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

It should allow the water to start flowing sooner so it will cool sooner then waiting until it gets really hot. It helps out.

 

FINALLY finished all the grinding where the brackets were cut off on my rear fj80 axle. Now I just have to blast the rest of the rust off and order a bunch of parts so I can swap it in!

 

Mini shakedown run for sfa and the freshly installed twin sticks

Was a 100 mile trip one way, everything went smooth and road manors were great! slight vibe around 70 but I believe its a tire issue.. Twinsticks are worth every damn penny imo as well! Install was fairly easy, took about 3 hours with a bad shoulder. Have to drop the tcase and split it open to make some modifications but everything runs good as new! Gears, and tires and she'll be done.. for a couple weeks anyway

 

There's a guy on the local classifieds selling all pro ucas anyone know if there any good?

 

Truck is looking badass Chad !! Well done ...


I love the "no doors".. good for a quick emergency exit....

 

Thanks Doug!

I had my tube doors on though, im not to keen on traveling with no doors at all. The tube doors latch just like the factory doors so it wouldn't be quite the quick escape, more or less just hold the hell on and enjoy the ride haha

 

Well... was going to 'tate the ters and change the erl but it decided to rain while I was at the grocery store. Now the truck is sitting in a puddle in the garage.

 

Damn good time yesterday fellas...Took a nice little trip up to Spartanburg.

New Dakars, welded shock location, U-bolt flip, twin stick mods all work together nicely.....Video will be posted shortly.


And did some light cleaning today.

 

In the real world it's off the lower radiator hose.

OP, make sure the jiggle valve on the stat is in the 6 o'clock position. Many folks install them in the 12 o'clock position resulting in around a 10 degree temp increase.

 

For any tech nerds out there....The new Sony XSP-N1BT is where its at.

Your phone completely integrates with your head unit thru NFC and BlueTooth.

 

New wheel spacers

 

Installed my other LBJ and new brakes.


I need to make a trip to the junkyard at some point. But first we must work on the tundra

 

New tires. 265/75/16 Hankook Dynapro M/T. Tested them out today and they seem to work pretty well


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2014-08-17 16.52.35 by Lamoureux33, on Flickr

 

Ffirg- the jiggle valve mod really helped my temps. My temps were typically 204-210 and an occasional 212 on the highway. I would blast the heater as well which was horrible in the 100 degree Texas heat. Anyway after rotating the thermostat my temps are now 188-192 which for me is about a 20 degree change. I suggest checking how the jiggle valve is positioned and then the hoses. Hope one of these works out for you!

 

Workin on teh shock mounts

DSC09860 by wyo_taco45, on Flickr

 

Won't look so out of place once I add another 1,000 speed holes.

 

What's "NFC?"

 

You're going to have a helluva time prepping all that pipe (yih, huh?) for paint.

 

Thanks I will look into it. So it should be at the 6 o'clock position. What does this juggle valve look like? Any idea how much coolant I'll lose when I do it? Appears all I have to do is take off the lower radiator hose and the thermostat housing and it's out, correct? And do I just need to fill the radiator/reservoir up and call it good or do I need to bleed the system somehow too? I've never dealt with coolant other than adding a bit to reservoirs in my cars.

 

Near field communication. It's what's used in some point of sale systems that link to your smartphones to take payment now. Kinda cool.