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

Put in a new starter too which literally took like 20 minutes. Not surewho said it was hard but it's 2 bolts and a plug. Maybe it's because of my turbos downpipe that it came out so easy but I had room to pull it off no problem.



Who needs 4wd anyway? So over rated. j/k



Cage is done minus prime and paint.



I see 35" KO2s in my future......

 

I just put a 265/75R16 in there, so about an inch over stock. It fits nicely but I don't think anything larger would fit without modification. There is room to modify as long as you aren't hitting the back of your bumper or hitch.

 

When it looks like you have a ton of weight in the back but really all you have is a bad case of bro lean.

And you just got back from camping for a week.

 

Before i went with retrofits i had a homemade cai but i had to take it out because it hit the bulb. I got bored today and ended up rigging the factory airbox to it.

 

Bumpers on. Shake down run this weekend.

2016-06-02_04-11-02 by Harrison M, on Flickr

2016-06-02_04-10-44 by Harrison M, on Flickr

 

Damn good looking bumper.

 

Thanks! Dont really care for how the control box for the winch ended up but I will mess with it another day. And will cut the filler pieces for around and below the winch sometime soon.

 

Was gonna say I feel like it's missing something

 

Yeah you can see the tabs around the winch. Wanting to get it on the truck, I realized I forgot to weld tabs for the bottom portion but its no big deal. Will have a skinny piece around the top to fill it in and cover up the wiring and the botttom will have a row of full dimple dies and a bottom row of half dimples to allow drainage. Was considering making the bottom part a box to hold a tow strap and shackles and other little things. We will see.

 

I didn't do it... The pressure washer did.

What's the closest spray paint you've found to the white? This was duplicolor or whatever, chipped way to easy.

 

"No free rides, gas or ass"

When your buddies catch a ride with you, how does that work out?

 

First question: how long did you have that painted before you did that?
Next: did you use clear coat?

 

You didn't prep well enough. Plus it doesn't look like you finished it well enough.

If you go to a Sherwin Williams and give them your paint code, they'll put an automotive base coat in an aerosol spray can for you.

Then you should buy their two-part automotive clear coat as the finishing coats.

 

Probably 2 months. No clear coat cause I'm poor. Now there will be a clear coat.

No Sherwin Wiliams around me.

 

Well you are now going to spend more money having to do it twice than just correctly the first time.

Any paint shops?

 

I'll check around. If the price is out rageous that's a no go

 

I think the automotive base paint in a can ran me $9 and the clear coat was around $15.

 

When it comes to paint in a rattle can listen to madjik. Anything else and he's useless.

 

Replaced the bed tie down hooks and new screws today. Simple and cheap. Mine were pretty rusty and weak. Had to soak them in liquid wrench and finally persuaded them to come off. Lol

 

truck looking rough ahaha. That paint needs a good primer and clear coat. Its not durable on its own.

you could do white plasti dip to.