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

Mine are all mangled. Some have the chrome flaking off.
Where'd you get em? I did a quick google search. I saw some new sets on eBay.

 

From this guy
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/custom-made-vinyl-stickers.281228/page-76#post-10216216

 

Yep! ^

 

They do look really good!

 

Thanks! I do like how they look. I was worried they would come out straight but the all look level

 

Looks like my excitement got the best of me..Ha oh well might be able to sell it to a friend with an elocker or my buddy with a samurai it looked about perfect on the back of that thing

 

If it isn't the fuse, then it is the fusible link. The fusible link is a tiny grey wire that connects the cig lighter contacts on the back of cig lighter socket.

 

No problem, had the same issue earlier this year. My heater core had decided to completely take a crap and I was freezing in 20 degree weather, so I decided to get a cheapo truck stop cig lighter powered heater. It worked awesome for about twenty minutes then it just stopped, I checked the cig lighter fuse and it was still good. Got home and tore the bottom dash piece out and the little fusible link had no continuity. Just soldered a normal piece of 16 gauge wire in place of it. I figure if there is something amiss the normal fuse should still blow. Finally replaced the stupid heater core too (that's an annoying job) and you could easily cook things in the cab with the temps I can reach now.

Thanks BTW, Fallout 3 is one of my favorites!

 

Man that sucks.. Is there no way to grind it down in a few places to make it fit or something? Would be cool if you got it to work cause then us 8.4"ers could get em too lol.

 

Drain plug is on the opposite side. That's the biggest difference. I also think the housing is bigger.

 

I was told its cause PS fluid is highly flammable in a roll over ect, while ATF has a no flammable agents to cause an issue..

I am sure there is more to it as well.

Who knows.

 

Shit ill just swap you rear end plus money, I never use the locker.

Oh wait you just dropped nearly a grand on rear gears.. doh.

 

hmm i mean i know it wouldn't be a perfect fit but it doesn't seem crazy far off.. if he just did some grinding in the red circled area to get the drain plug to be able to unscrew.

Yea thanks for the reminder lol.. It was 2g's even (get 400 back though) w/ the ARB. so i guess it was about 7-800 for just the gears

 

ATF gives a lighter feel to the steering wheel, that's pretty much it. ATF burns just fine when it gets hot. So does antifreeze.

 

I know he said it didn't hit the brake line but you can clearly see on the left side that it's hitting the brake line. It looks like mine did when I held it up to my rear. Should be able to make it fit pretty easily tbh. Even on the right rear end it doesn't weld to the flat housing it welds to the rounded "pumpkin" and most of it welds directly to the factory welds.

 

Well ,my phone doesn't cooperate with the new upgrade on the website. I can't multi quote...anyways,

So that's how I realized I had the wrong fluid in the PS. Just bought a lexus and
I am getting ready to flush all the fluids. When I saw that the lexus PS calls for ATF III, I knew the tacoma had to be the same ....I replaced it and it seems to have gotten a bit quieter. Ill give it a few more days...thanks for the input gents!

 

that's what I figured, if I ordered it by mistake like that I would defintely try to make it fit.

 

Hmm supposedly they are in the process of shipping out my built 3rd from ECGS. I looked at my bank account 3 or 4 days ago and the charge to them was pending but as of today/last night the charge disappeared from my bank statement.. Strange..

Also got my OEM oil filter in the mail just now and hopefully I can go pick up my redline oil from fedex this afternoon.

 

Finally got my control arms, front brake lines, steering rack bushing kit, and some t-shirts from wheelers today! Install hopefully tomorrow

 

Finally got the chance to straighten the front end out now it's all even and everything sits how it's supposed to be