fine since I put them on the truck over a year ago. Still look brand new with no grease spitting out.

 

So thats what that damn clunking is....I was wondering what that was. (only whn offroading)... I thought it was my steering rack

 

I thought was play in the rack but was just gonna rock it till the bastard broke or i started seeing funny wear on my tires.

 

Could be your steering rack as well. But I have the clunk in my steering when offroading too and I can almost guarantee you that it's from the steering shafts just from how it feels.

 

Lowers. Both were ruptured within a few weeks of getting put on. I'm sure they're different than the 6 lug design. Also it's not a catastrophic failure like with 6 lug trucks if one fails, I put about 1500 miles on a broken one without knowing

 

Gotcha. Yeah, definitely different design between 6-lugs and 5-lugs. I was worried I was going to end up getting sent 5-lug lowers like others have in the past...

 

Mine must have been really bad then cause I could hear, feel it with almost every significant bump.. I drove it about 60 miles today to the lake and back and can tell a huge difference! Id say its well worth it!

On another note, I finished up my tube doors structure, still need the latches and got them painted.







& I must say I highly recommend bedlining the floors if your carpet is terribly dirty! mine was always wet on the passenger side and this is so much better, even better this time since the last time I did it! Just thickened it up a bit and changed color so the grey almost looks like theres carpet!

And took a pic of my bro lean
At least theres a plausible reason for it now.. but hard t get used to it after being used to having 2" or so of rear rake!

 

Not a troll, maybe a FuckTard def not Trolling, just laughing at my own dumbass self....It's not that bad, just about 2 mins with grinder & it's ready to be fucked up again...can't wait..

Why Jake .....your opinion & comments always welcome .. Fuck you very much....



I don't make my shitty welding a family secret haha I know it sux....

 

I have moog LBJ and outer tie rod on the driver side. The tie rod is a week old and the LBJ is the 2nd moog I've put on but the first one wasn't bad, nor did it have any play. I changed it because I was hearing this clicking noise when turning right, so I figured it had to be the moog LBJ going bad but, nope. I took it off and after 5k miles it was in great shape, plus I keep it greased every oil change. I know 5k miles is nothing to compare/ judge an LBJ but they've done well for me so far. I have the lifetime warranty through advance auto parts so I'm thinking maybe I'll just change them once a year to be safe. It's free replacements although when I bought it the price was $80 compared to rockautos price of $45 or so. Now I gotta buy the passenger side LBJ and outer tie rod and put them on.

 

Can't bring myself to bedline my floorboards yet. Carpet is still in good condition. That may change if the doors come off.

Tube doors look awesome. And the rake isn't that bad. The front may settle after a while.

 

Chad I need some tube doors man

 

I can't really say much about anyones welding, mine sucks.

 

Good to hear...

When replacing stuff like LBJ's or tie rods I'd recommend changing both sides at the same time just so everything's equal.

 

hmm... good point. in that case i guess its time to order a new driver side LBJ.

BTW dunno if you saw my post thanking you for the tip on connecting into the shifter light. worked out really well.