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

Finally made the jump. Went full synthetic, valvoline syn power 5w30, in the motor after 11 years and 174k. Ok well yesterday i did. Oh and i dumped out the oil catch can. I was amazed at how much oil i captured in just 6k!

 

Dinged it on a car stopper post at the local convenience store. I was pretty pissed off at myself. Maybe time to fix and spray the bumper with Bedliner... Or maybe cut a square and mount a reverse light... Idk yet

 

Not today but yesterday I towed a trailer with an 900+ lb tongue weight, my leaves weren't very happy.

 

Or you could grab an aftermarket rear bumper lol. Wouldn't get any more dings from car stoppers..

 

Did the fastest parking light bulb change in the rain and hail, cleaned the inside of my windshield and my dash, noticed my lightbar was crooked and fixed it, and discovered there's a moth in my headlight which is going to drive me crazy.

 

Haha I bet that moth is toasted. Haha

 

Haha I bet that moth is toasted. Haha

 

Drove with the roof light bar on, cause I can

 

Got all this in the mail that now needs to go on the truck. TW.com decal, and upper and lower ball joints and oil filter from Camelback Toyota. FYI my ball joints came with new bolts which I didn't know they would so now I have 8 extra bolts for spares. I'll hopefully be installing it all next weekend after I get inner and outer tie rod ends too.

 

Mike didn't come with bolts... Maybe they decided to start including them recently.

 

Mine came with bolts also, I really need to go ahead and do these along with my water pump and timing belt

 

Yeah maybe! Most of the posts I've seen on here about them said they didn't so that's why I ordered 8 also so I was excited to see they 4 came packaged with each

 

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="wattmelch, post: 10287935, member: 143492"]Got all this in the mail that now needs to go on the truck. TW.com decal, and upper and lower ball joints and oil filter from Camelback Toyota. FYI my ball joints came with new bolts which I didn't know they would so now I have 8 extra bolts for spares. I'll hopefully be installing it all next weekend after I get inner and outer tie rod ends too.

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Yikes. Speaking of bolts, my tundra calipers didn't come with any. Does anyone know if the tacoma ones can be used? I'm pretty sure they have to have full length threads.

 

I reuse the stock bolts on my tundra upgrade.

 

Good question!

The story behind the name is the day I bought my Taco I drove off the lot and as I was cruisin down the road I turned on the radio... Immediately i get blasted with the sweet sounds of:

OOohooOohhh the wheeel in thee skyyy keeps on turninnnnn!!! I don't know whereee I'll beee tomorrrrrrowwowww...

I'm not even a huge journey fan, but in that moment it totally worked for me. I'd just bought the truck of my dreams after more than a year of working and searching for a sexy Taco and my dream of traveling the country and living out of my truck had finally come true

 

Haha that's terrific man!!

 

Today I Took off my fender flares, scrubbed all the crap that was building up under them, and decided to leave em off. Almost makes my truck look like it gotta tiny little lift ha.
I also painted one side of my trim as well as my door handle, goin for the full blackout look. Unfortunately it rained half way through my project so it got cut short..

 

DUDE! Nice 97!! Love that color
Looks way better fenderflareless haha

 

From a day hike this weekend

 

Frame looks a little bent