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

Do you have the part number? Is it hard to do?

 

Went wheeling today despite getting 2 inches of rain early this morning. Bad idea. Again. It was extremely slick and i almost rolled 3 times. I checked and there isn't a poop stain on my seat, so I'm good there. I also had water over the hood twice, once without the deck plate cover. had to winch 3 times, but the winch performed very well.

Found a couple mud holes that didn't look too bad, so I tried running them. The first one is shown below. The second one was even deeper, about 3 feet deep I would say. The winch was working overtime trying to get me out of them. All the other trucks were up at camp so I was alone, just praying that I got out.

I didn't take many pictures since it was always muddy out, but here's what I got.






The damage at the end of the day is my emergency brake somehow came loose, and I have no power steering at idle or low rpm.

 

Holy mud!

 

Damn dude, you definitely have me beat



Get it cleaned up asap and inspect that power steering before something gets completely fubar.

 

The mud on the hood is about 3/4" thick and the hood probably weighs 40 pounds now. I could tell I was toting around a lot of extra weight going down the highway.

 

Would have hated to be behind you...

 

Lol x2

 

wow,lol .That's awesome.

 

Where did you order that from?

 

New LCAs installed. Rides better. Still have to get it aligned but my buddy did a pretty good home garage alignment.

 

Rear shock replacement finally. Front still blown though...

 

I ordered it from a local O'Reilly Auto Parts store. I called at 6 PM and they had it there by 7:30 AM the next morning.

 

Well, I didn't get the truck as muddy, as some have lately, but did take it fishing...

 

I don't have a part number but if you check them out online you'll see there are different options http://www.lceperformance.com/Headers-Exhaust-s/154.htm
I went with the LCE headers and it was pretty easy. The only thing is that the transmission dip stick was in the way so I disconnected it and ran it threw the header tubes. I still have to mod my cats to run both cats. I had an 3.5" exhaust extension because the 2nd cat didn't reach the headers. They also have a ready bolt on Doug Thorley headers too. So its all up to you how much work you want to do. my headers [/url]

 

Still looks like a good day of wheeling. Belt slipping on power steering pump.

 

It was a good day. A little more challenging than usual. My front bumper and skid plates took a beating sliding into rocks and trees. No cosmetic damage though.

I think I blew the high pressure seal on the ps pump. It looks like it is spraying out on the timing belt cover via belt transfer. The fluid I put in last night is still in it though so I don't know. A reman pump is $110 and a new rack is $400 so I hope it's the pump.

 

You must be excited to wash it lol

 

I already spent $15 washing the engine and underside as best I could before I got ran out of the car wash. I need to buy a pressure washer.

 

Awesome thanks!

 

Very noticeable! Highly recommend doing it if you haven't already.