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

Let the door hit you on your way out from the 1st gen.

 

Fuck... about the only thing that's going to be left of your truck that's 1st gen is going to be the Cab when you're done... so

 

1st gen dbl cab sounds better IMO

 

Still 1st gen parts.

 

Sunfire Red ext cab '96 5 lug got new rotors/ceramic brake pads yesterday and four 27 x 8.50 - 14 Grabber AT2s today at 320,200 miles. Driving as new, and getting 23 mpg drinking 100% real gas.

 

I didnt do them in the bumper because it will eventually be replaced with a custom low profile bumper. i also felt like having them up higher in the tail gate would keep them more out of harms way when im out wheeling and need to back up.

Thanks! it took a lot of talking myself into making the first cut but im happy with the outcome. im surprised i havent seen it more often

 

Slowly making progress on tube doors, much more to come.

 

That box has a positive and negative bus or two positives?

 

Both leaf sprimgs, both tie rods, power steering pump, driver side axle and seal, painted rims mat black. It's ready to go out play.

 

Pics? Welcome to TW

 

I'm guessing this is what I need for replacing spark plug wires? I don't know if it has everything I need... Anyone ever buy this?

 

It is just three spark plug wires, because the other three are attached to the coil packs. You should still buy spark plugs too.

 

I just recently replaced the spark plugs

 

Then you should be bueno, the wires take like 5 mins to change.

 

I dig it. Unique and future proofing your mods ftw. Just don't get a swing out bumper now.

 

It has both a positive and negative bus internal. I'm still gonna need an

$22 Blue Sea Systems 2300 150 Amp Common BusBar with 10 screws and a cover

external grounding bus for all the return ground wires from the accessories.

 

Gotcha, mine has a negative bus but it is strictly for grounding the relays not their accessories.

 

Yeah. I think that's how mine works too. The internal ground is just to simplify the relay and fuse wiring I guess. Still figuring it out.

 

Just finished up my radiator/timing belt/water pump replacement last night. Probably would have finished it late on Sunday night, except that the new radiator didn't line up perfectly with the holes and I didn't have a round file big enough to rasp them out with. Picked one up after work on Monday, had everything back together and running in a couple of hours.

I had just a bit of a leak from the radiator when I started:


Here's my totally high-tech counter-torque tool for the crankshaft pulley:


I was casting about trying to find something to plug the hoses for the ATF cooler and I settled on: two .30-06 cases from the scrap brass bucket. Worked like a charm.


Overall, job wasn't too bad, just took forever because I kept getting interrupted and, well, I'm just slow. Running great now, drove it into work today.