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

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Airaid MIT. Its cool.

 

Ok thanks! I think I'm gonna try and straighten the bumper out before installing winch too... Not quite sure on that yet. Yours was straight out of the box huh?

 

yeah not bad at all? i will admit one time i made a rediculously hard recovery. i winched to a tree, and Bob winched to my rear bumper to come up a massive ledge. my front bumper did move ever so slighty forward, but im the only one who ever notices... no biggy. if u really wanna go ball deep so it wont move weld the bitch on, but i dont recommend it lol

 

Got my new wheels installed today. Forgot to order black lug nuts and could only find chrome ones in town. Oh well, the contrast looks kind of OK.








Next order of business will be tires. Found out today mine are almost 10 years old. Tons of tread left but I'm worried they'll rot out on me before the tread is gone.

 

I painted this on my cross member as a memorial. Hopefully when I'm running trails Mike is enjoying it too.

 

Those pro comp 7069? What size? I got the same thin and can't complain much! Love the simplicity

 

Yes sir. I like them a lot.

 

Has anyone relocated the stock rear bumps after a lift? Towed this today and the shocks looked like they'd run out of travel before the bumps touched.

 

How did you get your engine bay so clean?

 

alignment and wheels balanced. $80

 

Yeah, get some extended bump stops so you don't bottom out the shock. How did your truck handle that tow?

 

Started on my first fab project. Me and dyl0n (TW username) started to fab up a low profile bed rack. Nothing special. Mainly a learning process. If all goes well I will have a nice little bed rack! Everything is tacked into place and Now I just need to add some cross bars and a few more side supports. Not looking too bad!

 

Such as timbrens?

It handled it good, it wasn't to bad stopping, but my top speed was 25 MPH, and I only had to tow it a half mile. I stayed in 2WD lo, trans temp never went over 170, and after I was at speed it dropped to 150.

That looks simple enough, thanks.
I assume that's from TacoDell's build?

 

Throw some mesh on top so that stuff doesn't fall in between the cross bars, etc

 

Just wiped it down. I don't do any of the pressure wash crap with degreaser. A good rag and a bottle of 409 or other general cleaner can do wonders. What really helped was not going through mud puddles or anything.

 

mesh would limit some use though wouldn't it? no rtt first thought.

 

Good idea. I'll take that into consideration!

 

I don't have an RTT or Yakima bars (or the likes).

But if I ever go that route I will just cut out some of the mesh so I can secure mounts to it. Simple enough.

 

You could still run a RTT. Just cut holes for the mounting brackets.

 

It would. But I don't plan on running an RTT or anything yet. I just got access to a bunch of 1x1 square tube and decided it would be best to try and build a bed rack. I want to try and mount my spare tire on top of it for now.