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

They are 650 lb Eibachs. Have not noticed any loss of dampening. I did have to add a little pre-load tho.

If you intend to have a heavy plate bumper like the Elite and a winch in it and heavy aftermarket skids like budbuilts, they you have expect that extra weight to have an impact long term.

As I said, these SAWs have held pretty good with all thats been thrown at them.

 

Acceptable!

Looks good.

As to SAWs, I've got a set of 2.0s I've had on for a few years, ride great, though I can't compare them to anything else other then stock. barely drooped even with bumper and winch.

 

Awesome, thanks for the info.

Eventually I'll have a bumper and winch with synthetic line, but I't'll be 2-3 years down the road.

I gotta do something about my front suspension soon, one of my front 5100's is blown, and I have ~2.5'' of rake from rebuilding the rear springs to tall.

 

If you're looking to save some $ and not in a rush, do what I did, find a decent used set of coilovers and rebuild them. All in all I got my saws for around $500.

 

Did you rebuild them yourself or did you have someone like DSM do it for you?

 

Did it myself.

 

Cool thanks for the info

How hard was it?
Since we moved I haven't had access to a shop or garage, but I'm sure I know a guy who has a shop i can use.

 

Not hard, all you need is a vice and an impact gun helps.

 

Cool, thanks

 

There's a few tutorials. If you end up doing it seems me a pm, there's a few things left out of the tutorials.

 

Will do, thanks for the info

 

np

 

If you do go the used route make sure to watch the classifieds on ttora as well, there are always coil overs popping up over there

 

The trail gear plates?

 

maybe consider something like this:
I added diamond plate to my sliders mostly to keep the sides of my truck clean since we live on a gravel road. I think it would also keep out sticks too!

 

Look at the Firestone $170 Lifetime Alignment. 2 regular alignments almost pay for it. Get your oil changed there too and have them check the alignment for free every time.

 

Ordered these at 1pm yesterday during my lunch, showed up at at 9 am this morning. I have no idea how that happened but I'm not complaining...

 

Dang, where did you order from?

 

Edit: THOSE ARE NICE^^^^^






Spare tire question guys....

So I am running 33x12.5x15. Last night at the gym, my buddy and I got to talking about spares. I still have my stocker under the truck (245/70/16) He tells me I might as well leave that at home since it it obviously alot smaller and I could shred my gears if I ever used it. Now if I had to use it it would be to at least get me home.

Should I be getting a full size this weekend?? Or am I ok with this for a quick fix?

I was thinking for a spare I could get a 33x10.5

 

With speed and long distance you could damage your gears, and if you had a limited slip you would destroy the clutch packs.

as long as the O.D. is close or the same you'll be fine with just about anything as a spare.