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

How old are your lbj's?

 

As far as I know, life of the vehicle. So about 11 years and 87k miles. Any reason why the spacer would cause a lbj to click? It is cyclical with speed if vehicle.

 

Wheel spacers effect the wheel bearings the most..could be those. But they tend to make a scraping sound or whine

 

Mounted up a "new to me" Reese cable lock in my bed. Also wired some fogs..... And washed the rest of the fleet.....

 

I have been noticing that same sound when I am at freeway speeds coming from driver front (not running spacers). I haven't taken a look yet but I was thinking it was a wheel bearing.

how could it be the lbj if its cyclical? It only clicks when the wheels makes a rotation, as if there is a rock in the tread, my lbj's only have about 8k on them... thoughts Monte?

 

We'll I can tell you mine didn't make any noise...unless it was mid explosion. Ha

You could check them though. Lower shock mount is also possible if you have shocks that don't have heims and are rubber bushings. Mine are pretty wasted.

Otherwise I'd guess it could be a wheel bearing.

 

New seats for me Scion XC. Tuffy console soon to come.



Also put in a winch last weekend

 

How much modification to the seat mounts did you have to make to get the seats to fit? I've been looking for some new (to me) buckets for my 1st Gen but didn't know how much modding might be required?

 

Bent up some tube for the front bumper.

DSC09932 by wyo_taco45, on Flickr

 

Drove to the liquor store to get sunday beer.

 

Wheeled it yesterday:

 

Happens to me fairly often too now that I'm thinking about it.

 

Not much, elongated the holes and drilled some new ones. And alittle persuasion with a ball peen.

 

Whoa, that looks ridiculously sweet. It looks like some kind of space exploration landing vehicle. Starship troopers FTW!

 

Thanks for the feedback, monte and jimmy. I'm just gonna take em off and leave it that way. If the clicking starts without them on then we'll know it isn't spacers and address at that point. When I take off later this week I'll check the lbj for play. Not sure how but I'm assuming there is probably a good write up around here.

Oh, what about a bad tie rod? It seems to be more pronounced turning, maybe that is puting pressure? Now that my steering rack has new bushings, I can actually check haha.

 

The best kinda mod!

 

How is your track system mounted? and what brand? wouldn't mind something like that

 

oh and another thing, 2nd gen never wave back to me

maybe they don't know im a Toyota without an emblem in front.

 

took it on a 1,200+ camping/road trip this past week