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

Wheeled that whore

 

Dood I like it a lot! Gives the truck a while new look.

 

Btw here is how I made use of the front hitch:

 

Not really when you figure that it takes me 2-3 to get complete, even coverage.

 

Well my paint job looks like shit, admittedly. Might be why. I had to rush, and the duplicolor spray paint sucked really bad. Ended up recoating with rustoleum semigloss.

 

I sand then clean the surface before painting. When painting, I'm less concerned about hitting everything every time and more concerned about preventing getting the paint too thick causing runs. I also wait 30 minutes between coats and once I start painting, I'm stuck at the house until complete.

Its a PITA but it comes out looking good, even and durable.

 

Totally. I actually scuff with the wire wheel. Works pretty good. My bumper looks fine, had more time and used the rustoleum from the start

 

What does this "1090" mean?7

 

Is that the tire compound?

 

It's an automatic, but like I said it's too early to tell, when I fill up next tank I'll see what I average for a full tank with 4.56s.

It's no where near that much, it matches up to the stock gearing very well.

At like 64 on the speedometer, the scangauge with no correction reads 61 and the GPS says 59. So it's pretty darn close to what it should be.

 

6mph is a lot when you start adding it up. For mpgs especially.

 

Wonder if a 10% difference on the Speedo implies a 10% difference in fuel efficiency.

 

If bronies are invading this forum, I'm out!!!!

 

this.

 

The speedo is supposed to read fast from the factory, it did when I had 225/75 r15 with 3.91s

If my scangauge reads 61 and gps says 59 that's only a 2 mph difference. The computer is getting real close to what the actual speed is. Also on our trucks the speedo has been known to read high but the odometer reads correctly.

 

Nice and welcome to the disease!

Lol this, he's helped me more then once.

Trucks looking good!

 

Your speedometer is off by roughly 3.4% and so your mpg is off by 3.4%.

 

Speaking of Monstaliner I used it today to do my bed.

Prep






monstaliner is a great product, the kit was very good the only things I had to buy was another scuff pad, some 3m prep spray, and a mask.

Take your time to do the prep correctly and remove all oils, I used 3M pinstriping tape to run the edge on the bed it worked great.

It was a little tricky to get used to rolling it on, sometimes it was to thick and hard to get the right texture but I think it came out okay.

FYI if you are thinking of doing this I only used about 3/4 of a gallon with 2 full coats and 3 coats on the bed floor, so just buy the 1 gallon kit.

 

Oh yeah I Also did the crawlorado blackout because the faded clear coat on my hood was bugging the shit out of me and put in some weathertech's FTW

 

Keep us in the loop!

I really need to switch these o2 sensors out. I'm down to 13 city now. 265/75/ r16 tires and that LED bar (wind resistance?) shouldn't be dropping me a whole 3 or 4 mpg. If the o2 sensors aren't it, I'm running out of reasons.