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

How long was the bed originally? looks to be atleast 6 or 6.5 ft bed. Even after the bob the bed still looks to be as long as my 5ft double cab bed.

 

Guess I'll just have to go back to early 80's and buy one haha

 

LMFAO,Now there is an educated response of "fucking t200 owners can't read… every time they post in here I assume it's a 16 y/o who's school system is failing" Now you come back with a reflex"U butt hurt bro" this sounds like someone that is 8 that seems to have a continued leak of Cerebral fluid.

It really seems as if you ride a Sybian with a Coexist sticker on it instead of Toyota Tacoma like a real man.

 

It was 7'3" inside measurements and is now about 5'6" in length. once the back end was cut out I took an additional 18 3/4". The taillight section is 7" so once that goes back it it comes out to being around a 12" bob which was in the middle of what the customer wanted and I suggested. Marked out at 14" which I wanted would have had the rear shackles out behind the tailgate so I move it in 2" to have them a little in front of the shackles. Im :jelly: all over again with this truck and cant wait to bob mine now!

 

Ill have one for myself one day!

 

This pic reminds me of the Toyota my dad had back in the day. Wish I knew where that pic was. O shot I thought I quoted the truck pic....

 

nice.. Bed Bob FTW.

I live in the city and it has helped me park in so many places i wouldn't have been able to park in w/o the bed bob lol.

 

Interesting to hear, ill be doing my taco bed soon as well to make the 5' softopper fit it, if it comes out anything like this one ill be pretty stoked! I wish this truck was mine after all im putting into it

 

Nice. That wasn't my plan when i first did the bed bob but after seeing all these soft toppers Ive started liking them a lot. I did the 13 1/4" out of the bed to make it the same size as a DCSB as well. Im sure with your quality of work it will come out great.

 

got me a cheap bed tent for a camping trip next week. something temporary until i can get a bed rack made or re-inforce my topper to hold a RTT. no bad for 99 bucks.

 

AT temperature and engine temp are two totally different things. A Tru cool or a B&M are pretty popular transmission coolers. As long as it's a stacked plate and it has a bypass for cold starts your good to go. I just bought a tru cool 4454 and bypassed the radiator factory cooler. City driving on 100 degree days the fluid temp is 180 degrees.

 

Paracord wrapped my steering wheel. Don't mind my dirty floors.

 

Thanks for the kind words
So 13 1/4" is the secret number?
Awesome! I love the softopper though! Wasn't sure about it when I went to pick it up but after install I love it!

I can build you a bedrack, any style and design you want. I have a pretty basic one sitting here at my shop now

 

I think I'll sit out this one, sorry dude! Your bumper gonna make it in time? Hopefully yours lines up better.

 

Everything looks ok *shrug*

I have the energy susp bushings, just haven't installed. Think the slop might be causing that?

 

Went back to chrome rims today,

 

There are a lot of things it could be including the bushings I think. Midswell eliminate that first since you already have the bushings. The most dangerous part is the ball joints but you said they look fine. Could it be an ITR?

No prob. I believe it is. After looking at pirate 4x4 and a few other sites that's what they all seemed to have came up with. Yea after seeing Johnboytrd's soft topper in person that's when I started liking them.

 

Setup my perm spare tire mount on Friday, changed my oil, and hauled my bike and my buddies cb.

 

If your light went on the fluid is most likely toast, id change it out ASAP. I forget what the exact temp the light comes on at but it's high enough to effectively destroy your oil.

 

I agree with nagorb

I have read that when the light comes on you have exceeded 250*F and that high of temp will degrade the fluid very quickly.

Also, an Ultragauge will not be able to read the trans fuild temp data coming from the ECU. Only a ScanGauge can do this when programmed with the correct X-gauge code.