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

Replaced my rear brake proportioning valve with one from mrpatar. Seems to be working smooth. Now if I only had a method of calibrating it...

 

Mine have held up rather well. I have beat the ever living shit our of them. The front skid has a dent or two and the tcase skid is ever so slightly tweaked but all in all they have held up well.

 

I thought you were jumping in that pic at first, I was like wtf why does his tire have a flat spot if he's off the ground?

 

I got mine for $800.00 less than a mile away from my house a couple months ago.

 

Haha it kinda looks that way. No prerunner style for me though.

 

Hydraulics^

 

If its a 1985 and a 22re, then that's a steal!

 

Its an 85 22re. It has 160k miles. It was parked for 2 years so it had old gas and was running bad, that's why they weren't asking much. I drained the tank and replaced the plugs and its running great now.

 

Had some fun up north! And didn't even get stuck this trip.

 

I got the new wheels and tires on today. I'll get more pics up tomorrow. This was with spacers on. Looked good at this angle but from the front it was just an overkill so I took the spacers off tonight

 

That's awesome and I'm jealous!

 

X2. Can't get anything up here without the body flapping in the wind and holes in the frame.

 

Okay, so what does everyone do with big tires that has to remove the stock plastic inner fenderwell do to stop road grime from spraying the corner lights? I did the darn blinker relocate mod and it keeps shorting it out and giving me a hyperblink. Eventually plan on running LED turn indicators, but until then I would like a functioning turn signal!

 

Why did you remove the inner fender? Just trim it at the pinch weld.

 

The plastic in front of the wheel. Not the cab side. It was missing when I got it.

 

heres my tacoma. just got my led light bar a 23 inch heres a picture of it with high beam and with highbeam//led light bar

 

Took apart my winch controller today.







Found the burned contact that was causing the intermittent engaging.




Cleaned up the contacts and put it back together. Working good as new.

 

Probably better than new haha

 

Haha, maybe.

It is a funky design. I suspect it will happen again.

 

So I got around to installing the suspension lift this weekend. Without further ado, here's some pics.


My little helper



This bolt caused much problems. Couldn't get it out. Tried heat and everything. I had to leave due to fire fighter obligations and my friend cut it out while I was away. However, in the process he nicked the boot! Had I known that tons of grease would gush out of it on the way home I would have tried harder to patch it at his house. Needless to say, it's now wrapped in duct tape. Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way.


Other side went a lot smoother.




I read somewhere that the All-pro leafs rust up pretty quick so I gave them a coat of rocker guard Saturday night.


Old broken leaf pack


New vs. Old




All done for this weekend. Still need to do the BAMF bvp bracket, braided brake line, and now a new CV boot! (Yes, I know that the tube running boards suck and can actually cause lots of damage but the wife insists on keeping them on. Some day I will get sliders...someday.)

Big thanks to my little helper, Pat, and The Gear Shop and anyone who's write-ups I've read to figure out how to do all this.


Notes:
-Pre-install measurements were 37" in the front and 36.5" in the rear from floor to fender. Post-install measurements were 37" in the front (had a 2" leveling lift before) and 39" in the back. The truck has quite a bit of rake.
-The ride is VERY smooth . It doesn't feel like the same truck!
-Had to cut out one of the front spring eye bolts. Had purchased some knowing that it might come to this.
-Broke one of the grease nipples on the OME greasable shackles tightening it in. D'OH! Will need to find a new one.
-Found that the bottom bolt on the sway bar links were easier to remove than the top bolt.