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

My timing was impeccable!

Truck looks great man!

 

Looks good. You'll have to tell me if you occasionally get a knocking noise just behind the drivers seat. I think my body mounts are worn and with the stiffer suspension, my pich welds are hitting my sliders.

 

old?

Thanks for the help with the brakes Squeaky

 

Slightly older than the young one? Is that better?

And yeah, hold on Madjik, I did turn a wrench....


And who's idea was it to bleed you proportioning valve and fix your brakes?

 

Did some wheeling today. Hit up Dishpan trail.

 

What have I done to my 1st gen? I loaned it to my brother for a week or so while I fix his wife's Pathfinder engine. So if you see my pretty Blue Beast riding around in the Atlanta area, that is my bro!

 

Today I finally got to see my new Tacoma in person and started off with the usual.
-Door dinger disable
-Grey Wire Mod
-Airaid MIT
-Removed the flaps
-Vacuumed the JDM pubes under the door sill trim
-Put on a matte black windshield strip

 

nice lookni truck!
you willing to seperate with the mud flap mounting/bolts ?

 

I like my flaps, thinking about putting my front ones back on

 

THANKS!

The driveway does slant to the back right corner about 3", but yes they do have some lean the 95 more than the 03, the 95 has poke on the passenger side and hellaflush on the drivers side wheel wells.

As for the 03 I took measurements at the wheel arches the other day and they're all different about a 1.25" difference in height between them all. But that's just another reason to jack it up!

No, I had to use the brackets to brace the rear of the bed. I just unbolted the flaps and cut the mounting brackets to prevent flappy bedside syndrome.

 

If they're fine thread, I'll go out on a whim and say 1.25 pitch.

Go grab a couple bolts in the metric hardware section at lowes and take back the wrong ones

 

Hauling firewood, the reg cab is so nimble in the bush/woods

 

I'll definitely let you know. I've been trying to track down a loud squeak that sounds like it's coming from under the passenger side seat or door. The thing I've kind of come to is a shot body mount.

Well... older. It was the only way to distinguish when saying "Brett"

And don't feel bad, I passed the wrench to you with a wounded ego because I couldn't get one of the nuts off the top of the coil bucket.

Oh yeah... now would be a good time to tell everyone I didn't have rear brakes for years probably

btw - after I adjusted the height on the BPV bracket, the braking felt like it had a much better front/rear ratio.

 

As long as "old" is synonymous with "experienced", then I'm totally fine with it.

 

didn't like my driver side front...everything...well..Frankenstein didn't apparently..

Frank-4.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

 

WTF?

 

I think...think..the lower ball joint exploded. The actual joint not the bolts this time..of course and that sucked the wheel under...ripped off the upper ball joint and brake line and ripped the CV out of itself. Ended up under the truck, broke the Inner tie rod and bent the steering rack so bad it broke in half.

Frank-3.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

So yea! was quiet the night..