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

So finally straighten my steering wheel since new rack... Can't belive I wait this long to do it lol

 

One day, in beautiful Far Away Land, I will be done with critical repairs on my daughter's CRV and can start to look at putting the few pennies I have left towards my Taco, and can post wonderful things here. Especially since I have now essentially rebuilt the front suspension of that CRV - so many things I could do to my Taco...siiiggghhhhh.

 

I know the feeling. Wheels/tires/gears would be so nice, but...
-Need a new driveway
-Wife wants an insulated garage
-Carpet needs to be replaced
-Kids need new coats, snow pants, gloves, etc.
-Girl Scouts need more money
-Boy Scouts need more money
-Oh look, wife brought home another dag
-Some other thing that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

 

Y'all need to get on that DINK method. Though I still am in early stages of DINK and hoping to purchase our first home soon.

 

Painted wheels black!

 

I put on a Streettaco CB drop kit and now enjoy vibrationless travel across the nether regions of Tejas. Got to use my old Sears gift card from 2 years ago to buy two jack stands then realized a free chunk of polypro would have worked as well. that was last weekend. Week before I welded on my All-Pro kick out sliders. Waiting on my new tires so I can slap them on my Wheelers 16x8s. ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

I need leaf springs and shocks all around pretty bad. Eventually i want to go M/T but that is a long way off. When i do that i want to get new wheels and tires and do all of the suspension at once. I got a quote today $1254 for billies up front, nitro sport shocks in the back, dakar leafs, bushings, ubolts, install and alignment. Or $1630 for a "kit" with icons and install and everything.

For now though i want to stay close to stock height, so i don't need bigger tires to make it look right and not break the bank, do you guys have any suggestions?

 

Ordered some lower ball joints, spindle gussets, 3 modified tundra cv axles, bump cans, hydro bumps, Ohhh yeah and a long travel kit... sorry pretty excited

 

Awesome!!

 

Ermergerd

 

Ahaha. To lazy to route over axle plus i kinda like it. Hooked up to a flowmaster 40. Had it just dumped under cab but alot of drone. I also like that i have the most unique looking yota around.

 

Fuck yeah! Order the bates 930 boot and do the cv cup mod for the droop, and grind off the steering stops on the bjs, they gouged the shit out of the LCAs if not... At least they do on burg kits


Oh wait u ordered modified tundra cv axles!!! How much u pay? U can mod it yourself and save hundreds of $$!!!!

 

Lol. Yeah, I feel you. Daughter started college, roof needs to have a maintenance, broken window upstairs I have to replace, and all these car issues. Once I got her CRV suspension done, the neutral safety switch went tits up. It's only a $125 - $225 part, that's all. Yay.

 

I'm on the DIWK stage - dual income with kids. Still sucking wind with all these expenses. We had to drop $6k in one month back in July. Hasn't been much better in the months since! Good luck with that home purchase. Mine is at the 15/16 year mark so roof and windows and stucco. But hey, to re-stucco this place is only $15,000, no biggie, right? That is why I have learned to be an electrician, carpenter, plumber, mason man, and now a mechanic. Soon I will have achieved all knowledge and implode. Yeaaaaaahhhhh.

 

Try the SIWK mode.

 

Yikes! Harsh dude, harsh! I'll have a beer in your honor this weekend, you poor single income bastad!

BTW - I am hoping to do a wheeling trip in Boulder next spring. Wife has a cousin up there (well, lots of family in the Denver area), so we like going up. Let's keep in touch around then - maybe we line up some folks to do a fun trip.

 

Finally decided to stop cleaning my headlights every couple months. So I cleaned them one more time and put on some 3m clear vinyl. It wasn't the best, got a couple small bubbles but I got enough left over to redo it.


Cutting the vinyl

Putting it on

Finished

Second light half clean (left half clean, right still hazy)


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In my area. It is for the most part stock but the paint is one of a kind. Its bedliner, matt black stripes, and a candy red/copper upper. I have some 33" tires but im waiting on a lift to fit em. I hope someday it can compete with some of the gorgouse rigs on the site.

 

Curious to see how this holds up.

 

TAKING apart (... which is completely different than cutting apart ) the engine.



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