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

Finally got my lift, wheels, and tires.

I'm a recent high school graduate about to go to college, so I didn't have the money to go all out, but I love it so far.

Just a simple strut/shock replacement with bilstein 4600s and a 2.5" daystar spacer lift with rear shackles

16x8 00 offset KMC XD128 in gray, and
265/75r16 (32.0x10.5) Cooper Discoverer S/T Maxx's.

Not the greatest lift, but the truck is as old as me and I wanted to do something nice, and I have worked hard at my job to be where I'm at

Also, before I had all of THAT done I had the frame rust worked on. Don't have pics of that, but it's was just a piece that welded on both sides in the area of the area of the leaf spring bracket. Truck doesn't look like it's gonna break in half anymore.

Here are more pics.


Love my truck. Was gonna do this or get a full size truck. Made a good decision.

His name is Jeff by the way.

 

did you install? i like the detail of marking every bolt/nut. dont see that alot

 

No. I got it done at 4 wheels parts. Took a lot longer than expected. They had to torch a lot of stuff off and get new LCA's and Cam bolts, but it rides like a dream.

 

Size: 15" x 7", 6 Lug, 5.5" Bolt Pattern
Couldn't find anything on backspacing.

 

Went to the junkyard today to pick up the stock seats out of a '96. My plan is to install some nice leather power seats out of say a Mercedes, or Audi, or maybe another import and weld them to the Tacoma rails. I looked at using universal racing seat brackets, but they were pricey at $125 each. With P&P's 50% off Memorial Day sale it's actually cheaper to buy the Tacoma donor seats, chop the rails off, buy some new bucket seats, and weld them on rather than ordering custom fit seat covers from say Wet Okole or Coverking.

I've been looking at seats from the BMW M-Series as well as the newer Audis since they tend to have the power seat function controller embedded in the seat itself. The benzes have it installed on the door card.

Here's the process of stripping the old gross 60/40 bench seats I bought at the P&P down to the bare brackets.



If you need brackets for a bucket seat retrofit you can use the 60/40 seats, or the full bucket seats. The bench seat will not work as there are only two brackets and not four.

 

Yolo

 

Stabilizer link question for anyone... @Blackdawg ... are the end links the same for right and left on 4wd truck? Camelback shows same part number for my application (01 DLX 3.4 Auto 4x4). Friend is installing them and said they were both passenger links. Checked camelback again and says they are the same, but all other sites (aftermarket) show separate part numbers. They look the same in pics, but I know that's not worth much. Anyone change their's recently have any input? Trying to know what I need to track down real quick to finish this job.

camelback site (OEM):




Rock Auto (aftermarket):





Thanks in advance

 

Mine is an 2003 dlx 4x4 @Misplaced Nebraskan

48820-35040 RH
48810-35020 LH

 

Well damn. Guess I'll call the local yocals this week. Thanks

 

That's a pretty good find considering what you were looking for. I'd imagine the earlier E class' are easier to work on opposed to my 2017 E. I 100% love the seats.

 

So what happened to the supra

 

The sunroof? Yeah I think I paid $15 for the glass assembly. I was quoted $400 to get it replaced by Safelite. Took me a whole 10 minutes to remove the old glass and install the new one.

When I was at the junkyard, I looked through almost all the European imports they had. The only leather seats that weren't terribly damaged were the Benz leather seats. They were almost all in perfect condition, no cracks or rips. Only problem is the seat controls are in the door cards and not the chairs themselves.

 

Bump

 

You sure it's the motor? What you can do to test it is use a car battery or a 12v power source to test the motor. If you unplug the motor there will be two pins, put negative on one pin and +12v on the other pin. Reverse the polarity to move the window up and down.

If you don't get any response from the motor after testing it individually with 12v, your motor is dead. If your window is stuck open you will have to remove the motor and pull the window up manually and reconnect the motor.

 

Could be your regulator. My window has been acting up some time now. Occasionally it won't go back up but after a little while it's fine again. If I don't release the switch immediately once it's up it makes all kinds of popping noise. I've replaced the regulator twice already (this is 3rd time), ordered an OEM this time so hopefully it'll last longer.

 

Picked up some bling for the taco from @Thaitoy today. 32 inch AUXBEAM light bar. With Bluetooth control. Very nice product. Quality connectors and wires.

 

Do what Tyler said, and if it is the motor, I have one if you need it.

 

Swapped my speedo gear for a 33 tooth with my pup.

 

Puppers

 

Installed new lower ball joints. Easier than I thought it would be.